According to Premium Times, Nigerian soldiers manning a checkpoint in Adamawa State have intercepted six mine resistance vehicles that seemed to have been transported into Nigeria without due process.

The military personnel, attached to the Nigerian Army 23 Armoured Brigade in Yola, seized the equipment in Fufore Local Government Area this week.

The Nigerian Army could not immediately verify the ownership of the equipment, where they were being shipped from and their destination, PREMIUM TIMES learnt from military sources.

Although the Nigerian Army headquarters has directed an urgent investigation into the discovery, the equipment have been handed over to the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in the interim.

On Saturday, the commander of 23 Armoured Brigade, S.G. Mohammed, handed over the vehicles to the comptroller of Customs in charge of Adamawa and Taraba, Olumoh Kamaldeen, at a ceremony in Konkol, Fufore LGA, PREMIUM TIMES learnt.

It is not immediately clear whether suspects have been arrested. It is illegal to import such equipment without an end-user certificates from the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA), which is the only federal agency with powers to issue such document.

The development could further upset security agencies, who have continued to grapple with acute insecurity and violence across the country.

Security analysts regularly question how terrorists and other criminals acquire weapons they have used to keep the country under siege for many years, urging security and intelligence agencies to devote more time to understanding the complex web of illicit arms movement.

The latest seizure of six mine-resistance all terrain vehicles (MATV) came three months after a Nigerian politician, Ibikunle Amosun, handed over weapons he had illegally stockpiled for several years to the police.

Mr Amosun kept the weapons for several years at Government House, Abeokuta, until his last day in office when he realised he would no longer enjoy immunity from arrest and prosecution.

The police have failed to arrest the former governor, now a serving senator, despite the widespread uproar and concerns amongst Nigerians that prosecuting Mr Amosun could serve as deterrence to other politicians involved in proliferation of deadly arms across the country.

Source: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/348370-just-in-nigerian-soldiers-intercept-strange-military-equipment-in-adamawa.html/amp/

Imagine Boko Haram now have more weapons than Nigerian army

Don't be surprised this same Army in search of the owners or importers of these vehicles are the real owners, but due to zero cohesion and information dissemination within their ranks, they'd first embarrass themselves before the entire world.

Even if Army eventually finds out it belonged to Boko Haram, they will still release it. Have you heard about the slang 'order from above'?

It's all about bribe. Give them enough bribe they will release it in no time, give them bribe they will release the arrested kidnap kingpin. Taraba killings comes to mind, highest bidder go scot free.

The only person they can arrest, molest and kill is common man on the street, I mean common civilian.

And Op, there's noting strange about it, it's armored tank but for the click bait...

It’s funny how these heavy war equipments finds their way into Nigeria without being intercepted at the boarders or seaports.

There are enemies of the state within the rank and file of our security architecture

Which way Nigeria?

People like ibikunle amosun are the leading cause if insurgency in this country.

This is really outrageous

I don't believe any right thinking person would invest in such.. the vehicle must have bn purchased by the military or state government

Naija matter don taya me. The more you look, the less you see.

Naija Army in the news again?

How did they clear customs?

Insecurity still biting hard as a result of porous borders

I knew it! They were coming to Africa. Those belong to the RAF. But what is the Customs doing handshaking the army?

We really need to be careful of how the country is used as a dumpster.

no be them be security for them ni. the equipment they will release coded

I smell US in dis..

How did it make it through our customs? Something as big and visible as this ,just imagine how many arms and ammunition's make it without interception

From the look of things,seems they are stocking up arms to over take Nigeria

Nawa o

Our country has been captured

Nigeria is gradually deteriorating into Afghanistan.

The indices speak very loudly for itself.
- high level of illiteracy
- corruption on all levels of government and society
- youth unemployment
- no sign of indigenous industrialization
- terrorism
- kidnapping
- very poor government policies
- Snail speed development when other countries are on hi-tech already.

How can these heavy duty military equipment pass through our borders illegally and almost in the hands of terrorists without proper clearance?

May we not wake up one morning and discover the country has been sold illegally to Niger Republic.

God save Nigeria.

Nigeria is a worst place to be born. We are dealing with the second worst high sea piracy in the world, with the worst government in the world.What a Nation with the most misplaced periority in the world.

Who is fooling who?

daddytime:
Don't be surprised this same Army in search of the owners or importers of these vehicles are the real owners, but due to zero cohesion and information dissemination within their ranks, they'd first embarrass themselves before the entire world.

You may not be far from the truth. Someone is trying to cover for the remaining items he probably omitted during official procurement. What better way of bringing it if not through the land borders?

Or this is one of such covert arms that ends up with the Boko Haram.

There was a country indeed.

Those vehicles belong to the Nigerian military, the army should go and sit down.

The Nigerian army that couldn't identify Police ID Cards flashed before their eyes is the same one that wants to identify trucks without plate numbers.

Remember the combat helicopter seized by the customs sometime ago? Remember what happened when the truth came out?

Se ogun laye ni?

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Heavy equipment going to bokoharam enclave , suddenly op jumped to ibikunle Amosun. Pls focus on these heavy machinery. There is so much to be said about it

Only an insane person would expect to transport these machinery this way without interception from the numerous police, millitary & customs checkpoint.... But what do I know, Nigeria can take you by surprise sometimes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PfLaO-pats

Nice One. But wait, Automatically it belongs to Naija army now.

Incompetent military, incompetent President....


Useless leaders who have put this once a vibrant country in autoregressive mode.

The security forces are working but some bitter peeps are still angry.
Everything in this county is now politics,religion and ethnicity.

damn!