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Friday, 03 August 2012 09:49 NAN .

Four herdsmen were arrested in Nasarawa for possessing sophisticated arms and ammunition, the Police Public Relations Officer of the Nigerian Police Command in the state, Michael Ada, said on Friday.

Ada said the items recovered from the suspects were a PMSG sub-machine gun, one locally made rifle and nine rounds of live ammunition.

He said that two of the suspects from Kwala Village in Quanpan Local Government Area of Plateau were arrested on 26 July, in Lafia by detectives attached to the State Intelligence Bureau (SIB).He said the arrest of the suspects followed suspicious behaviour exhibited by them.

He said that upon interrogation the suspects provided useful information leading to the arrest of two others, Tukur Usman and Hamza Tukur of Gada-Gwari village in the Kuje Area Council of FCT.

He said that the suspects confessed to being in possession two other rifles, which they buried in a farm at the boundary between Nasarawa and Plateau states.

“Based on the confessional statement, the police followed them to the location and recovered the weapons,” Ada said.

He said the suspects were being detained at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for further investigation to ascertain the source of the weapons and other possible accomplices.

The PPRO urged members of the public to always be vigilant and report any suspicious movements in their neighbourhood to security operatives for prompt action.

slimdiggi: They want to use the guns to slaughter cows

sylve11: Hmmm! Only God knows where we are heading to.

nwanna89: Something fishy. Arrested for suspicious bahaviour. The people just confessed and took police to where they buried their guns. Doesnt add up.

Okija_juju:

Nwokem, I don't blame you for suspecting something is fishy.. You have been watching too many NYPD blues and you think Nigerian Police and Oyinbo police interrogation technique na the same..

My advice, do not give the police reason to extract information from you... Those who last more than 2 hours are normally considered hardened criminals, because any normal criminal would have confessed in under 5 minutes..

Okija_juju:

Nwokem, I don't blame you for suspecting something is fishy.. You have been watching too many NYPD blues and you think Nigerian Police and Oyinbo police interrogation technique na the same..

My advice, do not give the police reason to extract information from you... Those who last more than 2 hours are normally considered hardened criminals, because any normal criminal would have confessed in under 5 minutes..

lacasa: Wen fulani or a nigerian from northern origin breaks the law, Northerners n Islam r cursed on Nairaland wtout any caution.

But, wen a southerner is found commiting the same offence we muslims n northerners dnt abuse christianity nor do we turn it into a tribal war

Guess we should throw off the restraints n join in the free fσr all on this issue, since dats wat we r here fσr.

Let the tribal/religious bashing begin

lacasa: Wen fulani or a nigerian from northern origin breaks the law, Northerners n Islam r cursed on Nairaland wtout any caution.

But, wen a southerner is found commiting the same offence we muslims n northerners dnt abuse christianity nor do we turn it into a tribal war

Guess we should throw off the restraints n join in the free fσr all on this issue, since dats wat we r here fσr.

Let the tribal/religious bashing begin