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There are strong indications that the Nigeria Customs Service may have sidelined the police in its investigation into the series of illegal importation of arms into the country.
Our correspondent gathered on Wednesday in Abuja that the police were not involved in the investigation, which ordinarily should have been anchored by the force as the lead agency in charge of internal security.
A senior police officer confirmed that the NCS ought to have handed the case file along with the exhibits to the Nigeria Police Force, but this had not been done since September 11,2017 when the latest arms importation case came to light.
The NSC operatives had intercepted a container loaded with 1,100 pieces of pump action rifles at Tin Can Port, Apapa, Lagos, making a total of 2,201 such arms seized at three different times this year.
Sources claimed the NCS had refused to hand over the three cases to the police for investigation, adding that the customs officers that were arrested for involvement in the previous arms importation were not released to the police for interrogation or investigations.
“The customs service has been keeping the cases of arms importation close to their chest, they have refused to hand over the matter to the police whereas the force is statutorily the lead investigative agency in the country,” a source said.
The source explained that the NCS did not also involve the police in the probe into the arms and military materials smuggled into the country by one Christian Mbachi in November last year.
He added that rather than working with the police, the service handed over to the Department of State Services the suspect and the exhibits, including nine military bulletproof vests; one military helmet, a gas mask, one Omini American tactical rifle and other military gears.
The Force Public Relations Officer, Jimoh Moshood, would not comment on the non-involvement of the police in the arms probe; he only denied reports of arms buildup in the country.

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Bayajidda1:
The Police is done for.

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