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Police arrest man with 126 anti aircraft bullets ‘meant to fight IPOB’
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Police arrest man with 126 anti aircraft bullets ‘meant to fight IPOB’
The suspect says he procured the ammunition for a Cross River Community fighting IPOB separatists.
ByYemi Aruna April 2, 2022 3 min read

The Borno State police command on Friday paraded a 28-year old man arrested while trying to transport a large cache of ammunition out of Maiduguri, the state capital.

The suspect, Clement Asuk, said he was helping to deliver the ammunition to a community in Cross River State, which he said is currently at war with fighters of the separatist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

The police said the suspect was arrested at a popular Maiduguri motor park as he was about to exit the town with a heavy suitcase filled with high calibre bullets, including 126 anti-aircraft bullets.

It was the biggest interception of illegal military weapons of ballistic capability ever recorded in the history of the decade-old Boko Haram insurgency, police said.

The Nigeria Police and the military had in the past arrested and court-martialled soldiers involved in stealing and selling weapons and ammunition to criminals.

The anti aircraft bullets and other ammunitions found with the suspect that was arrested
The anti aircraft bullets and other ammunitions found with the suspect that was arrested
Mr Asuk described himself as a Benue State-based businessman and graduate of Maritime Engineering.

Acting on credible intelligence, the Borno state police Rapid Response Squad stormed the Kano Motor Park on time to prevent Mr Asuk who had already boarded one of the Luxurious buses heading for Southern Nigeria, from leaving with the ammunition.

The Borno Commissioner of Police, Abdul Umar, said upon searching him, it was discovered that Mr Asuk had in his baggage a mini armoury capable of executing a small scale war.


According to the commissioner, the suspect was found with 126 anti-aircraft munitions, 222 of 7.62mm of life ammunition, 517 of 7.62mm by 51 life ammunition, 7.62mm by 39 life ammunition, two empty magazines of Ak47, four rocket propelled grenades (RPG), one hand grenade, and one anti aircraft ammunition belt.

The anti aircraft bullets and other ammunitions found with the suspect that was arrested
The anti aircraft bullets and other ammunitions found with the suspect that was arrested
The suspect, according to the police, confessed that he was on errand for a soldier serving in Operation Hadin Kai and one other civilian who he described as a notable figure in his community in Obubra local government area of Cross River State.

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PREMIUM TIMES recently reported communal clashes that claimed eight lives around Obubra, even though it was not linked with IPOB hostilities.

Mr Asuk, who was paraded alongside 25 other suspects, said those who hired him for the weapon transportation trip wanted to use the consignment to arm themselves against harassment from IPOB fighters of Southeast Nigeria.

He said his community in Obubra local government shares boundaries with communities in Ebonyi State where IPOB fighters had been pushing to force them into their war with the Nigerian state, triggering violent clashes from time to time.

The anti aircraft bullets and other ammunitions found with the suspect that was arrested
The anti aircraft bullets and other ammunitions found with the suspect that was arrested
The suspect was also found wearing local charms, possibly worn with the belief it would help him to escape being noticed while transporting the ammunition.

He said he took delivery of the lethal consignment a day after he arrived in Maiduguri.


According to him, a soldier picked him up around the central business area of Maiduguri, known as the Monday market, and led him to where he was handed the baggage of ammunition.

Mr Asuk told PREMIUM TIMES in an interview that his uncle, Joshua Akum, an engineer based in Chad, came to Maiduguri and linked him up with a soldier, Lance Corporal Samuel, who handed him the ammunition.

The anti aircraft bullets and other ammunitions found with the suspect that was arrested
The anti aircraft bullets and other ammunitions found with the suspect that was arrested
“There had been continued communal clash between a community in Obubra Local Government Area of Cross River State and a boundary community in Ebonyi State where the IPOB members had continued to kill our people,” he said.

“So my uncle called me on the phone to come down to Maiduguri where I will be given ammunition to take back to the community in Cross River to defend our people.

“My uncle and the soldier gave me the ammunition and took me to a motor park in a tricycle before I was arrested by the Police. I was meant to take the ammunition to Makurdi before I will do a waybill to Cross River,” the suspect said.

The police commissioner said while the suspect is being kept in custody, an investigation team has been raised to fish out the soldier and the Chad-based accomplice.
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/nnorth-east/521419-police-arrest-man-with-126-anti-aircraft-bullets-meant-to-fight-ipob.html?fbclid=IwAR3W123UGu8BxpKusmgLqg3hQjnCb6LJXUAWxc4fVA7qJ2ufxUTFcCUJ_S4

And in other thread they are the one lamenting over poor treatment of police yet they find joy in killing them

Friday's attack was the fifth on police facilities in the South-eastern state,

Police spokesperson Michael Abattam, in a Friday statement, said the attack was carried out by suspected members of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on the Mbieri Police Divisional Headquarters.

Mr Abbatam said the gunmen used explosives. He said the explosives caused minimal damage to some ‘unserviceable vehicles and some windows’ in the facility.

“The hoodlums, who threw improvised explosive devices into the station and shot sporadically, were overwhelmed by the superior firepower of the combat-ready police operatives, forcing them to retreat in panic, escaping in their vehicles,” he said.

“No life was lost or injury sustained by the operatives and no arms/ammunition were carted away,” the police spokesperson added.

Mr Abbatam said the acting Commissioner of Police in the state, Maman Giwa, enjoined residents of the state to continue to support efforts against insecurity by “giving security agencies, especially the police, credible and timely information for prompt action”.

He said the command has begun an investigation into the incident and other efforts are being made to arrest the fleeing suspects.

The hostilities against security operatives by suspected IPOB members have increased in recent weeks.

Aside from this latest incident, the gunmen had attacked police facilities in Okwelle, Omuma, Isu, and Umuguma, where at least two police officers were killed and several vehicles razed.

These attacks, which happened in the state in the last one month, have been linked to the outlawed secessionist group, IPOB.

The group is seeking the creation of an independent state of Biafra to be carved out from the South-east and some parts of South-south regions of Nigeria.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/521284-just-in-gunmen-attack-another-imo-police-facility-fifth-in-one-month.html?fbclid=IwAR16A9aH609gqN8ZBAhr9Wx8djsyRgjIpTVm9_zWmqQhYehbvM57h6bIIBg

Mynd44

Ibo amaka

It is Simon Ikemba Ekpa we know
Sit at home continue until our reader is castrated

You mean despite their mouths they are yet to call you ?

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YorubaNightmare:
point of correction, Igbos have 30% voters power in each yoruba state, ask Mc Oluomo if I'm lying. Aregbeshola lost gubernatorial election in Osun state courtesy of Ibo voters power, but it was rigged in favour of Aregbeshola. That's why Aregbeshola hates ibos till today, because they nearly cost him that election.
Come 2023 general election, Ibos will prove a point to teach you yorubas lesson you'll never forget in your life. Mc oluomo saw the voting prowess of Igbos in Lagos and decided to chase them away, just to stop them from voting, to advert some calamities in yorubaland. 2023 General election will be different. Igbos will prove a point in Lagos

[/s] all this just to explain your 5% voting capacity?

ezegold4we:
Yourba elders should as a[b] matter of urgency call Tinubu and advice Him to drop his presidential ambition[/b] becos he is already dancing naked in the market place,
I have Never seen a KingMaker who succeeded in Making himself a king,
His presidential ambition is dead before arrival but his Useless Muslim brother's here has refused to see t[img]he hand-writting on the wall.

drop it for Atiku or who?

kettykings:
People will vote Atiku any day or night over Tinubu, I don't know why you are surprised by this

you so much hype your 5% voting capacity

kettykings:
Amaechi might just be Buhari's best option to prove to his traducers that he is a detribalised , fair president and to show that as a real Fulani man he will toe the path of justice and truth

you're a disgrace to Y1bo race

Yesterday it was Atiku, today it is Ameachi, tomorrow may be Peter Obi
Are these people really Okay?

NDLEA should have notified China authority instead of arresting them in Nigeria here
I know China would just cut their flat head and use for an experiment

MadamVanessa:



When the caught afonja in crime they immediately changed their names to igbo names. I really don't know the obsession of afonjas and igbos.

Mere looking at their flat head you should know that they are Okoros ndi developers that want to go and develop China with Cocaine

Peter Peter Obi is a thief

Peter Peter Obi is a thief

Decryptor:
Disobey and face the consequences. Do your sit at home in your house by yourself.

you are efulefu

CoolAmbience:
Oga, you may sit at home forever if you so wish.

That can no longer stand in Anambra.

This is one way Obiano failed Ndi Anambra.

You don't allow some individuals hijack your state's leadership, by whatever guise.

There is no sense in sitting at home. If IPOB truly feels disgruntled about Kanu's continued incarceration, they should go to Abuja and register their anger...not hurting the economy of Anambra.

Obiano was too weak, they can't try that with a governor like Wike.

If I be Anambra governor, dem neva born who go shutdown my economy for even one minute.

you are sabo

Salvador1:
hehehehehe.
We are waiting for u guys to shout oduduwa republic.
Na thunder I go invoke.

nobody has monopoly of madness
We will also behave like ipok

logicalman:
That is what we have been saying, your only weapon is tribal sentiments. [b]There no other reason you have against Peter Obi [/b]presidency rather than tribal.

Peter Peter Obi is also a thief

Bastardlyrich:
Rituallistt how many percent are you that women conqueredre your cowordly tribe.
Even the fulanis have sieze your land in illorin forever and ss/se will vote them to continue their good work in sending you people permanently bto Benin republic.
Cowords

stale

logicalman:
That is what we have been saying, your only weapon is tribal sentiments. There no other reason you have against Peter Obi presidency rather than tribal.

Y1bo started it

Peter Obi Pandora is an infidel
Hausa Fulani can never vote for such people unless he is ready to convert

Bastardlyrich:
You are putting dinubu and God in one sentence
Apart from the usual yorogba cowords nobody gives a fuk about dinubo.
Infact I will like to see the magic he will use to win election

5% is inconsequential

SonofLothbrok:
Soludo must be cautioned.

You must not start now to create an enemy you can't defeat.

Does he think what is being done is childs play.

There are a lot of people who have lost brothers, sisters, fathers and mothers because of illegal military and police check points in the east

What have Anambra leaders said about the endsars panel report. Have James Nwafor been arrested?!!

If you guys think that IPOB members are the one's enforcing the sit-at-home orders in the East then you are wrong.

If you love your lives you better respect the sit-at-home on Mondays. Be warned!!

typical ipob goat

beerfraud:
Kill him now

slow death is strongly recommended for him

Someone that is fresher than Buhari

EmirGold:
You can wail to heaven, nobody gives a fvck about inconsequential 5%, just know that no akpu munching gor*lla will ever rule this country

if they know this they will have peace of mind

oilPUSSY:
You that work from Sunday to Sunday what have you achieved ? With or without sit at home, have you ever heard that Anambra Fed allocation has been slashed because of IPOB activities...?

You should be worried that we still eat weather we sit at home or not..

Focus on your region that's competition with the north.. Go and give your children proper nutrition and stop crying more than the bereaved..

sit at home must continue or we burn down south east