Frank Mba, spokesperson of the police, has revealed how
security agencies tracked a criminal syndicate from Nigeria to Burkina Faso and
recovered thousands of AK-47 ammunition.
Mba, while speaking on Thursday when he featured as a guest
on ‘Good Morning Nigeria’, a programme on the Nigeria Television Authority
(NTA), said the police worked with other international agencies to apprehend
the criminal syndicate.
According to him, the stretch of Nigeria’s borders are
hotspots and offers easy passage for arms dealers.
But he said the police are working towards dismantling such
criminal operations.
“We’ve identified the
hotspots for arms trafficking in Nigeria, and the hotspots are majorly the
border areas. Today, these border areas are receiving a lot of attention from
our men,” he said.
“We’ve also come to understand very clearly the
international dimensions of arms trafficking, and that’s why we are focusing on
identifying, investigating and dismantling international arms smuggling
syndicates.
“We have done that successfully from 2019 till now; in fact,
for one of the syndicates, we tracked all the way from Saki in Oyo state
through to Benin Republic, followed their route up to Burkina Faso, and picked
up every single person involved.
“We worked with INTERPOL, we worked with WAPOL, and from
that particular syndicate, we recovered up to 6,000 rounds of AK-47
ammunition.”
Mba added that the force is also working towards
apprehending persons involved in the manufacturing and export of small arms
from Nigeria to neighbouring countries.
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