The special unit of the Imo State
Police Command, “Police Ambush Squad,” has discovered a firearms depot at Udume
Ogwa in Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo State. The suspects, Okechukwu
and Donatus, who are brothers, were arrested at the depot during alleged
negotiation to sell a pump action to a prospective buyer.
The Commissioner of Police, Mr.
Mohammed Katsina, told Crime Watch that the prime suspect, Donatus, brought the
illegal arms and ammunition from Turkey and that though they were licensed but
that the licence of the arms had been revoked since 1982.
“It was through information that
the Police Ambush Squad received that made them to storm his house and
recovered over 13 pump action rifles; other assorted rifles seven hundred and
fifty (750) live cartridges; One carton of security torchlights and a bullet proof
jacket with the inscription, “Nigeria Police” and bearing the initials of the
Imo State Police Commissioner,” he said.
