Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency arrested a woman who allegedly supplies ammunition to bandits in Borno state.
The spokesperson for the
anti-narcotics agency, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement to journalists.
Babafemi said Bilkisu Suleman,
28, was arrested by NDLEA operatives on New Year operations.
He said: “A 28-year-old female
supplier of ammunition to bandits, Bilkisu Suleman, came top on the list of 12
other suspects arrested by the NDLEA operatives in the New Year interdiction
operations in Kaduna, Lagos, Niger, Kogi, Kano, Borno, and Osun states. Bilkisu
was arrested on Wednesday, January 3 by the NDLEA officers on patrol along the
Zaria–Kano Expressway in possession of 249 rounds of 7.62 mm live ammunition
concealed in a black nylon bag kept in her lady’s handbag.
“She was on her way to deliver
the ammunition to an identified bandit in Kakumi village, Katsina State when
she was nabbed after which she was transferred to the Kaduna State Command of
the Nigeria Police Force for further investigation.”
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