Hold military, security agencies responsible for proliferation of firearms- DSS insists
- A DSS director, Godwin Eteng, states that some people with criminal records are employed in some of the security services
- The operative lists states with high rates of trafficking of small arms and light weapons in the country to include Nasarawa, Benue, Taraba and Plateau
- The police in Benue say they have intercepted 1,427 cartridges of 5.56 mm live ammunition along Makurdi -Lafia road
The Department of State Security (DSS ) has accused some individuals in the armed forces and other security agencies of been behind the sale of small arms in the country.
A director of the service, Godwin Eteng, made the accusation when he appeared before the House of Representatives joint committee on customs and excise and national intelligence investigating the influx of small arms and light weapons into the country, This Day reports.
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The operative alleged that some people with criminal records where serving in some of the security services.
Eteng said: “And the question is- are we doing enough checks on our people who were recruited into security services?
“Like we had a situation where in one of the armouries belonging to one of the armed forces, how many pistols just got missing with quantities of ammunition and all the pistols were new.
“In the armoury, no place was broken into, but the weapons were missing. And we’re interested in knowing what happened?”
He listed states with high record of trafficking of small arms and light weapons in the country to include Nasarawa, Benue, Taraba and Plateau.
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Meanwhile, the police in Benue said they had intercepted 1,427 cartridges of 5.56 mm live ammunition along Makurdi -Lafia road.
The police spokesman in the state, ASP Moses Yamu, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday, November 10, in Makurdi that the ammunition were concealed in a Volkswagen salon bus with registration number: GBK 226 XA.
Yamu said the feat was achieved through a security report that some miscreants were planning a robbery attack along Makurdi-Lafia road.
He said the command, therefore, deployed its operations’ crack team, “Operation Zenda”, led by SP Justin Gberindyer, to abort the planned robbery, while the arms were recovered during a “Stop-And-Search Operation” on the road.
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