MAN ARRESTED WITH FIREARMS ON WAY TO BENUE

The NDLEA boss said, the suspect and the items recovered will soon be transferred to the state police command for further investigation, stating further that the suspect  is an indigene of Kaduna state, who attended a school in Nasarawa where he later became involved in  collection of discarded metals between Nasarawa and Benue state.

Mahmuda said, the suspect said two men of Tiv and Fulani ethnic nationalities respectively, ordered for firearms, and he eventually found someone who fabricated the arms for him in Labara village in Kano.

“I am able to come down here through a friend of mine whom we schooled together in Nasarawa. He is the one that led me to the man that manufactured the firearms in Laraba village”, the suspect said.