Posted on: 11:56 Tue, 29 Dec 2015



The Inspector General of Police
Special Intelligence Response Team,
SIRT have arrested a Lance Corporal
of the Nigeria Army stationed in
Borno state, for allegedly supplying
arms and ammunition to robbers in
Lagos.

According to a report by Vanguard,
the unidentified Lance corporal was
arrested alongside members of a
robbery gang that raided commercial
banks in Lekki, Ikorodu, Festac and
Agbara areas of Lagos and Ogun
State recently.

The suspects were picked up at
various locations in Lagos, Ogun,
Oyo and Borno states, respectively,
by the SIRT operatives, led by CSP
Abba Kyari, and officials of the
Defense Intelligence.

Items recovered from the robbers
include an automatic pump action
rifles, a pistol and some cartridges.
Sources close to the SIRT disclosed
that the army corporal who was
picked up at his duty post in
Maiduguri, Borno State, by men of
the Defense Intelligence, is currently
undergoing interrogations at the
Defense Headquarters, Abuja.

One of the suspects has confessed
that his gang received large supplies
of arms and ammunition, from the
soldier, who was posted to Borno
State, to fight the Boko Haram sect.