Suspected northerners that supply arms and ammunition to Boko Haram insurgents have been arrested in Nsukka, Enugu State.
The three persons, a retired Deputy Superintendent of Police, Abu Haruna and one corporal Solomon, were yesterday detained at the divisional police office in Nsukka for illegal trafficking of arms and ammunition.
The third suspect, Onuwa Attaka, is the driver of the arms laden vehicle. They confessed their involvement in supplying of arms to insurgents in the northern parts of the country.
The three suspects, who were heading to the North from Imo State, were intercepted in Nsukka by officers and men of the Nigerian Army while traveling in a bus. Items recovered from them include- 40 AK47 magazines, 4 boxes of AK47 live ammunition, 100 pieces of live cartridges, one piece of Denin Mopol khaki and charms concealed in a cap.
The retired DSP, Abu Haruna, confessed that he had been in the business of arms dealing since he retired from the police.
He said their mission was to supply the ammunition to their buyer in Taraba State.
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