A combined team of heavily armed soldiers, anti-riot policemen and other security agents on Saturday in Kaduna arrested a businessman, Mohammed Nuhu, popularly known as Babawo for alleged illegal possession of arms and ammunition.
Our correspondent learnt that the soldiers and security agents had stormed the suspect’s residence located in Trikania, a suburb of the Kaduna metropolis in six military trucks and took him away amid protests by some hoodlums in the area.
Security sources confirmed that during a search on the businessman’s residence, a cache of arms and ammunition as well as a large consignment of military uniforms and other dangerous weapons was recovered from the building.
Confirming the arrest of the suspect, the spokesman of the 1 Division of the Nigerian Army, Kaduna, Lt Col. Abubakar Edun, told our correspondent on the phone that the military authorities were already aware of the matter.
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“We are doing something about the arrest. When we are through, the press will be informed,” Edun said.
Meanwhile, the Adamawa State Police Command on Saturday confirmed the killing of two persons in a pub by unidentified gunmen in Wuro-Hausa area of Yola.
The Police Public Relations Officer, Altine Daniel, told the News Agency of Nigeria that a policeman in mufti, who was not on duty, was also injured in the attack which occurred about 9pm on Friday.
Daniel said the curfew had been relaxed to 12 hours from 6pm to 6am
In a similar development, the Gombe State Police Command has also confirmed that unidentified gunmen killed two persons and injured one in a pub in Gombe metropolis on Friday night.
The Police Public Relations Officer, Ahmed Mohammed, told NAN on Saturday that the bodies of the victims had been deposited at the state Specialist Hospital, Gombe.
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