Troops intercept ammunition, explosive components on Kaduna-Jos Highway

Troops of Operation Enduring Peace person intercepted a ample cache of ammunition and suspected Improvised Explosive Device (IED) components on the Kaduna-Jos Highway.

The interception occurred astatine astir 11:45 a.m. connected Thursday, April 16, 2026, adjacent Boys Science Secondary School connected the Manchok-Jos roadworthy successful Kaduna State.

In a connection issued connected Friday, the Media Information Officer of the Joint Task Force, Operation Enduring Peace, Captain Chinonso Polycarp Oteh, said the troops, stationed astatine Manchok and supported by a Special Forces Tactical Team, carried retired the cognition during a stop-and-search exercise.

According to him, a navy-blue Opel Wagon commercialized conveyance with registration fig NSR 154 TA KANO was stopped with 7 passengers connected board.

He said a thorough hunt of the conveyance led to the find of 569 rounds of 12.7mm anti-aircraft ammunition, respective high-velocity warheads, and 189 bare shells of 7.62mm peculiar ammunition concealed wrong the vehicle.

Oteh added that troops besides recovered respective disused Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) handsets, suspected to beryllium c...