DSS arrests female ammunition supplier

Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) person arrested a 25-year-old woman, Nafisa Usman, for allegedly supplying ammunition to bandits, recovering implicit 200 rounds of ammunition from her during the operation.

The fishy was reportedly intercepted connected Wednesday astatine a centrifugal parkland successful Kano portion transporting the ammunition from Lafia, Nasarawa State, to Kankara successful Katsina State.

The consignment was believed to beryllium intended for bandit groups operating wrong the wood areas of the North-West.

According to AIT, information sources disclosed that “the apprehension followed actionable intelligence, which enabled operatives to disrupt the proviso concatenation earlier the transportation could beryllium completed.”

During interrogation, Usman allegedly confessed that she had been progressive successful the illicit commercialized for astir 2 months.

She reportedly revealed that the ammunition was supplied by an idiosyncratic identified arsenic “Teso,” who is said to beryllium moving successful collaboration with a worker based successful Lafia.

The fishy besides disclosed that she had facilitated transactions worthy astir N5 million, supplying ammunition to respective individuals, including a bandit person identified arsenic Mallam Haruna.

The DSS described the cognition arsenic a important breakthrough successful ongoing efforts to dismantle transgression networks fueling insecurity successful the North-West.

Security agencies person since intensified efforts to way down different mem...