DSS dismantles arms trafficking ring in Gombe, recovers RPG warheads

Operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, person foiled a suspected arms trafficking cognition successful Gombe State, arresting 2 alleged couriers and recovering blase weapons, including Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) warheads.

In a statement, the Service said the suspects, Muhammed Alhaji Mohammed, 55, and Sani Gesha, 47, were intercepted astatine Mararaban Tula successful Kaltungo Local Government Areale travelling successful a grey Toyota Corolla with registration fig Taraba JAL475YQ.

According to the statement, “The suspects were apprehended pursuing actionable quality and sustained surveillance connected a suspected arms proviso web operating wrong the North-East corridor.”

Items recovered from the conveyance see 2 RPG warheads, an RPG launcher and different weapons.

Security sources disclosed that the arrests followed 3 weeks of covert monitoring targeting a web believed to beryllium operating crossed Bauchi, Gombe, Taraba and Adamawa states.

The suspects reportedly confessed during preliminary interrogation that the weapons were to beryllium delivered to a interaction successful Kukawa Village, Alkaleri Local Government Area of Bauchi State.

In a related development, DSS operatives besides rescued a six-year-old boy, Mohammed Jabir, who was allegedly lured and kidnapped nether the pretext of teaching him however to thrust a motorcycle.

The Service confirmed that a suspect, identified arsenic Salisu Hussain, ...