DSS recovered grenades, ammunition from Benue Youth Leader – Witness tells court

The Federal High Court successful Abuja has heard however Silas Oloche, a Benue assemblage younker person allegedly mobilised ammunition for a planned retaliation against Fulani herders pursuing recurring attacks successful Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State.

The revelations emerged during the proceedings of the accused idiosyncratic who is facing 6 number charges bordering connected alleged unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition.

At the commencement of proceedings, the Department of State Services (DSS) operative codenamed XX, who testified arsenic the prosecution’s archetypal witness, told the tribunal that Oloche was arrested connected August 2, 2025, successful Ogbasi, Agatu LGA, allegedly successful possession of 18 manus grenades, 683 rounds of 7.62 x 39mm ammunition, 62 rounds of 7.62 x 51mm ammunition, and 136 unrecorded rounds of shotgun ammunition.

The witness, attached to the DSS Security Investigation Department, said the suspect was subsequently transferred from the Benue authorities bid to the DSS National Headquarters successful Abuja for further investigation.

According to the witness, Oloche was interviewed successful the beingness of a Legal Aid counsel and allegedly confessed to purchasing the ammunition from a antheral identified arsenic “Chocho” for implicit N2 million.

The operative further told the tribunal that the suspect volunteered a written connection and consented to the him penning it connected his behalf due to the fact that helium could not write.

The tribunal ...