We will strengthen inter-agency cooperation with sister security agencies like the Custom and Nigerian Immigration Service towards checkmating arms inflow into the country. “But we have dismantled a lot of international arms syndicates. The challenges are however challenges of border control activities of arms merchants, destabilization of the Sahel region, the collapse of Libya which is making arms available to insurgents and bandits”. On the proliferation of illicit arms, CP Mba said, “The Nigeria Police Force deserves commendation for the way it has gone about mopping up of small and illicit arms and ammunition across the country. Once the cases are over, what we do with the arms and ammunition are tied to the outcome of the judgment of the court”. They are used to establish cases against the suspects in a court of law. They are used for investigations and later for prosecution. CP Frank Mba urged phone users particularly those who had used MTN sim cards and were not loner using them, either because they travelled or are no longer comfortable with the numbers, to go recall the numbers because it is these dormant numbers they look out for and use in perpetrating the crime.ĭisclosing that a total of 13 AK 47 rifles, 2 RPG Launchers, 750 AK 47 live ammunition, 11 AK 47 magazines were recovered from the suspects, the FPRO said arms and ammunition recovered from criminal suspects are treated as exhibits and used for forensic evaluation.
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