“Last weekend, the efforts of our men were rewarded when the arms and ammunition were found in one of the forests following a tip-off that some gunmen sighted in the area.”
Ten members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamist terrorist organisation from Pakistan, carried out 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days across Mumbai.
The police on Thursday said they arrested two suspected kidnappers and land grabbers in the Ulegun community of Ikpoba-Okha local government area of Edo.
The suspects were arrested for various offences ranging from kidnapping, culpable homicide, rape, theft and other violent crimes.
The NSCDC officer was shot dead by gunmen on September 3, along Oke-Ako-Irele-Ekiti road, while driving home to Kogi together with members of his family.
Mr Amosun, now the senator representing Ogun Central at the National Assembly, notified his colleagues at the Red Chamber of his ambition via a letter which was read at plenary on Wednesday.
The Zamfara police command said they also arrested members of the outlawed Yansakai group for the murder of Fulani herders.
The State Security Service (SSS) killing of Sunday Igboho’s relatives is in line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s shoot-on-sight order, says the Presidency.
The latest quest arm the fire service follows similar push by the Federal Road Safety Corps to arm its officers with assault weapons.
“I can still confirm officially that the Lagos rally in as much as whatever news or rumours you’ve been listening to from different outlets, will go as planned.”
