Anambra Police Nab Gunrunners with Arms Aiding Cultists
The Anambra State Police Command has arrested suspected gunrunner who allegedly supplied weapons to criminals in the Awka area.
SP Tochukwu Ikenga, the Police Public Relations Officer, said the suspect was apprehended on December 9.
This development comes on the heels of a series of arrests made by the police command in recent days.
Just last week, the police arrested 18-year-old Miracle Mwakalor, a suspected cultist, and recovered an AK-47 rifle and magazine from him.²
The police have also arrested over 80 suspected cultists in different locations across the state, recovering several firearms and ammunition in the process.
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Ikenga notef that on Dec. 7, police operatives attached to the Anti-Cultism Squad, Enugu Ukwu, acting on credible information raided an identified black spot in Umunaga village in Awka South LG.
He said during the operation a suspect from Umunaga village and another from Umuneri village, were arrested.
He said items recovered from the suspects included one pump action gun, three live cartridges, cutlass, charms, and substances suspected to be hard drugs.
The PPRO said that during the operation the police also rescued two female victims whom the suspects had allegedly abused sexually.
Ikenga explained that during further interrogations, the suspects confessed that they rent guns and other weapons from the gunrunner.
According to him, this prompted the police operatives to act swiftly, and arrested the gunrunner.
He said the case would be charged to court after investigations
