Police recover guns, ammunition inside secondary school ceiling in
Kogi
on April 25, 2015 / in News 1:22 am / Comments
By Boluwaji Obahopo, Lokoja
Kogi State Police Command said it has recovered some arms and ammunition
from a secondary school, in Adavi Local Government area of the State.
The
State Commissioner of Police, Adeyemi Ogunjemilusi who disclosed this
to newsmen yesterday while briefing on the effort of the command in the
past months said the guns and other weapons were hidden inside the
ceiling of one of the classrooms of the secondary school.
He said the police were able to recover the weapons after a tip-off from
an informant who revealed that some hoodlums have been visiting the
school for a while and planing to foment trouble during the last
election in the State.
Ogunjemilusi revealed that the
police were stunned to find out that two AK47 rifles, 4000 rou0nds of
live ammunition, cutlasses, charms and other dangerous weapon were
hidden inside classroom ceiling.
The command also paraded 30 suspects who were arrested for different
offences of kidnapping, armed-robbery, culpable homicide amidst other
crimes.
He stated that the command also recovered three stolen vehicles, three
AK 47 rifles, six locally made pistols, cartridges, IED explosives and
detonators, cutlasses, ammunition, charms from the suspects as well as
the rescue of seven kidnapped victims.
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