SOLDIER ARRESTED FOR SELLING ARMS TO KIDNAPPERS

A soldier has been apprehended for selling and renting guns to kidnappers

DSS agents have apprehended a soldier assigned to the Muhammadu Buhari Cantonment in Tungan-Maje, Abuja, for allegedly hiring out and selling guns to kidnappers.

The soldier, simply known as Nafiu, was apprehended last week near Dankogi Park in Zuba in collaboration with members of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria.

According to reports, the DSS from Gwagwalada sought the assistance of a local security group in Zuba to apprehend the suspect based on previous allegations of an arms deal.

According to a reliable source, "It was learned that in the first transaction, the suspect allegedly hired out a gun for a kidnapping operation for N300,000. The second time they contacted him, he demanded N200,000, which the kidnappers allegedly paid, but he failed to produce the gun."

According to the source, when the kidnappers, who were in DSS custody at the time, made the allegation against the soldier, a sting operation was planned against him.

"So they contacted him for another deal to supply them with AK-47s to buy at the cost of N3 million. We went to the agreed site on the delivery day here in Zuba, and took position. He arrived at the scene in his car to present the arm, and that was the time we came out and caught him with the g#n well wrapped," he added.

Inside one of his car's safe compartments, an AK-47 rifle and a fully loaded magazine with 30 rounds of ammunition were discovered.