Police Arrest Borno-Based Army Officer Who Gives Arms to Robbers in Lagos

NSA is not the only organisation that divert materials meant to fight Boko Haram, an army officer was recently arrested for diverting arms meant to fight Boko Haram in Borno to Lagos Based Armed Robbers. The Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, SIRT have arrested a Lance Corporal of the Nigeria Army stationed in Borno state, for allegedly supplying arms and ammunition to robbers in Lagos. 

Items recovered from the robbers include an automatic pump action rifles, a pistol and some cartridges. Sources close to the SIRT disclosed that the army corporal who was picked up at his duty post in Maiduguri, Borno State, by men of the Defense Intelligence, is currently undergoing interrogations at the Defense Headquarters, Abuja.

One of the suspects has confessed that his gang received large supplies of arms and ammunition, from the soldier, who was posted to Borno State, to fight the Boko Haram sect.