By John Obi
The suspect is cooperating with the police and efforts are underway to track down his other accomplices.
The Police in Kaduna have arrested a suspected notorious gunrunner and recovered twenty AK-47 rifles from him.
The suspect,Bitrus Gyang,an indigene of Plateau state was arrested by police operatives who were conducting a routine patrol at Buruku Bridge in Igabi Local Government Area on Thursday..
In a statement on Friday, the Public Relations Officer of the state Police Command,Mansir Hassan, said the police intercepted a black Golf III saloon vehicle driven by the suspect, and said upon a thorough search of the suspect’s vehicle, the officers discovered twenty locally fabricated AK-47 rifles and an empty Type 06 magazine hidden in the vehicle’s boot.
The statement said that the suspect during interrogation confessed to being a gunrunner and revealed that he had transported fabricated rifles on at least three previous occasions.
It added the suspect is cooperating with the police and efforts are underway to track down his accomplices.
