The Department of State Services (DSS) has secured the arrest of a soldier alleged to have sold guns to kidnappers in Abuja.
Punch newspaper reported that it was gathered that the alleged, who goes by name Nafiu, is a soldier attached to the Muhammadu Buhari Cantonment, Tungan Maje, Abuja, the nation’s capital.
Nafiu was said to have been arrested sometime last week by DSS operatives who successfully lured him and nabbed him at the Dankogi Park, Zuba, with the support of members of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria in the area.
Sources from the DSS disclosed that Nafiu usually rents out guns to kidnappers for a fee ranging from N200,000 or N300,000.
The sources said Nafiu was arrested with the help of some suspected kidnappers in their custody who gave him up during interrogation.
“They were asked to contact him for another deal to supply them with AK-47 rifles for N3m, and he agreed. But he was arrested by operatives of the DSS with a fully loaded AK-47 rifle, which he was about to exchange for N3m at the location where the transaction was supposed to take place in Zuba,” the source added.
Meanwhile, all efforts to reach out to Peter Afunanya, the spokesperson of the Nigerian Army, proved abortive, as he did not respond to his text.
