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An ex-Niger Delta militant, Anietie Etim and four others who allegedly specialise in buying arms in Bakassi Peninsula for supply to the Boko Haram insurgents in the north have been arrested by the Police.
Other accomplices in the gun running business include Lawal Bako, Abdullahi Isa, Umaru Haruna and Alhaji Ahmadu all from Taraba State. They carefully constructed a special tank at the booth of an Audi salon car where they conceal arms for shipment to the north.
Also, the Police foiled the sale of a 13 year old boy, Richard Bassey for N1.5 million by a man simply referred to as Gentle Moses, 20, of Ididep, Ini Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State was arrested at Bogobiri, Calabar while negotiating to sell the boy.
According to the Cross River State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Kola Shodipo, luck ran out on them when they were arrested following a tip off. Recovered from them while negotiating to buy some AK 47 rifles was N300,000 cash, an Audi 80 [EA 80 ABC, Abuja] and a Mercedes Benz 190 [PU 854 AAA, Lagos].
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