Soldier arrested for selling and hiring g#ns to kidn@ppers

Operatives of the Department of State Service (DSS) have arrested a soldier attached to the Muhammadu Buhari Cantonment in Tungan-Maje, Abuja, for allegedly hiring out and selling g#ns to kidn@ppers.

The soldier, identified simply as Nafiu, was arrested last week around Dankogi Park in Zuba in collaboration with members of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria in the area.

DailyTrust reports that the DSS from Gwagwalada office sought the assistance of the local security group in Zuba to arrest the suspect based on previous arms deal allegations against him.

According to a source, “It was learnt that the suspect, in the first deal, had allegedly hired out a g#n for a kidn@p operation for N300,000. Then in the second instance, they contacted him for another deal and he demanded N200,000 which the kidn@ppers allegedly paid, but he failed to produce the g#n.”

The source said when the kidn@ppers, who have been in the DSS custody, 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.

An AK-47 rifle as well as a fully loaded magazine with 30 rounds of ammunition were found inside one of the safe compartments of his car.