Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal Tuesday commended the Department of State Services, DSS, for sharing intelligence with the Nigerian Armed Forces which led to the seizure of a large cache of arms and ammunitions brought from Niger Republic.
The Governor’s commendation came after he inspected the seized cache of arms and ammunitions in Gusau.
Governor Lawal also thanked President Bola Tinubu for supporting the DSS and military to make Zamfara State and all of Nigeria safer even as he assured that his government would continue to support all the security agencies in combating criminality.
Dauda applauded DSS operatives and expressed confidence in the ability of the Service to guarantee internal security across the country.
DSS operatives had in a joint operation with troops of Operation Fansan Yamma successfully trailed a notorious arms courier, Abubakar Umar aka Dangada, from Niger Republic up to the Kaura Namoda-Zurmi Road.
DSS intelligence found that Umar was billed to convey the munitions from Niger Republic to Birnin Magaji LGA for onward delivery to some banditry kingpins, particularly Kachallah Atta, Alhaji Shinge, Alhaji Nashama and a certain Zaki.
In a red Volkswagen Golf station wagon car (RBC 731 GU), which the arms courier abandoned after fleeing with serious bullet wounds, were seven AK-47 rifles, two PKT GPMG and two AK-103 rifles.
Also recovered were 169 rounds of 7.62x39mm calibre of ammunition, 9 PKT rounds of ammunition, with one chain; and 13 empty magazines.
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