{"id":23086,"date":"2025-03-24T20:19:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T20:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=23086"},"modified":"2025-03-24T20:19:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T20:19:17","slug":"police-intercept-488-ak-47-rounds-concealed-in-palm-oil-jerrycans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=23086","title":{"rendered":"Police Intercept 488 AK-47 Rounds Concealed in Palm Oil Jerrycans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has intercepted a significant illegal ammunition shipment and arrested a suspect linked to the operation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Acting in collaboration with officials of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), operatives from the Nyanya Division apprehended <\/span><span class=\"s1\">32-year-old Nuhu Aminu<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> from Katsina State at the Nyanya bus terminal on <\/span><span class=\"s1\">March 24, 2025<\/span><span class=\"s2\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Aminu was found in possession of <\/span><span class=\"s1\">488 live rounds of AK-47 ammunition<\/span><span class=\"s2\">, cleverly concealed in <\/span><span class=\"s1\">two 25-litre jerrycans filled with palm oil<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> in an attempt to evade detection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">During interrogation, the suspect confessed that he was recruited by one <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Yakubu Kachalla of Funtua, Katsina State<\/span><span class=\"s2\">, who allegedly paid him <\/span><span class=\"s1\">N100,000<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> to retrieve the ammunition from an unidentified contact in <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Nasarawa State<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> and deliver it to <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Katsina<\/span><span class=\"s2\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Confirming the arrest, the <\/span><span class=\"s1\">spokesperson for the FCT Police Command, SP Josephine Adeh<\/span><span class=\"s2\">, emphasized that the operation underscores the command\u2019s commitment to <\/span><span class=\"s1\">dismantling criminal networks<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> and <\/span><span class=\"s1\">preventing the proliferation of illegal arms<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> that contribute to violent crimes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">She added that <\/span><span class=\"s1\">the suspect remains in custody as investigations continue<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> to track down his accomplices and uncover the full extent of the arms-smuggling network.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has intercepted a significant illegal ammunition shipment and arrested a suspect linked to the operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10459,10458,10460,62],"class_list":["post-23086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","tag-ak-47-rounds","tag-intercept","tag-palm-oil-jerrycans","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23088,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23086\/revisions\/23088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}