A 33-year-old man, Musa Adamu, has revealed why he was caught with four AK-47 rifles in Gombi Local Government Area of Adamawa State.
According to the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, SP Suleiman Nguroje, the resident of Mayo Belwa LGA confessed that a repented armed robbery colleague surrendered them to him.
Nguroje stated that the suspect is currently in detention at the Adamawa Police Command headquarters in Yola on charge of illegal possession of firearms.
He was also quoted to have confessed that he had been involved in kidnapping in the past but had repented from it, insisting that the four guns he was caught with were handed to him to keep.
He said one of his former gang members called and told him that he wanted to meet and surrender his guns when he heard he had repented from kidnappings.
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He added that the man in question and one other came and surrendered four AK-47 rifles without ammunition to him.
Furthermore, Adamu claimed the police arrested him the same day the gang members gave him the weapons.
He insisted that he did not mean to use the guns for any nefarious activities as he had given up such activities.
“I was a kidnapper and I once worked with other people and abducted two residents in Taraba, one in Numan and one in Mayo Belwa LGA of Adamawa respectively, but I have long repented,” he said.
Speaking in light of the development, the police spokesman Nguroje extended the commendation of the state Commissioner of Police, Afolabi Adeniyi, to the operatives of the Command attached to Crack Squad and Gombi local hunters for arresting Adamu.
He assured that Adamu and all other suspects in the case and other cases would be investigated and prosecuted.