{"id":24696,"date":"2021-04-22T15:40:41","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T14:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=24696"},"modified":"2021-04-22T15:40:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T14:40:41","slug":"mba-explains-how-police-tracked-arms-syndicate-to-burkina-faso-and-recovered-ammunition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/04\/22\/mba-explains-how-police-tracked-arms-syndicate-to-burkina-faso-and-recovered-ammunition\/","title":{"rendered":"Mba explains how police tracked arms syndicate to Burkina Faso and recovered ammunition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba has explained how security agencies tracked a criminal syndicate from Nigeria to Burkina Faso and recovered thousands of AK-47 ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>This was disclosed by Mba while speaking on Thursday when he featured as a guest on \u2018Good Morning Nigeria\u2019, a programme on the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA).<\/p>\n<p>Mba said the police worked with other international agencies to apprehend the criminal syndicate.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the stretch of Nigeria\u2019s borders are hotspots and offers easy passage for arms dealers.<\/p>\n<p>But he said the police are working towards dismantling such criminal operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve identified the hotspots for arms <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/04\/14\/photos-court-sentences-25-year-old-nigerian-man-to-death-for-drug-trafficking-in-vietnam\/\">trafficking<\/a> in Nigeria, and the hotspots are majorly the border areas. Today, these border areas are receiving a lot of attention from our men,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve also come to understand very clearly the international dimensions of arms trafficking, and that\u2019s why we are focusing on identifying, investigating and dismantling international arms smuggling syndicates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have done that successfully from 2019 till now; in fact, for one of the syndicates, we tracked all the way from Saki in Oyo state through to Benin Republic, followed their route up to Burkina Faso, and picked up every single person involved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe worked with INTERPOL, we worked with WAPOL, and from that particular syndicate, we recovered up to 6,000 rounds of AK-47 ammunition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mba added that the force is also working towards apprehending persons involved in the manufacturing and export of small arms from Nigeria to neighbouring countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba has explained how security agencies tracked a criminal syndicate from Nigeria to Burkina Faso and recovered thousands of AK-47 ammunition. 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