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From Femi Folaranmi, Yenagoa
A stop-and-search team of the Safer Highway Patrol Team of the Bayelsa State Police Command has apprehended a 23-year-old man for unlawful possession of one AK-47 rifle with two magazines loaded with 30 rounds of ammunition along the East-West Road in Bayelsa State.
The suspect, Mohammed Usman, an indigene of Borno State and a Fulani herder, was arrested in a commercial Sienna bus during a routine stop-and-search exercise.
Police sources stated that during a routine stop-and-search exercise on the 7th of January at about 4:15 pm, police operatives stopped a commercial vehicle and ordered all the passengers to disembark.
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However, two of the passengers immediately jumped out and fled into the nearby bush to escape.
The source further revealed that Usman’s Semovita bag was searched, and an AK-47 rifle with two magazines loaded with 30 rounds of ammunition was recovered.
The men of the Operation Puff Adder unit of the State Police Command have commenced an investigation, and Usman was said to have made a useful statement, which is helpful to the ongoing inquiry.
