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Kaduna State Governor Uba Sani has commended President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Department of State Services (DSS) for their decisive efforts successful dismantling a gun-running syndicate and recovering a cache of arms and ammunition done coordinated covert operations successful the state.
The politician described the palmy sting cognition arsenic a large boost to ongoing information reforms nether his administration’s Kaduna Peace Model, stressing that bandits, arms traffickers, and their collaborators would person nary hiding place.
Speaking done the Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Sule Shuaibu (SAN), Sani said the cognition demonstrates that Kaduna’s bid framework, anchored connected quality sharing, inter-agency collaboration, and assemblage engagement, produces tangible results.
“There indispensable beryllium immoderate atrocious eggs who privation to rubbish the government’s efforts, but the DSS successful Kaduna has done wonderfully well. This is the benignant of effect we get erstwhile institutions enactment together,” helium said.
The politician praised the synergy among information agencies, noting that sustained collaboration has made Kaduna 1 of the astir unchangeable states successful the Northwest. “His Excellency has consistently supported each information agencies, and teamwork is paying off,” helium added.
Sani reiterated that the Kaduna Peace Model remains preventive and proactive, combining non-kinetic engagement with actionable intelligence. He said the attack has importantly reduced transgression rates and is present being studied by different states arsenic a exemplary for bid and stability.
The politician expressed appreciation to President Tinubu and the Director-General of the DSS for strengthening the state’s information architecture, noting that nether their leadership, Kaduna has witnessed improved coordination and operational efficiency.
He besides urged residents to stay vigilant and cooperate with information agencies. “When you spot something, accidental something. Your individuality volition beryllium protected. Together, we volition support Kaduna safe,” helium assured.
Our analogous gathered that the DSS arrested 3 suspects linked to a large gunrunning web supplying weapons to bandit groups crossed the North. The suspects were apprehended successful abstracted covert operations successful Igabi and Kachia section authorities areas.
The archetypal suspect, aged 30, was intercepted on Nnamdi Azikiwe Bypass successful Igabi portion transporting arms concealed successful sacks of maize. Recovered items included 2 AK-47 rifles, 1 PKT instrumentality gun, 220 rounds of unrecorded ammunition, and 4 bare magazines. Two others, aged 44 and 38, were aboriginal arrested on the Kaduna–Abuja expressway with 3 AK-47 rifles, 3 magazines, and ₦69,050 hidden successful their vehicle.
Findings revealed that the weapons were being transported to a notorious bandit web successful Niger State, with Kaduna serving arsenic a transit route. Security sources said the DSS is intensifying efforts to way down different syndicate members and dismantle their operations crossed the Northwest.
The root added that President Tinubu has directed the Service to dismantle the full ringing of the gun-running syndicate, its sources, and the bandits to whom it is supplying arms.
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