UK officer tries to flee Nigeria after arms seizure in Delta, DSS intervenes

• HURIWA has called for a thorough, transparent probe into the alleged engagement of British Army Major Micah Polo successful a large arms trafficking lawsuit successful Delta State
• The DSS reportedly recovered 50 AK-47s and thousands of rounds of ammunition successful Asaba, with Major Polo arrested successful Lagos portion attempting to fly to the UK
• The rights radical urged UK-Nigeria practice to dismantle imaginable transnational arms networks and warned against overseas interference successful Nigeria’s interior security

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has urged Nigerian and British authorities to motorboat a joint, transparent probe into the alleged engagement of British Army serviceman Major Micah Polo successful a caller arms trafficking incidental uncovered by the Department of State Services (DSS) successful Delta State.

In a connection issued successful Abuja connected Monday, the rights radical warned that the case, if proven true, could person sedate implications for nationalist stableness and determination peace, particularly successful politically delicate areas similar Warri.

DSS captures a British service serviceman trafficking arms illegally. Photo Credit: FB/DSS
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AK-47 rifles among weapons recovered

HURIWA said that the find of ample quantities of military-grade weapons successful the portion raises alarm bells astir a imaginable effort to destabilize Nigeria’s antiauthoritarian order.

Reports bespeak that the DSS recovered 50 AK-47 rifles, six pump-action shotguns, and implicit 3,000 rounds of ammunition during a covert raid adjacent Asaba connected April 25.

Major Polo was reportedly apprehended successful Lagos portion trying to permission for the United Kingdom, with different suspects arrested astatine the country successful Delta State.

HURIWA further raised interest implicit alleged links betwixt the British serviceman and a accepted ruler successful Delta State, suggesting the lawsuit whitethorn beryllium portion of a wider conspiracy aimed astatine stirring unrest successful the Warri Federal Constituency.

The portion has witnessed hostility pursuing unresolved disputes implicit ward delineation by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), an workout mandated by the Supreme Court successful precocious 2022.

HURIWA demands British full cooperation

In its petition to the British High Commission, HURIWA urged the UK to show afloat practice and transparency successful investigating the case.

HURIWA urges the UK to cooperate with the Nigerian authorities successful the investigation. Photo credit: Getty
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The radical said that identifying the root and destination of the seized weapons is important to exposing immoderate transnational trafficking networks and preventing aboriginal threats.

“No idiosyncratic oregon overseas histrion should beryllium allowed to exploit Nigeria’s governmental sensitivities to dispersed unit oregon undermine antiauthoritarian institutions,” said Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, HURIWA’s nationalist coordinator.

The enactment emphasized that swift ineligible action, some successful Nigeria and the UK, would reaffirm the 2 countries’ shared committedness to upholding peace, democracy, and the regularisation of law.

HURIWA besides called connected the DSS to guarantee that its probe is nonrecreational and wrong ineligible bounds, with its findings made nationalist to reconstruct assurance and deter further conspiracies.

As portion of its wider advocacy efforts, HURIWA called connected citizens to stay alert and to enactment the lawful authorities successful preventing sabotage.

It pledged to proceed monitoring the lawsuit and collaborating with home and planetary partners to guarantee justness is served and nationalist information protected.

DSS takes implicit custody of cleric who killed lover

Earlier, Legit.ng reported that the Department of State Services (DSS) had taken implicit custody of an Islamic cleric and 4 different suspects detained for the execution of a final-year pupil of Kwara State College of Education, Hafsah Lawal, whom they allegedly met connected Facebook.

This improvement was confirmed by lawyers representing the victim’s household portion dismissing speculations that the suspects had been secretly transferred to Abuja.

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Source: Legit.ng