Woman ferries live ammunition for soldier boyfriend fighting Boko Haram

Borno State Police Command has arrested Anita Yohanna who ferried live ammunition on board a car to Yola from Askira town in the Askira Uba Local Government Area of Borno State.

The 25 year-old-woman was paraded at the police headquarters on Monday along with 51 other suspects arrested for various crimes in the state.

Anita confessed that she was on errand for her boyfriend, Lance Corporal Aliyu Isa.

“I have been dating the soldier for one year and four months. His name is Aliyu Isa; he is a Lance Corporal with the Nigerian Army serving in Askira. He gave me the bag and instructed me to take it to the park in Uba and waybill it in a vehicle going to Yola,” she said.

“I arrived at the Una Motor Park around 5 pm. When I got to the driver, he asked me what was in the bag and I told him I did not know, then he said we should open it to confirm before he would accept the luggage.

“Opening the bag, we discovered it was live ammunition. We counted them and discovered 90 pieces of live ammunition. That was how I was arrested and brought to the state police headquarters.

“The soldier was also arrested by the military; he is detention now at the military facility here in Maiduguri.”

CP Abdu Umar said Anita’s case was one of the many other criminal cases under investigation by the police.