BY AGNES NWORIE, ABAKALIKI
THE Department of State Services has commenced investigation into the alleged stocking of arms and ammunition in a popular building materials market in Abakaliki, the state capital.
Already 9,000 live cartridges have been recovered from the market.
The owner of the shop where the arms and ammunition were discovered was said to have also been arrested along with other suspects, while 37 others have been arrested in relation to killings being perpetrated by suspected cultists.
These were disclosed by the State Commissioner for Internal Security and Border Peace, Stanley Okoroemegha, while speaking with journalists at an enlarged State Security Council meeting, in Abakaliki.
The market was, last Thursday, sealed by security forces over information that some hoodlums had stored arms and ammunition in the market.
The Commissioner also disclosed that 37 suspects had so far been arrested in connection with killings going on in the state by alleged cultists.
He also said the state government had promised to give anyone that could volunteer information that would lead to the arrest of more of these suspects a “special package”.
“We have given them seven days to get the killers. Thirty-seven persons have been arrested so far in connection with the cult attack. The DSS are investigating the matter of arms and ammunition that was brought into the building materials in Abakaliki,” he said.
