Police Recover Dynamites and Machine Guns From 3 Cars in Rivers

POLICE in Rivers State, at the weekend, recovered a cache of weapons from three vehicles hidden at a mechanic village in Ihugbo, along East-West Road, Ahoada, Rivers State, following what it described as an extensive intelligence operation.

The recovered weapons included two dynamites with detonators, explosives canes, two gas cylinders with welding accessories, two General Purpose Machine Guns (GPMG) with 593 rounds of GPMG ammunition and eight AK–47 rifles with 1635 rounds of AK-47 ammunition and 57 magazines.


Others are one G3 rifle with magazine, one sledge hammer, one axe and three vehicles in which the weapons were concealed.

The three vehicles involved are one Volvo S40 car, one Mercedes-Benz Saloon car and one Nissan Pathfinder Jeep with all the registration numbers withheld.

Deputy Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Frank Mba in a statement noted that the vehicles were impounded by the police and noted that efforts to track down the criminals were being intensified as other incriminating exhibits linking the perpetrators to the weapons were also recovered at the scene by police operatives.

He said the weapons were recovered on Friday and were to have been used in an aborted robbery attack targeted at one of the leading commercial banks in the state.

Meanwhile, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) MD Abubakar has commended the officers and men of the Rivers State police command for what he described as an impressive recovery.

He enjoined all police commands and formations to up their game particularly in the area of intelligence gathering towards providing adequate security for the citizenry.

The IGP reminded citizens of the need to always report all suspicious activities to the police and also urged the citizens to remain confident in the ability of the Nigeria police in the discharge of its constitutional duties.