Its Commandant General, Ahmed Audi, disclosed this on Wednesday at a news briefing at its National Headquarters.
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The command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Mohammed Jalige, confirmed the arrest in a statement issued on Sunday in Kaduna.
The position of the Senate was sequel to a bill sponsored by Senator Uba Sani, which was passed into second reading on the floor.
The Spokesman of the command, SP Nnamdi Omoni, said in a statement in Port Harcourt on Friday that the state Commissioner of Police, Joseph Mukan, gave the directive.
The Police Command in Enugu State on Sunday issued a 3-day ultimatum for people in possession of unlicensed and authorised firearms to surrender them to the command.
The Commissioner, represented by Police Public Relations Officer, Anjuguri Manzah, said this at a news conference on the Operation Finger off the Trigger National Disarmament and Peace Campaign on Tuesday in Abuja.
Inaugurating the task force in Awka on Thursday, the Commissioner of Police, Garba Umar, said the operation was targeted at full enforcement of the Firearms Act of 2004.
Ejesieme said that the Comptroller-General of Customs was worried over the proliferation of firearms in the country and therefore gave a matching order to all comptrollers to intensify patrols at all routes
Presiding Chief Magistrate, Oyeyipo Ademuyiwa, took the decision following an application for withdrawal of the case file by the prosecution counsel, C. Osagie