More weapons and Guns seized in Ogun and Anambra

The Ogun state police command says it has recovered a sub-machine gun, one rocket launcher, ten launcher heads, 62 loaded AK 47 magazines, 3 AK 47 riffles, among other.

The state's Commissioner of Police, Musa Daura told journalists that the items were recovered from a foiled bank robbery in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State where two robbers lost their lives during an exchange of gun fire with the police.

He said strategies have been put in place to ensure safety of financial institutions in the state from incessant attacks by armed robbers

Meanwhile, the police patrol team attached to Onitsha area command in conjunction with the National Task Force on illegal importation of arms have seized a large consignment of 126, 931 live cartridges.

The Commissioner of Police, Anambra State Command, Philemon Leha said the culprits were arrested on a tip off.

The chairman of the national task force on illegal importation, Chief Osita Okeke thanked the police for its assistance, explaining how the task force monitored the truck from Senegal to Cote D� Ivoire and to Nigeria where it was finally seized.

Former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria [CBN] and Anambra State governorship aspirant, Professor Chukwuma Soludo has dissociated himself and his campaign office from the arms seized in the state.

Professor Soludo told Channels Television on Friday night that one of his campaign vehicles which was snatched by armed robbers was recovered by the police, and that it was not in any way connected to the seized arms.

The former CBN governor adds that his campaign organisation is not in any way connected with arms and that he will not, and will never have anything to do with such a nefarious activity.