Troops of the Guards Brigade have arrested a man with arms and ammunition in Mararaba area of Nasarawa State.
The arrest was made on Thursday during a stop and search operation.
The Director of Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Sani Usman, made this known in a statement on Friday.
He gave the suspect’s name as Peter Iorlaha.
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Usman disclosed that Iorlaha hid, in a bag, two locally made pistols, one locally made short gun, two rounds of 7.62mm (Special), five live cartridges, two torch lights, a screw driver, charms and a Tecno mobile handset.
Usman said the man claimed that the weapons and other items were handed over to him by his uncle for safe keeping.
He is at present going through interrogation.
