The Delta State Police Command has arrested a grandmother and a syndicate involved in the illegal sale and possession of firearms.
Delta Police Commissioner, Mr. Ari Mohammed, made this known weekend in Asaba, the State Capital.
He said his men arrested Garuba Sani, a butcher at Oghara Cattle market for illegal possession of ammunition late last year.
He said the suspect was arrested after a sack bag he was carrying spilled in an auto crash in December, 2020.
He said the suspect confessed he received the ammunition from 67- year- old Roseline Abeju, while another septuagenarian, Samalia Amadi, sent him on the errand
Abeju, a grandmother, said she was attracted to the trade as a means of surviving widowhood.
But Samalia claimed herders like him needed the ammunition for self- defense.
