police impounded vehicle carrying arms in Kwara.

Police officers from the Kwara State
Command have intercepted and arrested a
truck laden with ammunition at Kosubosu, a
border town in the Baruten Local Government
Area of Kwara State.
A police source, who pleaded anonymity, said
on Saturday that the ammunition comprised
cartons of cartridges hidden in a section of
the truck.
The source also said that occupants of the
vehicle who names were given as Amusa
Amodu and Abdulazeez Isiaka were also
arrested.
The Kwara State Commissioner of Police, Mr
Salihu Garba, in an interview with our
correspondent on Saturday said the arrest
was made on Friday night.
He stated that the truck with the number,
Lagos XU 110 BDG, was coming from
Burkina-Faso enroute to Ibadan before the
officials of the Kosubosu Divisional Police
Headquarters intercepted the vehicle.
He added that detectives had arrived at
Kusobuso for further investigations into the
matter.
He also said the police detectives on Friday
also intercepted a cache of ammunition from
some hoodlums at Kulende area of Ilorin, the
Kwara State capital.
He added that the officials of the command
also arrested a golf car at Kaa Akanbi area of
Ilorin. He stated that police officers on
suspicion that the golf car was carrying illegal
items pursued it.
According to him, the occupants of the
vehicles abandoned the car and fled. He
added that the police discovered two AK 4
rifles and two locally fabricated pistols and 22
rounds of AK47 ammunition from the
abandoned golf car.
Garba said the police was on the trail of the
occupants of the car with a view to arresting
them.

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