THE Enugu State Police Command said it had begun a full scale investigation to identify and arrest the owners of 387 rounds of .9mm live ammunition recovered by its operatives in the Ogui area of the state.
Southern City News gathered that the rounds of ammunition, which were discovered on Saturday, were concealed in black polythene bags and hidden in a bush around the Nwosu Terrace axis.
The spokesman of the Enugu State Police Command, Mr. Ebere Amaraizu, who confirmed the development, said the discovery of the hidden bullets followed a tip-off to a team of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad on a routine township patrol.
Amaraizu explained that the tip-off did not reveal the identity of the persons who hid the bullets in the bush, stressing that the police was still searching for the owners of the ammunition.
In another development, one Emmanuel Ugwu, alias Sliding, of Amuzam Obeagu Ugwuaji, in Enugu South Local Government Area of the state, has been arrested by men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad over his alleged involvement in cultism and related offences.
Southern City News learnt that Sliding was arrested around the Ugwuaji area of the state by the operatives who were on the trail of a vehicle allegedly snatched from its owner on Sunday at Abakpa.
Amaraizu, who also confirmed the development, said the suspect had confessed that he was a member of ‘Bukinafaso Confraternity’ also known as ‘Atabo Bukinafaso’.
The suspect, Sliding, revealed how he joined the cult in 2011 in Aba, Abia State. “I joined Bukinafaso confraternity in 2011 in Aba through a friend and later became the leader of the cult group, also known as the capon,” the suspect said.
Sliding, who is known as a butcher by profession at Ogbete Market in Enugu, claimed that he was no longer the capon of the group in Enugu.
He identified one Timaya, a student of IMT, Enugu, as the current capon of the cult group in the Coal City.
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