Standup9ja: Zaki-Biam: Taskforce recovers weapons from notorious suspect’s stronghold

Standup9ja: Zaki-Biam: Taskforce recovers weapons from notorious suspect’s stronghold

A Special Security Joint Task Force instituted by the Federal Government over the recent market killings in Zaki-Biam town in Ukum Local Government Area of Benue State yesterday displayed arms and ammunition it allegedly recovered from the stronghold of most wanted criminal, Terwase Akwaza, popularly known as Ghana.

Governor Samuel Ortom has fingered Ghana as responsible for the market killings penultimate Monday in Zaki Biam after security agencies corroborated the governor at separate times that the wanted militia kingpin who reneged on the amnesty deal earlier granted him by the state government continued to wreak havoc in some areas of the state.

The Joint Security Task Force headed by a Commissioner of Police from the Force Headquarters in Abuja, CP, Bello Ahmed, has however recorded some level of breakthrough with the weapons so far recovered.

Special Adviser to the State Government on Security Matters, Col. Edwin Jando (retired) who spoke at the Government House while displaying the recovered weapons, said the security operatives raided a bunker belonging to Ghana at his home town of Gbishe in Katsina-Ala local government area, adding that several persons had been arrested and taken to Abuja in connection with the development while interrogation was on.

Jando named the items recovered from the bunker to consist of a submachine gun, three grenades, automatic rifles, 10 locally made pistols, many locally made guns, thousands of live ammunition for rifles and double barrel guns, many cartridges, rockets for firing planes and so on.

On his part, the CP Ahmed Bello assured Benue people that the days of the dreaded  criminal were numbered.

Responding, Governor Ortom, who applauded the security agencies for a job well done, accused the runaway gang leader of using the amnesty programme as a cover-up for criminal activities.