Soldier arrested, accused of stealing, selling ammunition to terrorists

Nigerian soldier, Iorliam Emmanuel has been arrested for allegedly stealing and selling ammunition to Boko Haram terrorists.

Emmanuel, said to have been attached to the 156 Task Force Battalion, codenamed, “Operation Hadin Kai”, in Mainok, Borno State was disarmed, searched and found to be carrying ammunition.

A viral video shows as the ammunition was removed from a piece of clothing strapped around his waist.

According to Zagazola Makama, a publication focused on the LakeChad region, the soldier was caught in possession of ammunition on his way out of Maiduguri, the state capital.

In a video shared by the publication, soldiers were seen stripping the suspect of ammunition strapped to his body

“You see your life? You, you will go and give Boko Haram these things so that they will come and attack us in this camp. Don’t worry. God pass you,” some soldiers were heard in the clip.

“All these ones don tey, they don rust,” a soldier said in reference to bullets that appeared to have been in the suspect’s possession for a while.

According to Zagazola Makama, the suspect who hails from Benue, regularly steals ammunition and supplies to criminal gangs across the country suspected to be bandits.