{"id":64539,"date":"2025-04-21T15:35:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T15:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64539"},"modified":"2025-04-21T15:35:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T15:35:39","slug":"inspector-caught-smuggling-ammo-to-nasarawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/21\/inspector-caught-smuggling-ammo-to-nasarawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspector Caught Smuggling Ammo to Nasarawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A police inspector serving in the Federal Capital Territory has been arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle live ammunition to Lafia, the capital of Nasarawa State.<\/p>\n<p>The officer, Inspector Kasimu Usman of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit under the FCT Police Command, was intercepted on April 19 at the Nyanya Motor Park around 3:15 p.m. after operatives, aided by the Keffi Motor Park Union, flagged a suspicious parcel.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the package was a fully loaded AK-47 magazine containing 30 live rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Further investigation revealed the ammunition was meant for another officer, Inspector Haruna Mohammed, serving with the 58 Police Mobile Force Unit in Nasarawa.<\/p>\n<p>Usman was immediately detained, and authorities have launched a full probe into what is being described as a disturbing case of internal security compromise.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery has sparked fresh concerns over the illegal movement of arms within the country\u2019s law enforcement structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal A police inspector serving in the Federal Capital Territory has been arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle live ammunition to Lafia, the capital of Nasarawa State. The officer, Inspector Kasimu Usman of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit under the FCT Police Command, was intercepted on April 19 at the Nyanya Motor Park [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":64540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-64539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64541,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64539\/revisions\/64541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}