The Department of State Services (DSS), has been commended for sharing needed intelligence with the Nigerian Armed Forces in Zamfara State which led to the seizure of a large cache of arms and ammunitions couriered from Niger Republic.
The commendation was given bestowed on the Service Tuesday night by Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara when he inspected the seized cache of arms and ammunitions in Gusau, the State capital.
It was gathered that following intelligence shared by the DSS, a cache of arms from suspected arms dealers at Kaura Namoda Local Government Area of Zamfara was successfully intercepted.
The Governor particularly applauded the DSS officers and expressed confidence in the ability of the Service to guarantee the internal security of Nigeria.
Lawal also thanked President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for greatly supporting the DSS and military to make Zamfara State and Nigeria safer.
He assured that his administration would continue to support Security Agencies in Zamfara State to tackle terrorists and criminals.
The DSS operatives had in a joint operation with troops of Operation Fansan Yamma, on Monday and Tuesday, successfully trailed a notorious arms courier, Abubakar Umar aka Dangada, from Niger Republic to the Kaura Namoda-Zurmi Road.
Security sources confided in Forefront News that the DSS intelligence revealed that, Umar was billed to convey the munitions from Niger Republic to Birnin Magaji LGA for onward delivery to some bandit kingpins, particularly Kachallah Atta, Alhaji Shinge, Alhaji Nashama and a certain Zaki.
The security source further said that the cache of arms and ammunitions were loaded inside a red Abuja-registered Volkswagen Golf station wagon car with registration number RBC 731 GU.
It was also gathered that the arms couriers abandoned the vehicle and fled with serious bullet wounds, after which seven AK-47 rifles, two PKT GPMG and two AK-103 rifles were recovered.
Also recovered were 169 rounds of 7.62x39mm calibre of ammunition, 9 PKT rounds of ammunition, with one chain and 13 empty magazines.
