Container laden with weapons: Police arrest clearing agent

THE Police at the Port command, Apapa, Lagos, yesterday, arrested an agent alleged to have cleared a 20-foot container loaded with military camouflage uniforms and other suspected dangerous weapons that disappeared at the Tin Can Terminal in Apapa, last Friday.

Though it was not clear whether the agent gave himself up to the police or not, his arrest came after the Commissioner of Police, Lagos Ports Command, Celestine Okoye, gave detectives 24 hours to arrest those behind the disappearance of the container.

Sources hinted that the arrest of the agent has sent strong signals to port officials involved in the disappearance of the container with top officers claiming the container did not disappear as alleged by the police.

Vanguard, however, learned that detectives were making frantic efforts to lure them to disclose the exact location of the missing container.

Vanguard, January 24, 2018

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