Niger, March 13: A Nigerian army spokesman says soldiers have stopped trucks loaded with weapons and explosives in Nigeria’s restive north.
Captain Charles Eckoacha says the trucks carried more than 15,000 kilograms of ammunition along with explosive material, detonators and other equipment used to make bombs.
He told journalists yesterday that police seized the cargo and arrested a driver and a policeman who was escorting the trucks.
Jos is the epicenter of religious violence in Nigeria’s “middle belt”, where dozens of ethnic groups vie for control of fertile lands. Politics, jobs and land often motivate violence that falls along religious lines.
——-Agencies