By 
Kenny TAIWO
A woman, Anita Yohanna, has been caught with live ammunition while boarding a car to Yola from Askira town, in the Askira Uba Local Government Area of Borno State.
The Borno State Police Command paraded the 25-year-old who claimed that she was given the ammunition by her military boyfriend, one Lance Corporal Aliyu Isa, to deliver to the driver of a commercial vehicle heading for Yola.
She said, “I have been dating the soldier for one year and four months now. His name is Aliyu Isa, a Lance Corporal with the Nigerian Army, serving in Askira. He gave me the bag and instructed me to take it to a park in Uba and waybill it in a vehicle going to Yola.
“I arrived at the Una Motor Park around 5pm. When I got to the driver, he asked me what was in the bag and I told him I did not know. Then, he said we should open it to confirm before he would accept the luggage. Upon opening the bag, we discovered it was live ammunition. We discovered 90 rounds of live ammunition; that was how I was arrested and brought to the state police headquarters.”
Yohanna noted that the soldier had been arrested and detained by the military.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Borno State, Abdu Umar, said the case was one of many other criminal cases undergoing investigations by the command.
He said the police were also investigating four rape cases of minors, thefts and vandalism of electrical armoured cables.
Umar assured that all the cases would be charged to court at the completion of investigations.
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Kenyan “rogue” policeman kills six in rampage – police
A Kenyan police officer shot dead six people in a rampage in a neighbourhood in the capital Nairobi on Tuesday and then shot and killed himself, police said.
The officer first shot and killed his wife at their home before setting off with his service-issued AK-47 rifle to shoot dead another four people, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations said on Twitter.
It described the shooter as a “rogue officer”.
Francis Wahome, the officer in charge of Nairobi’s Dagoretti area, said another two people had been wounded in the incident. He declined to comment on what prompted the shooting.
“The investigations are a secret. We cannot divulge, as it involves many things,” he told reporters.
“Until now, we never had any concerns about the officer’s behaviour. He had been going for duty properly, and had never been involved in an incident like this.”
Three of the men who were killed were mourners who had just attended preparations for a funeral, the DCI said.
Dagoretti resident Lameck Alaka said that before the shooting started, a car he believed belonged to the police drove past them and stopped for about 20 minutes.
“Then he got out, and we saw it was Mr. Ben. He came out with an AK-47, cocked it and started firing at us where we were with the boda boda (motorcycle) riders,” he said, referring to the officer by his first name.
Alaka said later other motorcycle riders came running to him saying the officer had killed two other men.
“They said the shooter wasn’t speaking; he was just shooting, and we know it is a police officer,” he said.
Angry residents near where the incident took place later set fire to tyres on a road in a protest against the violence, a Reuters journalist said.
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