The military has apprehended a 25-year-old soldier, Private Yahaya Yunusa, for unlawful possession of ammunition in Jaji, located in the Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
Yunusa, attached to the 197 Special Forces Battalion in Zamfara State, was arrested around 11:55 a.m. on Friday while carrying 214 rounds of various calibres of linked ammunition.
An operational report obtained exclusively by SaharaReporters on Sunday revealed that the soldier was found with unauthorised ammunition, his military identification card, and several Automated Teller Machine (ATM) cards at the time of his arrest.
The report detailed that Yunusa was in possession of 50 rounds of 12.7×108mm and 69 rounds of 7.62×54mmR—both sets linked by chains—35 rounds of unlinked 7.62×54mmR, and 60 rounds of 5.56×45mm. He also had Opay, Unity Bank, Access Bank, and First Bank ATM cards.
During interrogation, Yunusa allegedly confessed that he retrieved the ammunition during operations, stating that he was the operator of the Anti-Aircraft (AA) machine gun mounted on a military vehicle.
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