Police find arms cache

An arms cache has been found by police in Lagos following an intensive search for militant members of the Yoruba Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) suspected of involvement in the reported murder of a policeman, ‘The Guardian’ reported on Wednesday.

The weapons, reported to be owned by the OPC, were found at a base in the suburb of Bariga thought to be used by the OPC for training, the daily said, quoting police sources. Lagos Police Commissioner Mike Okiro confirmed that a large quantity of weapons had been confiscated. He said Lagos would be turned “upside down and inside out” until the suspected murderers were found.

The victim, Afolabi Amao, a superintendent at Bariga police station, was abducted and reportedly shot and his body thrown into a lagoon following a storming of the station by militant OPC members on Monday. Okiro said efforts were being made to find Amao’s body and, according to ‘The Guardian’, he added that that any such attacks on his men in the future would be “met with equal ruthlessness”.