Adamawa vigilance group commander accused of gunrunning

One of the commanders of Vigilante and hunters drafted in the fight against the Boko Haram insurgency, popularly known as Mr. Young Morris has been arrested in Adamawa state in relation to gun running.

Young Morris, who is the operational commander and the state discipline master of the hunters and vigilante operatives in the state, was arrested on Wednesday by an undercover operation superintended by the foremost Nigerian crime fighter, Ali Kwara

Ali Kwara, while speaking to journalists in Yola on the arrest said that it was the outcome of an audacious undercover operation spanning many weeks, noting that the operation was initially set up to arrest a notorious lady gunrunner who was operating in Taraba State.

He said that in the build up to the operation, the undercover agent he assigned for the job had established contact with the lady gunrunner, but unfortunately could not meet her on the appointed day as she told him that her local government was embroiled in crisis following the verdict of Taraba state election tribunal which returned Jummai Alhassan as the winner of the gubernatorial election.

Kwara, the lady then told the undercover agent that she has two contacts in Adamawa, one residing in Yola and the other residing in Ganye and asked him to contact any of them.

“When my agent contacted the man in Ganye Local Government Area of Adamawa State, he told him that he had run out of ammunitions and should contact another man in Numan who incidentally happens to be Young Morris”, Kwara added.