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The Commissioner of Police in Adamawa State, Audu Adamu Madaki, has revealed how herdsmen use their cattle to conceal and smuggle dangerous firearms into Nigeria.
He said three repentant kidnappers who voluntarily walked into his office, confessed to being kidnappers and surrendered two AK-47s to the command and informed him on how they used their cattle to carry arms from Cameroon into Nigeria.
He made this known at a briefing on the security situation and the wave of kidnappings in the state on Wednesday in Yola.
"The herdsmen explained to me that they normally conceal the firearms in sacks of personal effects and strap them on the back of a cow and then immigrate to a chosen destination."
On how and where they obtained the firearms, the police chief said, "They told me that they purchased them from the Republic of Cameroon and moved them into Nigeria through the bush path to beat immigration and other security agents along the border."
He added that the kidnappers were led into his office by an official of the Miyetti Allah, an umbrella body for Fulani herdsmen.
Also at the briefing, Madaki raised security concerns about the springing up of adult Almajiri Qur'anic schools across seven local government areas of the state.
According to him, the police spotted suspicious Almajiri schools in Jada, Song, Gombi, Mubi North, Yola North and Fufore local government areas.
"It was curious to see full-grown adults attending Almajiri school because I attended Almajiri school myself back then when I was about seven years. So I don't understand how an adult as old as I am would claim to be an Almajiri.
"Under the pretext of an Almajiri, this criminal move from house to house with a bowl, supposedly begging for food, but in real sense prying on unsuspected kidnap victims", he said.
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