Nigerian nursing mother arrested in possession of AK-47(photos)

A nursing mother identified as Simeon Esther, has been apprehended by Operatives of Operation Puff Adder after she was caught in possession of an AK-47 machine gun. 

Esther had been transporting the heavy duty weapon in a bag when she was nabbed by the police. 

She revealed to the policemen that she had been promised N5000 by her husband to transport it to Ogun State where it would be received by someone else. 

According to the police, other members of the gang were awaiting the weapon which would have been used to kidnap a senior citizen in the state.

Speaking to The Nation, she said;

“On Wednesday, my husband, Bright Gbade, called me and asked me to go and deliver the bag to somebody in Ogun State.

He did not even tell me the name of the person, he only told me that the person will call me. I did not know the content of the bag and they did not even allow me to carry the bag. They carried the bag themselves to the motor park.

It was while we were on our way that the policemen searched the bag and found the gun in it. We have been married for two years and I did not know that my husband is a criminal. He said he is a fisherman when he was asking me out and before I accepted his proposal, he said he was one of the militants who surrendered their weapons during the amnesty programme.

I even relocated to my mother’s house because of the way he treats me. I was at my mother’s house when he called me to help him deliver the bag in Ogun State and he promised to give me N5000 but he ended up not giving me.”

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