By Chinenyeh Ozor

Nsukka—Policemen attached to the National Task Force, NATFORCE, at Amalla in Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State have intercepted several dozens of army uniforms and camouflage being conveyed from Aba to Kaduna State.

Vanguard gathered that the items were found in a luxury bus registered under Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, as a Federal Government-Assisted Mass Transit, with number plate KUJ 745XA.

The bus had a few passengers on board, but was stopped by policemen on a stop-and-search duty at the Enugu-Makurdi Expressway.

The policemen had to shatter one of the windows to compel the driver to stop and then searched the vehicle to make the discovery.

It was dicovered that army camouflage were mixed up with regular ones worn by officers from second lieutenant to generals on peace keeping missions.

The driver of the vehicle, who identified himself as Philip Tsaku, aged 42, from Nassarawa State, on interrogation said he was not aware of the uniform.

He said he returned from Lagos the previous night, only to be asked to proceed to Kaduna after the goods had been loaded without his knowledge.

He said the way bill note was given to the conductor with phone numbers and names of the owners in Kaduna.

The conductor, who was identified as Boka Adamu,37, said he was only given the way bill and was not told the content.

Adamu said: “My duty is only that when we reach Kaduna, I will call numbers on the way bill and they will come and collect the goods. The owners of the goods paid for them at our Aba office.”

He also noted that they usually dropped goods in Kaduna, Zaria, Abuja and finally Kano, without knowing the contents of the goods.

He explained that names in the way bill included Ngozi, Kaduna; Festus Ibag, Kaduna; Sanni Zaria, Zaria; Paul, Kaduna, and Yahaya, Kano.

It would be recalled that sometime last year, such military uniforms were intercepted at the same point with 21 persons suspected to be members of Boko Haram.