Surrender illegally acquired weapons in your own interest

Following thespate of killings inthe last four days in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, the Joint Task Force (JTF) in Borno has called on members of the public who are in possession of illegally acquired arms and ammunition as well as explosives to surrender such in their own interest.This warning was contained in a statement which came on the heels of the murder of a member of the Borno State House of Assembly, Honourable Bintube Dalwa, who was shot dead by gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect.Dalwa was killed in his Maiduguri residence at about 7:30p.m. on Sunday, when a group of gunmen stormed his residence and shot him.A top operative of the JTF, who confirmed the incident to newsmen on phone said, ' we are right in the house of the lawmaker now and we are arresting suspects in the area, because the gunmen ran into one of the houses in the neighborhood.'He said they were sure of arresting the killers because 'over 200 of our men have been mobilised to comb the entire area.'The killing of the lawmaker came some hours after the chief of vigilante group in Maiduguri, Ali Banga, was attacked and killed in his residence by the same gunmen.The JTF, who gave up to October 31, 2011 for those in possession of lethal weapons to surrender them, said the collection centres for such weapons include the headquarters of the JTF, 21, Brigadier Giwa Barracks, 212 Battalion, Maimalari Cantonment; the Nigeria Police headquarters in Borno and the headquarters of the Directorate of State Security in Maiduguri.
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