The Niger State Police Command has described as fake, the news being circulated on social media that a foreign national who supplies weapons to bandits in Niger State had been arrested.
In a statement by the spokesperson of the Niger State Police Command, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, the force reacted to a picture circulating on some social media platforms and other media outlets which claim that a foreign national pilot named “Juan Remy” who supplies weapons to bandits has been arrested in the State.
“The Command, hereby, described such report as a piece of fake news and that such incident never occurred in the State.
“It is also pertinent to state that there has never been a report of any foreign national with helicopter distributing weapons to hoodlums in the State,” Abiodun said.
He urged members of the public to disregard the report, saying that it was aimed to create unnecessary chaos in the public domain.
He also called on the citizens in the state not to relent in their support by providing useful information in tackling crime and criminality in Niger state.
