Security operatives have arrested a man suspected to be supplying arms to the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Eastern Security Network (ESN) in Anambra.

The security operatives also intercepted a truck loaded with over 164,000 live cartridges which were reportedly being supplied to the proscribed groups.

According to a security analyst and counter-insurgency expert, Zagazola Makama, the suspected arms supplier was identified as Emeka Omenife.

Omenife was arrested on May 29 along the Asaba-Onitsha Expressway and handed over to the Department of State Services (DSS) for interrogation.

The suspected arms courier reportedly confessed to being a member of a syndicate involved in transporting ammunition Ghana to Nigeria for IPOB and ESN.

His accomplice, Uchenna Obiora, was arrested after Omenife’s confession at the Onitsha-Awka tollgate on May 30.

Obiora was arrested while awaiting the delivery of the ammunition.Q