Destiny Agbaijoh, the 25-year-old suspect arrested with an AK-47 rifle, body bags and other dangerous items by the NDLEA in Ondo State, says revealing his backers would mean automatic death.
The suspect stated this while speaking with reporters shortly after being paraded by the anti-narcotics agency.
Agbaijoh said he was a timber trader who found the items, which included the AK-47 rifle, body bags, one pump action, 91 bullets of 5.56 mm, 16 cartridges, and cash of N347,000, inside the bush in a Bayelsa village where he was working.
He said he did not take the items to the police because he never knew the matter would cause problems for him.
“l never knew it would later bring problem for me. I saw it in a bush in the place I am working. I saw it in a nylon bag they used to wrap it and I carried it to my village.
“I don’t know it will later cause problem. I was coming from Bayelsa State and was going to my home town after Agadagba, in Ese-Odo council area of Ondo State. The money is my own and it was from my timber business,” Agbaijoh said.
The NDLEA State Commandant, Mr Kayode Raji, while parading the suspect before the newsmen in Akure on Wednesday, said officials of the agency arrested the suspect during a stop and search duty along Ore-Okitipupa road.
Raji said the suspect who boarded a commercial vehicle, was found with one AK-47, one pump action, 91 bullets of 5.56 mm,16 cartridges and cash of N347,000 concealed in a bag during the search.
He alleged that the suspect wanted to bribe the operatives with the cash found on him but was rejected.
“This suspect was arrested on the 20th of July this year, along Ore-Okitipupa road by our men on stop and search operation.
“He was arrested with AK-47, which was discovered that the breach number has been tampered with, but the three magazines have an inscription that looks like the Nigeria Police.
“He was also arrested with one pump action with 91 bullets of 5.56 mm of live ammunition and 16 cartridges that are for pump action hidden in a bag.
“The sum of N347,000 was also seized from him. As a matter of fact, he had offered our officers the money as bribe so that he could be released, which was promptly rejected.
“We have done our preliminary investigation and we are going to hand him over to the Police,” he said.