Ex-booters Kaiser Hamid, Emeka held

Former national footballer Kaiser Hamid and former Nigerian player Emeka who also played for Dhaka Mohammedan were detained for possessing firearms in the capital early today.
Lutful Kabir, deputy commissioner of police (Gulshan division), said they held Emeka when he was entering Hotel Westin in Gulshan where Nigerian players were staying for today's friendly match against Argentina.
He said they found a revolver with bullets in his bag around 12:30am.
Later, police detained Kaiser Hamid at Bangladesh Football Federation office as Emeka said the revolver belonged to Hamid.
Hamid, also former captain of Mohammedan, told police that the firearm is licensed and it somehow ended up in Emeka's bag when the Nigerian was at the federation office early in the evening.
Police were interrogating the two till the filing of the report at 1:40am.