File : Nigerian Police
The Police in Benue Police on Tuesday uncovered an illegal gun manufacturing factory in Oju Local Government Area of the state.
Commissioner of Police Fatai Owoseni led his men to the factory located at Amyuwogbu-Ibilla in Oju.
As stated by him the factory owner, Abi Odah, his son, Kingsley Abi and one Thomas Ode, aka Tommy were arrested also.
Owoseni, who paraded the three suspects at the Oju Police Division said the police were investigating a case of abduction and rape when they stumbled on the illegal factory.
He said 19-year-old Kingsley and his friend, Tommy, 17, were earlier after an allegation of abduction and rape of a 15-year-old girl.
The CP added that when policemen got to Kingsley father’s home, they found prohibited items in the father’s workshop located behind the house.
“Some of the locally-fabricated guns use AK-47 ammunitions,” Owoseni added.
Odah, who said he fabricated Dane guns for hunters, however, said not all the tools belonged to him