The Benue State Police Command has uncovered an illegal local gun factory situated at Oju Local Government Area of the State.
According to the State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, who went to the site in company with his men, said the police found the operators out while investigating a case of rape and abduction against the factory’s owner’s son, Kingsley Abi and his friend, Thomas Ode, aka Tommy Tommy.
The owner, Abi Odah, popularly known as blacksmith, alongside his son, Kingsley, and Tommy Tommy, were paraded before newsmen on Tuesday.
Oweseni said leading up to the discovery, the police had apprehended 19-year-old Kingsley and 17-year-old Tommy on account of allegation that they abducted and raped a 15-year-old girl.
The CP explained that in the course of investigating the allegations, the police while tracing evidence of the crime to Kingsley’s home, found prohibited items in his father’s workshop behind their house at Amyuwogbu-Ibilla in Oju.
He added that when his men dug deeper into Adi’s activities, it was discovered that he was into fabrication of dangerous weapons while disguising them as dane guns for hunters.
“Some of the locally fabricated equipment use AK-47 prohibited ammunition,” Owoseni said.
