The police in Enugu have discovered an arms manufacturing company located at Ihuoha Amansiodo Oghe in Ezeagu local Government Area of Enugu state.
According to a police bulletin signed by its spokesman in Enugu, Ebere Amaraizu, the factory was allegedly run by “an operator identified as one Ejike Eze who also manufactures the gun for the use of suspected hoodlums”.
Eze was said to have escaped during a raid on the arms factory but his lover, identified as Juliet Nwachukwu in whose home some of the equipment and guns were found was arrested.
Amaraizu said acting on a tip-off, the Special Anti Robbery Squad(S.A.R.S) of the Enugu state command received from the members of the public o in the early hours of Friday, raided the gun manufacturing company.
It was gathered that when the police struck, the suspect was said to have swiftly relocated some of the manufactured cut to size double barrel and single barrel guns, manufacturing tools and some of the manufactured cartridges to the lover’s house, identified as a widow and mother of four.
Police said Juliet admitted that the guns and the tools were brought to her two days earlier by the manufacturer who did not tell her reason for bringing them to her house.
She, however, revealed that Ejike has been a manufacturer of gun for sometime now and regretted accepting the guns from him.
A large quantity of manufactured and about to be manufactured guns with some manufactured live cartridges as well as some tools for the manufacturing were recovered by the police.
Police said investigations into the incident have commenced in full scale just as manhunt on the fleeing suspect is intensified while Juliet Nwachukwu is helping the police in their investigations.
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