Enugu State Police Command has nabbed a notorious gun manufacturer and who has been supplying firearms to hoodlums.
The suspect identified as one Eze Cyprian, 69, a cripple from Umuabi in Udi Local Government Area of Enugu state was picked following intelligence information gathered about his activities.
His hideout was stormed by men of the Operation Puff Adder and Anti cultism squad of the Enugu state police command.
The State police spokesman, SP Ebere Amaraizu in a statement issued to newsmen in Enugu on Monday, alleged that Eze “has allegedly manufactured firearms which he usually supplied to armed robbers /cultists,” adding that the suspect also has “revealed how he manufactured arms and supplied to suspected armed robbers and to group of cultists in which one Chidera Nwaori was killed with sometime in June 2009 at Agbani Road Enugu.”
He said that the deformed suspect “is now helping the operatives in their investigations.”
Recovered from the suspect includes one locally made double-barrel pistol, four cut to size locally made guns including “one belonging to a notorious suspected cultist/murderer identified as one Ugochukwu Ogba said to be about 28 years and a leader of Black Axe confraternity and who had brought his gun to the manufacturer for repairs,” Amaraizu stated.
Also recovered are six short barrel guns, various gun parts ready to be assembled, ten live cartridges, thirteen expended cartridges, Electric welding machine, gas cylinders, Drilling machines and clamps, amongst others.
Meanwhile, state commissioner of police Mr. Suleiman Balarabe has applauded the efforts of the operatives, ordering “full scale investigations and diligent prosecutions of suspects”.
