SSS storms illegal arms factory, recovers over 100 weapons

The State Security Service (SSS) in Enugu State has stormed an illegal arms manufacturing factory at Agbada village, at Nenwe community of Aninri Local Government Area, recovering over 100 dangerous weapons of different categories.The Director of SSS in the state, Mr Taminu Adalkhali, who made this known while addressing pressmen in Enugu on Tuesday, said the large cache of arms was discovered following an intelligence report received by his office, adding that the raid, carried out at the illegal factory led to the recovery of the arms and other equipment used in manufacturing such weapons.He said that four of the illegal arms manufacturers were arrested during the raid which, according to him, was part of the agencys preparation to counter and contain threats that could disrupt the forthcoming elections in the state.It is in this direction that the command successfully carried out an operation with military backup in which four illegal arms manufacturers were arrested.The service will continue to carry out such operations until all illegal arms in circulation are mopped up in the state, the SSS director said.The recovered arms, which were displayed before newsmen included 56 single barrels,20 single barrel long range guns, three single battle short range guns, one foreign-made Marrison riffle, one locally made Marrison (Chettima), one foreign double barrel long range gun, two locally made long range double barrel, three locally made double barrel short range pistols and one double barrel short Dane gun.Also recovered were one single barrel short range pistol, five long range engines, 19 engines with butts, 12 cannons, four double barrels, one revolver barrel, one box of tools and scraps, one carbide tank, one gas cylinder, empty cartridges, two vice machines, one Echo (tool), two drilling machines, one handsaw, one sand disc filling machine and one box of scraps.Adalkhali said the most dangerous of the weapons were the short locally made guns which were commonly used by armed robbers to carry out their operations, adding that the guns manufactured in the factory had the capacity to kill instantly.If you look at some of the weapons the armed robbers use for their operations, they are locally fabricated and they have the capacity to kill, he said.
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