The police in Imo have arrested one Eze Ajoku, a 63-year man in Agwa, Oguta local government area of the state said to have been specialised in fabricating guns. Rabiu Ladodo, the Commissioner of Police (CP) in charge of Imo command, said on Wednesday, that the suspect was among 22 others, including a serving police inspector, nabbed for armed robbery, kidnapping, cultism and illegal possession of fire arms. He listed items recovered from the fabricating factory to include one locally made pistol, one 9MM live ammunition, two double-barrel pipes and eight single-barreled pipes.
Other exhibits include nine riffle engine stock, two live ammunition and expended cartridges, one drilling machine, nine saw blades among others. Ladodo further disclosed that a serving police inspector, Salvation Kpun attached to OPS department in Imo was arrested at Works Layout Owerri in connection with armed robbery. He added that a fleeing member of his gang, also a serving soldier, was being trailed by the police.
The CP warned that there would be no hiding place for criminals in the state, adding that following the recently launched ‘Operation Puff Adder” the command was ever ready to combat crime in Imo.
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