NDLEA busts Kaduna gun factory, arrests owner, seizes 196 AK-47 bullets

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has busted an illegal firearms manufacturing factory in Kaduna State, arresting its owner and recovering 17 locally made Dane guns, two pistols and 25 gun pipes.

The agency also intercepted 196 live AK-47 ammunition from a 31-year-old woman along the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway.

NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, disclosed the operations in a statement on Sunday.

According to the statement, operatives raided a factory in Sabon Garin Kangin on Monday, November 9, where they arrested a 45-year-old suspect, Sagiru Musa.

Items recovered from the facility included 17 locally fabricated Dane guns, two pistols, 25 Dane gun pipes and other materials used in the production of firearms.

In another operation, NDLEA officers on patrol along the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway intercepted a woman, Tabara Dauda, on Friday, November 13.

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The 31-year-old suspect was allegedly found conveying 196 rounds of live AK-47 ammunition and N675,000 in cash.

The agency also arrested a 30-year-old man, Samson Chibuike Andebe, in Grace Land, Sabon Gari Local Government Area, on November 11, with 3,840 tablets of tramadol 225mg weighing 2.5kg.

Similarly, a raid on a hideout in Gonin-Gora, Kaduna, on Saturday, November 14, led to the recovery of 499.3kg of skunk from two suspects, Celestine Chime, 34, and Chibueze Christ, 36.

NDLEA Chairman, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (retd.), commended the Kaduna command for the operations, noting that the discovery of the gun factory further underscored the link between illicit drugs and violent crime.