Kaduna State Commissioner of
Police, Umar Shehu, yesterday paraded Bulus Kinze and James Kinze, both
from Kogun village of Jema’a Local Government Area of Kaduna State for
allegedly using their residence for illegal manufacturing of arms and
ammunitions and equally serving as main supplier of arms to armed
bandits within the area.
According to the police commissioner,
when the suspects were arrested and their residence, two locally made
AK-47 rifles, one locally made SMG rifle and its magazine, two locally
made pistols, two police coloured AK-47 magazines, one locally made
AK-47 magazine, twenty live 0.36 special revolver ammunition, three live
7.62mm long ammunitions, eleven live 7.62mm short, AK-47 ammunition and
three live cartridges.
Others are one live 5.5mm, T.6
ammunition, 14 empty shells of 7.62mm short, AK-47 ammunition, seventeen
empty shells of 0.36 special revolver pistols ammunition, one expanded
cartridges, some parts of locally made AK-47 rifle and parts of other
rifles, one drilling machine use in production of rifles, one hand
driller, some instrument for fabrication of rifles and some assorted
charms.
Meanwhile, when one of the suspected
manufacturers of the illegal arms, James Kinze was interviewed at the
police command headquarters where he was paraded alongside other armed
robbery suspects, he owned up to manufacturing of locally made arms but
said it was meant to protect themselves against bandits that have
continued to terrorise their areas unabated