Police uncover illegal firearms fabrication workshop in Potiskum, arrest suspects

The Yobe State Police Command has uncovered an amerciable firearms fabrication tract successful Potiskum and arrested 7 suspects, arsenic portion of renewed efforts to combat transgression crossed the state.
The Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dungus Abdulkarim, disclosed this successful a statement, noting that the find of the mill followed a raid carried retired connected 2nd June, 2026, by operatives of the Potiskum Area Command.

The PPRO said a credible quality revealed that immoderate blacksmiths were engaged successful the amerciable fabrication of dane guns and different firearms astatine Tasha Adua on Danchuwa Road, Potiskum, starring to the apprehension of 7 suspects.

According to him, items recovered during the cognition see 2 fabricated pistols, 24 muzzle pipes, 9 weapon butts, 4 unserviceable dane guns, 1 filing machine, and 1 crisp cutlass.

“The suspects are presently undergoing thorough probe with a presumption to identifying their collaborators, imaginable buyers, and the intended usage of the fabricate...