The Enugu State Police Command has recorded significant progress in its sustained efforts to combat crimes and criminality, especially the proliferation of illegal firearms, with the dismantling of a local firearms fabrication workshop in Udi Local Government Area. Operatives recovered assorted firearms, cartridges, firearms repair tools, generator sets, and other exhibits.

On June 30, 2025, at about 4 p.m., operatives of the Command’s Anti-Cultism Tactical Squad, acting on credible intelligence, raided and dismantled the workshop located in Amofia-Agu Affa, Udi LGA. The operation followed the arrest and confession of one Ekene Okafor, aged 32, a member of the Supreme Vikings Confraternity, earlier apprehended for conspiracy, armed robbery, and unlawful possession of firearms.

The suspect led operatives to the workshop, where his locally made cut-to-size gun was being serviced by the workshop’s owner, who fled upon sighting the operatives. Recovered from the scene were the locally made cut-to-size single-barrel gun being serviced, two English-made double-barrel guns, eight single-barrel guns, two live and eight expended cartridges, three generator sets, various firearms repair tools, and other exhibits.

Efforts are ongoing to apprehend the fleeing owner of the workshop.

The Commissioner of Police, Enugu State Command, CP Mamman Bitrus Giwa, psc, while commending the operatives for the breakthrough, reassures residents of the Command’s commitment to combating illegal firearms proliferation and related crimes. He calls on the public to remain vigilant, law-abiding, and to continue providing credible information to the police.