The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) on January 12, 2025, carried out a successful raid on an illegal weapons manufacturing factory at Tse Akamabe Area of Kwande LGA, Benue State.

According to a statement signed by the Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the operation led to the recovery of nine locally fabricated pistols, one locally fabricated AK-47 riffle (unfinished), two gas cylinders, four vise machines, one filing machine and numerous other weapons manufacturing tools.

Adejobi gave the names of suspects arrested during the operation as Friday Aduduakambe (m), and 35-year-old Iorwashima Iornyume (m).

In another development, he said police operatives attached to the Delta State Command acting upon credible intelligence raided an apartment in DSC belonging to a notorious Eiye confraternity member named Prosper Akeni, aged 32 years, a hit man for the cult group.

He said the operation led to the recovery of one English revolver pistol, one Beretta pistol, two locally made double barrel gun, two locally made single barrel gun, one locally made revolver pistol, one locally made single barrel pistol and 25 rounds of ammunition.

“The suspect confessed the guns recovered belonged to his cult group and he was in custody of them as the number one man in the group,” Adejobi said.

The Force spokesperson the police on December 31, 2024, at approximately 8:00 PM, arrested Yunusa Haruna, a 25-year-old male from Bakin Turu Village in Shanga Local Government Area of Kebbi State, who fatally stabbed his elder brother, Isiyaku Haruna, with a sharp knife in the chest.

He said in response to the ugly incident, a team of police officers from the Divisional Police Headquarters in Shanga promptly raced to the scene and arrested the suspect.

Adejobi said another suspect, one Abubakar Ummar, was arrested in Zuru Village on January 8, 2025, for stabbing one Mohammed Bala during an argument leading to his immediate demise.