Two Nigerians jailed for manufacturing firearms

A Community Tribunal in Accra on Monday convicted two Nigerians to two years imprisonment with hard labour for manufacturing firearms.

Moses Neto, a blacksmith and Ifeanyi Chukwu, a trader, pleaded guilty to manufacturing and assembling firearms without authority. Inspector Peter Benneh, the prosecutor, told the tribunal chaired by Mr Kwadwo Owusu that Neto and Chukwu reside at Abor, in the Volta Region.

He said on 11 October this year, the police were informed that some people were manufacturing firearms which were being sold to people at Abor in the Akasti District.

The police at Abor therefore, proceeded to the house of the convicts. When their rooms were searched one local manufactured pistol, a toy pistol, a firearms catalogue and tools box containing implements used in manufacturing arms were found.