The Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria (DICON) was established by an Act of Parliament in 1964. Consequently a West German manufacturing firm Fritz Werner was assigned the task of providing technical expertise and set up the Ordnance Factory in Kaduna.
The first Technical Partner of the Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria (DICON) was Fritz Werner of Western Germany. FW designed and built the Kaduna Ordnance Factories in 1964 with the following production capacities:
5000 units of BM 59 Rifles per annum,
18,000 units of SMG 12 per annum,
12,000,000 rounds of 7.62mm x 51 per annum and
4,000,000 rounds of 9mm x 19 per annum.