{"id":976,"date":"2022-02-28T11:15:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T11:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.securityfocus.ng\/index.php\/2022\/02\/28\/police-ig-orders-probe-into-missing-91985-ak-47-rifles-others\/"},"modified":"2022-02-28T11:15:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T11:15:20","slug":"police-ig-orders-probe-into-missing-91985-ak-47-rifles-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.securityfocus.ng\/index.php\/2022\/02\/28\/police-ig-orders-probe-into-missing-91985-ak-47-rifles-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Police IG Orders Probe Into Missing 91,985 AK-47 Rifles, Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<p>The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, has called for an immediate investigation to ascertain the number of arms missing from the police armoury.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Recall that on Friday,there was an audited report by the Auditor-General of the Federation for 2019, where it identified that no fewer than 178,459 pieces of armaments were missing from the police armoury without any formal report of their whereabouts.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Besides, it was also reported that out of this figure, 88,078 AK-47 rifles and 3,907 assorted rifles and pistols could not be accounted for as of January 2020, neither were they reported to any higher authority, the report stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to this development, the force spokesman, Muyiwa Adejobi noted that the Police IGP has ordered for the probe of this missing arms and amunitions.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe issue of arms is a very sensitive thing to us and we don\u2019t toy with it. There are processes for checking arms according to our regulations.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn a regular basis, the assistant commissioner of police in charge of operations of every command always checks arms.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat number is on the high side; I don\u2019t think we would have lost such a number of weapons. What we need to do is to reconcile our report with the one being quoted. We have our records too.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess there are some arms on loan to various formations. For instance, if a certain number of arms are given to Lagos for special operations, all these movements are always documented but are complex. The IG has directed the AIG armament to come out with a report.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Adejobi added, \u201cThis is a common thing we do internally in the police even without the effort of any external auditor, because arms are very paramount to us.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of the sensitive nature of arms and handling of arms, we don\u2019t joke with them. Again, I don\u2019t think we have lost that large number of arms; I think that there might be some gaps somewhere that we need to juxtapose and reconcile our records. There could be some arms that are for safe-keeping.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor instance, if some men sign for arms in Sokoto and are going for operations in Kastina; when they get to Katisna, there may the need for them to keep their arms in safe-keeping. But the original owners of the arms will just be recorded that their weapon are with someone else.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we don\u2019t reconcile that account, you may say the arms are missing in Sokoto. And there are some arms that statutorily are to be signed to individuals as personal pistols.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is common saying that it is better for a policeman to die than to lose his arms, because of the problem that will follow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said it would take a while to reconcile because of the large number of police formations and commands.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Adejobi stated, \u201cWe are taking our time to reconcile our records. We have many formations that have armouries, including training schools, and we have 37 commands.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need some time. We are not saying we have not lost arms; we have lost arms due to attacks; even during operations three days ago, our men were attacked and some rifles were taken away, which we are sure we will recover. We have also recovered a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026Deny Receiving January Salary Many Nigerian soldiers have denied being paid their January salaries despite a statement from the Nigerian Army saying they have been<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-instagram"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Police IG Orders Probe Into Missing 91,985 AK-47 Rifles, Others - Security Focus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.securityfocus.ng\/index.php\/2022\/02\/28\/police-ig-orders-probe-into-missing-91985-ak-47-rifles-others\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Police IG Orders Probe Into Missing 91,985 AK-47 Rifles, Others\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u2026Deny Receiving January Salary Many Nigerian soldiers have denied being paid their January salaries despite a statement from the Nigerian Army saying they have been\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.securityfocus.ng\/index.php\/2022\/02\/28\/police-ig-orders-probe-into-missing-91985-ak-47-rifles-others\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Security Focus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-02-28T11:15:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.securityfocus.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/baba.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Security Focus\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Security Focus\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.securityfocus.ng\/index.php\/2022\/02\/28\/police-ig-orders-probe-into-missing-91985-ak-47-rifles-others\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.securityfocus.ng\/index.php\/2022\/02\/28\/police-ig-orders-probe-into-missing-91985-ak-47-rifles-others\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Security Focus\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.securityfocus.ng\/#\/schema\/person\/e73d482c4e4a38b5ee8d6e08344c5145\"},\"headline\":\"Police IG Orders Probe Into Missing 91,985 AK-47 Rifles, Others\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-02-28T11:15:20+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.securityfocus.ng\/index.php\/2022\/02\/28\/police-ig-orders-probe-into-missing-91985-ak-47-rifles-others\/\"},\"wordCount\":554,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.securityfocus.ng\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.securityfocus.ng\/index.php\/2022\/02\/28\/police-ig-orders-probe-into-missing-91985-ak-47-rifles-others\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.securityfocus.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/baba.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Instagram\"],\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.securityfocus.ng\/index.php\/2022\/02\/28\/police-ig-orders-probe-into-missing-91985-ak-47-rifles-others\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.securityfocus.ng\/index.php\/2022\/02\/28\/police-ig-orders-probe-into-missing-91985-ak-47-rifles-others\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.securityfocus.ng\/index.php\/2022\/02\/28\/police-ig-orders-probe-into-missing-91985-ak-47-rifles-others\/\",\"name\":\"Police IG Orders Probe Into Missing 91,985 AK-47 Rifles, Others - 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