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Senate Grils AIG Over 3, 907 Missing Assault Riffles

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Last updated: February 12, 2025 11:11 am
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The Senate Committee on Public Accounts had on Tuesday grilled the Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG Suleiman Abdul over 3,907 missing assault rifles, many of which were AK-47s.

The AIG, who represented the Inspector General of Police, listened with rapt attention when the representative of the Auditor General for the Federation read the 2019 Audit Query where it was disclosed that “as of January 2020, a total of 3,907 assault rifles were either missing or could not be accounted for by the Police.”

Egbetokun had after he apologises to the Committee and oath taken, nominated Assistant Inspector General of Police in Charge of Public Accounts and Budget, AIG Suleiman Abdul, to answer the eight queries issued against the Police by the office of Auditor-General.

This is as the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, who appeared earlier, apologized to the Senate Committee on Public Accounts for not honouring previous invitations.

While the Committee Chaired by its Deputy Chairman, Senator Peter Nwaebonyi representing Ebonyi North, vacated query one which borders on N1.136 billion contract splitting and stood down query two which borders on alleged non-execution of N925 million contract, it sustained query three which borders n allegedly missing 3,907 Assault Riffles, many of which were Ak 47.

According to him, “the total number of lost firearms as at December 2018 stood at 178,459 out of which 88,078 are AK-47 Riffles.

“However as at January 2020 based on thorough Auditing carried out, 3, 907 assault rifles and Pistols across different Police formations could not be accounted for.”

He broke down the missing firearms as 601 from 15 Training Institutions, 42 from 23 Police formations, 1,514 from 37 Police Command, 29 from Zone 1 to 12 and 1, 721 from Police Mobile Force (PMF) 1 to 68.

Irked by the report, members of the Committee bombarded the Police team with questions on why such queries have not been responded to since issued.

In their responses, neither AIG Suleiman Abdul nor any of his lieutenants could give the committee convincing reasons for the missing 3,907 assault rifles.

Overwhelmed by the barrage of questions fired at him, AIG Abdul sought a closed-door session which was however rejected by the majority of the Committee members, including the Deputy Chairman who presided over the session, Senator Adams Oshiomhole and Senator Joel Onawakpo-Thomas.

Specifically in rejecting AIG Abdul’s request, Senator Nwaebonyi said no closed-door session would be allowed under him.

“This is a public accounts committee that has no room for closed-door sessions. In the United States of America, proceedings of the Public Accounts Committee are televised live.

“So whatever response the AIG wants to make on the missing assault rifles, should be done in the full glare of all, particularly the journalists”, he said.

Also rejecting the AIG request for a closed-door session, Senator Oshiomhole in his remarks said: “The Police is known for arresting and parading thieves of rats and rabbits which is expected of them on the missing assault rifles.

“The AIG should let Nigerians know steps that had been taken by the Police on the missing assault rifles over the years, who and who were involved and level of recovery made”.

In his feeble response, the AIG was only able to account for 15 out of the 3,907 missing assault riffles, 14 of which according to him, were lost through 14 personnel that were killed in active service and one in 1998, which further infuriated members of the committee.

For soft landing, the committee later resolved that the AIG and his team should go and tidy up their response to the query as it will never be swept under the carpet.

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