The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, has urged the Senate to investigate the alleged disappearance of 3,907 assault rifles behind closed doors for security reasons.
Speaking via a letter transmitted to the Senate, Egbetokun dismissed the 2019 Audited Report by the Auditor-General for the Federation, which claimed that thousands of rifles were missing or unaccounted for in the police armoury as of January 2020, describing it as inaccurate.
The letter, which was read after the passage of the 2025 budget, by Senate President Godswill Akpabio, came 48 hours after a tough investigative hearing where top police officials, including the IGP himself, appeared before the Senate Committee on Accounts and struggled to provide answers to the Auditor-General’s report on missing firearms.