firearmsand attempting to sell same to criminals has committed suicide
while in detention, police authorities said on Friday.
The Chief Amourer, Nanbol Audu, a Deputy Superintendent of police was
reported to have shot himself on the chest while in detention at about
5am local time on Friday morning.
Confirming the incident, the State Commissioner of Police, Umar Shehu
said preliminary investigation revealed that the late officer killed
himself but however denied that the police officer may have been
murdered while in detention.
He also stated that full investigation into the incident had commenced.
However, what is not clear is how the deceased officer got the gun
with which he shot himself since he was in Police custody as at the
time of the incident.
The late Audu and two others arrested on October 20 drove into the
police armoury at night where they loaded firearms into a private
vehicle.
Parading the suspects before journalists last Tuesday, the
commissioner said police officers on guard suspected foul play and
stopped the vehicle from leaving the premises.
And upon interrogation, he said the State Armament Officer could not
give satisfactory account of his action which led to his arrest and
the two other occupants of the vehicle one Zingkur Joseph of Trade
Centre Jos and Samuel Adamu of Kuru Jos South Local Government Area of
Plateau State, respectively.
Mr Shehu further stated that investigations revealed that one of the
two civilian suspects was a blacksmith who specialises in
manufacturing locally-made firearms, and that the two civilian
suspects came from Jos, Plateau State on arrangement to purchase the
said firearms for an unnamed traditional ruler currently on the run at
the cost of 400,000 Naira (about $2,500).
--ChannelsTV
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