withheld), last weekend, got himself drunk and lost his AK-47 rifle
with 30 rounds of ammunition, while on duty.
Vanguard learned that the inspector and his team were on special duty
on the day of the incident.
On getting back to the office, he allegedly told his colleagues that
he was going to eat and also use the opportunity to repair the
vehicle, only to come back drunk without the gun and ammunition.
It was gathered that when he was asked the whereabouts of his gun, he
explained that someone took it while he was sleeping inside the
vehicle in the station.
Vanguard gathered that investigation by his team mates revealed that
he was seen at Ipodo area of Ikeja, known as a criminal hideout,
heavily drunk when the incident happened.
Another source alleged that he must have gone to sleep with one of the
commercial s*x workers in the area, leaving the gun inside the vehicle
from where it was removed.
The inspector, who was once attached to Special Anti-Robbery Squad,
SARS, Ikeja, was said to have been transferred out of Lagos State due
to unbecoming activities.
He was accused then of giving guns and ammunition as well as
information to armed robbers and hoodlums, who paid him in return.
It was learned that he had since been arrested and detained at the
state command, while efforts had been intensified by police
authorities to recover the gun.
-Vanguard
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