{"id":62025,"date":"2025-03-03T05:59:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T05:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62025"},"modified":"2025-03-03T05:59:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T05:59:58","slug":"police-raises-alarm-over-rising-firearm-losses-warns-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/03\/police-raises-alarm-over-rising-firearm-losses-warns-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Raises Alarm Over Rising Firearm Losses, Warns Officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ade Iyamoye<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Police Force (NPF), has expressed deep concern over the increasing loss of firearms among its officers, attributing the trend to negligence, poor weapon-handling skills, and improper deployment by senior personnel.<\/p>\n<p>The issue gained prominence after the Senate Public Accounts Committee in February questioned Inspector General Kayode Egbetokun about 178,459 missing firearms, a claim the police dismissed as misleading.<\/p>\n<p>The Force insists that annual firearm audits are conducted and that no significant number of weapons are unaccounted for.<\/p>\n<p>However, a recent internal police directive obtained by The PUNCH has warned commanders in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Warri, Aba, and Damaturu that further firearm losses will not be tolerated.<\/p>\n<p>The message ordered an immediate crackdown on negligence, mandating aggressive firearm training and monthly arms audits.<\/p>\n<p>Senior officers will now be held accountable for any missing weapons under their watch.<\/p>\n<p>The directive underscores the growing threat to police personnel, who are frequently targeted by criminals.<\/p>\n<p>It calls for urgent reforms to ensure officers are better equipped and trained to handle firearms responsibly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ade Iyamoye The Nigeria Police Force (NPF), has expressed deep concern over the increasing loss of firearms among its officers, attributing the trend to negligence, poor weapon-handling skills, and improper deployment by senior personnel. The issue gained prominence after the Senate Public Accounts Committee in February questioned Inspector General Kayode Egbetokun about 178,459 missing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62027,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62025\/revisions\/62027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}