… recover 86 firearms, 88 unexpended cartridges in Osun

The police in Osun State have recovered 86 assorted firearms and 88 unexpended cartridges in the state. The Commissioner of Police, Olafimihan Adeoye, said this yesterday while addressing pressmen in Osogbo. He said the firearms recovery was done in line with the directive of the Inspector General (IG) of Police who directed Nigerians to submit […]

The police in Osun State have recovered 86 assorted firearms and 88 unexpended cartridges in the state.

The Commissioner of Police, Olafimihan Adeoye, said this yesterday while addressing pressmen in Osogbo.

He said the firearms recovery was done in line with the directive of the Inspector General (IG) of Police who directed Nigerians to submit weapons in their possession to the police.

He said though few of the firearms were submitted willingly to the police, most of them were recovered from criminals.

He said the weapons recovered included Dane guns, pistols (locally fabricated and automatic), automatic rifles (AK47, LARS, Pump-action) and other locally fabricated shotguns.

Adeoye said the IG gave a deadline for Nigerians, private security and vigilantes to summit the firearms in their possession to the nearest police station and those who failed to comply would be tagged as criminals.

He said the command would still extend the amnesty to people with firearms to surrender them.

He said guns like automatic rifles, pump action guns were prohibited firearms and people should report persons seen in possession of such guns to the police.  (NAN)