No fewer than 200 firearms acquired illegally were recovered from individuals and suspected hoodlums in the last seven months in Lagos State.
The firearms were recovered from suspected criminals and others who voluntarily returned them following the 21 days grace period given by the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, for submission of firearms illegally acquired.
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Edgal Imohimi, made this known in Lagos at a press conference.
According to him, the firearms consisted of 38 pump action rifle, six AK-47 rifles, 12 double barrel rifles, 11 single barrel rifles and 70 single barrel locally made cut to size shot-guns.
Others, he said were 18 locally made revolver pistol, three Beretta pistol, 220 cartridges and 60 7.62mm AK-47 ammunition.
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He added: “As you can see on display, the firearms mop up exercise yielded positive result in the command.
“I’m also using this opportunity to call on citizens to take advantage of the grace period and return voluntarily, prohibited firearms.
“Failure to do so will lead to lawful search of buildings and property that we have credible information on which will eventually lead to arrest and prosecution. I hope it won’t come to that.”
