Nigeria, Feb. 12 -- The Senate Committee on Public Accounts has raised concerns over the disappearance of 3,907 rifles and pistols from various police formations in the country in 2020.

The committee also revisited the case of reported missing 178,459 firearms, including 88,078 AK-47 rifles from police inventory.

The concerns were raised on Tuesday when the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, appeared before the committee to respond to audit queries flagged in the 2019 Auditor-General Report.

Mr Egbetokun was represented by an Assistant Inspector General of Police, Sulaiman Abdul.

The lawmakers pressed the police to explain how such a high number of firearms could go missing without accountability and warned that the ammuni...