Deputy Superintendent of Police Nanbol Audu,
who was the officer in charge of the Kaduna
Armory, has killed himself days after he was
paraded with two others for stealing and
selling police weapons to criminals and rich
people in the state. He was paraded this past
Monday October 27th
DSP Audu, an officer who had served in the
police force for 30 years and was due to retire
in five years, shot himself in the stomach
around 5.40am today October 31st inside his
detention cell at the police headquarters in
Kaduna, it was announced on radio today. The
state police commissioner Umar Shehu
confirmed the incident.
According to the state police commissioner
Umar Shehu, the three men were arrested on
October 20th as they tried to leave with 11
rifles that had been provided by DSP Audu
from the state armory.
A search on them by other suspicious police
officers revealed the stolen armory and
N400,000 cash. When interrogated, Audu
confessed to the crime and said he provided
the guns to the men for personal protection
from the Fulani herdsmen who were killing his
people in Jos, Plateau state.
