The Lagos State Police Command has paraded a suspect and recover a sophisticated gun called ‘First Gun’ (Spyder Victor) in a robbery attack.
The gun, the first of its kind in Nigeria, was recovered from a suspected robber on Eko Bridge.
The police, it was gathered are studying the gun to know how the ‘Spyder Victor’ shipped into the country, and through which means.
According to sources the prime suspect, who his gang members claimed that only him could say the source of the gun and why he decided to go for the kind, escaped arrest by jumping into the Lagos Lagoon.
The police are currently searching for the suspect whether dead or alive.
The gang member whose gun was recovered in his possession, told the police at the command headquarters, Ikeja, while he was being paraded among other suspects, that the prime suspect abandoned the gas pistol and jumped inside the lagoon.
The suspect, Toheeb Abolaji, 22, claimed that he didn’t know anything about the source of the gas gun only the prime suspect that could say the source of the gun to the police.
According to police investigator, the police would do everything possible to get to the root of the matter.
Lagos State Commissioner, Mr. Idowu Owohunwa,who paraded the suspect and other suspects , described the gun,as a unique gun, Spyder Victor, “we will get to the root of the mater.They were two suspects ,but one jumped to death into the Lagoon from the Eko Bridge”.
“I have never seen such a gun since i joined the force.” The Police Commissioner disclosed.
