Lagos Policeman mistakenly kills Self while adjusting rifle!

The atmosphere at the Mobile Police Force 20, in the Ikeja area of Lagos, had been tense since Tuesday after a police inspector, identified simply as Medugwu, mistakenly shot himself dead, while adjusting a faulty rifle.

The inspector, who was attached to MOPOL 20, was the second-in-command to the armourer. At 10am, a colleague had given him the faulty rifle to examine and readjust for him, Medugwu was said to have accidentally pulled the trigger of the rifle, which projected a bullet into his jaw.

Other policemen in the area were said to have rushed to the scene and taken Medugwu to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja.The inspector, however, died in the hospital at about 1pm.

A policeman, who claimed to have witnessed the accident, said Medugwu accidentally turned the barrel of the rifle on himself during the check, before his finger touched the trigger.

He said:

“He was the second-in-command at the armoury in the MOPOL 20. A policeman brought a faulty rifle to his office to examine. While he was doing that, he mistakenly turned the barrel of the gun on himself, and he mistakenly pulled the trigger.

“We rushed him to LASUTH, where the medical personnel battled to save his life. But, he died at about 1pm. His head was badly injured. Medugwu’s death shook all of us.”

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Police expose Fraudsters' Antics!

Police in Adamawa on Tuesday warned the public against the antics of online fraudster, ahead of the preparation for the recruitment of 10,000 policemen, as directed by President Muhammadu Buhari.

The Command’s Police Public Relations officer, DSP Usman Abubakar, gave the warning in a statement issued in Yola.

He warned prospective applicants to be careful of those who might want to use the opportunity to defraud them.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the President gave the warning recently at a meeting with officials of the Ministry of Police Affairs and the Police Service Commission (PSC), at the Presidential Villa, in Abuja.

Buhari warned that he will not tolerate any irregularities or extortion from the unemployed as the Federal Government plans to beef police workforce with 10,000 new recruits.

“The public is hereby warned to be aware of online fraudsters.

“Who, according to the Information before us are trying to take advantage of the recruitment information to defraud people of their hard earned money,” Abubakar was quoted in the statement.

He also threatened that the command is ready to deal with any commercial cyber cafe or computer centres found selling the unauthorised police recruitment forms.

The police spokesman explained that when the sale of the forms would begin, the public would be informed through appropriate media channels.

NAN gathered that some commercial cyber cafe and computer centres in Yola and its environs, were already making profits from down loading the alleged police recruitment forms on the internet