Controversy, yesterday, trailed Nigeria Police Force’s alleged discovery of a gas pistol (Spyder Victor) recovered from a robbery gang in Lagos.
 
The gun, the first of its kind in Nigeria, was allegedly recovered from a suspected robber on Eko Bridge.
 
The police said they were still studying the gun to know how it came into the country, and why the gang decided to go for the make.
 
However, the prime suspect, who his gang members claimed that only he 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. Another gang member told the police at the command headquarters, Ikeja 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 the 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 others, described the gun as a unique gun, Spyder Victor, “we will get to the root of the matter. There were two suspects, but one jumped to death into the Lagoon from the Eko Bridge”.
 
The CP said he had never seen such a gun since he joined the force.