The fire and the chain of explosions broke out at the Salawa Army camp has hampered an imminent audit, initiated by the government, on weapons belonging to the country's security forces. 

Top government sources have revealed that, soon before the fire, the Auditor General’s Department was to be entrusted with the task of carrying out an audit, under ‘civil procedures’, into weapons owned by the  security forces.

The government, according to sources, was making plans for such an audit as it would unravel a lot of mysteries surrounding ‘floating’ and other armouries maintained by certain parties operated under the blessings of the top echelons of the previous administration.

The state-run Sunday Observer revealed that the fire devastated the Salawa camp, last Sunday, had hampered this process. Thousands of records and files pertaining to the weapons stockpile are reported to have been destroyed in the fire.

There was speculation in defence circles as to whether a party that was not in favour of this “weapons audit” was behind the incident.However, the investigation teams have not found any evidence, so far, to corroborate such suspicions. That is, however, one area the investigators are examining at the moment.