Centre partners transporters to check arms proliferation

The South-South Zonal Office of the National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons, NCCSALW, has intensified efforts to curb the dispersed of illicit firearms by strengthening collaboration with transport unions successful Calabar.

At a sensitisation league held connected Wednesday, drivers and transport national leaders were urged to enactment intimately with the Centre to forestall amerciable arms from being conveyed done the transport system, a determination aimed astatine enhancing nationalist information and assemblage security.

Speaking astatine the session, South-South Zonal Coordinator, Dr. Alex Inemah Ebimiebo, described transport operators arsenic captious partners successful tackling insecurity, noting that the engagement was designed to deepen consciousness and operational cooperation.

“Transporters are indispensable stakeholders successful the combat against amerciable arms movement,” helium said.

Ebimiebo explained that the Centre, established connected May 3, 2021 nether Article 24 of the ECOWAS Convention connected Small Arms and Light Weapons, operates nether the Office of the National Security Adviser, with office successful Abuja and six zonal offices nationwide, including the South-South hub successful Calabar.

He noted that the proliferation of tiny arms remains a large operator of insecurity worldwide.

According to him, astir convulsive crimes — including terrorism, equipped robbery and communal conflicts — are sustained by the availability of firearms.

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