FG urges CSOs to lead fight against small arms proliferation in North-East

The Federal Government, done the National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons, has called connected civilian nine organisations (CSOs) to instrumentality the pb successful combating the proliferation of illicit tiny arms and airy weapons successful the North-East region.

The North-East Zonal Director of the centre, Major General Adamu Abubakar (retd), made the telephone connected Wednesday during the inauguration of the caller enforcement committee of the Network of Civil Society Organisations successful Maiduguri, Borno State.

Abubakar, portion congratulating the recently elected executives, stressed the urgent request for CSOs to intensify advocacy and nationalist consciousness campaigns connected the dangers associated with the illicit dispersed of tiny arms and airy weapons.

“The uncontrolled circulation of these weapons remains 1 of the large drivers of insecurity, violence, criminality, and communal conflicts successful galore parts of the country.

“Experience has shown that wherever illicit weapons are absent from the hands of non-state actors, communities bask greater peace, stability, and socio-economic development”, helium said.

The zonal manager said the centre remains committed to moving intimately with civilian nine organisations, assemblage leaders and different stakeholders to code the menace of illicit arms proliferation crossed Nigeria.

He called on...