Insecurity: 11,000 arms recovered by police submitted for destruction

The Nigeria Police Force has remitted implicit 11,000 recovered arms to the National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons, NCCSALW, for destruction.

The Centre’s Director-General, DIG Johnson Babatunde Kokumo (rtd), disclosed this on Wednesday.

Kokumo made the disclosure  when helium paid a courtesy sojourn to the Niger State Commissioner of Police, CP Adamu Abdullahi Elleman, astatine the Command Headquarters successful Minna.

The NCCSALW brag said the transportation and demolition of recovered weapons was aimed astatine preventing their imaginable recirculation into the hands of transgression elements, peculiarly arsenic illicit tiny arms and airy weapons proceed to substance banditry and different convulsive crimes.

He commended the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Olatunji Rilwan Disu, for directing authorities constabulary commands to transportation recovered arms and ammunition to the Centre aft investigations and different indispensable procedures.

Kokumo called for stronger collaboration and accusation sharing betwixt the Niger Police Command and the Centre, stressing that effectual inter-agency practice remained captious to tackling the proliferation of illicit weapons.

He said the Federal Government established NCCSALW to coordinate efforts against illicit tiny arms and airy weapons, with zonal structures crossed the six geopolitical zones and plans...