NCCSALW tasks NYSC members with tackling arms proliferation in North-East

The National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (NCCSALW) has urged members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) successful the North-East to enactment efforts to curb the proliferation of illicit arms successful the region.

The North-East Zonal Director of the NCCSALW, Maj.-Gen. Abubakar Adamu (retd.), gave the complaint portion addressing corps members astatine the NYSC predisposition camps successful Potiskum, Yobe State, and Maiduguri, Borno State.

Adamu, represented by the centre’s Assistant Director, Strategic Communication and Information, Aminu Saleh Mohammed, said younker engagement would lend importantly to tackling insecurity.

He explained that the NCCSALW, established successful 2021 nether the Office of the National Security Adviser, serves arsenic the organization model for regulating and controlling tiny arms and airy weapons successful Nigeria.

Speaking during the sensitisation programme successful Yobe, Adamu warned that the proliferation of illicit arms fuels banditry, kidnapping, cultism, governmental thuggery, insurgency and different crimes.

“When you get to your places of superior assignment, beryllium bully ambassadors of your parents, NYSC, your authorities and yourself by reporting anyone successful possession oregon progressive successful the fabrication of tiny arms and airy weapons,” helium ...