Stakeholders blame insecurity on proliferation of small arms, light weapons

Security experts person blamed insecurity successful Nigeria connected the proliferation of tiny arms and airy weapons.

According to them, the weapons are smuggled done the borders and circulated crossed the country.

They spoke connected Thursday during a one-day seminar connected Effective Post-Judgment Management of Small Arms and Light Weapons, organized by the National Centre For The Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (NCCSALW), held successful Abeokuta, Ogun State.

Speaking astatine the event, the Zonal Director, South-West Zone NCCSALW, CP Abiodun Alamutu (rtd) lamented that these ample chunk of arms get into the hands of non-state actors and perpetrators of crime.

Alamutu stressed the urgency and request to mop up illicit arms already successful circulation, calling for collaboration with accepted rulers, assemblage leaders among different applicable stakeholders.

He said, “So far, we person discovered that the large enabler of insecurity, banditry, coercion successful the state is the proliferation of tiny arms and airy weapons. And we person arsenic discovered that a ample chunk of these arms are successful the hands of non-state actors.

“And that explains wherefore we privation to present displacement our absorption to mopping up of those illicit arms that are already successful circulation. The bulk of the successes we person recorded has been astatine the borderline points, those that are astir to travel into our society. And w...