Insecurity: 200 million illegal arms in circulation – Gov Sani

Insecurity: 200 million illegal arms in circulation – Gov Sani

Kaduna State Governor, Senator Uba Sani, has advocated for
the review of the firearms law in Nigeria as a means of tackling the lingering
security crisis in the country.

 

The Governor, who disclosed this in a chat on Channels
Television’s Sunday Politics, said about 200 million firearms are presently in
circulation in the country.

 

According to the governor, the proliferation of firearms in
Nigeria was responsible for the rising insecurity bedeviling the nation at the
moment.

 

The former lawmaker stated that when he was in the Senate,
he made moves to amend the Firearms Act “because it is obsolete. The last time
the Firearms Act was amended in Nigeria was over 30 years ago”.

 

Governor Sani said the firearms act in Nigeria does not
align with the global best practices.

 

According to him, Nigeria is the only country “where you can
be arrested with illegal firearms and can be taken to court and you can be
released based on some charges and not imprisonment. You can pay a fine of
about 50,000 naira and you can go home.”

 

“That is why I started emphasising, firearms control, when
the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa, UNREC,
tabled the report when I was in the senate, that about 200 million illegal
firearms are in circulation in Nigeria, out of the 250 million in circulation
in West Africa,” Sani said. 

Source: Insecurity: 200 million illegal arms in circulation – Gov Sani

 - NigerianEye
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