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FG must mop up illegal arms before 2019 – Security experts
Security experts have urged the Federal Government to ensure that illegally-acquired small arms and light weapons across the country were mopped-up before the 2019 elections, saying the development would jeopardise the security of the polls.
A former Commissioner of Police in charge of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr. Lwarence Alobi as well as a retired State Director of the Department of State Services, Mr. Mike Ejiofor, who spoke in separate interviews with New Telegraph, said stop-and-search, and raid operations must be adopted and strengthened nationwide.
They spoke against the backdrop of an alarm being raised sometime in January that about three hundred and fifty million illegal firearms may be circulating in the country.
Ejiofor, who expressed worry over the development, said “if we have 350 million illegal firearms in Nigeria out of 500 million in West Africa that is very dangerous for our country, dangerous for our polity, and dangerous for the forthcoming election. That is if we have that number circulating in Nigeria alone.
New Telegraph, December 24, 2018
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