Nigeria Not Ripe To Allow Citizens Bear Arms - NSCDC
Category: Nigeria News
Dr Ahmed Audi, Commandant General, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps
(NSCDC) says Nigerians are not ripe to be allowed to bear arms.
Audi
made the observation when he featured on the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
Forum in Abuja.
“I strongly disapproved of it. Even now that there
is no law in existence, you still have proliferation of small arms and light
weapons in the hands of people.
“It has to do with civilization and
education.
“Even in Europe and America where they have that law
where virtually everybody once you can drive can have arms, they are trying to
control it now because of how some events unfold.
“In the world,
especially in Europe and America, somebody will just wake up and just go to a
school and open fire on kids. You know that is madness.
“And so for
me, I don’t think we are there yet to allow citizens carry arms.”
The
CG also spoke on the efforts being made by the NSCDC to address
farmers/herders clashes in the country.
He said that the Corps, in
collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, had trained over 3,000
Agro Rangers to provide security to farms and other agro allied
investments.
The CG said that the unit was a specialized
department, which also help to reconcile farmers and herders.
“They
are still there and presently we have even trained about 3,000 of them and as
you can even see me sitting here, this is their uniform, the uniform of Agro
Rangers.
“They are under a department called Peace and Conflict
Resolution, and using Alternative Dispute Resolution, they have settled over
1000 cases between farmers and herders nationwide.
“You can see
them visibly in Borno, Yobe, Kaduna, Adamawa, Enugu and they are there doing
their work, “he said.
(NAN)
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