‘Citizens Must Have Right To Bear Arms For Self-Defense’, Says Ex-Minister Dalung

Former Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Solomon Dalung, has urged the Nigerian authorities to spell beyond the ongoing statement connected authorities policing by enshrining successful the constitution the close of citizens to legally carnivore arms for self-defense.

Dalung, who made the telephone successful a connection posted connected his Facebook leafage connected Wednesday, said the centralised constabulary strategy has failed to support lives and property, leaving mean Nigerians susceptible portion emboldening criminals and shielding governmental elites.

“The statement implicit the constitution of authorities constabulary has returned to the law beforehand burner, with arguments being precocious some for and against it,” Dalung wrote.

He noted that portion immoderate absorption lone connected the merits and demerits of decentralising policing, the Nigerian information world has deteriorated beyond specified constrictive considerations.

“With the illness and compromise of our existing information architecture, what is urgently needed is not lone the instauration of state, section government, and assemblage police, but besides a law amendment that allows citizens to carnivore arms legally for self-defense,” the erstwhile curate stressed.

He lamented that terrorists, bandits, and convulsive criminals person casual entree to blase weapons, including automatic rifles, rocket launchers, and adjacent drones, portion law-abiding citizens stay defenseless.

He besides criticised the signifier of authorities governments inviting equipped groups to bid meetings wherever they parade weapons openly earlier information agencies.

“Today, bandits, terrorists, and convulsive criminals brazenly wield blase weapons—automatic rifles, manus grenades, rocket launchers, and adjacent drone technology—inflicting untold trauma connected guiltless and defenseless Nigerians.

“Ironically, these aforesaid criminals are accorded personage attraction astatine government-sponsored ‘peace meetings,’ wherever they look with their weapons successful afloat presumption of information agencies, including the military.

“Meanwhile, mean citizens cannot support adjacent a room weapon for extortion without risking apprehension and prosecution. This treble modular has near the masses exposed, helpless, and trapped successful a strategy that protects the affluent and convulsive actors portion criminalizing the defenseless poor,” helium stated.

Dalung argued that the Nigerian information model was “unjustly skewed against the communal people,” emphasising that the existent centralised policing strategy exists much to support governmental elites, transgression gangs, and violent financiers than the mean populace.

Drawing comparisons with the United States, helium noted that Nigeria’s statesmanlike strategy was modeled aft the American system, which runs aggregate layers of policing astatine federal, state, county, and metropolis levels, portion besides recognising the law close of citizens to carnivore arms.

Dalung accused the opposing reforms of dishonesty and complicity. “Those who reason authorities policing and the close of citizens to carnivore arms are being smartly dishonest with the truth. Many of them are nonstop beneficiaries of the failed information system, exploiting the chaos for governmental summation oregon shielding violent financiers who proceed to run with impunity.”

He lamented further that contempt repeated calls, authorities has refused to people names of coercion sponsors oregon prosecute them, further eroding nationalist spot successful the state’s willingness to support its citizens.

He called for a broad law overhaul that would found state, section government, and assemblage constabulary forces with afloat authorization to transportation arms, portion besides granting liable citizens the close to legally person weapons for self-defense.