Security Agencies, Centre Mop Up Illegal Arms In North East

The Department of State Security (DSS) and the Nigerian Police successful Gombe State person joined forces with the National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (NCCSALW), Northeast Zonal Centre, nether the Office of the National Security Adviser to President Bola Tinubu, to mop up amerciable arms and airy weapons.

It could beryllium recalled that the centre embarked connected advocacy and collaborative visits to information stakeholders successful Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states past week to fortify relationships successful the combat against the proliferation of illicit tiny arms and airy weapons successful the country.

Speaking yesterday erstwhile the Northeast zonal manager of NCCSALW, Maj-Gen Abubakar Adamu (rtd) paid him an advocacy and sensitisation visit, the director, State Security Service (DSS), Gombe State Command, Haruna Nuhu Koko, promised to enactment the centre efficaciously successful quality sharing arsenic good arsenic advocacy and sensitisation.

Also, the commissioner of Police successful the state, CP Bello Yahaya, appreciated the national authorities for establishing the centre and expressed the Police’s committedness to submitting each the tiny arms and airy weapons successful their custody to the centre.

Earlier, the Northeast zonal manager of NCCSALWA, charged some of them to beryllium enlightening prosecutors that erstwhile judges marque a judgement, specified a judgement should travel with the handing implicit of arms and ammunition to the centre for safe-keeping oregon onward destruction.

“When the constabulary oregon immoderate different information agencies apprehension and retrieve tiny arms and weapons, they should taxable them to the centre and an bureau with the law close to support and destruct them arsenic and erstwhile due.

“Collaboration with each the stakeholders volition spell a agelong mode successful curtailing the menace of the proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) successful the country, thereby reducing the level of coercion and banditry.

“The centre has been mandated by the national authorities to prosecute immoderate idiosyncratic progressive successful the proliferation of illicit weapons successful the state and we are truthful seeking much enactment and collaboration from each stakeholders successful the Northeast.