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20,000 small arms, 60,000 ammunitions retrieved – FG

The National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (NCCSALW) said it has retrieved 20,000 small arms and 60,000 units of ammunition in Nigeria.

The centre’s North West zonal coordinator, Retired Air Vice Marshall Haruna Mohammed, said this during a zonal stakeholders’ meeting at on Thursday in Kano.

“The centre, tasked with the responsibility of formulating and implementing strategies to eradicate arms proliferation, had successfully recovered over 20,000 arms and light weapons and 60,000 ammunitions,” Mohammed said.

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He said NCCSALW used kinetic and non-kinetic approaches to recover the weapons.

He urged all stakeholders to support the centre to address insecurity fueled by the proliferation of small arms and light weapons in Nigeria.

 

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