The rate at which lethal guns, ammunitions and other weapons of mass destruction are being ferried into the country is alarming. Many law-abiding citizens are definitely concerned, given that the aim of those behind the circulation is not known. What is certain is that circulation of small arms and ammunition portend no good omen for the country or any part of it; and it drives violence.
It may be gratifying that security agencies intercept the weapons of destruction even if occasionally; but that fact does not diminish the fear of Nigerians, considering that no one knows what the authorities do with their interceptions of arms some of which find their ways into the country through established points of entry as well as other illegal entries scattered across the country’s borders.
Nigerians have right to life and right to live in freedom and dignity anywhere in the country. But this is threatened by the proliferation of arms and ammunitions daily; along with reality of violence among communities including armed militias or criminal gangs. These criminals hold the power over life and death. Hence, in a recent report, Southwest Security Stakeholders Group in the South West raised alarm over the influx of non-Nigerians into the region.
The police do deserve praise for their efforts and intelligence to checkmate criminal activities in the country, despite the overwhelming odds surrounding them.
Scary that a proscribed organisation can issue a 'sit at home' 'order' to an entire region and the constituted authorities do nothing but appease them. While non state actors enforce their satellite terrorism- DEWs, OSEH etc, on detractors utilising NIGCOMSAT. NSA,DSS,DMI kwanu?
The most porous and unorganized nation in the world ever Anything goes here