Performing IG, Olukayode Egbetokun
The performing Inspector-Celebrated of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, has introduced the establishment of an ad hoc committee tasked with the excellent overview of firearms licensing and laws by the Nigeria Police Force in step with the Firearms Act and other extant legal pointers, in the interest of public security and common security.
The police high portray, on Monday, published that the committee’s mandate would embody a thorough evaluate of unique firearms licensing procedures and laws, to pork up their effectiveness, transparency, and accountability.
The Force Headquarters also acknowledged the police will have interaction with associated stakeholders, including appropriate experts, civil society organisations, and experts in the realm, to originate definite a holistic and successfully-told overview.
The Force Public Family Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, published in an legit correspondence on Monday.
Adejobi acknowledged, “In an identical model, in furtherance of his zeal to deal with all kinds of insecurity in the nation, the IG has issued a stern warning to all individuals inquisitive referring to the wrongful possession of palms and mild weapons, reiterating that illegal proliferation of firearms and mild weapons poses a necessary menace to the peace and steadiness of our nation.
“In mild of this, the Nigeria Police Force is resolutely certain to fight the illegal fabrication, gross sales, possession and use of palms emphasising that possessing firearms without the proper licenses and permits is never any longer finest a violation of the legislation but also a grave hazard to society. He assured that the Nigeria Police Force will spare no effort in pursuing and prosecuting those engaged in these illegal activities to the chunky extent of the legislation.
“The Inspector Celebrated of Police has charged all relate Commissioners of Police and supervising Assistant Inspectors-Celebrated of Police in price of Zonal Commands, and tactical squads to delivery a total clampdown on the illegal fabrication, sale, possession, and use of prohibited firearms in the nation.
“He equally entreated all Nigerians to fable suspicious activities associated to firearms to their local police divisions or by the usage of the assorted NPF social media platforms for on the spot response.”
The Business City News experiences that earlier in August, the IG, noting that gun licensing might well irritate insecurity in the nation, reiterated the police ban on gun license issuance, whereas including that the police might well overview or revert the ban in due direction.
The Force Headquarters introduced that the NPF had stopped the issuance of licences for microscopic palms because of the the high charge of illegal palms proliferation in the nation.
Egbetokun disclosed this whereas responding to a quiz of by our correspondent all the arrangement in which thru his (IG’s) meeting with individuals of the Police Management Crew including Deputy Inspectors Celebrated of Police, Assistant Inspectors Celebrated of Police, and Commissioners of Police on the Goodluck Jonathan Peacekeeping Hall, Force Headquarters, Abuja.
“We’re mopping up palms in circulation. There are too many palms in circulation and if we proceed to reveal licences on palms, we might well proceed to irritate the considerations we are making an attempt to resolve,” Egbetokun acknowledged.
However, he additional illustrious that the police might well overview the ban in due direction.
“For now, there is a transient ban on the issuance of firearms. We might well overview it later, but we’re no longer issuing firearms licences nationwide now.”
The Business City News experiences that the Firearm Act has been in price for the retain a watch on of firearms in Nigeria for the previous years.
The Act gives that no particular person shall dangle in his possession or below his retain a watch on, any firearm or ammunition apart from such particular person has a licence from the President or the Inspector Celebrated of Police.