The National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (NCCSALW), Northeast Zonal Centre, under the Office of the National Security Adviser to the President has charged the National Youth Service Corps members to report any form of proliferation of small Arms and Light Weapons in the country.
Maj-:Gen Abubakar Adamu (Rtd), the Northeast Zonal Coordinator, NCCSALW Northeast Zonal Centre, made the charge at the NYSC orientation camp in Bauchi on Tuesday.
He emphasized that with the involvement of the youth, especially corps members in fighting the proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW), insecurity issues would be a thing of the past in no distant time.
Adamu explained that NCCSALW under the office of NSA was established in 2021 as the institution framework for the regulation and control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) in the country.
Represented by Mr Adamu Saleh, Assistant Director, Strategic Communication and Information, NCCSALW, Northeast Zonal Centre, Adamu said that the proliferation of these small arms and light weapons paved the way for increase in banditry, kidnapping, cultism, political thuggery and all sorts of insecurity in the country.
“Please, when you have been posted out to your various places of primary assignment, look into these things, be a good ambassador of your parents, NYSC, your state and yourself by reporting anyone using these small arms and light weapons.
“If you know anyone that is fabricating small arms and light weapons, please report such because I believe without this, there will be no banditry, violence, cultism, political thuggery Boko Haram, ISWAP and others.
“As part of the efforts of the Federal Government to curtail and fight the proliferation of small Arms and Light Weapons, that is why the NCCSALW was created.
“It is part of the responsibility of this NCCSALW to be advocating, sensitizing communities and key stakeholders in the fight against the proliferation of small Arms and Light Weapons,” he said.
He called on Mr Umoren Kufre, the Bauchi state Coordinator of NYSC to work with the centre in order to establish the Small Arms and Light Weapons Community Development Service (CDS) group in the state as been established in Borno state.
The CDS group, he said, would be trained to train others and its activities would be funded by the centre.
Responding, the NYSC Coordinator in the state said that now that the relationship between the centre and NYSC in the state had been established, he would work toward the creation of the CDS group in the state.
0 Comments