The regime of President Muhammadu Buhari has transmitted two executive bills to the National Assembly seeking to control the proliferation of arms and regulate the importation of explosives into the country.

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, disclosed this at plenary on Tuesday in Abuja.

Mr Lawan said the bills, namely, Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons Bill 2021 and Explosives Bill 2021, were accompanied by two separate letters dated August 26 and August 27 signed by Mr Buhari.

He said Mr Buhari in the letter on the explosives bill, said the request to consider the bill was following Section
58(2) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).

He said that the explosives bill 2021 sought to repeal the Explosives Act 1964 and enact the Explosives Act to regulate the manufacture, storage, possession, use, distribution, purchase, sale, transportation, importation, and exportation of explosives and for related matters.

Mr Lawan added that Mr Buhari in the second letter urged the Senate to consider the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons Bill 2021 to curb the security challenges in the country.

ifymadu:
Good move if it will remove arms from herdsmen and bandits...

Mr Lawan said the bills, namely, Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons Bill 2021 and Explosives Bill 2021, were accompanied by two separate letters dated August 26 and August 27 signed by Mr Buhari.

sulaak:
The law is design to stop Nigerians in the Middle Belt and Southern Nigerians from arming their people against Fulani and Islamic onslaught.

Why now?

Illegal arms, usually imported, have been proliferated in the North, with Fulani's herdsmen openly carry arms to terrorise farmers, now that Southern Nigerians have started arming the communities, they now want to regulate and control the distribution of arms. Nigerians must be given the right to arms and protect themselves and their families.

vedaxcool:
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[s]The Niger Delta militants were using toothpicks to fight and kill Nigeria military personnel? Without bigotry and lies you guys have no comment to make on any issues. The many political thuggery in various states in the South and North get their weapons from where? The cultists, armed robbers and ethnic militias use farts to fight and kill their victims?

The sad part of democracy is how it gives unworthy people the opportunity to permeate their unworthiness onto others[/s].

RZArecta:
Legally come for your licensed weapons leaving only them and their fulani bandits with access to guns

vedaxcool:
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[s]The Niger Delta militants were using toothpicks to fight and kill Nigeria military personnel? Without bigotry and lies you guys have no comment to make on any issues. The many political thuggery in various states in the South and North get their weapons from where? The cultists, armed robbers and ethnic militias use farts to fight and kill their victims?

The sad part of democracy is how it gives unworthy people the opportunity to permeate their unworthiness onto others.[/s]

tafabaloo:
Good!
I hope they both achieved the desired results that would culminate into secured state.

myami:


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