{"id":218398,"date":"2022-09-25T14:17:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T13:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=218398"},"modified":"2022-09-25T14:17:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T13:17:34","slug":"nscdc-nigeria-not-ripe-for-citizens-to-bear-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/09\/25\/nscdc-nigeria-not-ripe-for-citizens-to-bear-arms\/","title":{"rendered":"NSCDC: Nigeria not ripe for citizens to bear arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Ahmed Audi, the Commandant General of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps has stated that\u00a0Nigerians are not ripe to be allowed to bear arms.<\/p>\n<p>The observation was made by Audi\u00a0when he attended the News Agency of Nigeria Forum in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI strongly disapproved of it. Even now that there is no law in existence, you still have proliferation of small arms and light <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/09\/06\/b-haram-runs-short-of-food-weapons-as-floods-take-over-enclaves\/\">weapons<\/a> in the hands of people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has to do with civilisation and education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven in Europe and America where they have that law where virtually everybody once you can drive can have arms, they are trying to control it now because of how some events unfold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the world, especially in Europe and America, somebody will just wake up and just go to a school and open fire on kids. You know that is madness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so for me, I don\u2019t think we are there yet to allow citizens carry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/09\/25\/campaign-council-tinubu-loyalist-igbokwe-slams-apc-says-party-rewards-cowards-interlopers\/\">arms<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CG also spoke on the efforts being made by the NSCDC to address farmers\/herders clashes in the country.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the Corps, in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, had trained over 3,000 Agro Rangers to provide security to farms and other agro-allied investments.<\/p>\n<p>The CG said that the unit was a specialised department, which also help to reconcile farmers and herders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are still there and presently we have even trained about 3,000 of them and as you can even see me sitting here, this is their uniform, the uniform of Agro Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are under a department called Peace and Conflict Resolution, and using Alternative Dispute Resolution, they have settled over 1000 cases between farmers and herders nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can see them visibly in Borno, Yobe, Kaduna, Adamawa, Enugu and they are there doing their work, \u201che said.<\/p>\n<p>(NAN)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Ahmed Audi, the Commandant General of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps has stated that\u00a0Nigerians are not ripe to be allowed to bear arms. 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