Arms Race is not synonymous with arms proliferation. You need rival armed groups amassing weapons with hostile intents to have arms race. A private Military Company is euphemism for a mercenary group.
The Asari Dokubo initiative, first of its kind, ushered Nigeria into the Age of Mercenaries.
On August 12, 2023, the media reported an Ijaw nationalist, as saying, “I don’t have an army but I have a private military company that was engaged by the Nigerian government and I have been doing the work for the Nigerian state. Private military companies exist all over the world; we have Black Waters, we have Wagner; we have so many private military companies.
General Onyema Nwachukwu, Director Army Public Relations, swiftly debunked the claim but Nigerians contradicted him: In 2021 young virgins were abducted and killed by ritualists in the forests of Etche Local Government Area, LGA, of Rivers State. Unconfirmed reports claimed the mercenaries invaded the forests and purged it of criminals. In the absence of state police, the mercenaries complement the efforts of our gallant but over-burdened military fighting insurgents on multiple fronts.
“With the Rivers man there is inherent belligerency plaguing him all the time,” Biriye observed. “This bogey arose from Arms Dealers who flooded our society for centuries with scrap guns in payment for palm oil products which overseas merchants had purchased from us. Such nefarious facilities naturally motivate their holders to antagonise their neighbours on very slight pretexts.
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