In implementing Nigeria’s version of America’s Second Amendment, the Federal Government may limit arms possession to state government groups.
Nigeria needs its own version of America’s Second Amendment, By Majeed DahiruEXCLUSIVE: Northern senators move against Akpabio over alleged N4trn budget paddingClimate change, extreme weather, conflict exacerbate global food crisisNigeria needs its own version of America’s Second Amendment, By Majeed DahiruThe Nigerian state cannot continue to tighten control over arms and maintaining a prohibition on the legal possession of light arms and small weapons by law abiding citizens for the purpose...
Characterised by mass killings, displacements, abductions for ransom and the wanton destruction of lives and properties, thousands of Nigerians have lost their lives, with millions displaced into camps across the country and beyond.
At the roots of Nigeria’s national security challenge in the Fourth Republic is acute leadership failure of the political class in Nigeria. In the last 24 years since the transition from military to civil democratic rule, Nigeria’s political process has steadily degenerated into a criminal enterprise of power grab by every means available for the purpose of self-service.
…because banditry is primarily motivated by the economics of kidnapping for ransom, with the perpetrators not wanting to lose their lives in the process, the presence of properly armed civilian-led counterinsurgency groups will discourage this criminal enterprise and render it too dangerous and no longer profitable for bandits.
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