Nigeria Plans New Small Arms Survey To Address Outdated Data — Centre

The Director-General of the National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (NCCSALW), retired DIG Johnson Kokumo, has disclosed that Nigeria will be conducting a new national baseline survey to replace outdated data on illegal firearms circulating in circulation in the country.
He spoke on the sidelines of the one-day workshop on lessons learnt from Nigeria’s 2016 National Baseline Survey on Illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons, on Thursday in Abuja.
“The last arms survey we had in Nigeria was in 2016 and released in 2021. We feel strongly that having a new small arms survey is long overdue.
“The 2016 survey can no longer address the current pattern of proliferation...