Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has kicked against the clamour for everyone to be allowed to acquire firearms in Self-defence against bandits and other criminal elements in the country.
Prominent Nigerians including retired security chiefs have been
clamouring for firearms for self-defence to enable Nigerians defend themselves
against insecurity.
But, in an exclusive interview with LEADERSHIP in Enugu, the national
publicity secretary of the organisation, Dr. Alex Ogbonnia, said
allowing everyone to own firearms at this time in Nigeria’s history
will be a problem.
Ogbonnia noted that in a society where there is a wide gap between
expectations and fulfillment from government as well as frustrations,
poverty, unemployment, criminalities, among others, it will be a
problem to allow everyone to own firearms.
The Ohanaeze spokesman, however, suggested that there should be five
levels of security operations in Nigeria to tackle the high level of
insecurity…
Source: Leadership Newspaper
