Bauchi Police Command hands over hundreds of recovered ammunitions, others to weapon control centre (Pictures)
Story from Ahmad SAKA, Bauchi
The Bauchi State Police Command has handed over recovered arms and ammunitions to the National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (NCCSALW).
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The State Commissioner of Police, Umar Mamman Sanda during the handover of the weapons on Tuesday, said the effort is in line with the federal government’s determination to stop senseless bloodletting and insecurity occasioned by Small Arms & Light Weapons (SALW).
The recovered weapons according to the CP include 25 AK-47 rifles, one locally made SMG, one locally fabricated AK47, one English Barretta and one magazine.
Others are 2 P/Barretta, 29 Rusted/unserviceable locally made P/catridges, 27 rusted/unserviceable locally made revolvers and one locally made Dane Gun.
On the recovered ammunitions, Sanda said are 874.6mm, 5,022 (5.56mm),
113 (9X19mm), 274 (62.7mm) and 177 (38mm), among others.
He said, “The effort is to stop senseless bloodletting and insecurity occasioned by Small Arms and Light Weapons in circulation within our communities by mopping up all illicit weapons; as well as control the proliferation of all weapons in the holdings of all arms-bearing agencies/organizations in the country”.
The CP said it was against that backdrop that President Mohammadu Buhari approved the establishment of the NCCSALW in March 2021 to control Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) at all levels of the polity and to mainstream illicit SALW eradication efforts.
He urged the public to support the government in its efforts to eradicate illicit SALW in circulation and by extension, promote an illicit arms-free society.
Responding during the handing over ceremony, the Director Operations of the Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons, CP Chris Owolabi, commended the effort of the Bauchi State Police Command in recovering the arms and ammunition.
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