Presidential Advisory Committee Against
Corruption (PACAC), Professor Itse Sagay (SAN),
has advised President Muhammadu Buhari and
Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to
allow ordinary Nigerians have access to fire arms
in to protect themselves against insecurity in the
country.
Speaking with Daily Independent in Lagos, Sagay
said, “What I will like to suggest to the
government is that they should allow ordinary
Nigerians to carry arms. Everybody who wants to
carry arms as a form of self-defence should be
allowed to do so. This is necessary so that when
these bandits and miscreants attack them, they
will know that the person they attacked has the
capacity to defend himself.
All these restrictions on owning weapons should be
lifted. Let the generality of the public be allowed
to own weapons, especially in all those villages
where they are being massacred. Their men should
be given weapons so that when the attackers
come, they will also be given a challenge which may
discourage them in future.
We have had causes where bandits attacked
villages but the people are powerless to de fend
themselves. By the time the security agents come
in, the attackers had left. They will look for a
quiet time and launch another attack. That will
stop if the people have the capacity to defend
them selves.”
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