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Tough action needed to curb arms proliferation The Punch Published 7 July 2021 THE fresh pledge by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), that criminals bearing arms against the country would be brought to book should be different from the all-bark-and-no-bite trend typical of the regime’s declarations. There are too many illegal arms and the federal and state governments must join forces to tackle the menace. Mopping up illegal arms is now more urgent than ever before considering the killing fields that bandits and insurgents have turned several states in the North to. Worryingly, the horrific violence is spreading like wildfires to other parts of the country. A former military Head of State, Abdulsalami Abubakar, said that the number of small arms in the hands of non-state actors is about 6,145,000, while the Armed Forces and law enforcement agents have only 586,600 firearms. Previously, a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime survey put th

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