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| The UN lied over 350million Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALWs) in circulation in Nigeria |
Questions UN Must Answer Over Its Bogus Claims That 350M Illicit SALWs Proliferate In Nigeria
(Onitsha Nigeria, August 8, 2016)-The leadership of International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law (Intersociety) is shocked and alarmed over a recent claim by Nigerian-born Director of the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa (UNREC), Ms Olatokunbo Ige to the effect that out of 500 million illicit Small Arms & Light Weapons in circulation in West Africa, 350 million of them or about 70% are in circulation and in wrong hands in Nigeria. The Nigerian-born UN official made the bogus claims at the ongoing National Consultation on Physical Security and Stockpile Management (PSSM) in Abuja, organised by the Agency and Presidential Committee on Smalls Arms and Light Weapons (PRESCOM).
