Approving guns for Nigerians will lead to anarchy -APC chieftain
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Uche Nwosu, on Saturday warned the Federal Government against encouraging citizens to secure a licence for firearms, saying it will further worsen the spate of insecurity in the country.
Nwosu, a former Chief of Staff former Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, gave the warning at a virtual media briefing.
He was reacting to Friday’s demand by a former Minister of Youth and Sports Solomon Dalung, rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, and other agitators under the Coalition of Nigerian Patriots that Nigerians should be allowed to acquire guns to defend themselves.
But Nwosu disagreed, saying it was not a viable solution to the perennial problem of killings in the affected.
He said, “I don’t support people being encouraged to carry arms around because it will become a lawless country.
“Instead, I think more security agents should be deployed to those troubled areas so this problem can be solved.
“When individuals start carrying arms, it connotes trouble. Some people can easily get angry and allow such emotion to push them to do what they are not supposed to do.
“Besides, these bandits are sometimes from outside the country. They are not people from those communities.
“They come from outside, carry out their act and run back to where they are coming from. My other suggestion is that there should be community policing.
“There should be the courage to go down to the rural area in which, as I said, it’s one of the most difficult areas of the government.”
The APC chieftain also hailed President Bola Tinubu for saddling his security chiefs with the task of halting the killings and restoring peace in the affected communities.
According to him, it is the hallmark of any leader who is concerned about protecting the lives and properties of his people.
“I also want to commend President Bola Tinubu. He has also put in the work to ensure that these killings stop.
“I have had meetings with the security chiefs and heard the NSA say that the President had given them directive that this killing has to stop and they are doing it,” he stated.
