Tackling Security Sector Connivance in Proliferation of Small Arms, Light Weapons
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(This Day Live) Though the underhand business of proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons, SALW, popularly known as gun running has been in existence for decades, it has become more alarming in the light of the current security concerns in country.
At the moment, the volume of illicit weapons has reached a frightening dimension fueled by weak security architecture and connivance, corruption, hollow institutions, and the near absence of adequate punishment for the traffickers. Chiemelie Ezeobi reports