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Nigeria: How Arms Proliferation Fuels Insecurity in Nigeria

All Africa

7 February 2021

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The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), in 2014, through its then comptroller-general, David Parradang, revealed that although the country had 84 approved borders, there were over 1,400 illegal routes.

Parradang, who made the disclosure while addressing the National Conference Committee on Immigration, cited the examples of Ogun and Adamawa states, with 83 and 80 illegal posts respectively.

Experts who spoke with Daily Trust said the porous nature of these borders had aided arms proliferation in the country, leading to the spread of terrorist activities and other security challenges.

Daily Trust reports that aside smuggling of arms and ammunitions, criminals also routinely attack security personnel and formations, to steal arms.

Security experts who spoke to our reporters particularly contended that the vulnerability of the borders to the spread of Boko Haram insurgency was compounded by the fact that Niger and Cameroon had borders with the northern Nigerian states, where Boko Haram already exerts a strong influence.

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