The Minister of Defence retired Major General Bashir Magashi has declared total support for the National Centre for the Control of Arms and Light Weapons (NCCSALW) in the discharge of its tasks to halt illegal weapons in circulation.
General Magashi stated this when a 7- man Management Team of the National Centre of the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons, led by its Pioneer National Coordinator, retired Major General Aba Dikko paid a courtesy call on him at the Ministry of Defence Headquarters, Ship House Abuja.
He tasked the leadership of the Centre to ”sanitise the National Security Landscape by checkmating illegal movements, manipulations and management of Small Arms and Light Weapons in the country in compliance with its mandate and International conventions.”
The Minister applauded President Muhammadu Buhari for the establishment of the Centre and for the well deserved appointment of General Dikko, a former Commander of OPERATION LAFIYA DOLE now OPERATION HADIN KAI as the National Coordinator.
He pledged the support of the Ministry to synergise efforts in stopping the effrontery and the parity in Weapons handling between the State Actors and Non- state actors.
The National Coordinator of the National Centre of the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (NCCSLW) Major General Muhammed Dikko (retd) who had served under General Magashi in ECOMOG, Liberia, solicited the support of the Minister towards stabilising the operations of the new outfit.
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