Browsing: Presidential Committee on Small Arms and Light Weapons

Colonel Tukur Gusau, the Public Relations Officer to Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, in a statement said the minister made the disclosure while briefing the National Security Meeting held on Thursday

“The International Action Network on Small Arms submitted that Small Arms and Light Weapons account for over 500,000 deaths annually, one life per minute,”

This is coming as the stakeholders in the elimination of Small Arms and Light Weapons called for the speedy passage of the bill for an Act the National Commission on SALW