Adelani Adepegba,


Weapons that have been used in intercommunal violence that has killed thousands of people in Nigeria were trafficked from Ivory Coast , Libya and Turkey .

A new report by the Conflict Armament Research group said s ome of the weapons from Turkey were linked to a major organized trafficking network.

It explained that the weapons were used in the killing of more than 3 , 600 people and displaced 300, 000 since 2014 ,

It noted that fighting between farmers and herders over land has gone on for decades in the middle belt and north .

The report further said armed groups involved in the bloodshed in Kaduna , Katsina and Zamfara states possessed significant numbers of factory-produced small arms manufactured in Europe , East Asia , the Middle East and North America , ” according to the three - year study.

It said, " Weapons that Conflict Armament Research documented during field operations in three northern Nigerian states have commonallities with small arms previously in service with national defence forces in Côte d’ Ivoire and with weapons that CAR has documented in Libya. "

It noted that the set of weapons from northern Nigeria also includes Iraqi assault rifles manufactured in 1987.

It further said the terrorist groups have used weapons from the same batch with batch markings rendered illegible .

The report read , " Predictably , given widespread weapon diversion from many governments in the region , CAR has traced four weapons in the data set to the stockpiles of Nigerian defence and security forces .

" Nigerian - manufactured small - calibre ammunition— including cartridges manufactured as recently as 2014— is the second - most prevalent type of ammunition in this data set . "

The study further noted that in 2016, the Presidential Committee on Small Arms and Light Weapons and the Mines Advisory Group, collected weapons in Katsina , nearly 6, 000 in Zamfara, and almost 700 in Benue.

https://m.punchng.com/weapons-used-in-killings-in-nigeria-trafficked-from-libya-turkey-others-report



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God will judge those responsible for the Islamization this country.

Weapons used in Nigeria killings also used by Al Qaeda in Mali — Report

A study by a London-based research group has revealed that arms used in the farmers/herders conflict in North-west Nigeria come from the same source as those used by the terror group, Al Qaeda, in Mali and other Sahel countries.

The report, Nigeria’s Herder-Farmer Conflict, conducted by Conflict Armament Research (CAR), focuses its primary findings on Zamfara, Katsina and Kaduna States in Nigeria.

Mike Lewis, author of the report and head of investigative arms research for CAR, told Radio France International (RFI) on Wednesday that researchers found the weapons amongst herders to be the same as those used in an attack by an Al Qaeda-aligned group in Mopti, central Mali.

The report also said sophisticated arms are also being smuggled from Turkey into Nigeria.

Mr Lewis said the study tracked weapons such as manufactured shotguns made in 2014 and smuggled by sea through the port of Lagos as well.

“Attackers in different countries are actually using weapons, not just of the same type, but almost certainly from the same batch and that is passed through the same people.

“And what that tells you is that there are very specific sources of illicit weapons that are providing the tools of violence for armed groups and also terrorist groups right across the Sahel,” Mr Lewis said.

“There were assault rifles, for example, that had had their markings scraped off in exactly the same way, and probably with the same tool, and yet we’re finding them literally hundreds or even thousands of kilometres apart,” he added.

More Sources of Weapons

According to the report, CAR researchers traced the origins of the weapons across borders in the Sahel, including from military weapons stockpiles in Côte d’Ivoire and from Libya.

The report also revealed a large number of hand-made firearms in the region, where there was a 35:1 ratio between artisanal weapons and factory-made ones.

”State governments in northern and central Nigeria are trying to capture the illicit small weapons, but the issue of the region awash in small arms remains.

“We also need to get serious about securing the region’s borders, and targeting these kinds of trafficking networks that are moving weapons into the conflict,” Mr Lewis said.

Scores and Cause

“Dry seasons present a harsh spinoff: the scarcity of resources required for farming and cattle husbandry. The impacts of the scarcity are most severe in the country’s semi-arid North.

“A situation that pushes Fulani herdsmen towards the Middle Belt and further south, where farmers already confront the challenge of reduction in the land available for cultivation due to housing and industrial expansion.

“It has also resulted in intense competition between farmers and herdsmen, which is increasingly causing bloody clashes in rural communities.

“But the rising wave of banditry, amid high-profile farmers herdsmen communal clash, has steadily become a major issue of Nigeria’s worsening security crisis in the region. The death count is alarming,” the report said.

According to a 2018 report by the International Crisis Group (ICG), an estimated 300,000 people fled their homes in large-scale displacement and insecurity in parts of Adamawa, Benue, Nasarawa, Plateau and Taraba states, a development the group said may hinder farming as well as herding and drive up food prices.

The Inter-communal violence in the region killed more people in 2018 than Boko Haram and Islamic State in West Africa combined, according to the ICG report.

PREMIUM TIMES last year reported the United Nations saying over 40,000 refugees who were targeted by armed groups in Sokoto, Zamfara, and Katsina states migrated to the neighbouring Niger Republic to seek safety.

While a 2019 report by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) said an estimated 7,000 Nigerians died between 2015 and 2019 in the persistent violence between farmers and pastoralists in the middle belt states of Benue and Nasarawa.

To address the violence, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) launched operation “Tsaftan Daji” (Clean Forest), to flush out the armed bandits in the North-West. The army also has an ongoing operation in the region.

Various state governments in the North-west, including those of Zamfara, Sokoto, and Katsina, are also negotiating with the armed bandits and have done prisoner swaps with them. The swaps have involved the release of arrested armed bandits in exchange for tens of persons kidnapped by the bandits.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/nwest/375236-weapons-used-in-nigeria-killings-also-used-by-al-qaeda-in-mali-report.html

With rumor of Turkey supplying weapons to Boko Haram over a year now, President Trump has been blind on this issue.

2020 is the year wey foul Yansh goh open.

Buhari and his tribes men included. #terrorists

Turkey is a bigger terrorists funding state than Saudi......

Thats why they were rejected from joining europe!

Wow, this is certainly a global well organized syndicates, or how will weapones in middle east, have the same features with the one on the hands of this illiterates and highly brainwashed folks bearing arms in the north east in the name of bokoharm and there colleagues that pretend to be herders and the bandit that revages even the country home of the president, what an embrassment... the government must put off clanish, ethnic and religous tendencies , if they desire to win this war against terrorism. if not, they won't be able to gather sufficient intelligence in other to make informed choices as it regards securing our nation Nigeria ��

Nawa

It noted that fighting between farmers and herders over land has gone on for decades in the middle belt and north .

May the sponsors of evil herdsmen and Boko Haram never end well.

May all the evil and corrupt politicians that brought and keep sponsoring these evil herdsmen and satanic Boko Haram in our nation just to cause unrest and war for it's
citizens never end well in life.
Along with everyone that supports them.
Evil and miserable end await them all.
They will never know peace all the remaining miserable years they have to live.

No be curse,
Na FACT.


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Again, May God punish all the sponsors of herdsmen and Boko Haram and the politicians that brought them upon our nation to cause mayhem.
May the people that support and sponsor them all die painfully, and may they suffer so much pains as long as they live on earth before dying in shame.

If you are not one of the people supporting the evil sponsors of these herdsmen,
kindly say A BIG AMEN To these little prayers.


Thieves and looters will do anything to get to that national treasury once again.
They see it as their birthrights.
God pass dem.
They will all end miserably in life.

click like if u think nigeria z a battle field.. the country z a shithole bt wetin man go do ..if everybody run comot who we go leave am for ..

Buhari is the chief importer

Most Nigerians will concur that this is the most glaring failure of this administration. Thousands of people have been killed in the past five years than in any other time period in Nigerian history excluding the Civil War. The only fact that is more vexing is that no one has been held accountable for these crimes. As a result, the blood-letting continues. The government has comically blamed invading Libyans and launched Operation Python Dance in the peaceful southeast while granting amnesty to Boko Haram and herdsmen who continue to ravage and pillage law-abiding communities killing innocent men, women and children. The initiative by governors of the South-West to create a security outfit only demonstrates how dire the situation is. The EU also recently released a report placing the blame of innocent citizens clearly at the feet of PMB's government

(http://saharareporters.com/2020/01/19/buhari-doing-nothing-end-killings-persecution-christians-fulani-%E2%80%93european-union)[/url].

The House of Reps calling for his service chiefs to resign was an indirect call for PMB to resign because he directly appointed and is keeping them

ok

Mad Ooooooo


Am Still Making It

APC supported them wen PDP led government wanted crushing them but dey shouted dat an attack on Bokoharam is attack on the North now dey are looking for avenues to blame other countries for importing arms as if der members are not active in dey deal

something should be done about this

Ok

No be today.

made easy because of porous borders.
I think this Fulani herdsmen bring in weapons by hiding them among the cows coming in through the northern borders

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I just saw my neighbor amongst them. Chai. This world is small Oooo. He is the light complexioned guy on red cap.

and the weapons pass through customs ...

Okay

who are the Culprit, aren't they his Fulani's Brother?

Sunofgod:
Turkey is a bigger terrorists funding state than Saudi......

Thats why they were rejected from joining europe!

but France and UK are mother terrorists

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May the sponsors of evil herdsmen and Boko Haram never end well.

May all the evil and corrupt politicians that brought and keep sponsoring these evil herdsmen and satanic Boko Haram in our nation just to cause unrest and war for it's
citizens never end well in life.
Along with everyone that supports them.
Evil and miserable end await them all.
They will never know peace all the remaining miserable years they have to live.

No be curse,
Na FACT.


*************** ********************* ***************

Again, May God punish all the sponsors of herdsmen and Boko Haram and the politicians that brought them upon our nation to cause mayhem.
May the people that support and sponsor them all die painfully, and may they suffer so much pains as long as they live on earth before dying in shame.

If you are not one of the people supporting the evil sponsors of these herdsmen,
kindly say A BIG AMEN To these little prayers.


Thieves and looters will do anything to get to that national treasury once again.
They see it as their birthrights.
God pass dem.
They will all end miserably in life.

may their supporters die a miserable death amen.

Watch video for yourself


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxV8PhPNmrE

Na God go punish these contries

How does the weapon come into the country?.....Do they fly?.....abeg the North knows what they are doing that's why they keep granting them amnesty.