carnegiefan:
This thread is motivated by the menace of Fulani herdsmen, but particularly about the legality of the AK-47s they carry about in Nigeria. This issue is important because the Fulani herdsmen often overpower local vigilantes who are armed with shot-guns (armed according to Nigerian law). News abound in all parts of Southern Nigeria about killings, robberies and rapes by the herdsmen.

Nigerian law prohibits non-military members of the public from carrying military grade weapons such as the 7.62×39mm of the AK-47.
So, who issues the licenses that legalize these weapons in Fulani hands?
Why can't local vigilantes -whose primary job is community security- obtain the licenses to carry similar weapons?

According to the Nigerian Firearms Act -Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1990 (Chapter 146) Schedules:

Schedule
(Sections 2, 3-5, 9, 24-26, 34)
 
 
Part I
Prohibited Firearms
 
 
1.
Artillery.
2.
Apparatus for the discharge of any explosive or gas-diffusing projectile.
3.
Rocket weapons.
4.
Bombs and grenades.
5.
Machine-guns and machine-pistols.
6.
Military rifles, namely those of calibres 7.62 mm, 9 mm., .300 inches and .303 inches.
7.
Revolvers and pistols whether rifled or unrifled (including flint-lock pistols and cap pistols).
8.

Any other firearm not specified in Part II or Part III of this Schedule.
 
  
Part II

Personal Firearms
 
 
1.            Shotguns other than-
 
(a)            automatic and semi-automatic shotguns; and
 
(b)            shotguns provided with any kind of mechanical reloading device.
 
2.   Sporting rifles, namely rifles of calibres other than those specified in Item 6 of Part I.
 
3.  Air-guns, air-rifles or air-pistols.
 
4.   Humane killers of the captive bolt type.
 
 
 
http://www.nigeria-law.org/Firearms%20Act.htm

NAIJASOM:
Op thanks for the constant intellectual contributions to nairaland.

LastSurvivor:
I think they av the backing of a superior being, most especially now their brother is in power..
Mind u, he "buhari" is yet to condemn their act not to talk of mandating Arase to arrest n persecute them..

Well done @OP

QuotaSystem:
Most likely where Igbo Kidnappers get their licenses?

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Are you completely daft or you're just unnaturally slow? Was your question not about licensing? So in your infant reasoning it's completely fine to carry unlicensed dangerous fire arms as long as you don't walk around?

Stop embarrassing yourself

carnegiefan:


So how many of the "igbo kidnappers" walk around openly with AK-47s?
Hate beclouds common sense and reasoning capacity.
Save your brains from decay.

QuotaSystem:
Are you completely daft or you're just unnaturally slow? Was your question not about licensing? So in your infant reasoning it's completely fine to carry unlicensed dangerous fire arms as long as you don't walk around?

Stop embarrassing yourself

carnegiefan:

[s]


Every new day, we get new trolls, dumber than the ones before them.
And when we say that Nigeria is a zoo, they get offended.

TROLL ALERT.
IGNORED henceforth. [/s]

speedyGonzales:
that's like asking where do boko haram get their weapons from?

good question...

The same reason ND militants carry Assault Rifles "LEGALLY"? Maybe?

Instead of arresting them, they are paid stipends. Hypocrite have you wondered why?



Let it be noted that any Ibos, Ijaws, Fulanis or Yorubas carrying unlicensed fire arms whether walking around, hiding in a cave or jumping up and down, are BLOOD SUCKING CRIMINALS and should be arrested and prosecuted.

carnegiefan:
@Topic issue reiterated: WHY SHOULD FULANI CARRY ASSAULT RIFFLES "LEGALLY", BUT NOT ANY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC?

If the guns are illegal, are law enforcement agencies blind to arrest them?

carnegiefan:
My question is simple: Assuming that the Fulani herdsmen are licensed to carry military grade riffles, why can't the local farmers and community vigilantes obtain similar licenses? Why are they condemned to carry only shot guns and be completely at the mercy of better armed herdsmen?
I am for a totally gun-free society; but what is totally unacceptable is unequal access to firearms by members of the public.
If Fulani must carry military grade riffles to protect their cattle, I need similar arms to protect my farm. QED.

mikolo80:
na for bush police go de check licence
if the farmers and rustlees like make dem no go get pump action and Winchester/remington/rat poison
make dem de dia de blow grammar
license or no license
g must get AK for house
it's assumed g seized it from the criminal if I can't hide it before police come
i go get the pump action for cover
but Lord help anybody wen think say my family is for raping

QuotaSystem:
Are you completely daft or you're just unnaturally slow? Was your question not about licensing? So in your infant reasoning it's completely fine to carry unlicensed dangerous fire arms as long as you don't walk around?

Stop embarrassing yourself

Yujin:
Until questions like these are asked many will not know that they are in for a long thing. Yesterday it was at Akure where a man was arrested for carrying a shotgun but here we have fulani herdsmen walking all around with assault rifles yet no security official dares do anything to them. A clear case of George Orwell's Animal Farm yet some want me to pay my allegiance to such a slave camp,*in Olu Jacob's voice* NEVER!

QuotaSystem:
Most likely where Igbo Kidnappers get their licenses?

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QuotaSystem:
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Let it be noted that any Ibos, Ijaws, Fulanis or Yorubas carrying unlicensed fire arms whether walking around, hiding in a cave or jumping up and down, are BLOOD SUCKING CRIMINALS and should be arrested and prosecuted.

The campaign to demonize the entire fulani race using the herders that form less than 1% of the fulani population as cannon fodder, because of her political dominance will fail as it's no secret it is part of a political agenda.

Imagine the backward and satanic cannibals and ritual killers calling nomadic herdsmen bush people; what were they before ?

Kagawa10:

2 wrongs don't make right, dummy!
I can assure you that with the way you Fulani wanderers are disgracing yourselves daily, true federalism will be reinstated and then, you will experience the true suffer you eediots have been clamouring for!
Shameless bush people!