He stated this at a media parley in Abuja Thursday evening while answering a question on the call by the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Ado Doguwa, who last week said Nigerians should be allowed to bear arms in self-defence considering the deteriorating security situation in the country.

The Minister of Police Affairs, Muhammad Dingyadi, has said the country’s insecurity would be worsened if Nigerians are allowed to bear arms.

He stated this at a media parley in Abuja Thursday evening while answering a question on the call by the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Ado Doguwa, who last week said Nigerians should be allowed to bear arms in self-defence considering the deteriorating security situation in the country.

According to Daily Trust, Dingyadi said, “We are even doing all we can to ensure that we minimise the circulation of firearms among most Nigerians. We should restrict this to people who are supposed to own them, those who are supposed to use them, people who have been trained to use them and people who have access to use them.

“Otherwise, if you make it all people’s affair, it will worsen the situation. This is my honest opinion. I don’t share that view at this moment, I don’t support that,” the minister said.

He added that his ministry was doing everything in its capacity to ensure that implementation of salary increment for police officers across the country becomes a reality as soon as possible.

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Ofcourse, because you n less than a month the whole boko haram, banditry, armed robbers, sars-police, rogue-policemen and others will be completely wiped out by arms-bearing upright citizens of Nigeria.

Why will a terrorist-sympathizer govt want that



The way nigerians will wipe out criminalty in less than 6 months

Rogue-policemen will stay in their stations rather than extorting innocent Nigerians

BUT I KNOW ONE DAY, A GOVT WILL ARISE THAT WILL ARM ORDINARY CITIZENS AGAINST SENSELESS KILLINGS

Foolish head slamming minister. You said that guns should be with people who are supposed to own them, right? So are your fellow head slamming bandits and terrorists part of these 'people' you said should own the guns?

Why will u allow when the Government and the terrorists are pursuing the same agenda.

It’s no coincidence that the GCFR, the Ministers of Defence, Police Affairs and the AGF are Muslims from the North West.

But the Fulani are made to bear arms?

Your plans was to make them kill as much as they can in the middle belts so they will have the free land you promised them.

That didn't work then you pushed them south, when that failed you guys tried RUGA.

Now no land for the monsters you created they are kidnapping and killing and forcefully occupying forests until you fulfil your promise to them


Soon everything will change and you guys will be consumed as we root them all out of our region.

Nigerians bearing arms will be disastrous

Nigeria should be declare a gta state and the crime rate and killing will stop on time.

Meanwhile, killer fulanis and other non-state arms bearing terrorists are just violating the sovereignty of a nation by running amok without any strong political will to eliminate them by the battery of security agencies.

This is why I have always maintained that Southern leaders, especially the older generation ones are fo0ls.. so Fulani herders can be walking about with Ak47 guns, machetes, swords etc. unchallenged citing cattle rustling but Nigerians can't bear arms to defend themselves against Bokoharam and foreign Fulani militias allegedly brought in by some Northern elites for whatever sinister agenda they have.
Are they telling us that cattle lives have more value than human lives or what exactly?

garriAndsugar:
Nigerians bearing arms will be disastrous

are we in less danger now that we don't bear arms. Only the Fulani are on top because they can bear arms.

Somebody is waiting to be allowed before he can defend himself?

Of course…

The aim is to disarm even the people that have arms and render them vulnerable to bandits annihilation.

This is what Tinubu helped foist on Nigeria in the hope that he would benefit from it.

Ndi ala!