It has been revealed by the National Commission on Small Arms and Light Weapons that there are some 1.1 million small arms and light weapons in circulation in the nation that cannot be accurately tracked down or identified.
The commission claims that this quantity of missing weapons—of the 2.3 million in use at the moment—poses a serious risk to national security.
Speaking on the fringes of a regional conference aimed at tackling the humanitarian consequences of homemade anti-person mines, Frank Boateng Asumani, the head of the commission’s National Arms Marking Program, stressed the continuous efforts to reduce the spread of these weapons.
“Currently, we have 2.3 million small and light weapons in circulation, out of which 1.2 million are legally registered and the remaining 1.1 million cannot be accounted for and so the commission is currently looking for funding to know the level of proliferation we have in the system. We are talking about AK47s, pistols, pump-action guns, and locally manufactured guns.”
Meanwhile, Libya, Egypt, and Morocco are among the nations that Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has asked to make an effort to
toward ratifying the agreement that outlaws anti-personnel mines in order to prevent the humanitarian fallout from these weapons.
