The latest seizure of 204 pump-action rifles and firearm components concealed in a 20-foot container at Tin Can Island Port has triggered calls for the federal government to move beyond the seizure of individual consignments and dismantle the international networks financing, sourcing and delivering the weapons into Nigeria, reports Daily Independent.
Security stakeholders warned that the repeated discovery of large consignments of firearms raises a more troubling question than the number of weapons intercepted: how many shipments are getting through undetected?
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The Sea Empowerment and Research Centre (SEREC) urged the government to urgently shift from what it described as “shipment interception” to supply- chain disruption, arguing that Customs seizures represent only the final stage of a sophisticated trafficking operation.
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