President Muhammadu Buhari (GCFR) have today signed into law with executive powers to remove, revoke, banish all firearm or shotgun certificate or license in Nigeria.
In a statement released earlier today, the Police said:
NIGERIA BECOMES A GUN LAW ABIDING COUNTRY.
This executive order will take effect from 1st June 2019. Nobody in the country is now allowed or authorised to own or carry prohibited weapons or gun.
If you think you have any license issued to you in the past or previously allowing you to own or carry any type of gun, prohibited weapons, components parts and prohibited ammunition or selling; that license is now dead.
YOU DO NOT HAVE A GUN LICENSE ANY MORE.
Only legit police officers and the army that is fully authorised can carry a gun.
All civil defense core and other security organisation are no longer allowed to carry weapons from 1st June 2019.
NOBODY IS ALLOWED TO SELL ANY TYPE OF WEAPONS ANY MORE.
You must now hand in back all type of firearm license or certificate issued to you in the past to the nearest police headquarter in your state.
Please do not hand-in your old certificate / license in a police station. It must be handed at the police headquarters.
By:
Ahmed Bello
Media Center
Abuja
Nigeria.
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