by Azeez Adeniyi
Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu has urged the Federal Government to extend its whistleblower to the fight against proliferation of arms.
According to a statement by his media adviser, Uche Anichukwu, Ekweremadu said this while playing host to a delegation of the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA), which paid a courtesy call to him in his office Wednesday.
He said the policy should also be extended to incessant killings in various parts of the country.
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He insisted that unless such illicit arms were mopped up, the mass killings and destruction of lives and property would continue.
Ekweremadu said, “Life has lost meaning in Nigeria and people are killed every day and everywhere in Nigeria and the Senate is very worried about it.
“We just considered the report of the Senate Committee that investigated conflicts in many parts of Nigeria, especially the killings in Southern Kaduna. We asked the Committee to go back and do more work because the matter is such a very serious one.
“I also made it clear that it is important that just as we have addressed the issues of money laundering and corruption with the whistle-blower policy, it is time for us to bring that to bear on the issue of arms proliferation in the country.
“People keep arms all over the place and some people know where they are. It is time that those who know where these arms are should be able to blow the whistle on them so that the security agencies will be able to go after them and ensure that they are seized and destroyed. So long as we have arms all over the place, the killings will continue”.
