According to the report, arms smugglers in Nigeria have taken advantage of the insecurity in the Sahel countries, and in particular Niger, and have turned it into a place to transfer weapons obtained from weapons warehouses in Libya.
These weapons are smuggled to the Sahel countries and also to Nigeria.
Edward Buba, a Nigerian military commander, said that when we talk about the proliferation of weapons, the first thing you should pay attention to is the events that occurred in Libya and the Sahel region in recent years. Now this situation has provided the opportunity for terrorists to get weapons into the dirty hands of terrorists and worsen the problem of insecurity and terrorism that Nigeria is facing.
Political analyst Dakoko Peterside said that illegal arms trafficking in Nigeria has reached epidemic proportions and has had a profound impact on national security. This arms trafficking is a major factor in violence, crime and insecurity in the country.
The collapse of the political system in Libya due to the NATO invasion of the country has led to insecurity and an increase in the arms trade in the country. The United Nations estimates that more than 200,000 tons of weapons were in Libyan arsenals at the time of the collapse of the political system in the country.
The terrorist group Boko Haram has been a consumer of the arms trafficking in Libya.
Libya, which once claimed supremacy over the African Union, has not seen peace since the NATO invasion and the military overthrow of Gaddafi. This country has been destroyed in the Arab world by the presence of terrorist groups supported by Western countries, and now its weapons depots, once gathered to defend the country, are now being used as a tool to spread terrorism in the region.
