70% Of Illegal Arms In West Africa Are In Nigeria - Nigerian Army

                                       

This was revealed by the The Chief of Army Standards and Evaluation, Major-General Shehu Abdulkadir at the 7th Annual Ramadan Lecture of Muslim Media Practitioners of Nigeria. In his words at the event
“Out of approximately 500 million illicit weapons in circulation worldwide in 2004, it was estimated that about 100 million are in sub-Saharan Africa, with eight to 10 million concentrated in the West African sub-region,” Abdulkadir said. “Regrettably, more than half of these Small Arms and Light Weapons are in the
 hands of non-state actors and criminal groups.”
“Nigeria is both a producer and consumer of SALW in the West African sub-region,” he continued. “Although it is difficult to determine the exact quantity of illegal SALW circulating within or penetrating into Nigeria, it is estimated that over 70 per cent of eight to 10 million illegal weapons in West Africa are in Nigeria.”