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Nigeria: YFP Holds Global Week of Action Against Gun Abuse

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Leadership (Abuja)

30 May 2008
Posted to the web 30 May 2008

A coalition group under the auspices of Youth for Peace (YFP), said every year thousand of people die while millions are injured from gunshots which if not redressed, would undermine people's livelihood and security.

To this end, the group disclosed that first week of June will be the global week of action against gun abuse, stressing that all stakeholders should participate so as to remind the government of their responsibility from principle to practice.

A statement signed by the secretary of YFP Mr. Emmanuel Eduru, and made available to

"A lot of promises have been made but less effort is being made by government to integrate small arms issue into development programmes that will meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

"The impact of the wide availability and use of small arms and light weapons in different parts of the country are impeding economic development and poverty eradication.

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LEADERSHIP stated that, despite the effort of civil society organisations in Nigeria to prevent small arms proliferation and abuse, there seems to be more unauthorised arms in the hands of many civilians which according to Y.F.P. is due to the slowness of the Nigerian government in supporting CSO activities and ratifying the ECOWAS convention.

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