Francis Sardauna writes that the procurement of firearms and distribution to constituents for self-defence by the member representing Funtua constituency at the Katsina State House of Assembly, Hon. Abubakar Muhammad, may have contravened the Nigerian Firearms Act and the 2019 Executive Order.
Worried by the spate of killings and abductions orchestrated by bandits in his constituency, the member representing Funtua at the Katsina State House of Assembly, Hon. Abubakar Muhammad, recently purchased 60 firearms and distributed them to his constituents to fight the marauding hoodlums.
In a now viral video, the lawmaker and personnel of the state-owned security outfit, Community Watch Corps, and the hitherto weaponless tax payers, were seen in an arms drill to enable them to defend themselves against bandits’ attacks and other criminal elements in the region.