{"id":13359,"date":"2018-11-28T07:32:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T07:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinegh.com\/?p=13359"},"modified":"2018-11-28T07:32:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T07:32:46","slug":"we-must-pay-attention-to-proliferation-of-small-arms-nana-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/?p=13359","title":{"rendered":"We must pay attention to proliferation of small arms \u2013 Nana Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12826\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinegh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Nana-Addo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Nana-Addo-1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Nana-Addo-1-410x273.jpg 410w, https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Nana-Addo-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>President Nana Akufo-Addo wants the country\u2019s security agencies to pay more attention to the\u00a0manufacturing and proliferation\u00a0of small arms.<\/p>\n<p>He said his administration\u00a0will empower the National Commission on Small Arms and Light Weapons to monitor the activities of gun manufacturers to ensure that guns do not land in wrong hands.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a meeting with the Board of the National Commission on Small Arms and Light Weapons at the Jubilee House, President Akufo-Addo said more attention needed to be paid to the security risk of local small arms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe domestic facilities for manufacturing arms are not very sophisticated but they exist. They are part of the security architecture of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t seem to have enough focus on them, and the measures that we need to take to control their proliferation and their existence, and the manner in which they work and produce,\u201d the President said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"name post-title entry-title\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/07\/19\/90-of-crime-scene-arms-locally-manufactured-ambrose-dery\/\">Ninety percent of crime scene arms<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0are known to be locally manufactured, according to the Interior Minister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are reliably informed that locally made weapons form about ninety percent of guns used in armed robbery in Ghana. Sadly, efforts by all previous governments to introduce an alternative source of livelihood to the manufacturers have not yielded the required results. The strategy of amnesty for those with unregistered arms to have them registered made very little impact,\u201d Ambrose Dery said in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The Defense and Interior Committee of Parliament previously urged the Interior Ministry\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/08\/22\/track-firearms-with-technology-parliament-to-govt\/\"><strong>to use technology to track firearms<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to digitize the old manual way of retrieving and filing records. We need to computerize the system so that we can track all the arms in the system,\u201d\u00a0The\u00a0Vice-Chair of the Committee, Collins Owusu Amankwah advised.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Citinewsroom.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Nana Akufo-Addo wants the country\u2019s security agencies to pay more attention to the\u00a0manufacturing and proliferation\u00a0of small arms. He said his administration\u00a0will empower the National Commission on Small Arms and Light Weapons to monitor the activities of gun manufacturers to ensure that guns do not land in wrong hands. 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