“We closed our land borders here for more than a year, but arms and ammunition continued to flow illegally. While the northern part of Nigeria borders Niger Republic by about 1,497km; the North-East borders Chad by about 87km; the eastern part borders Cameroon by about 1,600km, and the western part borders the Republic of Benin by about 773km. Therefore, given the failure of the Nigerian government to secure those borders, arms and gunmen from Libya are now “all over the place”, like the President admitted. Meanwhile, most Nigerians would argue that Nigeria’s porous borders do not need spiritual or some magical powers to be safe; they only need decisive actions. The loosely guarded borders also explain why illegal arms proliferation has continued despite the frequent exercise of mopping them up.

Source: Libya Today March 27, 2021 23:21 UTC