FG moves to stop Boko Haram from using chemical and biological weapons

– The federal government is making efforts to rid Nigeria of terrorists

– The government is working with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

– The main goal is to stave off a possible terrorist resort to the use of chemical and biological weapons

Nigeria’s federal government and sub-regional body ECOWAS are working hard to ensure terrorists in the region do not resort to the use of chemical and biological weapons.

Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari and other ECOWAS leaders at a recent meeting of the sub-regional body

This was the submission of permanent secretary, political affairs, in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Ambassador Olukunle Bamgbose.

Bamgbose says the government hopes to achieve its objective, by ensuring stricter control of the purchase, use and proliferation of such weapons.

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Bamgbose made the comment at the opening of a five-day national workshop on Assistance and Protection Against Chemical Weapons in Abuja yesterday, October 31.

According to Vanguard, he also spoke in his capacity as the chairman, National Authority on Chemical and Biological Weapons Convention.

The workshop, which was organized in collaboration with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, seeks to strengthen the understanding of actors in handling issues relating to chemical and biological weapons.

“The chemical weapons imported into the country are used for the purposes for which they are meant and government also makes sure that these chemicals do not get into the hands of non-state actors like Boko Haram or the Niger Delta Avengers.”

“There are many companies in Nigeria that make use of these chemical weapons and, of course, their importation is also being controlled by NAFDAC and that is why NAFDAC and the security agencies are here to make sure that these chemicals which have multiple uses don’t get into the hands of non-state actors in Nigeria.

“If not well-managed, if it gets into the wrong hands, it would have great repercussions,” Bamgbose told his audience.

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Meanwhile, the drug suppliers of terrorist group, Boko Haram, were arrested recently by Nigerian soldiers on Operation Lafiya Dole as they were trying to enter Sambisa forest.

The suspects who were intercepted by the troops, were from Firgi and Zawan axis, Bama local government area of Borno state.

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