Why Amotekun, Benue corps may not get AK-47 licence

There are strong indications that moves by some governors to secure licences for their respective volunteer corps to carry assault rifles and combat the raging insecurity in their domain may continue to hit a brick wall. This is because the embargo on the issuance of fresh firearms licences imposed on the police since 2013 have yet to be lifted, repeatedly bringing to naught efforts by some states to arm their security outfits and defend residents in their domain. Sources in the police told Saturday PUNCH that there was no plan to lift the embargo due to the insecurity across the

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