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National Action Plan on Small Arms and Light Weapons, 2021

ECOWAS Convention domestication; National Centre for the Control of SALW.

Statutory basis

ECOWAS Convention on Small Arms and Light Weapons, Their Ammunition and Other Related Materials (Abuja, 2006)

Domesticates the 2006 ECOWAS Convention on SALW. Establishes the National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons under ONSA. Implementation is constrained by the porous Nigeria–Niger, Nigeria–Cameroon, Nigeria–Chad and Nigeria–Benin land borders.

Other Security policies

Methodology

Tier 1 · primary

Courts. Gazettes. National archives.

Tier 2 · corroborating

OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.

Tier 4 · tertiary, flagged

Wikipedia only where primary is pending. Always labelled.