Influence of weak legislation and non-state armed actors on arms proliferation: Evidence from terrorism in Nigeria

With an aggressive illicit transnational trade along a vastly porous borderline in the North East region of Nigeria, country not at war but highly militarized with overstretched security agencies, outdated over six decades Firearms law and vulnerable civilian populace seeking firearms self-protection or otherwise; are all tones needed for proliferations small arms Light weapons. It was against this background that study leverages on State fragility theory to investigate influence weak legislation prevalence armed non state actors proliferation terrorism Nigeria. The engaged acquisitions measure light weapon This employs exploratory research design; by using content analysis publicly available archive documents. relies solely secondary data. is conducted examining literature concerning obtained through searches material. Literature from non-serial publications, official reports, conferences has been included particularly if they have cited other references connection proliferation. submitted weapons extensively aggravated Based these findings, concludes government commitment combat can only be taken serious when existing 1959 revamped internationalized while it will take good governance stem actors. recommends Federal Government should evolve modern firearm give bites. Lastly, newly established National Centre Control Small Arms Weapons quickly database tracking capability ease fight