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NSCS 3: State SALW Lifecycle Management
BlogThe diversion of small arms, light weapons, and their ancillaries (SALW) from state stockpiles is a core contributary to illicit arms proliferation across the globe. Recent audits conducted by the Auditor General of Nigeria discovered that a total of 178,459 police firearms and pieces of ammunition were found to be unaccounted for, potentially fuelling national and regional insecurity. The lifecycle management of state-owned SALW helps deter, deny, and detect such diversion, and represents an essential building block of a national SALW control strategy, enabling authorities to trace the movements of weapons in their stockpiles and identify the point in which they enter illicit circulation.