Nigerian state to allow individuals to carry guns against bandits.
Armed gangs are rife across Nigeria's northwest where they rob or kidnap for ransom, and violence has been increasing, where thinly stretched security forces often fail to stop the attacks.
"Government is ready to facilitate people, especially our farmers to secure basic weapons for defending themselves," Dosara said in a statement.Nigeria's security forces are stretched fighting an Islamist insurgency in the northeast of the country, leaving individual states to rely on vigilante groups to tackle the bandits, who move in large numbers on motorcycles.
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