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The government aims to complete the arms registry within two years in Ethiopia.
Borkena
May 4, 2020
When the firearms control bill passed parliament in January this year, the government announced that the Federal Police Commission will organize a National Firearms Control Division to enforce new legislation in Ethiopia.
Now the government appears to be ready to launch the program.
The Federal Attorney General announced Sunday that individuals or institutions possessing firearms must register it within two years.
The new legislation was said to make buying or selling firearms only with government recognition, as reported by the state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporation (FBC).
In Attorney General Adanech Abebe’s opinion, the new legislation will fill the loopholes in the regulation and circulation of firearms.
The new legal regulatory practice will require any organization / individual in the country to demonstrate that they are authorized to possess and / or carry a weapon.
Relevant government authorities will have to enforce the legislation in the next two years, according to the FBC report on Sunday.
However, all those whose weapons are registered are not allowed to carry them. And not everyone could have the right to own a gun too. Once issued, the license must be renewed each year and the owner will pay for the renewal. It is not clear whether
Citizens and organizations applying for gun ownership must meet a certain rating, said US Attorney Adanech Abebe.
So far, no entity is authorized to sell firearms in the country. In the past few months, there have been reports of repeated captures of illegal firearms in different parts of the country, not only individual assault rifles like AK 47 but also machine guns and launch pads.
In early March this year, the Ethiopian intelligence department announced that it had seized two containers of illegal firearms that originated in Turkey and entered the country through Djibouti.
As much as there are Ethiopians who tend to support illegal firearm control legislation, there are also those who are concerned about the government’s plans to control firearms.
In the northwestern part of Ethiopia and other parts of the Amhara regions of Ethiopia, among other areas, there have been centuries of weapon-bearing culture. For many, gun control legislation under Abiy Ahmed’s administration is aimed at disarming people in the Amhara region of Ethiopia.
Last month, the government deployed tens of thousands of members of the defense force in the Gondar region of Ethiopia to disarm Fano, a poorly organized armed youth movement that was instrumental in ending the TPLF government dominance in the federal government.
On the other hand, some express concern about weapons that do not fall into the categories of firearms. Machete killed most of the 86 people who were killed in late October after an incident in the Oromo region of Ethiopia. Arrow was used in most ethnic hate killings in the Benishangul Gumuz country region in the recent past.
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