The West African Action Network on Small Arms (WAANSA) has blamed the Ministry of Interior for Ghana not having a law regulating the purchase of guns and ammunition in the country.
Speaking at a media engagement on Friday, February 21, 2025, the Managing Director of the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA), the mother organisation of WAANSA, Johnson Asante-Twum, said that the current bill on regulating small arms and ammunition in the country has stalled at the ministry.
He said that a bill to regulate arms in the country, the Ghana Arms Bill, which was compiled by the National Commission on Small Arms and Light Weapons (NACSA), has been in the ministry for years and has gone through the hands of 8 executive secretaries.
He claimed the bill has not been sent to Parliament to be passed into law because some persons at the ministry feel it would give the National Commission on Small Arms and Light Weapons too much power.
