The President of Nigerian Shooting Sport Federation (NSSF), Commodore Mohammed Sagir Shettima has asserted that the guns-handling discipline has a strong potential of improving firearms skills among members of the armed forces.
Sports247 reports that made the assertion during a high-level courtesy visit to the office of Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Waidi Shaibu, at the country’s defence headquarters in Abuja.
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Commodore Shettima said the visit was to formalize pathways for collaboration aimed at accelerating development of shooting sport, while involving active personnel, veterans, and wounded servicemen and women in NSSF’s programmes.
While revealing that shooting sport is a competitive discipline and reintegration platform, Shettima added that the NSSF has been in existence since 1976 and has participated in series of activities, both domestically and internationally.
“We decided to embark on this deliberate campaign to propagate shooting sport in Nigeria, and the Nigerian Military is the best place to advertise the sport, more so that I am from the Military, and shooting is part of the military ecosystem.
“The NSSF is the only arms-bearing Sport Federation under the National Sports Commission where permissions and certification are granted for the use of small calibre weapons mostly certified for gaming and shooting sport competitions.
“Unfortunately, we don’t have active participation of the military at certain national and global sport competitions, like the Olympics or African Games, whereas Para-military agencies like the Department of State Services, DSS, partake.
“We are here to introduce shooting sport to you with the hope that it would go a long way in improving the proficiency of the armed forces and create a welfare avenue for retiring personnel in the service,” Shettima expatiated.
