What you should know
Home Minister Ramesh Akhtar has said that Nepal Police and Armed Police are going to buy weapons according to the law.
Mentioning that the budget has been allocated for the purchase of weapons, the minister made it clear that the work to purchase weapons will go ahead this fiscal year. In the Friday meeting of the Federalism Strengthening and National Concerns Committee under the National Assembly, the minister informed that the minimum amount of weapons required for the police will be purchased.
While clarifying the public questions, news and queries raised by MPs about arms procurement, the minister said that the process of purchasing arms by opening old tenders was not carried forward . "Contracts that were opened three to four years ago are not going to be continued now, and weapons are not being purchased accordingly." There should be no doubt about that,' he said, 'the budget has been allocated for the purchase of arms. According to that budget, weapons will be purchased in a transparent manner according to the law within the limits of the budget allocated by the government in the current financial year.'
The minister also said that weapons are a priority and physical infrastructure is a priority. "If only the infrastructure is to be built, if weapons are not provided, there will be another problem". Now the teacher will have to buy a duster and chalk, but the student will have to buy a copy book . Now, if they talked about buying weapons for teachers and buying chalk-dusters for the police, it would have been surprising,' he said.
The minister said that the police had to use weapons to arrest the criminals. "Criminals with weapons should be arrested in some places on the border". What if the police say that the criminal does not have a weapon? That's why we have to buy necessary weapons, not unnecessary ones,' he said.
