The Challenges of the Fight Against Insurgency in Northeastern Nigeria

Sule, Babayo; Ahmed, Amran; Yahaya, Muhammad Aminu; Alhaji, Abubakar Umar; Gambarawa, Kabir Isah

doi:10.30880/jts.2019.11.01.002

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“…If truly the bandits are staying in those forests and the security operatives are genuinely combing the forests as they have declared, it will go a long way in minimising their strength of attacks and havocs in the zone (Al Jazeera Africa, 2020). But it could be recalled that such report had been severally presented before in the case of Boko Haram insurgents in Sambisa forests, which later turned out to be untrue (Sule et al 2019).…”

Section: The Responses Of Government To Rural Banditry and Covid 19mentioning

confidence: 97%

COVID 19 and Increased Security Challenges in Northern Nigeria: Interrogating Armed Banditry in Northwestern Nigeria

Attah¹,

Sambo

Sule

et al. 2021

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The COVID 19 pandemic has become a global health issue that now intersects with security issues, especially in African countries. The outbreak of the virus in Africa has halted political, economic and social activities, including countering armed violence. Nigeria is one of the African countries that is faced with security challenges, ranging from Boko Haram insurgency, rural banditry, farmers-herders clash, kidnapping, robbery to piracy among others. However, much attention has concentrated on mitigating the spread of COVID 19 pandemic and the provisions of palliatives to cushion the effects of the abrupt stoppage of formal and informal economic activities. This study examines the intersections between the pandemic and armed banditry in Northwestern. It appears that armed bandits have intensified attacks on communities, against the background of government’s anti-COVID policy. Government has equally re-strategized in responding to the bandits’ attacks. The study gathered data from documented sources and media reports and were analyzed, using content analysis. The study observed that the armed bandits used the COVID 19 lock down policy to increase attacks on some communities, thereby providing a complex dimension to rural banditry in Northwestern Nigeria. This led to increased air and land offensive by the Nigerian military against the bandits. This study recommends among others that government should increase surveillance and adopt strict measures on movements to curtail the activities of the bandits.

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Section: The Responses Of Government To Rural Banditry and Covid 19mentioning

confidence: 97%

COVID 19 and Increased Security Challenges in Northern Nigeria: Interrogating Armed Banditry in Northwestern Nigeria

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Sambo

Sule

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“…Many scholars and analysts argued that in a genuine federation, this situation should not exist. Security should be decentralised because most of the security matters are sometimes local, which can be handled better by local security outfits (Sule et al 2019).…”

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“…Nigeria estab lished a chain of Security Councils that designed security policies for the country internally and externally (Yakubu, 2012). Nigeria faces new security threats through terrorists with the emergence of the Boko Haran terrorists, who shielded themselves under the umbrella of religion to commit heinous crimes against mankind in the northern part of the country, particularly the northeastern enclave, where they remain dominant in their insurgency activities (Sule et al 2019).…”

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National Security Architecture and the Question of Nigerian Federalism: The Phenomenon of State Police and its Feasibility

Deribe

2023

Khazanah Hukum

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Nigeria is one of the countries that operates a federal system of government. Likewise, Nigeria has been a federal state with several security challenges for many decades, despite a strong and unified security architecture controlled by the government at its centre. The matters of national security are vested with the central government in the Exclusive List of the Nigerian 1999 Constitution. Despite the huge budget that the Federal Government has allocated towards security operations and operations for many years, there is dissatisfaction and outcries from several segments of the country regarding the current security situation. This study examined the various discourses on redesigning the Nigerian security architecture, including the calls for state police in a fashion that will appease the comprising federating units. The problem is the reservation and the resentment that some stakeholders are expressing towards the decentralisation of the national security architecture. The theory of decentralisation and devolution of powers was adopted in the study. The study utilised documented sources of data, including books, journal articles, newspapers, reports, and internet sources, for data collection. The data obtained were analysed using content analysis, where themes were designed and discussed concerning the adopted theoretical framework. The study discovered that the agitations for state police were perceived by the Federal Government, some state governments, and stakeholders as a political move to weaken the might of the FG and to muster extra powers by some state governors against the public, the opposition, and the FG. The study recommends, among others, that the calls for the decentralisation of national security architecture should not be jettisoned totally as political, but there is a need for caution in establishing them to avoid further security crises in the future because practically, it is not feasible now.

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Climate Change, Depletion of Lake Chad, and Its Impacts on Agricultural Output, Food Security, and Social Order in the Sahel

Sambo,

Sule

2023

The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change

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The Challenges of the Fight Against Insurgency in Northeastern Nigeria

Cited by 6 publications

References 3 publications

COVID 19 and Increased Security Challenges in Northern Nigeria: Interrogating Armed Banditry in Northwestern Nigeria

COVID 19 and Increased Security Challenges in Northern Nigeria: Interrogating Armed Banditry in Northwestern Nigeria

National Security Architecture and the Question of Nigerian Federalism: The Phenomenon of State Police and its Feasibility

Climate Change, Depletion of Lake Chad, and Its Impacts on Agricultural Output, Food Security, and Social Order in the Sahel

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