The Insecurity: A Threat To National Development

The Insecurity: A Threat To National Development

Abstract

The exploration proposals a abstract and theoretical disquisition on instability a trouble to public development. The study is particularly important at such a time of Nigeria’s history. The apparent challenge of insurrection, terrorism, arm trafficking, ethnical extremity, arm thievery etc constitute a great trouble to security and public development. The exploration profers measures to alleviate and exclude instability to foster public development.

Preface

The adding nature of insurrection, terrorism, arm thievery, hijackings , corruption and ethnical extremity etc in Nigeria constitute a ruinous trouble to security to life and property. Lack of security of lives and property of the populace is a severe interference to meaningful development. A climate of fear will scarify domestic and foreign investors. At the heart of numerous of these conflicts is access to coffers and control over the distribution of benefits. This struggle for coffers has led to a broad sense of instability, opportunism, and the pursuit of tone- help strategies across the country. Some of the causes of violence include god fatherism, poverty, severance, plutocrat and politics, corruption, small arms proliferation, the rise of fortified groups, religious grounded violence and election fraud. These issues represent dividing lines in communities that have led to heightened pressures between and within groups.

Chapter One

Background Of The Study

The goods of violence and corruption etc, on a nation’s frugality are damaging. A nation in undated with corruption can not be feasible economically; neither can the system induce enough support/ affection needed for the survival of popular system. This is a situation in Nigeria where corruption has come part and parcel of the political culture. Corruptionhas indeed burgled Nigerians the benefit of profitable development because scarce available coffers that should have been stationed to execute development design have gone into private foreign accounts.

Corruption is wide in Nigeria, not because the people are different from other corridor of the world, but because the conditions are ripe for it. There are numerous reasons why this is so. The provocation to earn income from among the crowd is fairly stronger; aggravated by poverty, severance and low stipend. In numerous developing countries Nigeria inclusive, responsibility is generally weak. Political competition and civil liberties are frequently confined. Laws and principles of ethics in governance are inadequately developed and the legal institutions charged with administering them are ill- set.147, 148.

The prevalence of June 2011 bombing of the Nigeria Police Force Headquarters as well as September bombing of United Nations structure in Abuja has been seen by numerous as a enterprising assault not only on the nation’s intelligence but as pointer to the fact that no bone is safe.

The general state of instability in Nigeria presently lends credence to the reportthat hijacking is an offshoot of the Niger Delta extremity. This insurrection has thrown ahuge cloak of instability not just over the entire south- south geopolitical zone, but also thesoutheast, and southwest. hijacking gangs have made the two zones their haven. Noperson is spared in this new surge of crime that seems to have superseded fortified robberyand othernon-contact crimes. still, the security challenge this poses to the state ofNigeria is more understood against being substantiation that indeed government officers andtraditional autocrats aren’t spared.

This has led to some of these officers shifting their families outside the geopolitical zone or outside the country. What the current trend of violence is engraving on the psyche of Nigerians is that the government security outfit is unable of guaranteeing the safety and security of its people. This would, thus, impact on the mortal security of the people as the situation promotes fear, while at the same time limiting the peoples ’ capability to develop economically. The state’s capacity to attract investors becomes limited as a result of the instability. Okolo, B. The State of Instability in Nigeria.

The exploration intends to probe instability as a trouble to public development.

Statement Of The Problem

The increase surge of violence of terrorism, insurrection, arms trafficking, hijackings , arm thievery, ethnical extremity etc constitute a ruinous trouble to the security of lives and property of the populace.

This exploration intends to probe instability as a trouble to public development.

Exploration Question

1 What’s the nature of instability in Nigeria?

2 What are the causes and effect of instability in Nigeria?

3 What are the measures to alleviate and exclude instability in Nigeria?

Ideal Of The Study

1 To estimate the nature of instability in Nigeria

2 To determine the causes of instability in Nigeria

3 To determine the effect of instability on public development in Nigeria

4 To determine measures to alleviate and exclude instability in Nigeria.

Significance Of The Study

The study shall give an analysis of the nature, causes and effect of instability on public development in Nigeria with a view to determine measures to alleviate and exclude the trend.

It shall also serve a veritable source of information on issues of instability and public development in Nigeria.

Statement Of Thesis

1 H0 The position of public development in Nigeria is high

H1 The position of public development in Nigeria is low

2 H0 The position of instability in Nigeria is low

H1 The position of instability in Nigeria is high

3 H0 The effect of instability on public development in Nigeria is low

H1 The effect of instability on public development in Nigeria is high

Compass Of The Study

The exploration is concentrated on setting instability as a trouble to public development in Nigeria

Description Of Terms

Trouble

Fay( 2007); countries that trouble is any circumstance of event with the eventuality to beget detriment to a system in the form of destruction, exposure, revision of data or denial of service. This suggest that trouble may be in deed or word and it includes conditioning that constitute peril, threat, hazards and imminence which are able of bogarting an existent.

Development

ROGER( 1976) describe development as the type of social change in which new ideas are introduce within a social system to produce advanced capital inflows and situations of living through further product, Method and bettered social association