Traditional Values, Beliefs And Reliance On Indigenous Resources For Crime Control In Modern Southwest Nigeria

Traditional Values, Beliefs And Reliance On Indigenous Resources For Crime Control In Modern Southwest Nigeria

Chapter One

Preface

Background of the study

There’s no similar thing as a society that’s completely free of crime and crime, but the degree of its presence or circumstance differs from culture to culture, and this also depends on the systems put in place to fight the trend and prevalence. Every race or identity group on the earth has and now has honored and collaborative patterns and strategies of social control and conflict agreement. In discrepancy, the police are the sanctioned medium of felonious discovery and control in the West. Africans, on the other hand, believe that combating crime and culprits should be grounded solely on indigenousprinciples.When we talk about values, we’re pertaining to views about ideal ways of life that are intended to impact actions among individualities or communities via socialization. In this perspective, this exploration is looking at the essential traditional and indigenous coffers for crime control in the southwest. important has been said by the general public in literature, the media, and academia regarding the police’s ineffectiveness in dealing with Nigeria’s expanding crime problem. Suggestions were offered, and colorful remedies were presented, but to no mileage. Those strategies may be foreign to our culture. The foreign system is employed in moment’s Nigerian environment to handle living patterns that are primarily alien to the system.

This reinforces the comment of( Ukwayi, Joseph & Bernard, J & Pius, Angioha. 2018) that in numerous corridor of the world, Europeans have used felonious justice systems as a critical social armament to undermine and delegitimize indigenous peoples’ social structures and political intentions. It comes as no surprise that the maturity of programs aimed at combating crime in Nigeria have failed spectacularly. What politicians fail to see is that the English pattern and system of government, the institution of the courts, and the workings of an inimical system of justice inherited and rehearsed represent a large element of English culture.

People from southwest Nigeria, like several other communities in Nigeria, have always believed in and placed a great value on the application of original coffers for combat. The continuity of confidence in these ideals has been backed by the crunches of current enforcement systems and our society’s growing crime rate.

Since the life of Nigerians seems unnaturally different from that of the English or other Europeans, for this reason, the English social control system introduced and rehearsed in Nigeria is in a way not veritably suitable to effectively regulate and control social relations. The observation that the English- grounded law enforcement system may not sufficiently guarantee a stable Nigeria after independence appears to challenge the country ‘s ― ultramodern ‖ status. The understanding or knowledge of this life and the history of the Yoruba will be a foundation upon which their indigenous styles of crime control is examined and appreciated( OjedokunU.A & AderintoA.A 2015). thus it’s upon this premise that this study is set to examine traditional values, beliefs and reliance on indigenous coffers for crime control in Modern Southwest Nigeria

Statement of problem

The control of crime in Nigerian society has remained fugitive as a result of ineffective security outfit. Up till now, the English- grounded sanctioned system of justice in Nigeria has been unfit to guarantee safety for the lives and property of the common people; in addition, it’s rather precious, time- wasting, and asleep to the traditional and indigenous values and beliefs of the people. The mileage of the traditional and indigenous social control mechanisms, on the other hand, has been remarkable and appear to satisfy Nigerians ‘ yearning for affordable, more rapid-fire and culturally applicable justice and social order. For decades, man has been preoccupied with the laborious task of chancing the most effective means of fighting the imminence of crime and culprits to no mileage. Security implies a stable, fairly predictable and peaceful terrain in which individualities can pursue licit ends without inhibition or detriment and without fear of disturbance or injury. Security problems remain one of the universal marvels and continue to affect a shocking proportion of man’s peace and orderly society; its weakness alone could indeed be disastrously instigative. Given that the policing system has been ineffective in combating the precariousness that have eaten their way into the recesses and cracks of pastoral communities, the experimenters seek to discover traditional values, beliefs, and reliance on indigenous coffers for crime control in Modern Southwest Nigeria.

Ideal of the study

The main focus of this study is to examine traditional values, beliefs and reliance on indigenous coffers for crime control in Modern Southwest Nigeria. Specifically it’ll examine the weakness of the policing system and the need or recruiting indigenous people into security network so as to control crime within their demesne.

Exploration Thesis

H0 There’s no relationship between traditional values, beliefs and reliance on indigenous coffers on crime control in Modern Southwest Nigeria.

H1 There’s a relationship between traditional values, beliefs and reliance on indigenous coffers on crime control in Modern Southwest Nigeria.

Significance of the study

The study will be significant to policy makers, government and indigenous people. To policy makers, the study will enlighten them on the need to develop programs that can empower original people to be involved in their own security in case of the late appearance of crime scenes, it’ll enable them give meaningful information and control medium for bridling original precariousness. To government, the study will enlighten them on the need to allow for each state to design t fete and promote the applicable indigenous systems of security conservation, crime forestallment, and general law enforcement as reciprocal body to that of the police. Eventually, the study will add to the body of literature on this subject; it’ll serve as a reference material for other experimenters and give occasion for farther exploration in this area.

compass of the study

The compass of this study borders on traditional values, beliefs and reliance on indigenous coffers for crime control in Modern Southwest Nigeria. The study is thus limited Amotekun in Oyo State as a case study.

Limitation of the study

The study encountered colorful militating factors which posed as a limitation similar as

fiscal constraint – inadequate fund tends to stymie the effectiveness of the experimenter in sourcing for the applicable accoutrements , literature or information and in the process of data collection( internet, questionnaire and interview).

Time constraint – The experimenter will contemporaneously engage in this study with other academic work. This accordingly will cut down on the time devoted for the exploration work.

description of terms

Traditional Values Traditional values are beliefs, Ideas that are considered to be of great significance in life for an ethnical group and that are or have been, transmitted from one generation to succeeding generations. ”

Indigenous coffers indigenous resource include, physical, financial and force accruing to original people which is grounded on indigenous morals for establishing and maintaining order in the connections among resource druggies, as well as between humans and coffers for certain purposes similar as that mentioned before.

Amotekun Amotekun, is an indegenous security outfit grounded in all the six countries of the South Western, Nigeria, responsible for bridling instability in the region. Amotekun is a Yoruba word that means” One that looks like a leopard,” leopard being restated to” ekun.” Because of this, Amotekun duly means cheetah.

Crime control Crime control refers to styles and models taken to reduce crime in a society.