THE POLITICAL-ECONOMY OF NIGERIA'S NATIONAL INSECURITY: AN EXAMINATION OF THE FOURTH REPUBLIC
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National security has always been a major concern of every country in the
world. This is why leaders of countries of the world can go to any length to
secure life and property of its citizenry as well as the geographical boundaries
of their countries. In addition, political leaders across the globe always handle
with urgency the domestic violence capable of threatening the national
security of their countries. Nigeria has been a theatre of violent conflicts with
some of the conflicts and violence threatening the security of the country.
Anchored on the political-economy approach, with heavy reliance on
secondary data, the study examines the political and economic motivations
of perpetrators of insecurity in the country with a particular focus on the
Fourth Republic. The study finds that divisive politics among the various
ethnic groups in the country, "Political and economic gains associated with
political power as well as joblessness among youths are the major causative
factors of insecurity in the country. The study therefore recommends among
others: the need to tone down on divisive politics by the various ethnic
groups in the country as this has generated conflict, violence with
implications for insecurity in the country; that political and economic benefits
associated .with political offices should be reduced to make them less
attractive. Politicians should be re-orientated towards seeing political posts as
means of rendering services to the people rather than a means to amass
wealth for themselves, their immediate families and other social affiliations
they belong. The government should embark on mass youth employment so
that they will no longer be willing instruments in the hands of desperate
politicians or religious zealots. The aforementioned if tenaciously adhere to
will invariably reduce insecurity problems in the country
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H Social Sciences (General)