Effects of Nigeria security challenges
Nigeria security challenges has been the major problem faced by the country. The Nigeria security challenges is currently the headache of the Nigeria Government for some time now.since the end of the Nigerian civil war which ended in 1970.the problem of insecurity which used to be one of the lowest in the hierarchy of social problems faced this country seems to have assumed alarming proportions.
Far back in the pre-colonial and colonial era,Nigeria security challenges was simply handled by the Federal government utilising the ministry of Internal Affairs , the Nigerian Police Force, The Nigeria Prison, the Immigration service and the Customs, all of which annual budgets was among the least in the exclusive list .
like ‘Danduka’ or ‘Courtma’ all this agencies simply handled the Nigeria security challenges.
since the the past bfew years Nigeria security challenges has walloped a life chunk of the Federal, State and local
budgets in the name of security votes and other related sub-heads. It would appear to me that unemployment is one of the
strongest push factors.
A situation where an alarming rate of about 40 percent of Nigerians most of who are in the youth bracket are not
gainfully employed,smacks of a missing link in the governance and an absence of a desirable social contract .The
emergence of youth militancy in the Niger Delta could be traced to this factor.
This is why the Federal government has been commended by the international community for the ongoing rehabilitation of the
youths. Perhaps the huge expenditure which the Federal and State government have mete in this process could have been
avoided if the actual problem of the Niger Delta had been nipped in the bud.
gainfully employed,smacks of a missing link in the governance and an absence of a desirable social contract .The
emergence of youth militancy in the Niger Delta could be traced to this factor.
This is why the Federal government has been commended by the international community for the ongoing rehabilitation of the
youths. Perhaps the huge expenditure which the Federal and State government have mete in this process could have been
avoided if the actual problem of the Niger Delta had been nipped in the bud.
And one way of achieving this would have been for the multinationals operating in the region to have expended part of
their surplus value to build roads, bridges and other infrastructure in the area in addition to the establishment of
industries that will gainfully engage the angry youths. The issue of paying the so called compensation cannot mitigate the
impact of their activities. What is more, the compensation does not really get to the grass root.
The Niger Delta is not an island, and even if more than adequate attention was paid to them, the other geo-political zones
could become jealous resulting to another claim of relative deprivation, because after all they are all in the same
country.
their surplus value to build roads, bridges and other infrastructure in the area in addition to the establishment of
industries that will gainfully engage the angry youths. The issue of paying the so called compensation cannot mitigate the
impact of their activities. What is more, the compensation does not really get to the grass root.
The Niger Delta is not an island, and even if more than adequate attention was paid to them, the other geo-political zones
could become jealous resulting to another claim of relative deprivation, because after all they are all in the same
country.
Another strong push factor to Nigeria security challenges is the issue of lop-sided development.
The deliberate concentration of Nigeria’s capital resources to the development of a few cities in the name of Federal and
State capitals, culminating in the prevalence of a large population of rural and under developed communities who later
came to see the developing cities of Lagos, Port-Harcourt, Kano, Enugu, Ibadan Kaduna and Calabar to mention but a few, as a different country has equally compounded the Nigeria security challenges .
The rural dwellers are jealous of the bright light in the cities, the pipe borne water which flows at intervals, the
health facilities, the fairly good roads and drainage systems including the educational institutions and the white collar
jobs. What do we expect in this kind of confusion?
It has even become difficult for the aggrieved youths to be traced because there is no road to the rural area, thereby
increasing the Nigeria security challenges .
It would be unreasonable for anyone to condemn the establishment of educational institutions and subsequent mass
educational policies of the Federal and state government which have produced millions of University graduates and other
school leavers , since education is the bed rock of development of any country believing that this will help in reducing
the Nigeria security challenges .
I believe that the president is doing his possible best to handle the Nigeria security challenges, according to him,he is
not a magician and anybody who expects him to solve all our problems as fast as we expected But it is believe that a whole
lot of effort is been made to shortcut the Nigeria security challenges .
The deliberate concentration of Nigeria’s capital resources to the development of a few cities in the name of Federal and
State capitals, culminating in the prevalence of a large population of rural and under developed communities who later
came to see the developing cities of Lagos, Port-Harcourt, Kano, Enugu, Ibadan Kaduna and Calabar to mention but a few, as a different country has equally compounded the Nigeria security challenges .
The rural dwellers are jealous of the bright light in the cities, the pipe borne water which flows at intervals, the
health facilities, the fairly good roads and drainage systems including the educational institutions and the white collar
jobs. What do we expect in this kind of confusion?
It has even become difficult for the aggrieved youths to be traced because there is no road to the rural area, thereby
increasing the Nigeria security challenges .
It would be unreasonable for anyone to condemn the establishment of educational institutions and subsequent mass
educational policies of the Federal and state government which have produced millions of University graduates and other
school leavers , since education is the bed rock of development of any country believing that this will help in reducing
the Nigeria security challenges .
I believe that the president is doing his possible best to handle the Nigeria security challenges, according to him,he is
not a magician and anybody who expects him to solve all our problems as fast as we expected But it is believe that a whole
lot of effort is been made to shortcut the Nigeria security challenges .
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