The Question of Insecurity and Sustained Socio-Economic Development in Nigeria

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to address the challenges of insecurity in Nigeria. Although, there are many challenges confronting Nigeria. These challenges include inflation, unemployment, poor education system, poverty, bad governance, insecurity and corruption. Among these challenges aforementioned, insecurity is the major challenge surfacing its ugly head across the six geo-political regions basically in the North-East, North-Central, North-West and South-East regions. As it stands, residents in these regions hardly sleep with their eyes closed. Farmers have been prevented from accessing their farm lands and Innocent citizens are being kidnapped and killed on daily basis.The government that is entrusted with the security of lives and properties seems to be helpless and unable to curb this menace. All these security issues hurting Nigeria has posed a lot of threat on socio-economic development as they result to insufficient supply of food items, unemployment, hikes in prices of things, low income and collapse of industries. Employing the method of critical analysis, this paper examines the root causes, some effects and ways to curb insecurity in Nigeria. The paper argues that corruption, poverty and bad government are the major causes of insecurity in Nigeria. The paper concludes that the solution to curb insecurity for sustained socio-economic development in Nigeria is to have effective leadership that will fight insecurity