By Seye Olumide A former Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, yesterday, warned against ...
By Seye Olumide
A former Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, yesterday, warned against Nigeria’s lackadaisical
approach to insecurity.
He made this known during his presentation at the Owolabi
Afuye Memorial Lecture, organised by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ibadan
branch, as one of the events marking its 2021 Law Week.
Jega said, while many might argue with those who describe
Nigeria as a failed state, no one in his or her right senses would dispute that
the country was fast failing.
He said: “A combination of militancy, insurgency, banditry,
farmer-herder conflicts, kidnapping for ransom, and ethno-religious or communal
conflicts, with evident lack of competence and capacity to address these
challenges, has unleashed generalised individual and collective apprehension,
palpable insecurity and fatalistic resignation.
“Many citizens have been killed, maimed, raped, displaced,
and properties stolen, confiscated and/or destroyed. Hundreds of thousands of
citizens have been staying in internally displaced persons camps for long, with
the future of children compromised by malnutrition, diseases, and prolonged
abandonment of schooling.”
Jega noted that in some areas of the country, especially the
North East and North West geopolitical zones, famine is imminent because
insurgents and bandits have obstructed farming and agrarian food production and
destabilised the rural economy, with outright killing of persons who venture
out to their farms, or imposition of heavy taxation on those allowed to farm.
“Indeed, things have been so bad for so long that, some
scholars are beginning to perceive Nigeria now, perhaps exaggeratedly, as a
‘failed state’. Even if we doubt that Nigeria is not a ‘failed state’, nobody
in his right senses would dispute that it is a ‘failing state’.
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