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| Armed Banditry and Regional Security: Imperatives of Non-Kinetic Response for Stability of North-West
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Chibuike E Madubuegwu, Samuel Ugwuozor PhD, Udenta Nkiruka C PhD
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Abstract:
The Nigeria nation-state is currently experiencing a new wave of terrorism resonating in menace of armed banditry in the North-West region of the federation. Its intensity, spread and fatalities overwhelms amid ground offensives and airstrikes from Nigeria military. Hence, this unpleasant development therefore elicits the need for alternative plausible non-military options towards restoring security and peace in the region. Hence, this underscored the essence of non-kinetic measures to stem the tides of bandits and criminal gangs in North-West. The methodology of this discourse is a descriptive design where secondary sources of data collection and non-participant observational method were used. The data and observed events were content-analyzed. The findings revealed frightening incidences of banditry as security personnel grapple with myriad of institutional, geographic, political and societal constraints. The deaths, destruction, humanitarian and socio-economic effects were enormous as the state governments deployed non-kinetic measures to complement efforts of the security personnel, however, these measures were also fraught with political, administrative and logistic lapses. Thus, this discourse recommends for a regional amnesty program, state youth empowerment and rehabilitation program, security reforms as among the fundamentals of non-kinetic response to armed banditry in North West region of Nigeria federation.
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