Armed Banditry in Nigeria: Evolution, Dynamics, and Trajectories
John Sunday Ojo, "Armed Banditry in Nigeria: Evolution, Dynamics, and Trajectories"
English | ISBN: 3031454448 | 2024 | 330 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 3031454448 | 2024 | 330 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In Nigeria, armed banditry has emerged as a contemporary threat to national security. Commentators and scholars have repeatedly pointed to overlapping foci such as herders-farmers' conflicts, warlordism, ungoverned spaces, transnational criminal networks, and the proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) from Libya as dynamics influencing the current security dilemma in Nigeria. The emergence of armed banditry has triggered the prevalence of everyday killings, kidnapping for ransom, property destruction, and cattle rustling. However, the group's origin remains obscure, while its objectives and organizational structure are fuzzy.
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