Governance as the Bane of Boko Haram Insurgency in Nigeria
Mohammed Mustapha1, Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid2
1Mohammed Mustapha, Ph.D Candidate, School of Distance Education, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
2Prof. Dr. Ahmad Fauzi, School of Distance Education, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
Manuscript received on 17 October 2019 | Revised Manuscript received on 23 October 2019 | Manuscript Published on 02 November 2019 | PP: 608-614 | Volume-8 Issue-2S9 September 2019 | Retrieval Number: B11270982S919/2019©BEIESP | DOI: 10.35940/ijrte.B1127.0982S919
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Abstract: This article investigates into the operations of Boko Haram insurgency and its consequences on Nigeria’s political and socio-economic arrangement. The paper faults the sudden development of Boko Haram on the government languorous attitude to governance. The paper is qualitative research, it relies more on the secondary form of data collection, and the theoretical thrust hinges on Ted theory of Relative Deprivation; noting that the people of Northeast feel highly deprived in the scheme of things in Nigeria. There is an acute shortage in their basic needs, high rate of unemployment, an unacceptable level of poverty and shortage of infrastructures. With the arrays of attacks, suicide bombing, abductions, armed robbery and use of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), Nigeria is gradually gravitating towards a failed state. Since development cannot take place in an insecure environment, the paper recommends that there must be the full entrenchment of good governance, the military must be adequately strengthened, and poverty must be eradicated.
Keywords: Boko Haram; Insurgency; and Good Governance.
Scope of the Article: e-governance, e-Commerce, e-business, e-Learning