Policing Actors, Plural Processes and Hybridisation: Histories of Everyday Policing Practice in Central Nigeria

Lar, Jimam

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“…Highly dynamics, the security crisis in the Northwest and Northcentral Nigeria had morphed from indigene-settlers and farmers-herdsmen conflicts to cattle rustling and banditry. However, the most disturbing of recent has been the incidences of coordinated attacks on schools and the kidnapping of students for ransom with the Kankara, Jengbebe and Greenfield incidences in Katsina, Zamfara and Kaduna states been the most outrageous (ICG 2020) (ICG 2018) (Lar 2018).…”

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Insecurity and the Quest for State Police in the Context of the Restructuring Debate in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic

Saka

OLADEJO

2023

BNDU

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There has been a debate on the modality for the management of the Nigerian Police Force since the return to civil rule in 1999. The debate revolves around the need to devolve constitutional authority on policing to sub-national units. In theory, this will entail moving internal security issues, inclusive of policing, from the exclusive federal list to the concurrent list. Given the heighten insecurity that has plagued the Nigerian state in recent times, this paper examines the restructuring discourse in Nigeria with a specific focus on the call for the establishment of state police within the context of the subsidiarity principle. The study was contextualized within the exploratory research design paradigm and it adopted the qualitative approach in the sourcing and analysis of data. To this end, the paper has drawn information from published media reports that include: opinion, commentaries, editorials and news articles. Data was also sourced from published academic and policy publications that include: articles, chapter in books, books and government documents. Drawing on information from these sources, this paper assesses the positions of protagonists and antagonists of state police in Nigeria. It draws out implications for security governance in Nigeria.

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Insecurity and the Quest for State Police in the Context of the Restructuring Debate in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic

Saka

OLADEJO

2023

BNDU

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“…To that end, much attention has been given to the legality of violence being threatened or deployed by non-state actors and its implications for state sovereignty (e.g. Buur, 2006 ; Diphoorn 2016 ; Hansen, 2006 ; Lar, 2018 ; Pratten and Sen 2007 ; Rodgers, 2006 ; Sieder, 2011 ). This scholarship has given us incredibly rich insights into statehood and other forms of public authority across the globe ( Lund, 2006 ).…”

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‘I can do things that others can’t’: Civic policing as weaponized volunteering in eThekwini, South Africa

Diphoorn

Cooper-Knock

2022

Current Sociology

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In this article, we analyse civic policing in post-apartheid South Africa as a form of ‘weaponized volunteering’. We use ‘weaponized volunteerism’ as a conceptual lens to refer to practices that rest on the potentiality and/or willingness to use physical violence or to harness the physical violence of others under the guise of ‘volunteer work’. By drawing from ethnographic fieldwork conducted by both authors in eThekwini, South Africa, we show that by framing civic policing as weaponized volunteerism, we are able to analyse the violence at the core of policing and underline the varied ways that violence work is harnessed and expanded through civic policing, in the interest of civic and state actors. This, in turn, allows us to explore the continuum between state and civic violence, which is often directed towards similar groups and individuals.

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“…As bandits lay communities to waste in the Northwest, kidnappers abduct school children, students and ordinary Nigerians at will across Northwest states of Kaduna, Katsina and Zamfara and Niger state in Northcentral Nigeria. No incidence shown more glaring the audacious nature of the criminals that had laid siege on the Northwest than the coordinated attacks and kidnapping of school students for ransoms in Kankara, Jengbebe, Greenfield and Tegina in Katsina, Zamfara, Kaduna and Niger states respectively (ICG 2020(ICG , 2018Lar 2018). The current reality of the security environment in Northern Nigeria is pointing to the fact that banditry, cattle rustling and kidnapping have largely evolved into a criminally syndicated networks across the region.…”

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A Fitful Path: Nigeria’s Faltering Counterterrorism Operation against the Boko Haram in the Northeast

SAKA

2024

BNDU

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Nigeria’s security environment continues to be tense, tenuous and fluid. From all indications and yardsticks of policy planning and implementation, the country’s security architecture seems to be unraveling. As the nation’s security establishments confront multiple security crises especially in Northern Nigeria, their policy and operational reactions continue to be reactive. While the Boko Haram insurgency rages, a decade after the commencement of military operations against the group, military successes in the Northeast are at best modest. Following a decade of commitment of military resources including billions of dollars deployed to the procurement of armament and military hardware, expansion of forces’ strength and creation of special operation formations, one can ask why have the military operations continued to falter and security architecture unravel? The study was anchored on the qualitative research approach and sourced data from published and openly available official documents, scientific publications and newspapers articles, reports, opinion pieces and commentaries. Making use of this open-sourced information, this study explains faltering military operations and Nigeria’s worsening security environment to the failure of security planning, poor civil-military relations including lack of depth in intelligence agencies penetration of local communities across Northern Nigeria, rivalry among the three arms of the Nigerian Armed Forces, persistency of the poor culture of intelligence information sharing and lack of synergy and poor coordination among Nigeria’s security establishments. This study recommends that more attention need to be paid to intelligence gathering, synergy and coordination among the security establishments in the bids to enhance the prospects of Nigeria’s counter-terrorism operation and other military engagements across the country.

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Policing Actors, Plural Processes and Hybridisation: Histories of Everyday Policing Practice in Central Nigeria

Cited by 6 publications

References 3 publications

Insecurity and the Quest for State Police in the Context of the Restructuring Debate in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic

Insecurity and the Quest for State Police in the Context of the Restructuring Debate in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic

‘I can do things that others can’t’: Civic policing as weaponized volunteering in eThekwini, South Africa

A Fitful Path: Nigeria’s Faltering Counterterrorism Operation against the Boko Haram in the Northeast

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