INSECURITY 💔
Chapter One
Introduction
Hmmmm, looking at the word insecurity could be in diverse ways, e.g low self-esteem, marital insecurity where either of the spouse feel that his or partner is cheating, it can also be the one we are facing as a nation in Nigeria.
The low self-esteem part has to do with not being confident in one's abilities and capabilities, which breeds uncertainty in one's mind. Everyone at a point in our lives have faced this, be it our place of work, school- inability to face the crowd ( this is so me😢), and so on.
The marital part, I don't know much cause I'm not married and that's not the main body of this work but the national insecurity faced in Nigeria.
Keywords: Insecurity, sovereignty, sovereign
Chapter Two
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What is Insecurity?
Insecurity is the act of not being sure or confident about one's self and abilities. Since we would be talking about national Insecurity, we won't be using this definition.
National Insecurity is when a country is in chaos and it's vulnerable to threats and danger from external forces e.g Boko Haram. To me, sovereignty law is broken here, it's not a sovereign state any longer.
Sovereignty is when a state has the ability and capability to exercise authority and power and also maintain law and order within its state without external interference. So from this definition, you can see that the country is not a sovereign one. When there's Insecurity in a country, be it within or outside, then it's not a sovereign state, because there must be law and order within a state before you can call it a sovereign one.
Keywords: conflicts, terrorism, Boko Haram sect.
Chapter Three
Conflict and Terrorism as major factors of insecurity.
It can start as a conflict when not settled, can escalate into insecurity where lives and properties are not safe; conflict could be within a country or a state or between two different states or country.
In the case of Nigeria, we have tribal conflict e.g the Nnamdi Kanu followers fighting for the emergence of Biafra and also the Sunday Igboho followers fighting for the Oduduwa emergence; this is happening within the country.
Terrorism is a form of manipulation involving threats, chaos and violence. Example is the Boko Haram sect in Nigeria.
We also have the religion differences, this is where the Boko Haram sect comes in, they are terrorist, they said they are fighting their religion belief and also against the westernization. They have terrorized us severally, even till date, have you heard of this saying on the news the unknown gunmen, yes they are the ones.
For Nigeria, we are facing both inter and intra type of conflicts, which as now resulted in insecurity in the country.
Conflict and terrorism are the major factors of insecurity. We also have the Niger Delta militants, though theirs is for a good cause but they have allowed their anger to take over, so it has become bloody.
This factors have resulted in the increase of IDPs in the country, most especially the northern part.
