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Political Leadership and Security Management in Nigeria: A study of Boko Haram insurgency in Norther

Authors: AYOMOLA Oluranti

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Political leadership is regarded globally as the main driver of the development of any nation â€“ state. Across the world, scholars acknowledge that most of the time, the quality of national leadership of countries have determined their political stability, level of general security, economic and national development. Nigeria is recognized globally as being among the poorest countries of the world, with high levels of unemployment and poverty in spite of enormous resources as the worldâ€™s seventh largest exporter of crude oil. Scholars agreed that the level of security in any given country to a great extent determines the inflow of foreign direct investment, as well as the ability to muster domestic private investment that are necessary to drive the economy. Over the last decade, Nigeria has been experiencing rising insecurity across different sections of the country, with the most destructive being the rising level of Boko Haram terrorism in the Northern part of the country. The rising insecurity has been a major disincentive to investment, thereby worsening the economic conditions of the country as well as making some sections ungovernable. The paper examined the role of political leadership in security management, with specific focus on the control of the Boko Haram insurgency across several states in North â€“ East. The paper argues that the inability of the security agencies to effectively combat the Boko Haram menace is a failure of political leadership to provide the necessary empowerment for the agencies, lack of political will to tackle the root causes of the insurgency and political leadershipâ€™s inability to adopt effective counterterrorism measures that will bring the menace to an end.

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