Category Archives: International Journal of Social Sciences and Conflict Management 2016

CONTENT

Inter-Agencies Rivalries and Impunity amongst Security Agencies

in Nigeria: Implication for National Security

Dappa Tamuno-omi Godwin & Don John O. Omale………………….…12

Saving and Consumption Patterns, Implications for Retirement in Nigeria

Umoru David and Sylvester Ohiomu …………………….……………….34

Diversity and Inclusion Management: Implications on Productivity

and Technological Change

Obisi Chris…………………………………………………………….……53

Corruption and Insecurity in Nigeria: Implications for National Development                                                         

Abdullahi Garba Kangiwa…………………………………………….……72

Delegation of Authority:  Principles, Importance, Challenges and

Prospects in the Nigerian Public Bureaucracy

Maria Oyedeji and Philomena I. Urhoghide…………………………….94

Globalisation and Underdevelopment in Africa: Theoretical Perspective

Aiya Fidelis………………………………………………………………….112

Reasons Why Poverty Alleviation Programmes Fail In Nigeria

Abga Maina Mackson ……………………………………………………130

Theoretical Perspective of Strategic Studies and Application

 of Strategy in Politics and Businesses

Odiji Okpanachi Linus &²Odiji Onoja Andrew………………………………….153

Service Quality and its Effect on Customers’ Satisfaction in the Hotel

Industry in Nigeria

Anetoh, John Chidume…………………………………………………….168

Strategies for Financing Entrepreneurship in Nigeria                      

Agbo Melletus Uchechukwu…………………………………………….205

Inter-Agencies Rivalries and Impunity amongst Security Agencies in Nigeria: Implication for National Security

¹Dappa Tamuno-omi Godwin, Ph.D & ²Don John O. Omale, Ph.D

¹Department of Political Science, Federal University Wukari

²Department of Sociology, Federal University, Wukari

Email: ¹dr.dappa40@yahoo.com & ²djomale@yahoo.co.uk

Abstract

Impunity and unethical conducts exhibited by Security Agencies in Nigeria during conflicts and non-conflict settings demands accountability and responsibility for human rights violations. Given the prevalence of inter-agencies violence in Nigeria and its security implications, this study tries to achieve the objectives of determining the premises, which underlie the impunity of security agencies in Nigeria; to determine the characteristic features that captures the impunity of these security agencies during inter agencies’ conflicts and to determine if this trend of inter agencies belligerencies is a sign of growing discontent. To achieve these objectives, this paper draws its theoretical framework of analysis from the socio-psychological perspective  on collective behaviour, a view that finds support in the foundations provided by the Frustration-Aggression theory, which has been successfully used to explain several societal and organizational violations. Using this framework, this paper argues that the belligerences between security agencies in Nigeria can be explained by the power contestations between security agencies in the socio-political environment, that has thrown up a structured “group complex” where some agencies possess greater access and control of state power and decision mechanisms, which it thus, uses to the detriment of others. The study reveals that negative outcomes such as impunity, conflicts and other forms of aggressive behaviour, are the result of certain frustrating antecedents. The paper recommends that government should functionally and mentally engage the Nigerian Security Agencies in nation building activities other than only those relating to protecting the nation from external aggression, carry out value orientation programmes aimed at bridging the gap between members of the security agencies in terms of the “we” and “them” perceptions