INEFFECTIVENESS OF INSTITTUTIONS IN CURBING EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLINGS IN NIGERIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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Every community has its peculiarities and features, and extrajudicial killing has become a pervasive problem in Nigeria as a nation. Despite the existence of institutions such as the National Human Rights Commission, the Police Services Commission, and the Judiciary, the extra-judicial killings continue unabated. This study examines the ineffectiveness of institutions in curbing extrajudicial killing in Nigeria. The reoccurrence of lynching, maiming, torturing, and jungle justice by security operatives and law enforcement agents to the suspects has been added as another dimension to the neighborhood security system in most of the Nigerian cities, which has made the country to be tagged as one of the most unsafe nations in the continent. Available data show that the instability of Nigeria’s economy system has been indicted, and responsible for the high rate of unemployment and poverty, while poverty instigates social vices and corruption in almost all sectors of the Nigerian system, including the security apparatus and the Nigerian legal system that made people lose faith in the effectiveness of the Nigerian police and the Nigerian legal system that made the masses to take law in their own hands. This study is anchored on failed state theory. Therefore, the paper argues that with the repositioning and addressing of Nigeria’s economy problem will definitely empowered all institutions to discharge their roles and responsibility effectively, with this, it will definitely stem the tide of social vices and foster rapid growth and socio-development
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