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Political Violence And Socio Economic Development In Nigeria
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.0 Background to the Study
The
history of Nigeria has been characterized by a variety of political
violence and social economic development in Nigeria, this could be
attribute to the coercive imposition and tradition brought together by
colonial era (Udokang, 2006). However, apart from these scholars have
identified leadership problem, ethnic crisis as well as living standard
of the people as the cause of political violence and social economic
development in Nigeria.
Consequently, violence is usually
accompanied with wanton loss of lives, property, instability,
infrastructural destruction among others, while social economic
development contributed to the advancement and improvement in the
standard of living increase in the life of people. Perhaps, no nation
can survive a test of time when it’s drowned in the menace of violence
and moreover no nation can actually develop under the prevalence of
crisis violence and upheavals.
Therefore, in order for a
nation to have a bit of development it should do away with all violent
like attitudes. However, political violence is a form of violent
relations and incompatibility of interest goals and ambitions between
individuals’ groups and political structures in the process of attaining
power and keeping it. To put it differently, political violence
emanates during when elections are conducted and economic development
after election is concluded in the state. This action is usually
accompanied with various act of violence in Nigeria which is not usually
the same in other countries of the world.
Before the
attainment of independent in 1960 Nigeria had recorded myriads of
violence chiefly among which is political. This problem however could be
traced to 1922 when the first election was conducted and this has
continued unabated till this present-dispensation, violence has done no
nation any good has earlier observed rather it’s mark remains
inextripable.
In the precolonial times, many of the
traditional village democracy that was practiced in some geo-political
environment has the needed popular support of the electorate and the
citizens at large. Consequently, the history of modern democracy in
Nigeria is chequered with one from of violence and another, this
according to Nweke (2006), the emergence of political violence in
sourced through the nature of party formation which was ethnoregionally
based.
This was followed by the regionalization of Nigeria
as created by Richard Constitution of 1946 Anu and Uwanaju (2011) wrote
that at independence, political conflicts over the centre stage of
nation building in Nigeria and its multiplier effect gave birth to the
factor that led to Nigeria civil war of 1967 – 1970.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The examines the political violence and Social-economic Development in Nigeria. To actualize the purpose, of the study was divided into five chapters while. Chapter one was introduction background of the study. Chapter two received related literature on the subject matter chapter three. Covered, research design and methodology. Chapter four focused on data presentation, analysis and interpretation, finally chapter five narrated the summary of work done and made recommendation. This study employe ... Continue reading---
