INSECURITY SITUATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION IN NIGERIA: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE
Keywords:
Insecurity, Human rights, Violation, Herdsmen, Separatist agitation, Police brutalityAbstract
This study attempts to have a critical discourse on insecurity situation and human rights
violation in Nigeria. It appraised the extent herders-farmers clash stimulates insecurity and
human rights violation in Nigeria. This study is a qualitative research which focused on the
secondary method of eliciting data from existing sources. The study reveals, among others,
that herders-farmers clash have significant positive effect on human rights violation in
Nigeria. The study conclude that government and other relevant stakeholders have not taken
appropriate proactive measures to tackling herders-farmers clash and other human rights
abuses and violations in Nigeria. The study recommends for a better synergy between the
government at all levels and other relevant stakeholders in legislating and implementing
anti-open grazing laws to curtail herders-farmers clash.
