OPINION BY CHIDI ODINKALU: A half century of banditry in Nigeria | TheCable
massive intrusion of criminal violence into politics.” In contemporary Nigerianism, the word for this is “banditry”.
Since independence, successive governments in Nigeria have confronted variants of banditry. The evidence over time suggests a link between governance, its failures, and what is now called banditry. As a usage, it conflates two underlying crises – a government without consequences and ungoverned spaces.
In a little-noticed release on December 21, 2018, Nigeria’s then-defence minister, Mansur Dan-Ali, a retired one-Star General from Zamfara state, complained: “The issue of drug abuse, unemployment and governance amongst others contributes to the deplorable security situation in Zamfara state”. In the same month, the Buhari administration launched a presidential advisory committee on the elimination of drug abuse chaired by retired Brigadier Buba Marwa.
In the 1990s, Shina Rambo terrorised parts of south-west Nigeria with similar escapades. In south-east Nigeria, the Otokoto case in Owerri, Imo state, in 1996 revealed a netherworld of ritualised human sacrifice.
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