The current bloodletting in many parts of Nigeria where gunmen and insurgents kill unchallenged and are not subsequently apprehended, tried and punished raises serious questions of governance and the
raison d’etre of instituting government. Legal, constitutional and social theories assert that the security of lives and property is the primary purpose of government. Government therefore exists for this primary responsibility. The issue of security of lives and property also reflects in legal theory about the definition of law.
It is imperative to submit that the security of life is even more fundamental to organised society than security of property because only the living can own property. It has always been my position that the right to life is the most fundamental of the fundamental rights. It is the fulcrum upon which other rights revolve. Take the right to life away and there is no person left to claim any right.
This is the theoretical and practical background to the killings going on in different parts of Nigeria – from southern Kaduna to the bandits-dominated Katsina and the Boko Haram-infested North-East of Nigeria. The Buhari regime came to power with a firm promise to address the insurgency in the North-East. Instead of the crisis abating, it has now expanded to other parts of Nigeria as more killings have become the order of the day.
To worsen matters, officials placed in charge of security matters by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari – the service chiefs – have been found wanting on several occasions as they have not lived up to the expectations of Nigerians. Some of them have been due for retirement but were retained on the orders of the President.
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