Abstract:
The upsurge of attacks between the herdsmen and farmers in the
North, is posing a potent threat in the issue of National security.
The level of depredations and sheer brutality leveled on each
other by both parties involved, is without doubt comparable to
the Insurgency in the North-east. Up till date, there's unrestrained
killings by herdsmen in Kaduna, Plateau, Benue, Nasarawa, and
Taraba, which has resulted in massive destruction of people's lives
and properties. These have added to the Nations challenges in
terms of growth, development and even at worst threatens the
unity of the Nation. The Country is at the moment faced with a myriad of challenges that have huge implications to its conjoin
existence, among which is the security threats constituted by the
insurgency in the North-east, Armed banditry in the North-west
and the herdsmen militia in the North central. This study looks at
the uncontrolled Nomadic Migration and pastoral movement in
search of grazing lands and how it has festered the escalation of
rural conflict, banditry and proliferation of small arms. The
theoretical framework adopted is the Ungoverned space thesis,
the analytical framework looks at the conditions of Nigeria's
weak security and uncontrolled migrants going in and out of our
geographical space thereby making the Nigerian borders porous.
The study strongly relies on secondary sources of data drawn
from existing literatures.
