This study examined the implications and challenges of kidnapping for national security. The objective of the study was to among other things identify, the causes of kidnapping in Nigeria as well as its implications for the national security and the strategies to curb it. The studies discuss varying views on the concept of kidnapping and national security. Kidnapping started in Nigeria as a result of the agitations in Niger Delta to get the attention of the Government and the International Communities Concerning their plight.
The methodology involved the analysis of data from both primary and secondary sources. The study was limited to the Niger Delta and South Eastern state of the Country. The research questions were answered after the analysis of the Data. The study identified political, social and economic implications of military for National Security. The study also brought to the fore the salient point that bad political leadership, poverty and unemployment are some of the factors that have encouraged kidnapping in Nigeria.
The study apart from identifying the implications of kidnapping for national security, it also proffered some solutions. One of which is the Government should address the problems of poverty and unemployment in the country.
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LITERATURE REVIEW PAGE(S)
GENERAL………………………..…………………...... 11 - 12
CONCEPT OF PROCUREMENT…….………………. 12 - 13
CONCEPT OF CENTRALISED PROCUREMENT…. 13 - 14
DETERMINANTS OF EQUIPMENT
PROCUREMENT………………………………………… 14 - 15
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CENTRALISED
PROCUREMENT SYSTEM AND THE ARMED
FORCES………………………………………………….. 15 - 16
SUMMARY……………………………………………….. 16 - 17
ENDNOTES……………………………………………… 18 - 19
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY PAGE(S)
RESEARCH DESIGN………………………………….. 20 - 21
SAMPLE AND SAMPLING TECHNIQUES………….. 21
INSTRUMENT OF DATA COLLECTION……………… 21 - 22
POPULATION…………………………………………….. 22
VALIDATION OF INSTRUMENT……………………….. 22 - 23
METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION……….…………… 23
METHOD OF DATA ANALYSIS………………………... 23 - 24
WEAKNESS OF THE METHODOLOGY………………. 24
SUMMARY………………………………………………… 24 - 25
CHAPTER FOUR
DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS PAGE(S)
INTRODUCTION………………………………………… 26
DATA PRESENTATION………………………………… 26 - 27
DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION…………. 28 - 30
FINDINGS ON THE PROBLEMS OF CURRENT
CENTRALISED PROCUREMENT SYSTEM………… 30 - 34
AN OVERVIEW OF PROCUREMENT SYSTEM
OF SELECTED COUNTRIES………………………….. 34 - 35
PROCUREMENT SYSTEM IN SOUTH AFRICA…..... 35 - 36
PROCUREMENT SYSTEM IN INDIA…………………. 37 - 41
PROSPECTS OF CURRENT CENTRALISED
PROCUREMENT SYSTEM…………………………….. 41 - 45
STRATEGIES FOR THE ENHANCEMENT OF
CENTRALISED PROCUREMENT SYSTEM FOR
THE NIGERIAN ARMED FORCES…………………… 45
INITIATION OF IDEA……………………………………. 46 - 47
PROPOSED PROCUREMENT PLANNING
COMMITTEE……………………………………………. 47
PROPOSED JOINT PROCUREMENT CELL……….. 48 - 49
PROPOSED DEFENCE PROCUREMENT
COUNCIL………………………………………………… 49 - 51
PROPOSED PROCUREMENT PROCESS………….. 52
PROPOSED PROCUREMENT MONITORING
COMMITTEE…………………………………………….. 52 - 53
OTHER STRATEGIES………………………………….. 54 - 57
ENDNOTES……………………………………………… 58 - 59
CHAPTER FIVE
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS PAGE(S)
CONCLUSION …………………………………………. 60 - 62
RECOMMENDATIONS ………………………………… 62 - 64
ANNEX A…………………………………………………. A-1-A-4
ANNEX B…………………………………………………. B-1 – B-3
ANNEX C…………………………………………………. C - 1
ANNEX D…………………………………………………. D - 1
ANNEX E…………………………………………………. E - 1
ANNEX F………………………………………………….. F - 1
ANNEX G………………………………………………….. G - 1
ANNEX H…………………………………………………. H - 1
ANNEX I…………………………………………………… I - 1
REFERENCES
BIBLIOGRAPHY ………………………………………. 65 - 68
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 GENEERAL INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
On 23 Oct 09, Paul and Rachel Chandler, a couple from Tunbridge, Kent in Great Britain went for a sailing adventure from Tanzania to Seychelles. Midway into their course, they were ambushed by some pirates from Somalia and held hostage for 388 day; approximately 13 months. The pirates later demanded for a ransom of 1million United States of America (USA) dollars as the condition for the release of the couple. They eventually released them on 14 Nov 10 after the last part of the required ransom was paid.1
Prior to the 1990s, incidences of kidnapping and hostage taking were among the news items that were reported in the Nigerian news media that happened in other parts of the world. That time, Nigerian society was relatively secured and her national security was not facing the challenges of kidnapping or hostage taking. Today however, kidnapping has become one of the challenges to Nigeria’s national security.
Kidnapping is the act of taking a person against his or her will or from the control of a parent or guardian, from one place to another usually through violence, force, threat or intimidation under circumstances in which the person so taken does not have freedom of movement, will or decision. Although it is not necessary that the purpose be criminal, the capture usually involves some related criminal act such as holding the person for ransom, sexual and or sadistic abuse.2 The word ‘kidnap’ originated from Scandinavian language ‘kid’ which means child. Kidnapping originally meant stealing a child, but now the concept applies to adults also.(Gerald Hill http//legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com)
The history of kidnapping in Nigeria is traceable to the Niger Delta regions where over 80 per cent of Nigeria’s crude oil is deposited.3 The exploration and exploitation of this crude oil led to the influx of expatriates into that region. These expatriates form part of the staff of oil companies like Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) which are involved in the oil exploration.
The oil exploration in Niger Delta led to gas flaring and oil spillages into the seas. This affected the source of livelihood and occupation of the people of Niger Delta which was mainly fishing and other aquatic cultures. Many of the youths of th
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