Policing and Human Security in South East Nigeria, 2015-2024.

In southeast, there is an increased record of human right abuses by the police, ranging from brutality, extra-judicial killing and harassment to molestation and torture, showing that the Nigerian police has increasingly deviated from its constitutional role of maintaining law and order, and the protection of human rights to human rights abuse and violation. On the premise of this study this paper examined policing and human security in South-East Nigeria ,2015-2024. The Ex-post facto research design , Content Analysis and Relative deprivation theory were adopted for the study to elicit information on the study. , I relied on the specifics of the following hypotheses: Does the activity of IPOB undermine police's oversight in combating crime in southeast Nigeria from 2015-2024, Does poor renumeration of police officers contribute to ineffective civil protection in the southeast from 2015-2024? To empirically examine these Research Questions, This study however, examines the abuses perpertrated by the Nigerian police against the innocent citizens of the South-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria whom they are meant to protect. The investigation came to the conclusion that the deployment of a sizable number of police officers to perform "guard duties" and provide private security services for the wealthy and well-to-do in the community further hinders the police's ability to operate. Corruption is still arguably the biggest barrier to Nigerian police performance. Those in charge of their use misappropriate the scarce resources intended for security and other developmental goals. As a result, there is an endless circle of poverty, deprivation, greed, exploitation, unemployment, insecurity and general underdevelopment that erodes the ability of the government to deliver social services in the South-East region.
Keywords: policing, human security, Human Rights Abuses, IPOB, insecurity