Vigilante Groups & Militias in Southern Nigeria
Vanda Felbab-Brown (2021). Vigilante Groups & Militias in Southern Nigeria. United Nations University.
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Subtitle The Greatest Trick the Devil Played was Convincing Nigerians he Could Protect Them Sub-type Research report Author Vanda Felbab-Brown Title Vigilante Groups & Militias in Southern Nigeria Publication Date 2021-09-03 Place of Publication New York Publisher United Nations University Pages 69 Language eng Abstract This report analyses the landscape of anti-crime militias and vigilante forces in Nigeria’s south over the past 20 years. It focuses on two vigilante groups, tracing their evolution and the anti-crime, security, and political impacts, before providing policy recommendations. The report explains the context of vigilante and anti-crime militia group formation in Nigeria, including the struggles, challenges, and deficiencies of the Nigeria Federal Police. It discusses the evolution of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), its own role in criminality, and the anti-SARS protests. It also provides a historic background of vigilantism in Nigeria and lays out the various sources from which vigilantism in Nigeria stems. It goes on to review the landscape of militia groups in southern Nigeria and outlines their different types, including in terms of formalization and official recognition. It then details the formation, effectiveness, evolution, and anticrime, security, and policy effects of the Bakassi Boys in Nigeria’s South East. It also analyzes 20 years of federal and state policy responses toward them. The following section provides the same analysis for the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) in the South West. UNBIS Thesaurus NIGERIANS
ARMED CONFLICTS
PARAMILITARY FORCES
POLICE
HUMAN RIGHTS
NIGERIAKeyword Vigilante groups
Militias
Armed groups
Nigeria
Bakassi Boys
Oodua People’s Congress
Special Anti-Robbery SquadCopyright Holder United Nations University Copyright Year 2021 Copyright type Creative commons ISBN 9789280865317 -
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