Small Arms Proliferation and Violent Conflicts in Nigeria: A Threat to Food Security

Abstract

The tendency of small arms proliferation to promote banditry and other illegal attacks in Nigeria is ascribed to the feeble and fragile nature of the federal government security management style and her attendant failure to deliver good governance. This academic enquiry attempts to scrutinize other security implication of the small arms and light weapon proliferation in Nigeria with empirically data generated from the secondary sources. Specifically, it attempts to ascertain if there is relationship between small arms proliferation related violence in Nigeria and the prevailing epileptic food security. The study employed the qualitative method of data collection and analysis with time series research design and the theory of failed state as its analytical framework in the analysis of the data collected for this study. It was reveals that there is a positive relationship between small arms proliferation related violence in Nigeria and the prevailing epileptic food security in Nigeria. Among other recommendations offered by this study it insist that while approaching the various stakeholders for a two-way small arms control pact the government should try as much as they can to assuage the existing tension while eliminating the small arms and light weapons from the society.