YOUTH RESTIVENESS IN A DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT: A CASE STUDY OF ALIMOSHO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

                

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By Olumide T. Agunbiade 

 INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND

1.1          INTRODUCTION

The youth in Nigeria are involved and in most cases are in the vanguard of violent conflicts that have occurred in different parts of the country.

Youth restiveness in Nigeria has been a prominent issue in recent times. There has been an increase in the occurrence of acts of violence and lawlessness, including things like hostage-taking of prominent citizens and expatriate oil workers, as well as oil bunkering, arms insurgence, cultism, etc.

 Nevertheless, youth restiveness is not a recent phenomenon. 


Various forms of youth restiveness that are economically, politically, or religiously motivated have existed for a long time.

Besides,Young people all over the world are a vital and important segment of the society in which they live. A disciplined, focused, and law-abiding youth can create a bright future for any nation. Conversely, a lawless, indulgent, and violent youth is a great threat to a nation's peace and security.

1.2          BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY

Youth restiveness in our society have become a major source of concern for many Nigerians, who, through the years of debauchery under the military had hoped, prayedand looked forward to peace and security at the termination of the evil dispensation.

 But rather than experience peace and security, our communities are today confronted more than ever before with the tenuous nature of our national polity and the frightening dimensions youth restiveness have assumed in Nigeria’s democratic system.

From the sporadic exploits of the blood thirsty Boko Haram group  of the North West and North Central Region, to the incessant display of violence by the angry mafia of Niger Delta Region, and from the armed bandits that rule the highways of the North East, to the hired assassins that paint the political landscape in the South East with blood, and from the  ethnic militia known as O.P.C in South West and MASSOB in the South East, to the murderous secret cultists in nearly all our universities and polytechnics, it has been an orgy of violence and a season of blood and tears in which the very foundation of the nation is now threatened.

Precious human lives have been destroyed in their thousands, and property worth hundreds of millions of Naira have been set ablaze in Lagos, Odi, Warri, Shagamu, Aguleri, Umuleri, Ife, Modakeke, Zaki Biam, Kano, Bauchi, Jos, and lately Abuja. Besides, thousands of internally displaced persons or refugees are living in police and army barracks across the country.

 Today, the youths in the North are at war with the Federal Government those in the Niger Delta are at war with the oil companies and those in the East and West are at war with one another and their various communities, killing, abducting, maiming, raping and harassing innocent people.

The general  impression is that no one is in control. How can we explain to our young people that human life is not cheap, expendable and disposable?

How can Nigerian youths accept the rule of law and respect the rights and dignity of  citizens in a society?

How can they accept that secret cults are bad when they believe that access to wealth and position is often guaranteed and safe through the corridors of power is often secured through one’s enlistment ?

Perhaps, our democratic system is confronted with total lawlessness or  anarchy.

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