THE DANGERS OF ARMING AND USING NONSTATE ACTORS IN THE FIGHT AGAINSTINSURGENCY AND TERRORISM IN NIGERIA
Author Cletus C.N. Nwadiogbu, PhDCommissioner of Police/Deputy CommandantThe Nigeria Police Academy, Wudil Kanocletusnwadiogbu@gmail.com +2348036014140 Abstract The deployment of non-state actors as auxiliary counterinsurgency forces has become a defining feature ofNigeria’s security responses to Boko Haram terrorism inthe northeast, armed banditry in the northwest andcommunal violence across the Middle Belt. Whilst sucharrangements offer short-term tactical advantages,including
