Vol 8 Issue 2 April 2020-June 2020

Abstract: The right to life is not just a basic right, but a fundamental and universally acknowledged right accorded to all humans, irrespective of gender, race, ethnicity, social class, religion, sexuality and political ideology. However, the extent of enforcement of the right to life may be influenced by the state of affairs in a given country, such as the state of peace, stability, security for lives and properties. Countries that are enjoying the determinants mentioned above may tend to have higher adherence to the right to life as opposed to countries caught in between domestic hostility and insecurity as seen in Nigeria. The scope of insecurity in Nigeria is very vast, resulting in an unimaginable loss of property, freedom, humanness and the eventual loss of thousands of lives. The humanistic crisis and human right violation resulting from the untamed growth of insecurity in Nigeria is enormous, daily the hope of families are shattered, parents are separated from their children, under-aged girls are kidnapped in their numbers and forced into marriage, people are adopted and executed in the most gruesome manner. Insecurity, therefore, is a significant threat to life, and constitute a severe violation to the right to life in Nigeria, because most deaths resulting from insecurity falls outside the corridors of the limitations to the right to life expressed in section 33, (2)of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. This paper, therefore, critically explored how the insecurity challenge in Nigeria poses a severe threat to the enforcement and exercise of the right to life of the Nigerian people.

Keywords: Human Right, Right to Life, Violation, Insecurity, Nigeria.

Title: INSECURITY THE MAJOR VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS TO LIFE IN NIGERIA

Author: Ignatius Nnaemeka Onwuatuegwu

International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations

ISSN 2348-1218 (print), ISSN 2348-1226 (online)

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