No matter how anyone looks at it, there is a correlation between good governance and a peaceful society.
History is replete on how repressive, authoritarian or tyrannical regimes plunged their nations into wars, revolts and conflicts.
Of a truth, the prevailing insecurity in various parts of Nigeria presently cannot be divorced from years of misgovernance by successive military governments including their civilian counterparts.
Over the years, there have been mass unemployment due to the absence of concerted efforts and policies to boost industrialisation and agriculture, by so-doing create jobs for the country’s teeming unemployed youths.
No gain saying that governments at various levels in the country apparently de-prioritised the critical issues of industrialisation and job creation. The situation seemed to have gotten worse after the Second Republic.
Many companies reportedly closed shop and left the country due to issues attributable to poor electricity supply, a weakening naira, over-reliance on so-called cheaper products from some Asian countries including China and India, rising insecurity, monumental corruption, poor governance, among others.
The result of the above as at today, is the raging Boko Haram and banditry in the north; violent agitations and kidnapping in the South-East, militancy and pipeline vandalism in the south south as well as kidnapping and herders menace in the southwest and middle belt.
Length or breadth, the solution still lies in the enthronement of good governance at all levels in Nigeria. This must begin with free, fair and transparent elections at all levels to enable Nigerians choose credible persons as leaders.
The country seriously needs institutional reforms which must focus on overhauling her judiciary, the legislature, as well as putting serious checks on the powers of the executive, aside the strengthening of her anti-corruption laws and institutions or agencies.
It must to be reiterated here that once good governance is achieved, insecurity will gradually fade out. And other things will invariably begin to fall back in the right places.