The Military Challenges to the Boko Haram Insurgency Campaign Within Nigeria's Political, Economic, and Societal Contexts (2002-2020)

Jimoh, Ibrahim Folorunsho (2022) The Military Challenges to the Boko Haram Insurgency Campaign Within Nigeria's Political, Economic, and Societal Contexts (2002-2020). Doctoral thesis, The University Of Buckingham.

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Abstract

The Nigeria Boko Haram insurgency underscores the Hobbesian thesis of man's aggressiveness in the state of nature that requires the leviathan intervention. The Nigerian government's failure to provide public goods precipitated the emergence of the Boko Haram insurgency. As a result, the citizens contest their rights to life (in danger), withdrawing their loyalty and support from the government and the armed forces. The current praxis explains the power shift from the Nigerian government to the identified local group (Boko Haram). The change is accompanied by continuous violence between soldiers and the insurgents, resulting in mass civilian casualties, genocide, systemic rape, and unquantifiable property destruction fostering human insecurity. The literature construct argues the overlapping concept of the phenomenon under investigation: 'The military challenges to the Boko Haram insurgency campaign within Nigeria's political, economic, and societal contexts (2002–2020)'. The thesis explains the military's challenges in ending the Boko Haram insurgency within domestic factors of political consideration, economic dynamics, ethnicity, and the military. The Boko Haram unconventional war in nature is now twenty years old. The investigation employs a mixed research design that combines a survey and a subset of the stakeholders' qualitative interviews. The said approach is a compromised method that allows for overcoming access to the investigation (which is difficult in war matters). Combining a survey instrument accompanied by qualitative interviews checks causality by asking for explicit causal mechanisms descriptions and identifying influences that previous works may have overlooked. The thesis found political consideration and economic conditions more statistically significant than ethnicity and military factors as the main challenges of the military in the Boko Haram insurgency. The work questions the rationale for military deployment in matters that re-echo Nigeria generational grievances that domestic socialisation strategy should ordinarily resolve.

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