DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2022.v10i06.006

Pages: 281-288

Anambra State, Nigeria has become a hotbed of activities aggravated in the main by kidnappers, unknown-gunmen, cult related killings etc. The effects of these activities necessitate the problematic, as the state has become a flashpoint of incessant kidnaping, killings, loss of businesses and government owned properties and infrastructures worth several billions of Naira, if not in dollars within the space of one year. The above stances necessitated the need to x-ray Nigeria visa a viz Anambra state as a failing state. In the face of the current and numerous killings, hostage takings, destruction and burning of government owned properties etc, security presence notwithstanding. Hence the capacity of the state to exercise its constitutional assigned responsibility of protection of lives and properties of her citizenry remains in doubt. As the Nigerian security architect hardly secure and protect themselves in the face of these upheavals not to talk of her populace. In a bid to see the state of Nigeria which we proclaim, the Nigerian security forces are non-negotiable tools and agent of societal change and transformation, who can further be manipulated in the face of uncertainty against the state. It is in the light of the above that this paper employs a survey design, using secondary sources of data. It further engaged the combination of System and Structural Functionalism as its framework of analysis to reconnoiter the problematic. The paper concludes with a finding that sometimes the security agents are syndicates to the criminal elements that tear the corporate existence of Nigerian state in general, and Anambra state in particular. Thus recommends among others that grass root communication should be encouraged among the local people, and also re-orientation of the Anambra state security architecture on the oath of allegiance to their operational mechanism, even in the face of threat to lives and properties.