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Title: | The politics of law enforcement in Nigeria: lessons from the war on drugs |
Author: | Klantschnig, Gernot |
Year: | 2009 |
Periodical: | Journal of Modern African Studies |
Volume: | 47 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 529-549 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | drug trafficking drug policy police |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/40538334 |
Abstract: | This article examines the institutional politics of law enforcement in Nigeria by focusing on illegal drug control since the mid-1980s. It assesses the available academic research on law enforcement governance, and contrasts it with an in-depth case study of drug law enforcement. The case study confirms views of the politicized nature of law enforcement. However, it goes beyond the patron-client centred approach to politics prevalent in the literature on African policing. The article adds an institutional dimension to the study of law enforcement governance, highlighting processes of centralization, exclusion and shifting bureaucratic interests that have been central to the development of Nigerian drug law enforcement. It is based on previously inaccessible data from inside Nigerian drug law enforcement, including a window of access to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency in 2005 and 2007. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |