NAU: FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES SEEKS JUSTICE, SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT FOR THE NIGERIAN STATE

By Michael Ezenwata

The Faculty of Social Sciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka campus in collaboration with the Prisons, Rehabilitation and Welfare Action is seeking for justice, security and development for the Nigerian State and the entire global society.

In a hybrid conference at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka campus titled,” Justice, Security And Development: Issues and Advancing Solution,Series1”, the conference through the keynote speaker and associate professor of Criminology and security studies,Uju Agomoh spoke of the imperatives of justice and security towards achieving peace and sustainable development.

Dr. Agomoh doubling as the President of PRAWA advocated the obliteration of prison incarceration method to treat offenders in favour of other means which are less expensive, progressive and reformative.

In her submission, prison management is very expensive, and offenders can be made to pay for their offences through measures that can occasion their easy reintegration into the society.

Speaking on the conference theme, the Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka campus, Prof. Michael Ezenwa spoke of the counterproductive and obsolete use of prisons to correct offenders and the necessity to adopt means whereby offenders are made to bear the full weight of their offences, and yet be reformed to fit into the society without losing focus of their expected responsibllities in the society.

Making reference to the Nigerian society where there is injustice, insecurity and questionable development, Prof. Ezenwa cited the Benue State massacre of over 250 persons by bandits as a point of contact to describe a decadent society where the government has failed.

For him, some critical stakeholders at the national level should be relieved of their duties for not being proactive to the sensibilities of their positions with regards to the threat to human life the Benue tragedy posed.

In Anambra State, Prof. Ezenwa passed a vote of confidence on Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s administration for his infrastructural development strategy, minimizing the insecurity risks in the state ,among other land mark reforms.

He urged that emphasis be placed on the building of convenience spots along the highways to minimize the high level of open defecation in the society, siting of shelter structures at strategic locations along the highways to minimize the inconveniences of rains and intensive sunshine, and the increase in the take home package of civil servants to jettison the high level of human capital flight to oversea countries.