NIGERIA: DESPITE MILITARY RESHUFFLE, PROSPECT OF SECURITY SECTOR REFORM SEEMS FAR OFF

NIGERIA: DESPITE MILITARY RESHUFFLE, PROSPECT OF SECURITY SECTOR REFORM SEEMS FAR OFF

   Thu, 04 February 2021

Last month’s reshuffle of Nigeria’s top military commanders may be too late to make a lasting impact on the country’s deteriorating insecurity. A reform-minded national security advisor will meet political obstacles to security sector reform ahead of the 2023 elections, which will allow entrenched patronage networks to flourish and thus exacerbate conflicts in the northeast, northwest, and Middle Belt states.



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