Sociological Overview of the Menace of Kidnapping to the System of Education and Sustainable Development in Nigeria

Abstract

Nigeria has witnessed an overwhelming increase in the rate of kidnapping that obstruct and sometimes halt academic activities especially from pre-primary, primary, secondary and even the tertiary institutions of learning particularly in Northern Nigeria. This paper seek to show the disastrous atrocities of kidnapping to the schooling and learning system in the country and equally, explained briefly the perceived causes of kidnapping, which among others includes poverty, unemployment, political parochialism. Further the paper, frowned at some reasons why terrorist attacking schools as a representatives of the state, the role of the school as a liberating element, denying girls child from being educated, for reducing the patronage of secular schools and consequences of kidnapping to schooling and learning; increase learning poverty, learning setback, fear that limit school enrolment. While importance of security national development such as security education at the grassroots 2and finally the paper recommended among other that restructuring of the nations educational system that make it possible for youths to develop their national abilities and the need for adequate funding and planning of security education.