In recent years, the future of Nigerian society has become a pressing
concern as security issues apparently dominate government action
and more and more nation states are coming under pressure from
their own citizens. Some political analysts have diagnosed it as crisis
of representative democracy and argued for a stronger role for civil
society, to proffer solutions to the challenges confronting what some
scholars has classified as challenges of failing democratic state, 1 among
which is the challenge of kidnapping.
There is a pervasive security challenge in most developing countries
especially Nigeria, and that the police are obviously incapable of
arresting the situation. This is evidence, among others, by the incessant
inauguration, formulation and launching of new security outfit
comprising of police and soldiers. This has become the face of most
security outfit in Nigeria like other developing countries. This joint task
force is branded differently by different state and even local government
such as the Swift Action Squard (SAS) in Osun State, Rapid Response
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Squard in Lagos, to mention but few
