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This paper examines students’ kidnapping and security brouhaha with implication on secondary schools education in Lagos metropolis. Kidnapping is an offspring of terrorism and social vices that spread all over the world. It is a notorious and nefarious behaviour orchestrated by criminal with the mindset of abducting and hostage students for ransom package. It is a social vice that parade secondary schools student in Lagos state, Nigeria. Student kidnapping is a nefarious, villainous, terrible and seasonal crime that portend security challenges in Lagos state.. The perpetrators include; Unemployed youth, Gangster, Community hooligans’ a.k.a (Badoo), Land grabbers, Terrorists, Ritualist, and Spiritual father of several religious. The rate of such menace is on the geometric progression while the security tactics of combating it is on arithmetic progression. Nigeria has witness an increased increasingly spate of kidnapping in the South, particularly South-South and South-East geo-political zones. The purpose of this study is to determine the notorious and nefarious atrocities of kidnapping and streamline the impediments to its control. The findings reveal that unemployment, corruption, indiscipline, inadequate security, poverty, economic depression high rate of inflation, loss of societal value and get rich quick syndrome among others are the major causes of kidnapping. Sequel to these findings, it is recommended amongst others that government should improve on reducing inflation gap, improve standard of living for the people by providing employment for youth, ensuring adequate security to protect lives and properties, establish wealth creation center to reduce poverty and sentence any political or public officer working in tandem with kidnapper to life imprisonment.
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To Cite this Article: Odumbo, T. A., Shittu, T. O., Akinyemi, I. A., & Momoh, Y. Z. (2017). Students’ Kidnapping and Security Brouhaha: Implications on Secondary Schools in Lagos Metropolis, Lagos State, Nigeria. International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development, 6(3), 70–80.
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