International records / OpenAlex research

The police, protest behaviour and Nigeria's emergent democracy - beyond the rhetoric of colonial inheritance

The challenge of every worthy democracy is to grow, not negatively, but in the positive direction, that allows a virile order to thrive. This would imply that citizens interrogate the day-to-day management of their public affairs in order to task their leadership to respond to their demands. The State, then, in a democracy should not stifle public opinion, protests and criticism. For these indispensable elements of a virile democracy defines the features that provide the much desired dynamism and the galvanizer for effective political participation in any properly so called democratic social p…