Abstract

Using a qualitative research method, this paper evaluates Nigerian civil war post-conflict peacebuilding. It highlights that the reason for the unsuccessful implementation of the policy of reintegrating the victims of the war is the underlying factor for the consequent agitations for separation and protests in the country. The monstrous misconception of the state and its arrogation of, using the words of Akinwale, “ubiquity, omniscience and omnipotence” to itself has made the state, its institutions and its functionaries unaccountable to the citizens, thereby, leading to citizens without sovereignty. The negligence of this fact and the Nigerian state’s jackboot approach towards maintaining peace and post-conflict peacebuilding will only elicit more agitations for separation and protests.