PRACTICE AND POLICIES OF INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION IN NIGERIA; PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES
Abstract
Attempts were made to investigate how policies and practices over the years have secured the mass of infrastructural assets in Nigeria, having created a nexus between the need for infrastructural availability and socio-economic wellbeing of the people in any country based on different levels, critical problems fundamentally as to aggregate the different complexities to the nature and causes infrastructural destruction in Nigeria using a volatile region in Nigeria, notorious for pipeline vandalism in the Niger-Delta, Delta State, was explored, findings from our various respondents were computed nature and causes of their continued engagement in pipeline vandalism were investigated. Relevant literal contributions from scholars were presented while asserting that the competitive edge of any nation is directly linked to a secure and functional infrastructural base, as supporting theories were aligned to link different views on the subjects, issues, as poverty, insecurity and corruption were found to be responsible for infrastructural vandalism in Nigeria. It was however recommended that an improved collaboration between the public and privates sector will further enable corporate synergy where concerns, worries, and challenges of insecurity would be brought to the fore for proper diagnosis.
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