NIGERIAN DRUGS SYNDICATES IN THAILAND: A PANACEA FOR THE MAYHEM

Abstract

Evidentially, the Nigerian Transnational Drug Syndicate in Thailand that emerged in 1980s is fueled by the vulnerability of the Nigerian child to factors that are unfortunately beyond his/her control, chiefly due to and not only limited to the ill-legacy of colonialism, the 1980s economic hard landing from the collapse of oil boom and the decade’s era of military interventions and meddling in politics. Besides, the advances in technologies that eliminated the physical barriers to access to information also exposed many young Nigerians to the two worlds of “ the have” and  “the have not” outside their hemispheres thereby creating an emerging culture of repugnant cravings for quick and easy accumulation of wealth often through the illegitimate means due to the lack of sufficient legitimate opportunities and the enabling environment.

For decades, the lack of scholarly in-depth exploration combined with the states unwillingness to chronicle the root cause and effect of their activities  to better understand how the above factors influence their choices become very consequential to the adoption of the inept policing and monitoring practices cum institutional measures employed and accounts for why substantial progress has not been made in the fight against the group in Thailand, which is relevant to this study that will serves as a panacea for the mayhem.