Effects of Insecurity

• Destruction of innumerable lives and property worth billions of dollars.
• Economic collapse; closure of markets and business centres.
• Collapse of education: closure of schools and learning centres.
• Weakening of religion and religious institutions: Christians, destruction of churches and religious facilities.
• Destruction of social, recreational and health facilities.
• Displacement of people from their ancestral homes.
• Rapid migration to urban areas leading to over population and unemployment.
• Unemployment, over-dependency and high risk on internal crimes.
• Collapse of the traditional institutions, since most local chiefs have been displaced from their ancestral homes.
• Loss of internal family values: Many and different families now live in idp camps and many children are born and raised therein.
• Increase in the number of idps, orphans, widows, and widowers.
• Absence of farm activities for the fear of attacks and kidnapping.
• Depletion of the population due to migration.
• Maiming and killing of children, women and men, aged, pastoral agents, traditional rulers, politicians and business persons, etc.