The Kampala Convention on Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria: The Need for Its Domestication in Nigeria

Kesiena Urhibo

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The Kampala Convention on Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria: The Need for Its Domestication in Nigeria

Kesiena Urhibo

Published in International Journal of Law and Society (Volume 5, Issue 4)

Received: 1 October 2022 Accepted: 7 December 2022 Published: 27 December 2022

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In order to comprehend the challenges at hand, this article explains essential terms and investigates how internal displacement is managed in Nigeria using the Kampala Convention as a reference. The Kampala Convention and supplementary pertinent Nigerian regulations were also discussed in this article, despite the Nigerian government's inability to reduce the expanding figures of internally displaced people residing within its boundaries. This is essential since, as this paper correctly found, despite Nigeria's ratification of the Kampala Convention, it has not been domesticated. The inference of this is that the Convention would not be applicable until it has been domesticated in accordance with the requirements of the Nigerian Constitution, which is aptly represented in section 12. As a result, this study incorporates a critique of the pertinent agencies involved in the management of internal displacement of persons, as well as their associated tasks and difficulties. This essay further argues that pushing the government to domesticate pertinent laws and to afford the necessary funding for pertinent agencies will aid in finding long-lasting solutions to the problem of population relocation. This paper also makes the case for addressing the underlying causes of displacement in Nigeria and calls for challenging government policies that encourage arbitrary internal migration. It comes to the conclusion that reducing internal migration requires cooperation from the government, its agencies, non-governmental organizations, non-state actors, and individuals.

Published in	International Journal of Law and Society (Volume 5, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijls.20220504.16
Page(s)	387-394
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Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), Nigeria, Kampala Convention, Nigerian Constitution

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Kesiena Urhibo. The Kampala Convention on Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria: The Need for Its Domestication in Nigeria. Int J Law Soc. 2022;5(4):387-394. doi: 10.11648/j.ijls.20220504.16

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