Youth Restiveness and Surging Insecurity
Youth restiveness as a collective action, underlines surging insecurity occasioned by the proliferation of ungoverned space across regions and countries. Recent similar experiences in Nigeria provides complex mix of evidences that complicate public confidence in law enforcement, security of lives and properties, and inclusive governance combined as challenges confronting national security architecture and good governance. While research focus largely dwelled more on access to power and its functions to ensure human betterment, scholars have only glossed over access denials and threats that youth isolation pose to inclusiveness in governance. Using Vilvredo Pareto elite theory of power and content analysis and inferential deductions, the paper is out to question the place of the youth in the power game between the governing and non-governing elites whom Pareto described as ‘the Lions and the Foxes’ . This theoretical paper raises the following question to shape the direction and focus of its engagements. To what extent is governance inclusive that affect the youths. Drawing from inclusive governance, the paper points to the provocative isolation associated to unbridled denial of access to power along youth line. The outcome of the paper targets advocating for inclusive governance that involves all stakeholders in the decision-making process and power relations.