State Territorial Sovereignty and Human Security

Abstract

The long- established concept of security has always revolved around state establishment. A state- centric security architecture-which is tailored to protect state functionaries at the highest echelon of statecraft. The officials symbolized the state, hence, the latter and its government did everything humanly possible to ensure, no harm, either in body or estate befell those at the helm of state affairs. In such conception of security, the state personalities could afford to fiddle while Rome burns. Again, the state conceived in the image and likeness of the governing elite are wont to crush and decisively deal with citizens, who dare challenged the status quo. This particularization of security has led to, most often, to distancing the leaders from the led, to the extent that, the latter, more or less feels alienated, neglected and consigned to life of morbid inertia. This study posits that, security which neglects actual human security, which is encompassing has become obsolete and anachronistic. The methodology employed is the descriptive and qualitative method of data collection and analysis, using secondary sources of information.  The researchers are of the view that, overwhelmingly protecting state functionaries to the detriment and neglect of human security might be a potential threat to state territorial sovereignty.   For the state to be actually secured, human security should form the fulcrum of governance.  The clinch of state-territorial security has led to the jettisoning of good governance, waste, misapplication and mismanagement of resources, with its attendant detrimental consequences for the maximum wellbeing of the citizenry.