West Africa is a region of profound experimentation in the development of collective security, challenges, institutions and mechanisms. Two important challenges that have been noted regarding the poor governance of the security forces are the ‘politicization of the armed forces’, and the ‘defense corruption vulnerability of nations and the corruption in African armed and security forces.’ An intimate connection was made between the lack of democracy in a country, the poor governance of its armed forces, the country’s susceptibility to corruption, and the threat to human security of the citizenry.Previous studies on security governance in West Africa drew a great deal of attention to the urgent challenge of the promotion of good governance in the armed and …..Read more.