POPULATION DRIFT, CRIME RATE AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN UYO CAPITAL CITY, AKWA IBOM STATE, NIGERIA
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Population Drift, Crime Rates, Socio-Economic Development, Uyo Capital City Akwa Ibom StateAbstract
Across the globe, urban development resulting from policies of government on urban renewal or
expansions, had, most times, engenders population drift rural communities with concomitant
incidence of crime rates in the area. The study investigates the implications of population drift
and crime rates in the development of Uyo Capital City in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. The
attribution theory of Kluegel and Eloit was tested on a purposive sample of 120 respondents
selected from eight (8) communities of Uyo and Uruan out of the five (5) LGAs of Uyo Capital
City Development Authority comprising Uyo, Uruan, Itu, Ibesikpo and Ibiono Ibom. Data
obtained was analysed using independent t-test analysis. Findings underscore problems and
challenges of migration of the skilled and the educated people from the source areas to the
urban depriving the rural areas of the human capital with increase in crime rates and other
social problems in the urban area. The study concludes with recommendations that
development projects and infrastructural facilities should be extended to rural areas to aid and
facilitate employment opportunities and address poverty which will dissuade population drift
and attendant crime and underdevelopment not only in Uyo Capital City, but Akwa Ibom State
in general.
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