RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION AND HIGH CRIME RATE: A STUDY OF KADUNA METROPOLIS, KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA
Abstract
This study examines rural-urban migration and high crime rate: a study of Kaduna metropolis,
Kaduna State. Migration to urban areas is placing increasing pressure on Kaduna metropolis
ability to respond to social service needs of urban populations, planning for criminal activities
which make them to enlarge their coast in trying to coup up insecurity in the urban centers.
Population explosion activates the housing challenge both at family and society levels in Kaduna
metropolis which is likely to result in the occurrences of several social vices like thuggery,
stealing and even arm robbery. It is against this that the study determined the causes of ruralurban migration, assessed the nature of crime committed due to rural-urban migration as well as
examined the relationship between rural-urban migration and high crime rate in Kaduna
Metropolis of Kaduna State. Push and Pull theory were used to guide the research assumption.
The researcher used survey design, employed quantitative techniques in which structured
questions were used to collect information from the respondents. Random sampling technique
was used to select 130 respondents out of the total population of Kaduna Metropolis. Equally,
simple percentage and frequency tables were used to analyze the data obtained. The results
indicated that urban Job opportunities, lack of electricity and good water supply in the rural
areas, better education opportunities, better health services, good and sanitary environment, ease
of transportation and communication and rural poverty and food insecurity are the major causes
of rural-urban migration in Kaduna Metropolis, Kaduna State. Thus, the study recommended
that; Government should provide infrastructural facilities to rural areas in Nigeria in order to
prevent the high rate of movement from rural areas to urban areas.
Keywords: Rural-urban migration, Housing challenge, High crime rate, urban insecurity,
population explosion, social vices.
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