EFFECT OF TERRORISM ON HUMAN SECURITY IN ADAMAWA STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

For several years now, terrorists’ attacks have remained recurrent across many communities in the Northeast region of Nigeria; the situation is not getting better as residents in many communities have been moved from their ancestral homes to the Internally Displaced Persons(IDP) Camps in the region. This study investigates the effect of terrorism on human security in Adamawa State, the study was anchored on the State Fragility Theory, survey research design was adopted, the study population was 1,747,617 from which a sample size of 400respondents were drawn using Yamane Statistic. The study was narrowed to three LGAs;
Mubi North, Numan, and Hong in Adamawa State based on history of terrorists’ attacks, cluster sampling technique was used, structured questionnaire instrument was employed for data collection. Data collected was analysed using descriptive statistics (simple percentage, frequency and table). The study revealed that majority of the respondents indicated government negligence towards the grassroots population, growing unemployment rate, religious intolerance and proliferations of small arms and light weapons were the basic factors influencing terrorism and human security in Adamawa State. The study recommends that government and other critical stakeholders like civil society organizations within and outside Nigeria should intensify efforts geared towards addressing the basic sociological
challenges that serve as a spring ball of terrorism (unemployment, religious intolerance, proliferation of small arms) as identified in study area to enable the youth shun terrorism while contributing to the development of Adamawa State, Nigeria.