Poverty and Unemployment: Its Implications for Pipeline Vandalization in Nigeria
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A Special Edition of NSS Journzal on: Society and Development
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The challenges of petroleum pipeline vandalization have become more
frequent and very disturbing. This is due largely to the extent of human
lives and properties that are lost due to such occurrences. The
understanding here is that the perpetrators of these acts are mostly young
persons who ordinarily be tong to the active labour force but suffer from
severe lack and want due to excruciating levels of poverty and
unemployment. The economic situation in the country has gotten worse
as the gap between the rich and the poor has widened. What has emerged
across the country are agitated youths who desperately need to survive.
With scarcity and hoarding of petroleum products and the flagrant
increases in the prices of petroleum products coupled with the
insensivity on the part of government to the plight of the masses, people
have resorted to unlawful acts to get what they want. This paper
therefore examines the role government and organizations interested in
ameliorating the sufferings of the masses must do to address the
challenges of poverty and unemployment with the hope that itwill help
reduce petroleum pipeline vandalization and bring sanity to the society.
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HM Sociology