Nature and effects of cattle rustling on rural community well-being in Kaduna State, Nigeria

Despite the role of the government to improve the well-being of its citizenry, there are agitations from many quarters on the deteriorating nature of their well-being due to cattle rustlers’ activities in Kaduna State, Nigeria. Cattle rustlers’ continuous activities had become an existential threat...

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Main Author:	Bashir, Abubakar Mohammed
Format:	Thesis
Language:	eng eng eng
Published:	2019
Subjects:	HC Economic History and Conditions
Online Access:	https://etd.uum.edu.my/9042/1/s901516_01.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/9042/2/s901516_02.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/9042/3/s901516_references.docx
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spelling	my-uum-etd.90422022-05-09T03:52:51Z Nature and effects of cattle rustling on rural community well-being in Kaduna State, Nigeria 2019 Bashir, Abubakar Mohammed Talib, Azlizan Ghazali Shafie Graduate School of Government Ghazali Shafie Graduate School of Government HC Economic History and Conditions Despite the role of the government to improve the well-being of its citizenry, there are agitations from many quarters on the deteriorating nature of their well-being due to cattle rustlers’ activities in Kaduna State, Nigeria. Cattle rustlers’ continuous activities had become an existential threat in the State and significantly affected the people’s well-being, particularly in rural populace. Thus, this study aims to investigate the nature of cattle rustling within the rural populace of Kaduna State and its effects on their well-being, as well as analyzing preventive measures taken by them against cattle rustling. Eco-violence theory, Queer Ladder theory of mobility, and Securitization theory have been selected and utilized in this study. This study adopts qualitative research methods by conducting in-depth interviews, focus group discussion (FGD) and observation for data collection. Three local government areas are purposively selected with twenty (20) respondents are selected for IDI using snowballing sampling method. Two FGD sessions are also conducted with a group of herdsmen and farmers, while relevant facilities are thoroughly observed. Four themes have later been developed and thematic data analysis has been completed by using Nnvivo 11. The result shows that violent conflicts between herdsmen and farmers occurred in the study area. The findings reveal that cattle rustling always involved specific group like an organized crime, which mostly occurred at night and dominated by aggressive herdsmen youths. The study also discovers that cattle rustling has significantly affected the economy, education, health, lives, property, and psychology of the rural populace. This study divulges that few preventive approaches like border security, disarmament, security agents and vigilante groups have been initiated in Kaduna State. However, those approaches seem ineffective to deal with cattle rustling activities there. Therefore, this study recommends that the securitization of cattle rustling, rural community policing have to be improved alongside with the improvement on the facilities and activities of security agents. 2019 Thesis https://etd.uum.edu.my/9042/ https://etd.uum.edu.my/9042/1/s901516_01.pdf text eng public https://etd.uum.edu.my/9042/2/s901516_02.pdf text eng public https://etd.uum.edu.my/9042/3/s901516_references.docx text eng public other doctoral Universiti Utara Malaysia
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advisor	Talib, Azlizan
topic	HC Economic History and Conditions
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description	Despite the role of the government to improve the well-being of its citizenry, there are agitations from many quarters on the deteriorating nature of their well-being due to cattle rustlers’ activities in Kaduna State, Nigeria. Cattle rustlers’ continuous activities had become an existential threat in the State and significantly affected the people’s well-being, particularly in rural populace. Thus, this study aims to investigate the nature of cattle rustling within the rural populace of Kaduna State and its effects on their well-being, as well as analyzing preventive measures taken by them against cattle rustling. Eco-violence theory, Queer Ladder theory of mobility, and Securitization theory have been selected and utilized in this study. This study adopts qualitative research methods by conducting in-depth interviews, focus group discussion (FGD) and observation for data collection. Three local government areas are purposively selected with twenty (20) respondents are selected for IDI using snowballing sampling method. Two FGD sessions are also conducted with a group of herdsmen and farmers, while relevant facilities are thoroughly observed. Four themes have later been developed and thematic data analysis has been completed by using Nnvivo 11. The result shows that violent conflicts between herdsmen and farmers occurred in the study area. The findings reveal that cattle rustling always involved specific group like an organized crime, which mostly occurred at night and dominated by aggressive herdsmen youths. The study also discovers that cattle rustling has significantly affected the economy, education, health, lives, property, and psychology of the rural populace. This study divulges that few preventive approaches like border security, disarmament, security agents and vigilante groups have been initiated in Kaduna State. However, those approaches seem ineffective to deal with cattle rustling activities there. Therefore, this study recommends that the securitization of cattle rustling, rural community policing have to be improved alongside with the improvement on the facilities and activities of security agents.
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author	Bashir, Abubakar Mohammed
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title	Nature and effects of cattle rustling on rural community well-being in Kaduna State, Nigeria
title_short	Nature and effects of cattle rustling on rural community well-being in Kaduna State, Nigeria
title_full	Nature and effects of cattle rustling on rural community well-being in Kaduna State, Nigeria
title_fullStr	Nature and effects of cattle rustling on rural community well-being in Kaduna State, Nigeria
title_full_unstemmed	Nature and effects of cattle rustling on rural community well-being in Kaduna State, Nigeria
title_sort	nature and effects of cattle rustling on rural community well-being in kaduna state, nigeria
granting_institution	Universiti Utara Malaysia
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publishDate	2019
url	https://etd.uum.edu.my/9042/1/s901516_01.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/9042/2/s901516_02.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/9042/3/s901516_references.docx
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Nature and effects of cattle rustling on rural community well-being in Kaduna State, Nigeria

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