The Influence of Youth Involvement in Political Violence and Thuggery in Osun State

Student: Sheye Isaiah Ola-Aremu (Project, 2025)
Department of Political Science
Bamidele Olumilua University of Edu. Science and Tech. Ikere Ekiti, Ekiti State

Abstract

Thuggery has become a pervasive phenomenon affecting innocent individuals and governmentactivities in Nigeria. It is against this backgroundtherefore,this research was carried out tostudy the incidence of political thuggery among youths in Ife central L.G.A.of Osun state. Themethod of data colection and analysis is quantitative through the use of a questionnaire.Thedata analysis involved simple percentages and tabulation for the research objectives and t-testfor the hypotheses test.Finally,the findings of the study showed that thuggery in the state is as aresult of selfish interest of the politicians,unemployment, poor governance,financial hardships,among others.From the hypotheses testing,the results showed that there is a significantdifference in the social behavior between youths from stable and unstable parental background;that parents'socioeconomic status influences youths participation in political thuggery and thatyouths from stable parental background do not engage in political thuggery in IFE CENTRAL L.G.A.,Osun state. Thus,the government of Osun state needs an effective response, in order toovercome the menace of political thuggery as recommended by the researcher.

Keywords
influence youth involvement political violence thuggery state
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