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ASSESSMENT OF THE EXTENT OF YOUTH RESTIVENESS IN AKWA IBOM STATE AND ITS IMPACT ON THE INSECURITY AND BUSINESS INVESTMENT.

This paper assessed the extent of youth restiveness in Akwa Ibom State and its impact on the insecurity and business investment. The study was premised on the incessant activities of the youths with regards to protest which most times end becoming violent. Though there have been measure put by the government to assuage the youths, but it seems the end is yet near to settling the problems that the youths are facing in Akwa Ibom State and Nigeria in general. The specific objectives that were addressed in this paper were to examine the effect of youth restiveness on the level of insecurity in Akwa Ibom State and to assess the influence of youth restiveness on the business investment in Akwa Ibom State. The cross-sectional survey design was adopted for this study, hence, a structured questionnaire was utilized to ferret information from the research participants. The Frustration-Aggression Theory was considered a good fit for explaining why and how young people became violent or restless. The findings of this study

revealed that youth restiveness has a significant impact on the level of insecurity in Akwa Ibom. It was also affirmed that the impact of youth restiveness on the investments of business owners in Akwa Ibom State is significant. Based on the above findings, it was recommended amongst others that the government of the day should first of all tackle the issues that cause protest and

restive activities by the youths. Not addressing issues like police brutality, inequality during employment by oil multinationals especially in the oil producing areas of the state, lack of access to productive economic activities, among others, will always trigger the youths to fall back to such activities in future.

KEYWORDS: Youth Restiveness, Insecurity, Business Investment, Akwa Ibom State

HENRY DAVID MONDAY And IMOH-ITA ITA, Ph.D.

SHARED SEASONED INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TOPICAL ISSUES VOL.11 NO.1,