ATTITUDES OF THE UPPER BASIC SOCIAL STUDIES STUDENTS TO BANDITRYAND KIDNAPPING IN OYO STATE.

Abstract

This study investigated the attitude of the upper basic students of Social studies student’s Perception on banditry and kidnapping in Oyo State, Nigeria. The study adopted the descriptive research design. Ten public senior secondary schools were randomly selected from eleven public secondary schools in Oyo West Local Government Area of Oyo State. Thirty (30) SS II students were randomly selected for each school, making a total of 300 SS II students Oyo West Local Government Area of Oyo State. One instrument was used for data collection: Social Studies Students’ Attitude to Banditry and Kidnapping Questionnaire (r=0.76). Data collected were analysed using descriptive statistics of frequency counts, percentage scores, mean and standard deviation. Findings of the study revealed that Students’ attitude to banditry and kidnapping was negative because the weighted mean of 2.38 was below the threshold set at 2.50. Also, it indicated that there was no significant difference between male and female students’ attitude to
banditry and kidnapping (t = .414; df=148; p>0.05). This implies that gender did not cause a variance in students’ attitude to banditry and kidnapping. Based on the findings of this study, it was recommended that students should be sensitized to continue to have negative attitude to banditry and kidnapping, security operatives should be more proactive in curbing the menace of kidnapping and banditry, there should be effective community policing and government should
provide employment opportunities for the unemployed youth.