Youth uprising and economic insecurity in oil producing communities: a study of Idu-Ekpeye Community, Ahoada West Local Government Area of Rivers State

Abstract

This paper investigate youth uprising and economic insecurity in Idu-Ekpeye an Oil Producing Community in Ahoada West Local Government Area of Rivers State. Historically, Shell Petroleum Development Companies started in the Community in 1971 about five decades now, poverty and misery has been the lot of the Community, attempt by the Community to peacefully seek the attention of oil exploration company’s were resisted by state security agents which drives the youth uprising. The data for the paper were generated from Primary Sources, the paper used descriptive analysis. The paper discovered that the youth uprising has economic implications, the paper recommended among other things programmes and policies that will economically empower the people of the area.