Adi Danasabe Isaac, Gabriel Biskila Gamisa

Keywords: Conflicts, hunger, ethnicity, resource control, food security, settlers’ right

Abstract

The recent upsurge in hunger-induced ethnic domination conflict in Nigeria (Taraba State inclusive) and Wukari in particular has created enormous uncertainty in the security of lives and property of individuals and social stability in Nigeria. Incidents of social disorganization such as crimes, ethnic conflicts, poverty and ineffective social control have been on the increase in recent years and these tend to have overwhelmed governments at all levels. This study examines the influence of hunger-induced ethnic domination and how this has caused social disorganization in Wukari Local Government Area of Taraba State. Data for the study emerged through a systematic review of secondary sources. Findings revealed that social disorganization in Wukari Local Government Area manifest in ethnic tension among dominant ethnic groups and this predominantly motivated by hunger and the quest for self-preservation. Evidently, social and cultural resources such as land, chiefdoms and political positions are unequally distributed among the dominant ethnic groups in Wukari Local Government Area. The study concludes that ethnic domination motivated by hunger is the prime trigger of social disorder in Wukari Local Government Area. The paper recommends that the Federal Government of Nigeria needs to entrench minority and settlers’ rights into the Constitution, so that minority groups or settlers can be secured from discrimination and hegemonic domination. Also, political power in Wukari Local Government Area should be shared or rotated among the dominant ethnic groups in the area.

Author Biography

Adi Danasabe Isaac

Gabriel Biskila Gamisa

Department of Sociology Federal University of Lafia, Nassarawa State, Nigeria

Email: [email protected], [email protected] 

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