JOURNAL OF LIAONING TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
(NATURAL SCIENCE EDITION)
LIAONING GONGCHENG JISHU DAXUE XUEBAO (ZIRAN KEXUE BAN)
辽宁工程技术大学学报（自然科学版）
IMPACT OF ROAD TRANSPORTATION ON THE CONTROL OF SMUGGLING OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS IN SOUTHWEST NIGERIA
Dr. Oluwasanmi Adewole, Adewole Adebayo Oluwasegun
ABSTRACT
The study examines the impact of road transportation on the control of smuggling of Agricultural products in Southwest Nigeria. Smuggling is smart movement of illegal importation and exportation of cargo. Nigeria has an estimated annual loss of 1.3 trillion naira due to smuggling of Agricultural produce. Specifically, the study examines the characteristic of the road networks, types of smuggling activities and assesses the extent to which road transportation has contributed to smuggling control of Agricultural product in southwest Nigeria. This research was carried out in all border towns of Lagos state, Ogun state and Oyo state. The sampling technique employed for the study was multi-stage sampling technique and 400 respondents were selected through primary data. Both descriptive and inferential statistical tools were employed. Findings revealed that most of the sampled respondents were educated energetic youth. The Gamma value for border towns in ogun, Oyo and Lagos state are 0.26, 0.31 and 0.19 respectively. There exists significant different in the road network connectivity of the border towns in south west Nigeria. The major smuggling activities in the border towns of south west Nigeria are smuggling of rice, poultry meat, Tyre, Motor Vehicle and Arms and ammunitions where Agricultural products takes the lead with prevalence factor of 55 percent. Extent to which road transportation contributes to smuggling control had R2 of 0.671, F-value of 201.074 p of 0.000, which implies that the predicting variables (transportation safety, high speed vehicle capacity, high fuel tank capacity , state of road) explained 67.1 percent of the variation in the dependent variable (truncated smuggling). Furthermore, r of 0.708 and p-value was 0.000 implied that relationship exists between network connectivity and smuggling control. Conclusively, road transportation is useful in controlling crime of smuggling of Agricultural products in border towns of south west Nigeria, road network plays an important role in this.
Key Words: Road Transportation, Control of Smuggling, Agricultural Products