POST DISPLACEMENT STlJDY OF VICTIMS OF LAND EXPROPRIATION AROUND SOKOTO METROPOLIS: : A CASE STUDY OF USMANU DANFODIO UNIVERSITY PERJVIANENT SITE, SOKOTO, NIGERIA

This research examines the conditions of living and modes of adjustment initiated by the vi0tims of land expropriation, to the stresses of distablization and deprivation of rural communities around Sokoto metropolis. The study, in other words, is an attempt to see whether peoples• way of living had been worsen or improved compared to what obtained before the
expropriation. Primary data collection was conducted by the use of questionnaire and interviews. In total, a sample size of 85 respondents were selected from a sample frame of 376 heads of household by simple random sampling technique. The family (household) was used as sampling units. The respondents were categorised into two namely: •resettled' and' paid and n9t resettled• (paid'). secondary data was obtained through library research which relates to the review of related literature on the subjecto The data collected from fieldwork was analaysed with the aid of the SYSTAT computer programme. The sub programmes sorted were frequencies, percentages and statistical summaries of distributions. The findings of the research showed that the expropriation of peasants' farmlands and displacement from their age-old settlements, had subjected such
peasants to serfous problems. The problems identified were categorised into social and economic well being after the period of expropriation. The seriousness of each category of problem_ differs, but economic