MA 36 CRIMES AND PERFORMANCE OF SMALL AND MEDIUM SCALE ENTERPRISES IN NIGERIA

CRIMES AND PERFORMANCE OF SMALL AND MEDIUM SCALE ENTERPRISES IN NIGERIA

 

Murat Akyuz, Ibrahim Abdullahi Ahmed, Michael Isaac Opusunju,

Abstract
Government of Nigeria have control the activities of kidnapping and terrorism in order to ensure that
SMEs perform credibly. They employed the military and other securities agents to monitored, arrest
and control the activities of kidnapping and terrorism in Nigeria. Yet, the output of SMEs is still low. The study investigates the effect of crime on the performance of small and medium scale enterprises in Nigeria. The study used ex-post facto research design. The population of this study comprise of all the SMEs in Nigeria which is 72838 and this was also used as the sample size. The study collected data from National Bureau of Statistics. Descriptive statistics, unit root test, and regression were used for analysis. The finding shows that there is negative and insignificant effect of crime on the performance of SMEs in terms of output of SMES in Nigeria. Other findings indicate that kidnapping has a negative and significant effect on the output of SMEs in Nigeria while terrorism has a negative and in significant effect on output of SMEs in Nigeria. The study suggested that Government of Nigeria should restrategize their policy on major area where kidnapping and terrorism attack is much by sending military that are not from the areas that guide the areas especially the officers who are responsible for giving
command.
Keywords: crime, kidnapping, output, performance, SMEs, terrorism

Akyuz, M., Abdullahi, A. I., & Opusunju, M. I. (2020, June). Crimes and Performance of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises in Nigeria. Journal of Accounting and Management, 3(1), 180-188. Retrieved from www.nda.edu.ng

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