THE PLIGHT OF RURAL URBAN MIGRATION ‘Movement of Jah people’, as sang by the musical legend Bob Marley, in reference to the book ‘Exodus’ of the Holy Bible, made us know about the hardship, suffering and abuse of human rights the Israelites went through in Egypt. Now, a symbolic exodus of Ghanaian locals to the city has become alarming. These migrants come from different parts of the country, they move due to unsatisfactory jobs, extreme poverty, peer influence, misinformation, lack of recreational facilities, unhealthy traditional practices, to mention a few. According to the Holy bible, Israelites were assured by God, a promise land which flowed with ‘milk and honey’. The migrants like Israelites, seem to think that, the city flows with ‘milk and honey’, which symbolically, is the solution to their problems. Upon reaching the city, the migrants are surprised about the way they live, disappointment is what their faces express, and the fantasies they had about the cit...