With the emergence of oil in commercial quantity and government insensitivity towards the need of the people, various deviant attitudes have been identified. This attitude emanate through oil theft which found to impact negatively on community development. Given this led to this paper that examined oil theft and community development in selected communities in Emohua LGA of Rivers State. Two research questions and objectives were raised to guide the work. The paper equally adopted Emile Durkheim anomie theory in 1893 to explain the nexus between oil theft and community development. The mix method research design was used. Cochran formula was used to derive the sample size of 138. Also, purposive and quota sampling techniques were adopted. The respondents were elderly, security operatives and farmers. The instruments for data collection were questionnaire and in-depth interview which were supported with other relevant secondary sources. Charts, simple percentage and content analysis were all used for data analysis. The study found that the reasons for the occurrence of oil theft among communities in Emohua LGA of Niger Delta appear to be webbed in grim complexity as poverty, unemployment, government insensitivity and corruption amongst others was a factor. The paper concludes and recommended for good governance as such governance would help to provide employment, reduce poverty level, and provide adequate health care, and thus will limit oil theft as most people who venture into it are very poor and unemployed.