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Implications Of Local Government Autonomy On Rural Development
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1.2 Statement of the problem
The
quest for local government financial autonomy is aimed at reversing
State government encroachment into local government administration to
enable local government to carry out their saddled responsibility
effectively and efficiently. The level at which state government
controls local council’s financial allocation through appointed
committees who are loyalist to the State Governors is a challenge to
local government administration towards rural development. The local
government reforms have been articulated in a bid to correct excessive
state encroachment, abuse of powers and the use of undemocratic leaders
and care-taker committee to run the local governments by the state
governments in Nigeria. Of all local government reforms deliberately
executed to address these anomalies, the 1976 local government reform
which recognized local government as a third tier, accords autonomous
powers to the local councils and reduced excessive politicking of state
over local government in Nigeria’s political system. Irrespective of the
nature and extent of flaws that may characterize local government
financial autonomy in principle and practice in Nigeria, it has, for
fairly some time, become an important issue for considerations at the
National Assembly as recently done; it has been subjected to various
critical discourses. The foregoing nevertheless, not much intellectual
efforts have been deployed in examining the local government financial
autonomy as a vehicle for redressing inordinate usurpation of power and
adequate finance of local governments by state governments at grassroots
politics in the country. Local government autonomy has to do with the
area of finance. The issue of State Local government Joint Account has
been a thorny issue in Local government State relationship in the Fourth
Republic.
In view of this; the researcher formulated the following questions to guide the study:
1.
To what extent has state interference in the management of local
government revenue constituted the bane to rural development in Ebonyi
State?
2. To what extent has poor financial management practice
in the local government hinders rural development in Ebonyi Local
Government Area?
3. To what extent will corruption free and local
government autonomy enhance rural development in Ebonyi Local
Government Area?
1.3 Objectives of the study
The broad objective
of this study is to examine the implications of local government
autonomy on rural development in Ebonyi State particularly in Ebonyi
Local Government Area. The specific objectives of this study include:
1.
To ascertain the extent to which state interference in the management
of local government revenue constituted the bane to rural development in
Ebonyi State.
2. To examine the extent to which poor financial
management practice in the local government hinders rural development in
Ebonyi Local Government Area.
3. To suggest ways in which
corruption free and local government autonomy will enhance rural
development in Ebonyi Local Government Area.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This work titled, “Implication of Local Government Autonomy on Rural Development in Ebonyi State†A study of Ebonyi Local Government Area†was aimed at ascertaining the extent to which state interference in the management of local government revenue constituted the bane to rural development in Ebonyi State, examining the extent to which poor financial management practice in the local government hinders rural development in Ebonyi Local Government Area among others. “Fisca ... Continue reading---
