Federal government financing of grassroots decay in Nigeria : the case of Edo state
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2011-01
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University of Zululand
Abstract
In this research article, an attempt is made to locate the failure of local government councils to construct rural
development poles in the context of patrimonial redistributive politics that greeted the emergence of the Nigerian petrostate. The failure of the third tier to transit into a local pole of development, controverts the assumed linkage between
grassroots development and creation of more local government councils. Empirical evidence from Edo state has
demonstrated ‘reverse resource flow’ in favour of urban and semi-urban locales. In this process, enhanced revenue flow
through federal statutory allocation is ‘reverse transfer’ to the centres through the mechanisms of urban extractive ratio.
The de-poling so engendered creates more decay than existed pre-fragmentation. By the character logic and organization
of these new local governments (political post); they mediate the crisis of rural-urban exploitation and rural-locale
depoling, in a self-reproduction project typical of patron-client politics. In this context, it is assumed that phenomenal
growth in statutory and allied revenues accruing to rural locales has not produced the desired development, but undesired
decay.
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Peer reviewed article published under Inkanyiso, Volume 3, Issue 1, Jan 2011, p. 56 - 66
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Nigeria – Federal financing, public administration, Federal government, political science,
Citation
Wusu, O., 2011. Religion, religiosity and adolescent risky sexual health behaviour in Lagos Metropolis, Nigeria. Inkanyiso: Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 3(1), pp.48-55.