Federal government financing of grassroots decay in Nigeria : the case of Edo state

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dc.contributor.authorEbohon, Sylvanus I.
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-23T07:17:02Z
dc.date.available2020-01-23T07:17:02Z
dc.date.issued2011-01
dc.descriptionPeer reviewed article published under Inkanyiso, Volume 3, Issue 1, Jan 2011, p. 56 - 66en_US
dc.description.abstractIn 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.en_US
dc.identifier.citationWusu, 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.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2077-2815
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10530/1956
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Zululanden_US
dc.subjectNigeria – Federal financingen_US
dc.subjectpublic administrationen_US
dc.subjectFederal governmenten_US
dc.subjectpolitical science,en_US
dc.titleFederal government financing of grassroots decay in Nigeria : the case of Edo stateen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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