ABSTRACT
This study titled “Assessment of the Impact of Local Government
Administration in Socio-Economic Development in Dutse, Jigawa State” examines the role of the local government
as the closest tier of government to the people in promoting grassroots development.
The research aims to assess how effectively the Dutse Local Government has
contributed to improving the socio-economic conditions of its residents through
the provision of essential services such as education, healthcare, water
supply, rural infrastructure, and job creation. A descriptive survey design was
adopted, and data were collected through questionnaires, interviews, and
relevant secondary sources. The findings reveal that while the local government
has made some efforts in implementing developmental projects, challenges such
as inadequate funding, corruption, poor administrative capacity, and political
interference have significantly hindered its performance. The study concludes
that for local governments to serve as true agents of socio-economic
transformation, there is a need for improved fiscal autonomy, accountability,
and capacity building among local administrators. It is recommended that both
state and federal governments strengthen the institutional frameworks guiding
local governance to ensure effective service delivery and sustainable
development at the grassroots level. Necessary auditing measures should be put
in place to guide against abuse of office through corrupt practice. In
addition, state government must adopt measures to enforce financial discipline
on accounting staff and others generally, they should try to forbid unnecessary
project and ensure rigorous compliance of financial regulations. Control in
local government should be geared towards enforcing prudence and accountability
in the conduct of local government affairs, indeed a sound and cohesive system
of planning and budgeting is an imperative for ensuring control in the affairs
of the local government. Finally, local government should also place more
effort on the distribution and stabilization function which therefore will take
budget and budgeting seriously through making realistic forecast, estimates and
assumptions. Making the budget is not an end itself, it has to be accompanied
with correctly design procedures and strategies for implementing them, a budget
would only have meaning when it has impact on the social-economic well-being of
the people, if it is implemented.
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
Title
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Approval
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Declaration
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Dedication:
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Acknowledgement:
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Table of content:
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Abstract
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CHAPTER ONE BACKGROUND 1
1.0 INDRODUCTION 2
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY 2
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEMS 4
1.3 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 5
1.4 RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS Error! Bookmark
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1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY 6
1.6 THE SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF THE STUDY 6
1.7 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE AREA OF STUDY 7
1.8 DEFINITION OF THE KEY CONCEPTS 8
1.9 ORGANISATION OF CHAPTERS 9
REFERENCE 10
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW AND THEORITICAL FRAMEWORK 11
2.0 INTRODUCTION 11
2.1 LITERATURE REVIEW
2.2 CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK Error! Bookmark
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2.3 EMPIRICAL LITERATURE 18
2.4 expectancy theory in relation TO LOCAL
government system 19
2.5 ABRAHAM MASLOW’S HIERACHICAL OF NEED THEORY 19
2.6. THEORITICAL FRAMEWORK 18
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CHAPTER THREE 22
3.0 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 22
3.1 INTRODUCTION 22
3.2 RESEARCH DESIGN 22
3.3 POPULATION
OF THE STUDY 22
3.4 SAMPLE SIZE 22
3.5 SAMPLING TECHNIQUES 23
3.6 METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION 24
3.7 RESEARCH NSTRUMENT 24
3.8 METHOD OF DATA ANALYSIS 24
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CHAPTER FOUR 31
DATA PRESENTATION
AND ANALYSIS 31
4.1 INTRODUCTION 31
4.2: DEMOGRAPHIC
DATA OF RESPONDENTS 32
4.3: RESPONSE
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REFERENCE 10
CHAPTER FIVE 43
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION
AND RECOMMENDATIONS 43
5.1: INTRODUCTION 43
5.2 SUMMARY 43
5.3 CONCLUSION 45
5.3 RECOMMENDATION 46
BIBLIOGRAPHY
APPENDIX (QUESTIONNAIRE DESIGN)
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INDRODUCTION
Local governments serve as the closest tier of
government to the people and play a pivotal role in driving socio-economic
development through grassroots engagement. This study aims to assess the
effectiveness and impact of local government administration in promoting
development in Dutse Local Government Area, Jigawa State. The local government
system plays a fundamental role in promoting socio-economic development in
Nigeria. As the tier of government closest to the people, it is strategically
positioned to address local needs such as healthcare, education, infrastructure,
and economic empowerment. However, the effectiveness of local governments in
actualizing these roles has been a matter of concern. This study seeks to
assess the impact and role of local government administration in socio-economic
development using Dutse Local Government Area as a case study.
The main theme of the study is local government
administration toward socio-economic development in Jigawa state.
1.1
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Local governments serve as the closest tier of
government to the people and play a pivotal role in driving socio-economic
development through grassroots engagement. This study aims to assess the
effectiveness and impact of local government administration in promoting
development in Dutse Local Government Area, Jigawa State. The local government
system plays a fundamental role in promoting socio-economic development in
Nigeria. As the tier of government closest to the people, it is strategically
positioned to address local needs such as healthcare, education, infrastructure,
and economic empowerment. However, the effectiveness of local governments in
actualizing these roles has been a matter of concern. This study seeks to
assess the impact and role of local government administration in socio-economic
development using Dutse Local Government Area as a case study.
The focus of this research is to study the role of
local government administration toward socio economics development in Jigawa
state From time immemorial community development in its modern sense has been
identified as method that can be used for transformation. Setbacks to this
arouse the need to find possible solutions to the problems.
Community development can be seen as the active
participation and initiative of community, but if this initiative neither is
nor forth coming spontaneously by the use of technique for arousing and
stimulating it in order to achieve its active and enthusiastic response to the
movement. This was underline as the essential basis for social advancement and
the growth of the whole community through self-help and self-reliance group.
However, self-help groups are increasingly becoming instrument for social and
economic transformation worldwide; people join hands to address particular
socio-economic problems. Citizens in Jigawa state come together to form such
societies in order to develop the spirit of self-help and economic
empowerments, in order to develop their communities through self-help and
create awareness and consciousness to people of the community.
However, in the context of community development it
is a concept associated with improvement. It is a type of change in a positive
way, while the consequences of the efforts to bring about development may not
be positive, however, the objectives is always positive. Development efforts
that fail to produce positive results may constitute work intended to bringing
development.
However, development activities variety with the
scale and functions being performed. The degree of operational co-ordination
among specific activities fluctuates. Furthermore, a substantial number of
actions are performed with high degree of independence. The intelligence
information resources, technologies designed skills and energies generated by
such independence operations may be integrated only after they reach the stage
of outputs of the constituent structures. The trick is for the system to
develop the capacity, becoming aware of their existence and community
development was seen as emphasizing self-help mutual support, the building up
neighborhood integration, the development of the neighborhood capacities for
problem solving and self-representation and the promotion of collective action
to bring community preference to the attention of political decision makers.
1.2 STATEMENT
OF THE PROBLEMS
It is quite unfortunate that local government in
Nigeria today cannot yield a meaningful socio-economic development within its
communities even thought is one of the main goals for the creation of local
government. In Nigeria, local government is meant to generate revenue and ensure
proper socio-economic development at the grassroots. However, the local
governments in Nigeria have failed to enhance socio-economic development at the
grassroots (Ogunna, 2019)
The problems local governments are faced with are
many including; misappropriation of fund in the local government and many other
problems that jeopardize the purpose of the creation of local government
itself. The greater problem of local government is the problem of fund. Money
is mismanaged, misspent and misappropriated. A viable local government is the
one that mobilized its available resources through the provision of
socio-economic development that can meet the people’s need at local level.
However, the performance of local government is
dependent, to great extent, on the financial resources available. Another
problem affecting local government is that of joint account between the local
government and state government. Why is this so? In many states, the funds
allocated to the local government are transferred to the account of local
government by the state government through which the money is spent. Instead of
such money was simply spent by the local government, why because local
governments are not receive that statutory allocation directly to its account
as are suit of joint account such money had been spent by the state
governments.. Another problem militating against the sustenance and improvement
of socio-economic development at the grassroots is the problem of poor quality
of staff in local governments. Generally, local government lacks adequate
qualified and experienced professionals, as well as technicians and
professional personnel who are much needed.
1.3 AIMS AND
OBJECTIVES
Basically, the main objectives of the research are:
i.
To evaluate the role and impact of local
government administration in facilitating socio-economic development in Dutse
LGA.
ii.
To identify key developmental projects
initiated by Dutse local government the local government.
iii.
To examine the effectiveness of local
government policies in areas like health, education, and infrastructure.
iv.
To assess the level of citizen
participation and transparency in governance.
1.4 RESEARCH QUESTION
i. What is the role and impact of local government
administration in facilitating socio-economic development in Dutse LGA?
ii. What are the key developmental projects
initiated by Dutse Local Government?
iii. How effective are the local government policies in areas such as health,
education, and infrastructure?
iv. What is the level of citizen participation and transparency in governance
within Dutse Local Government?
1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
This research will benefit policymakers, local
government officials, development agencies, and researchers by providing
insights into the performance of local governments and recommending practical
solutions to identified challenges. However, the significance of this study
will assist Local government in Nigeria to be more independent to generate
their on revenues It will contribute to the existing body of knowledge in local
government administration in Nigeria. It will also assist local government to
eliminate corruption and mismanagement of public funds as well as commitment of
Local government in the provision of socio-economic development at the
grassroots level.
1.6 THE SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
This research work is limited to Dutse Local
Government Area of Jigawa state, specifically, from the work is also limited to
the study of promoting socio-economic development in Jigawa state. 2019-2024
1.7
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE AREA OF STUDY
Dutse town derived its name from the word “rock”
which rounded the ancient Dutse and provide beauty on its own and natural
strategies for defense and security to the entire people of the town against
any possible attack from elsewhere.
In the olden days the town has a quite number of
traditional rulers, these include: Dan Malam, Lawan Nuhu Sunusi among others.
The local government become a state capital in august 27 1991. This was as a
result of 1991 state creating by the then head of state general Ibrahim
Badamasi Babangida’s administration.
The total land mass of this area is 1,890 square
kilometers with a population of 147,343 based on 2006 population census and it
is situated in the eastern corner of old Kano state with boundaries to the
defunct Kano south eastern administration of Birnin kudu.
Historically the dynastic ruler called “Tsohun
Mutum” was known to have rule for seventy years from (1827-1897). However his
rule was terminated by the break out of the Sokoto jihad period. The present
emir of Dutse
(Alh Dr. Hamim Nuhu M. Sunusi) is the eighteenth emir of Dutse. Dutse has its
thrills and frills of ancient wars of invasion, intrusion and defense. The
earlier settlers could not have barging for anything better than Dutse area. The
rock made it easier for watchers to be on the lookout of invaders to carry out
the surveillance undulated.
Dutse has a high potential capable of providing the
needs of both its people and Nigeria. Geographically dictated quarry industries
would get it portable and economically wise to exploit the rocks as raw
materials which the local government area is endowed with. Farming is situated
in the savanna region, a vast majority of the population are deeply involved in
agriculture. Agrarian nature of occupation is made possible by vast area of
land, majority of the people in this area are farmers usually they engaged in
mixed faming. Dutse local government from west in bounded by Albasu local
government area of Kano state and by east, it is bounded by Birnin kudu local
government.
1.8
DEFINITION OF THE KEY
CONCEPTS
There are some concepts used in this study that
needs to be defined for clarity and understanding.
Local
Government: This concept has been conceived and constituted in
different ways. The United Nations Office for Public Administration defines
local government as: A political subdivision of a nation or (in a federal
system) state which is constituted by law and has substantial control of local
affairs including the power to impose taxes or to exact labor for prescribed
purposes.
The governing body of such an entity is elected?
It’s a system of government of a town or area by elected representatives of the
people who live there.
Administration:
administration “is a universal practice and of universal importance. It’s said
to commence immediately two people agree to co-operate to undertake a task, for
instance, to move a stone which none of them can move alone” (Anifowose and
Enemo1999: 279
According to business dictionary defined Socio
economic development; as the process of social and economic development in
society. Is the process that seeks to identify both social and the economic
needs within a community and seeks to create strategies that will address those
needs in a ways that are practical and in
the best interest community over long run.
Development: Walter Rodney
(1972,P;3) defines it as An overall
social process which is depending upon
increased capacity of members of a society to master the laws of nature (that
is science) and apply such law in the production of tools (that is technology)
with which they can control their environment to meet their immediate and
future needs. It cannot be seen purely as an economic affair because other
segments of the society are also involved.”
19 ORGANISATION OF CHAPTERS
This study is divided into five (5) chapters.
Chapter one contains the general introduction which includes statement of the
research problem, research questions, objective of the study, significance of
the study, scope and limitation, research assumptions, research methodology,
method of sampling, definition of the key concepts, outline of chapters and
references.
Chapter two deals with literature review and
theoretical frame work. In other words, the review of existing material such as
text books, journals, paper presentation etc. Chapter (3) looks at the issue of
local government system in Nigeria. The historical background of Dutse L.G.A,
the organizational structure of Dutse Local Government as well as the functions
of key officials in the local government.
Chapter four (4) looks at data presentation and
analysis. In other words, the data collected will be presented properly and
accurately and to finally analyze them easily. Chapter five covers part of the
project, which includes summary, conclusion and recommendation for further
research work.
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