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ABSTRACT
In Nigeria, about 75 percent of the populace are rural dwellers. As
such, local government system was created to bring the government closer
to the people at the grassroots. Functions which are to be carried out
local government include provision of water, electricity, health care
services, rural roads, primary schools, among others. Unfortunately,
local governments have become an avenue for embezzlement, mismanagement,
siphoning and misappropriation of funds thereby leaving the people at
the grassroots to
wallow in poverty and diseases. Against this background, this study
investigates the impact of corruption and lack of public accountability
on the incidence of poverty as well as infrastructural development in
the Southern Ijaw local government area of Bayelsa State. Employing the
theory of postcolonial state and observation technique, we generated,
from the secondary sources, quanlitative and qualitative data that were
analyzed using qualitative descriptive analysis. The analysis of data
showed that the prevalence of political corruption accounts for high
incidence of poverty as well as low infrastructural development in the
Southern Ijaw Local Government Area. To this end, we maintained that the
relevant agencies
fighting corruption in Nigeria should trace and confiscate all proceeds
of corruption and prosecute all those involved in corruption practices
irrespective of their status.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Title page – – – – – – – – – i
Approval page – – – – – – – – ii
Dedication – – – – – – – – – iii
Acknowledgement – – – – – – – – iv
Table of contents – – – – – – – – v
Abstract – – – – – – – – – vi
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
1.1 Introduction – – – – – – – – 1
1.2 Statement of the problem – – – – – – 4
1.3 Objective of the study – – – – – – 6
1.4 Significance of the study – – – – – – 7
1.5 Literature review – – – – – – – 8
1.6 Theoretical framework – – – – – – – 20
1.7 Hypotheses – – – – – – – – 24
1.8 Method of data collection – – – – – – 24
1.9 Method of data analysis – – – – – – 25
CHAPTER TWO: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE SOUTHERN IJAW LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA
2.1 Political geography and population of the Southern Ijaw local government area – – – – – – – 26
2.2 Historical development of local government in Nigeria – – 28
2.3 Local government administration in Nigeria – – – – 33
2.4 The concept of accountability – – – – – – 40
2.5 Nature and meaning of corruption – – – – – 43
2.6 Types of corruption – – – – – – 48
CHAPTER THREE: CORRUPTION AND GOVERNANCE IN THE SOUTHERN IJAW LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCIL
3.1 Political corruption and poverty in Southern Ijaw local government area 52
3.2 Corruption and wealth accumulation in the Southern Ijaw local government council – – – – – – – – 54
3.3 Causes of corruption in the Southern Ijaw local government area. – 57
3.4 Effects of corruption in the Southern Ijaw local government area – 59
CHAPTER FOUR: CORRUPTION AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE SOUTHERN IJAW LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA
4.1 Political corruption and infrastructural development in the Southern Ijaw local government area – – – – – – – 64
4.2 The Southern Ijaw local government council and her development profile (1999-2010). – – – – – – – – – 65
4.3 The trouble with Southern Ijaw local government council – – 69
CHAPTER FIVE: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
5.1 Summary – – – – – – – – 75
5.2 Conclusion – – – – – – – – 77
5.3 Recommendation – – – – – – – 78
BIBLIOGRAPHY – – – – – — – 80
APPENDIX – – – – – – – – 84
CHAPTER ONE
1.1 INTRODUCTION
The expediency for the creation of local government any where in the
world stems from the need to facilitate development at the grassroots.
The importance of local government is a function of its ability to
generate a sense of belongingness, safety and satisfaction amongst its
populace. All forms of government, regimes or political systems have so
far ensured the attainment of these goals, such strategy for ensuring
national administrative development and political efficacy is found in
the concept of practice of local government. Whatever is the mode of
government, local government has been essentially regarded as the path
to and guarantor of national integration, administration and
development.
In Nigeria’s socio-political context, with multiplicity of culture,
diverse languages and differentiated needs and means, the importance of
such an organization in fostering the needed national consciousness,
unity and relative uniformity as well as preservation of peculiar
diversities cannot be over emphasized. Central to the creation of local
government, however, is its ability to facilitate an avenue through
which government and the people intermix, relate and more quickly than
any other means to resolve or
dissolve issues that may have heated the system. Local government has
been Perceived as panacea for the diverse problems of diverse people
with diverse culture.
As important as this tier of government has been, there seems to be some
impediments that have been infringing on its performance and functions
in recent times. Corruption seems to be the most damaging factor. The
social cankerworm called corruption has manifested in all facets of
Nigerian public life. According to Nye (1967:47), corruption is
behaviour which deviates from the normal duties of a public role because
of private-regarding (family, close private clique), pecuniary or
status gain; or violates rules against the exercise of private-regarding
influence. This includes such behaviour as (use of reward to pervert of
trust); nepotism (bestowal of patronage by reason of inscriptive
relationship rather than merit); and misappropriation (illegal
appropriation of public resources for private regarding uses).
Johnston, (1991), sees corruption as a behavior that abuses societal
legal or social standards as well as public role or resources for
private benefit. These definitions, however narrow corruption to the
public sphere because they are concerned with political corruption as
against corruption in the private sphere. There are different types of
corruption, such as political corruption, economic corruption, organized
corruption, judicial corruption, religious corruption, moral corruption
etc. Corruption takes its shape in so many dimensions in the Nigerian
public service. Such as over invoicing, conversion of public properties
to private use, inflation of contract cost, kick-back paid to monitoring
officers on contract awarded, distribution or sharing of public
resources as patronage to certain individuals to secure political
support. For instance, several allegations of corruption have been
alleged and some investigated against government officers, both the
elected and appointed members of the executive arm of government, since
democracy returned to the Nigerian political space in 1999. The growing
rate of corruption has been linked to some factors that makes it
permissible.
They are: Poverty, weak administration, weak law enforcement mechanism etc.
The Southern Ijaw local government area which is an appendage ofthe
Nigerian state has been a victim of this ugly disease called corruption.
As such, all the forms of corruption indicated from the foregoing
manifests in the Southern Ijaw local government area. Therefore, the
focus of this study is to investigate the various manifestations of
corruption in the administration of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area
and to proffer solutions to address the social cankerworm for
sustainable human development.
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