ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND SERVICE DELIVERY IN KADUNA SOUTH AND ZARIA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS OF KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA, 2004-2015

ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND SERVICE DELIVERY IN KADUNA SOUTH AND ZARIA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS OF KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA, 2004-2015

Abstract:

For decades, there have been a lot of complaints about the performance of local governments in terms of the quality of service delivery and the level of impacts of such services to the people at the grassroots level. The problem may be attributed to low level of autonomy enjoyed by the local governments, over the year or due to political and administrative control of the Local Government Council by the State Government through ministry for Local Government as well as Local Government Service Commission. The concern of the study is, to examine the extent to which Kaduna-south and Zaria Local Governments provide essential services for the promotion of socio-economic conditions of the people between the periods of 2004-2015.The study adopted service delivery theory, which helped in explaining the quality of service delivery in Kaduna-south and Zaria Local Governments of Kaduna State. Yamane‟s formula was used in the determination of sample size of the study. Multi-stage sampling technique was adopted in which cluster, purposive and proportional sampling was used. The primary data for the study were sourced through questionnaire and unstructured interview while secondary data were gathered from official publications including relevant documents on socio-economic activities from Information Units, Finance and Supplies, and Works, Transport, Housing and Survey Departments of the two local governments, federal monthly allocations covering the periods 2004-2015, relevant Sections (Forth Schedule) in the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Data were presented and analysed through Tables and the use of Chi-square statistical tools in testing the research hypotheses. The study revealed that there is no full autonomy in local government of Kaduna State and the performance of these local governments is very low, although Zaria Local Government performed better in the provision of local service delivery than that of Kaduna-south, for the period under study. The study recommended among other things that, State and local government joint-account should be abolished; local governments should be given full autonomy so as to be able to improve their performance in the delivery of quality services to their communities

ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND SERVICE DELIVERY IN KADUNA SOUTH AND ZARIA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS OF KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA, 2004-2015