Traditional Institutions as Instrument for Rural Development in Ilorin Emirate of Kwara State, Nigeria
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2023
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Abstract
The study examined the roles of the
traditional institutions in the community development
with reference to llorin Emirate in Kwara State as
well as bringing the effects and impacts of traditional
institutions on rural and socio-economic development
to the people of Ilorin Emirate because the role of
Traditional Institutions in community development
ranged from providing good leadership as Custodian
and repository of the community, to mobilize
physical, human and financial resources for the local
development at large. This paper is situated within
the qualitative method of social research. The paper,
which is theoretical in nature basically extract its
arguments from secondary sources of data including
journals and other related policies, textbooks and
publications. To improve on the reliability and
validity of the paper, multiple secondary sources
were used to harmonize the risk of error. The paper
concludes that, traditional rulers play a very
significant role of informally managing conflict and
peace-making meetings when matters get out of
hand, they also serve as advisory role to the local
council. On the basis of these findings, it was
recommended among others that traditional rulers
should be adequately empowered financially, socially
and materially; as this would go a long way to
influence their effectiveness in grass root
mobilization for rural development.
Keywords: Ilorin Emirate, Traditional institutions,
Rural Development