Examining the Effects of Local Government Participation in Economic Development Planning of Sabon-Gari Local Government Area in Kaduna State
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2025-07-03
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KASHERE JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
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Development strategies, efforts and programmes are more and more being designed to
induce local participation towards ensuring economic development. It is on this basis
that the study examined the relationship between local government participation and
economic development planning in Sabon-Gari Local Government. The study adopted
qualitative research design relying solely on Face-to-Face interview to generate data for
the study with the population comprised of six (6) respondents comprising Local Government
Chairman, Vice Chairman, LEEDs Coordinator, Sabon-Gari and Desk Officers (I, II & III). The
information from interview section was corroborated by secondary data from relevant
documents. Some of the relevant documents reviewed include NEEDs Document, (2005) and
LEEDs Implementation Manual, 2005. The data generated from the interviewees were
thematically analysed. From the presentation and analysis of data, the study concluded that Local
Government participation in NEEDs through LEEDs has promoted economic empowerment and
development through a more articulate, forward looking, progressive and radical strategy with its
inclusive participatory nature (involving government, private sector and the people) in managing
the resources of the country for the benefit of the teeming population. However, many factors
have stood against the dreams of this strategy including weak leadership at the centre, debt
burden etc. The study therefore, recommended among others the need for Nigeria as a nation
through its government should fight for debt relief and the need for a monitoring agency to be
established that would help in the service delivery of the NEEDs, SEEDs and LEEDs
programmes.
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