TY  - JOUR
T1  - Autonomy and Local Capacity: An Analysis of the Performance Profile of EDO State Local Govenrment Councils (June 1999 to December 2006)
AU - Agbebaku, Phillip AU - Osemwota, Osa AU - Ebohon, S.I. 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 6
IS  - 3
SP  - 235
EP  - 240
PY  - 2011
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2011.235.240
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2011.235.240
KW  - vertical departmentalist
KW  -overdeveloped
KW  -bureaucratic appropriation
KW  -ultra-sovereign
KW  -Infra-sovereign
KW  -Nigeria
AB  - Autonomy and performance are the recurrent themes in contemporary local government discourse. This study examines the revenue profile and capacity disposition of the local government councils in Edo state from 1999-2006. Empirical evidence from the study suggests that capacity for the local government councils to grow even in the face of rising revenue is inhibited by the deployment of centrally and locally derived resources for bureaucratic ends like salaries, wages, training, touring advances and other related overhead expenditure. The study concludes on the basis of empirical evidence that for meaningful autonomy and development to take root, the gap between internally generated revenue and statutory allocation as well as that between recurrent and capital appropriation which are the main features of local government councils in Edo state must be reversed.
ER  -