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Abstract
The purpose of local government is to bring development to the grassroots in every state of the federation. However, this purpose has not been completely achieved. Hence, the study examines Local Government and Community Development in Ethiope East and Isoko North Local Government Areas of Delta State. In achieving the specific objectives of this study, two research questions and hypotheses were raised to determine the relationship between the variables. The study relied on both primary and secondary sources of data, to generate the required data. Three hundred (300) copies of questionnaires concerning this topic were administrated to both male and females who were 18 years of age and above and it was gathered that majority of the people were not satisfied with the level of community development in their local government areas. The study adopted Marxist theory of the state as its theoretical framework and a cross-sectional research design was used in which the opinions of respondents are elicited. The Mean and Standard Deviation statistics was used to answer the research questions while The Chi-Square Statistical Tool was used to test the stated hypotheses. Based on the analysis of data, the study revealed among others that local government poor resource base, poor community relations are critical factors that affect the development of communities in Ethiope East and Isoko North Local government areas. Against all these findings, the study recommends among others that, the revenue base of the local governments should be increased, to enable the development potentials of the communities in the two local government areas. All office holders in the local governments should possess service ethics of transparency, accountability etc. finally, local government should be given full autonomy, as absence of external control over the local government would bring out their best performance
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Copyright © 2023 EZO, GABRIEL OROMENA. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.
