LOCAL GOVERNMENT : The Power at Your Doorstep: Mass Reader Edition - Book 11 GNVIS

The Mass Reader Edition of Local Government: The Power at Your Doorstep is the accountability guide for Nigeria's most neglected tier of governance. It opens with the Ojuelegba Road flood — a predictable annual event caused by a drain that has not been cleared in three years, despite N23.14 trillion flowing to local governments from the federation account over sixteen years. The book's central argument is that LGA failure is not natural or inevitable but engineered: state governors intercept LGA allocations before they reach ward-level accounts, staff LGA offices with loyalists, and control the state-level electoral commissions that rubber-stamp every local election. The Market Tax chapter documents N7.43 trillion diverted through state accounts in the eighteen months after the Supreme Court ordered it to stop. The PHC Crisis chapter follows Hauwa to a Primary Healthcare Centre with no thermometer, no drugs, and no doctor for a labouring wife at 2:17 a.m. The Governor's Puppet chapter maps the constitutional architecture of LGA capture. The Ward Revolution chapter is the book's actionable core: documented cases where community-organised citizens have recovered LGA funds, forced accountability audits, replaced captured chairmen, and transformed specific services in specific wards.