Grassroots Law Making and Law Execution in Comparative Perspective: Focus on Presidential System of Government in Kaduna State, Nigeria

Muhammad Aminu Kwasau, Raziqa Muhammad Shafiu, Mariyah Muhammad Shafiu

Abstract

Law Making and Law Execution are two important functions of the Legislative and the Executive arms of Local Government in Nigeria’s Presidential System of Government which has been in practice since 1999. The former is in charge of law making which defines rights and obligations of the people and of various arms of government and also spelt out rules of conduct of various actions and functions affecting the wellbeing of the collective good of the society. The latter handles law implementation functions to enhance grassroots democracy and development. Data was gathered from secondary sources, including Local Government Annual Reports and other relevant resources. The paper concludes that, to achieve grassroots democracy and general economic growth requires a spreading of effort and cooperation between Legislative and Executive Arms (chairmen and councilors) so that local communities and individuals can participate to bring under ideal conditions, energy, enthusiasm and most important of all, local initiatives to the working out of local development activities. The paper recommends thus, laws at the grassroots level should be amended to improve conditions of service of local government personnel should be improved as this will enhance the quality of service of the councils at all times. Not only that, enacted laws on the autonomy of all local governments be guaranteed to avoid excessive federal and state government’s interference which impacted adversely on some of the local government councils’ operations and programmes

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Law Making; Law Execution; Presidential System of Government; Grassroots Democracy

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