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EXTENT OF
COMPLIANCE WITH GOVERNMENT FINANCIAL REGULATIONS IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT
ADMINISTRATION
ABSTRACT
The demands
and expectations from local government councils over the years have been on the
increase while delivering the dividend of democracy and good governance at the
grassroots continues to dwindle owing to mismanagement and misappropriation of
funds. As a result of the above factors, local government administrators are
most times unable to meet up with their financial obligations in terms of
payment of staff salaries, provision of social services and infrastructural development
to the urban and rural dwellers. This has led the public to asking questions on
the extent to which local government administrators comply with government
financial regulations. It is on this note that this study seeks to determine
the extent of compliance with government financial regulations in local
government administration. Specifically, the study was carried out to
determine: the extent of compliance with financial estimates regulations in
local government administration in Enugu State, the extent of compliance with
revenue collection procedures in local government administration in Enugu
State, extent of compliance with expenditure procedures in local government
administration in Enugu State and extent of compliance with financial statement
regulation in local government administration in Enugu State.Four research
questions and four null hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted a
descriptive survey research design and was conducted in the 17 Local Government
Areas of Enugu State. The population for the study was 331 financial
administrators in local government areas in Enugu State and due to the
manageable nature of the population, no sample and sampling technique was
conducted. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire
titled Compliance with Government Financial Regulations Questionnaire (CGFRQ)
which was face-validated by three research experts: two from the Department of
Vocational Teacher Education (VTE) and one from Department of Public
Administration and Local Government (PALG), all from the University of
Nigeria,Nsukka. Cronbach Alpha reliability method was used to determine the
internal consistency of the instrument. The result yielded a high coefficient
of 0.92. Three hundred and thirty one copies of the questionnaire were
administered and retrieved from the respondents by the researcher with the help
of three research assistants. The data collected for this study was analyzed
using mean to answer the 4 research questions and standard deviation to
determine the closeness or otherwise of the responses from the mean while
Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) statistics was used to test the 4 null hypotheses
at 0.05 level of significance and at 327 degree of freedom with the use of
Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20.The findings of the
study showed that financial administrators to a low extent comply with
financial estimates regulations; revenue collection procedures, expenditure
procedures, and financial statement regulations in local government administration
in Enugu State. It was recommended among others that a monitoring body should
be put in place by both the state and federal government to sanction all
offending officers who would not comply with the estimation procedure
stipulated in the Revised Financial
Memoranda.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Background
of the Study
The worth of
any local government is determined by the quality and quantity of services it
renders to the people at the grassroots. Local governments are the third tier
administrative structure in Nigeria, created to bring government closer to the
people at the grassroots and render social services to the people (Agba, Ogwu
and Chukwurah, 2013). According to Agi (2002), local government is a political
authority set up by the federal government as subordinate authority for the
purpose of dispensing or decentralizing political power. Akpan (2005) defined
local government as a separate tier of government that enjoys some reasonable
measures of autonomy, with elected representatives as officials especially in a
democracy. Local government, therefore, is a political subdivision of a nation
which is constituted by law and has sub-national control of local affairs
including the power to impose taxes or to extract labour force for prescribed
purposes. According to Oguonu (2004), the success and the effectiveness of local
government depend largely on the financial resources available to the
individual local governments and the way these finances are utilized by the
local government administrators in the course of the administration.
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