DEPENDENCY, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND LEAGUE OF ANAMBRA PROFESSIONALS (LAP) IN NIGERIA IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Abstract

The goal of community development is the improvement of human well-being and the quality of life.
This involves the eradication of poverty, and the fulfillment of basic needs of all people. Thus, it re-
quires that governments apply active social and environmental policies and programmes that will ad-
dress all this. federal centre for structural, physical and human development. The paper focuses on
the League of Anambra Professionals, a body poised to catalyse the human capital in order to revolu-
tionalise and re-engineer the contour and configuration of Anambra state so as to depend less on the
federal centre. The paper, therefore, argues that, given the overarching and burgeoning responsibili-
ties of the Nigeria’s federal centre, it finds it difficult to allocate sufficient revenues for state and local
governments. Thus, the need to create a fourth tier government that should embark on community
development projects and programmes. The paper further argues that community development project
is not the preserve of the federal government and/or the states. It is also expected that interest groups
and organised professional bodies can offer assistance, hence, the synergistic interplay of the 'League
of Anambra professionals' and the Anambra state government towards the development of the com-
munities in Anambra state.