Impact Of Financial Control Mechanisms On Local Government Autonomy In Delta State, Nigeria. (1999 – 2008).

The study was on the Impact of Financial Control Mechanisms on Local Government Autonomy in Delta State, Nigeria, 1999-2008. The general objective of the study was to establish the nature of relationship between financial control mechanisms and autonomy with a view to exposing the contradictions between policy objectives of government and the actual realisation of the objectives of local government in Delta State. The specific objectives of the study were to: identify the existing financial control mechanisms put in place by both Federal and State Governments and the effects of these mechanism…