The grass root initiative for development of a nation

The grass root initiative for development of a nation

There are 8,800 wards in Nigeria. If emphasis is shifted to the development of these small units; the whole country will benefit. The bane of our development has been lack of data. Does the chairman of a local government know how many roads in his domain that are bad and how much it will cost¬¬¬-the schools, the health facilities etc.
The grass root initiative is the solution to this lack of cohesive appropriation of resources that is becoming scarce by the day. no continuity in governance due to lack of a road map. the councilors are closest to the people.they should know what is happening in the wards .we should collate this data using their knowledge.
All wards should have two representatives to compile data on the oads,schools,health centres,transformers ,banks and businesses included.
The 25 banks have about 10 branches in the 36 states giving us 9000 branches .if we match a branch with each ward to take up a project that will be identified with its name,about 90,000 jobs will be created and once a year this can be reviewed.our hosting of international conferences never rob off on the 70percent of our population in rural areas.more effort should henceforth be put into localized networking.
Hosting 20,000 people might be cumbersome.when we have the data required,there can be 100 groups of 200 people for the sake of intimacy during sessions.
The very first event now is to intimate our councilors on the need to get these information from their wards.176,000,000naira is needed to mobilize the representatives to collate the data at the grass roots.this divided by 25 gives us 7.04million .this will be the initial fund each bank will part with. This is not to much considering the goodwill that will be generated and the realistic impact on the whole economy.
The world bank can even come up with this amount.the undp for instance should show interest in a grassroot initiative such as this.
The communication sector can also be approached to chip in .this document will be beneficial to all.the corporate social responsibility of the private sector might as well take root from here.
The nitty gritty of this project will require an initial committee of 10 people.two each from federal government,forum of governors,algon,grass initiative.