Public-private Partnership and Infrastructural Development in Abia State, Nigeria, 2007-2014
Public-private Partnership and Infrastructural Development in Abia State, Nigeria, 2007-2014.
ABSTRACT
Following the enactment of the Infrastructural Concessions Regulatory Commission (ICRC) Act in Nigeria, Abia state government keyed into the framework of the PPP in 2007.
This was in a bid to bridge the infrastructural gap in the state and to actualize the objectives of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), especially as it affects the development of a global partnership for poverty reduction through provision of basic infrastructures and industries.
Despite policy efforts made towards this direction, decadence in the state’s health system, education, road network, electric power generation and distribution, housing, industries, among others, has been on increase.
In view of this, this study was aimed at investigating Public Private Partnership and infrastructural development in Abia state from 2007 to 2014. To this end, the study proceeded from two major objectives thus:
(1) To ascertain whether noncompliance to the legal framework by the Abia State Government adversely affect Public Private Partnership and infrastructural development in the state between 2007 and 2014; and
(2) To determine whether internal security threats undermine Public Private Partnership and infrastructural development in Abia state between 2007 and 2014.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title Page – – – – – – – – – – i
Approval Page – – – – – – – – – ii
Dedication – – – – – – – – – – iii
Acknowledgements – – – – – – – – – iv
Table of Contents – – – – – – – – – v
List of Tables and Figures – – – – – – – – vii
Abstract – – – – – – – – – – viii
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study – – – – – – – 1
1.2 Statement of the Problem – – – – – – – – 5
1.3 Objectives of the Study – – – – – – – – 8
1.4 Significance of the Study – – – – – – – 8
CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 Literature Review – – – – – – – – – 10
CHAPTER THREE: METHODOLOGY
3.1 Theoretical Framework – – – – – – – – 33
3.2 Hypotheses – – – – – – – – – 38
3.3 Research Design – – – – – – – – – 38
3.4 Methods of Data Collection – – – – – – – 40
3.5 Methods of Data Analysis – – – – – – – – 41
3.6 Logical Data Framework – – – – – – – – 42
CHAPTER FOUR: NON COMPLIANCE TO THE LEGAL AND REGULATORY
FRAMEWORK OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP AND
INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN ABIA STATE
4.1 Overview of the Institutional Framework for Public Private Partnership in Nigeria – 45
4.2 Legislative and Regulatory Frameworks – – – – – – 49
4.2.1 Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission Act 2005 – – – 50
4.2.2 Public Procurement Act 2007 – – – – – – – 52
4.3 Release of PPP Counterpart Funds by the Abia State Government and
Development of Infrastructures in the State – – – – – 54
4.4 Distribution of Buses as an Alternative Means of Infrastructural Development in
Abia State – – – – – – – – – – 59
CHAPTER FIVE: INTERNAL SECURITY THREATS AND PUBLIC-PRIVATE
PARNERSHIP FRAMEWORK IN ABIA STATE
5.1 Poor Governance Regime and Awareness on PPP Framework in Abia State – 63
5.2 Increased Rate of Crimes and PPP Environment in Abia State – – – 66
CHAPTER SIX: SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
6.1 Summary – – – – – – – – – – 73
6.2 Conclusion – – – – – – – – – 75
6.3 Recommendations – – – – – – – – – 76
BIBLIOGRAPHY – – – – – – – – – 77
INTRODUCTION
The availability of infrastructure is critical to the economic, industrial, technological and social development of any country. Infrastructure touches on a wide spectrum of basic amenities which enhance the capacity of economic agents to conveniently engage in productive activities with less stress.
According to the United States National Infrastructure Improvement Act (2006), these amenities include water supply and distribution system, wastewater collection and treatment facilities, surface transportation facilities, mass-transit facilities, airports and airways facilities, resource recovery facilities, waterways, levees.
And related flood-control facilities, docks or ports, school buildings and solid-waste disposal facilities.
However, effective and efficient provision of these infrastructures has become a subject of serious concern in underdeveloped economies, including Nigeria, where there has been a persistent history of infrastructural development gap.
Though framed under colonial rules, the first National Development and Welfare Plan of 1946-55 (with plan revisions, 1951-55) and the 1955-60 Plan (later extended to 1962), were, among other things, driven by the need to build infrastructures under the Public Works Department (PWD) with a view to accelerating economic development in Nigeria.
However infrastructural development within the plan period could not yield the expected result owing essentially to exploitative tendencies of the colonial masters (Ayo, 1988). The need to redress the gap in infrastructural development in Nigeria equally formed part of the first indigenous National Plan objectives in 1962.
Despite efforts towards developing critical infrastructures in the second, third, fourth and fifth development plans in the country, infrastructural development in Nigeria still remained very low (Okereke, 1999).
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