Local Government: The Power at Your Doorstep: Mass Reader Edition

The rain started at 3:47 a.m. Within an hour the gutters on Ojuelegba Road surrendered. The local government that receives ₦129 million per month for exactly this kind of maintenance did not clear those drains. The chairman does not live in the community. He lives in the state capital, attending the governor's weekly coordination meetings, because the governor's office controls the chairman's allocation and the governor's independent electoral commission controls the chairman's seat. The Mass Reader Edition of Local Government: The Power at Your Doorstep explains why your street still floods, your clinic still has no drugs, and your ward councillor is a stranger — and what a Ward Revolution looks like in practice.