DEBACLE TO CONFIGURATION OF FIT-FOR-PURPOSE MODEL AS A TOOL FOR RESPONSIVE LAND GOVERNANCE SYSTEM IN NIGERIA
Kazeem Bolayemi AKINBOLA, PhD, FCIPM AND Lukuman MUSIBAU, PhD, ANIVS, RSV, Volume 5 Issue 1, 2021 Pages 47-70, Published: 2022-10-02
Abstract
Evolving realities that are being heralded through the importation, adaptation and adoption of practices of other climes in virtually all our doings in Nigeria as a country, without giving so much of commensurate cognisance to peculiarities, tendencies and circumstances of Nigeria and Nigerians have continued to plague the country’s development in all ramifications, especially but not limited to its land administration system. The unfolding dramas made it a necessity to devise what is believed to be at the salvaging realm of addressing evil associated with copied land administration ideologies, practices, policies and models by Nigeria and that is called fit-for-purpose model It is thus the crux of this research to ascertain such debacles and assess the extent of their adversities upon Nigeria’s land governance system, especially in the areas of delivery and accessibility of land. As a research of quantitative type, barrage of bases which are intricate to the undercurrents that are affecting the fit-for-purpose land governance, were coined into 12 adversityrevealing constructs: greed, wieldy structure, technical capacity, class mentality, budgetary incidence, finance, corruption, vested interest, job loss instinct, non-inclusiveness, frameworks and shifted authority, which were thereafter explored in producing 75 copies of 5point-Likert scaled questionnaire, which were administered with the use of purposive and convenience data collection techniques among independent land consultants, various categories of land users and developers, veterans of the land administrators and regulators and land-mandated NGOs within the southwest Nigeria, out of which 61 copies were collected, translating to distribution-retrieval rate of 81.33%, and 56 copies were valid, which was the basis upon which the analysis was conducted, using percentile, multiple regression, exploratory factor analyses and mean item score, so as to establish and gauge the extent by which configuration of land governance model of fit-for-purpose was being debacled and thus resultantly impacted upon land delivery and accessibility in Nigeria. With an impressive factor loading value of 0.8546, together with good item mean score of 0.839 Bartlett’s Test of Sphericity output at p < 0.05 and 0.893 for average Cronbach alpha values for the totality of the 24 description measurement factor statements, the results show among other things that greed and finance are the strongest and weakest debacles respectively that prevent the configuration of fit-for-purpose model of land governance and thus resultantly impact upon land and accessibility in Nigeria. The research concluded that, the present scenario stands the promise of continuing in the tempo with which it was being found, unless a very elegant and enduring strategy of fit-for-purpose which is home-gown and bottom-up kind