THE GOVERNMENT AGENCIES NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA; A STUDY OF NATIONAL DRUG LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY (NDLEA) ONITSHA ZONE (2010-2015)

About two-third of the Nigeria people are poor despite living in a country with vast potential wealth. Although revenues from crude oil have been increasing over the past decades, our people have been falling deeper into poverty. In 1980, an estimated 27 percent of Nigerian lived in poverty. By 1999, about 70 percent of the population has income of less than $1 a day and the figure is raising every day. The responses of various administrations to the poverty problems Appears to have been largely ad-hoc hoc uncoordinated. A recent survey of policies and interventions chronicles 28 federal projects and programmes with poverty reduction thrust. Several state governments have also put poverty reduction schemes in place. Programmes such as community bank, family support programmes the National Directorate of Employment, the peoples Bank, better life for rural women, and the Directorate of Food, Roads and Rural Infrastructure were established by different government to address various manifestations of poverty, such as unemployment, lack of access to credit, and gender dimensions of poverty while none of these programmes was completely without merit, none of them had a significant lasting, or sustainable positive effect. With the advent of democratic government in 1999, measures were adopted to streamline poverty related institutions, review past poverty Alleviation programmes and harmonize sectoral efforts. Several major factors hindering the success of government efforts to reduce the level of poverty were indentified. They include. Poor coordination. The absence of a comprehensive policy frame work. Excessive political interference. Ineffective targeting of the poor, leading to leakage of benefits to unintended beneficiaries. The unwidely scope of programmes, which caused resources to be thinly spread across too many projects. Nkwere Local Government Council of Imo State is the case study, while both primary and secondary research methodology were used by the researcher.