The concept of community development focused in explaining the improvements in the quality of life for all as the principal goal of development policy. Community development by way of definition is the process by which the effort of the people themselves are u used with those of government authorities to improve their social, economic and cultural conditions and to contribute fully to national progress (Okara 2009). This definition implies that community development requires reconciliation of the local felt needs with government policy. It also means the sum total of individual effort, group effort and achievement of different levels of government for national development.
Yaro(2013), noted that community development is an attempt to provide the basis needs if the people as such should not be taken for granted. It is in view if this fact that the development of the community should be considered critical to the life of the nation. Nnom (2004), noted on the bases if the foregoing that a free market economy is important in the economic development of the country. However, it is now clearly acknowledged that the economy should not be allowed to generate serious poverty and that the policies and the affirmative action porgrammes must be developed to minimize and reduce cause of conflict. Based on this, the people in accordance with the definition of the he community development must be allowed to participate in developing their communities to ensure accountability. The participation of the government is important but the community people must play a major role in building their community to ensure peace in the community.
As Brown and Bakari in (Durojaye, 2000), put it that "Community development is not that sort of development that is an educational process, it is not better road or better bridges, and pure water. It must be something that will reach into deep cultural pattern of the people. It is not a temporary physical construction. It is a building within the heart end mind of men not a recreation centre in the middle of the field".
The point of interest here is that community development is much as more of construction than physical infrastructures. It is a development that is in the mind of the people. That is why Nnom(2004), insist that community development must be a way of life and not a periodic activities of political office holders aimed to score cheap political goals.
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