Assessing The Contributions of The Kenema City Council to The Socio-Economic Development of Kenema City

Local Government is a body of persons elected by the people entrusted with the responsibility of administering power and authority in a specific locality within the state: such as country, Chiefdom, District, Province etc. The Kenema City Councils as one of the Local Councils in Sierra Leone is part of Local Government which was re-established by the Local Government Act of 2004. The Council is headed by the city Council Mayor and assisted by the Councilors. They are all elected in a direct/popular election for a period of four years. The Administrative head is the Chief Administrator (C.A) assisted by the Deputy Chief Administrator (Deputy C.A) and other working staff. This research study principally assesses the contribution of the Kenema City Council to the socio-economic development of Kenema City. This study provides insight to the origin of the Kenema city Councils, it highlights the roles of the Council, it investigates the major sources of revenue of the Kenema city council and it sounds the general opinion of citizens of Kenema City on the council. Furthermore, it assesses the challenges of the Council and proffer ways of improving the performance of the Council. The methodology, strategies, and techniques used to collect data ranges from the description of study area, population, sources of data and data collection method; which include, Survey of existing documents, questionnaires, interviews and observations. The population sample was 60, including youths, political stakeholders, council staff and key areas or sections in Kenema city.