The impact of the federal and state governments is felt by the citizens through infrastructural provision of the
local governments, because local governments are governments at the grassroots. The citizens are not feeling this
impact, so this paper set out to survey the effect of local government’s financial information communication on
infrastructural provision and the empowerment of the citizens. Thirteen local governments out of 27 from Imo
State, Nigeria were used as a case study. Data was collected by the use of questionnaire on 1840 respondents and
analysed using SPSS software and reported in figures, tables and graphs. The study found that the citizens are
aware of the infrastructure that would generate employment for them if available. The citizens also have 5 most
acceptable sources of information. A model of financial information communication, financial information
awareness and citizenry economic empowerment was developed after the study. As of compulsion, allocated and
generated finances of local governments should be made available for public consumption every quarter. The
federal government should promulgate a law making it compulsory for the local governments to make their
activities and plans known to their citizens.