The present view of national development is based on a paradigm that views it primarily as increasing wealth for a higher standard of living through improved technology and industrial progress. Its criterion is GNP. It relies on economic growth, capital investment, advanced technology and intensive use of the natural resources. Basic to it is compulsory acquisition of land and people’s displacement from their traditional habitats. Thus, the development paradigm is basic to the process that results in the impoverishment and marginalisation of the poor in order to provide more facilities to the middle class.