Nigeria: Before States Take Over Federal Roads

11 October 2017
opinion

Against the backdrop of the deplorable condition of roads infrastructure across the country, the request by the 36 state governors to President Muhammadu Buhari to hand over federal roads in their states to them for reconstruction, maintenance and control would have been sensible if the states had been credibly exemplary in maintaining the roads in their jurisdictions.

This is one area of Nigeria's socio-economic life in which governments at all levels have indeed failed the people. Our roads have the same decrepit features all over the nation as we ply federal, state or local government routes. All the roads are death traps. They are among the worst in the world as people go through hell moving from one part of the country to another. It is embarrassing.

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