Sometimes, when I look at Nigerian leaders, I cry. Why is development always centered on building roads, railways, flyovers, bridges etc?
Those people are so backward in thinking. Very backward. The funny thing is that they travel away, watch to news etc. and they see what other countries are doing.
When they assume office, if it's not building of roads, flyovers and bridges, they don't think of anything else to do. Not surprised, their manifesto is never direct. They don't hold on anything meaningful to directly write on. Manifesto is always full of big big English that lack purpose.
In a word where other countries are investing in science and technology, ours see road building as achievement. The painful part is that, even the road, they don't even provide in needed areas. Other countries are investing in using robots to conduct perfect surgeries, working on renewable energy, space travel, using AI to solve economic problems, building research institutes to meet modern development etc. Ours, every year, roads, bridges and railways are always the biggest things in our annual budgets. The funny thing is that the amount of money they spend building roads and railways, other countries use it to achieve a whole lot of things.
Don't get me wrong, it's not wrong to build roads, the problem is that these men don't think beyond roads and other similar things. Just imagine that we don't even have the technology to combat bandits in this big 21st century.
Nigeria leaders are the worse and most corrupt in the world, every government that comes end up fixing roads and other routine projects, the reason is their interest is always centered on money, even if a past government built a road in the past instead of the current administration to revamp the road they will prefer to award a new contract and abandon the previous one so they will make plenty money, their focus is never on continuity instead they scheme every possible means to steal and embezzle money.
Just as you rightly said they travel out most times and see what is happening in other countries yet can’t replicate same here, the reason is because they don’t want citizens to be empowered, they don’t want individual growth and development of the citizens so that the masses won’t be enlightened and turn around to challenge them, they ensure to keep majority of the citizens in poverty so that the people will remain loyal to them, secondly majority of the leaders are benefiting from the underdevelopment in the country, take for example Atiku that imports generator’s he won’t want the electricity to be stable so he will keep on making money from Nigerians, i wont be surprised that after another regime from now Nigeria will still remain same way, our leaders don’t mean well for the country.
