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How we want Nigeria to be Develop by 2015 2013

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This week, government is marking Transportation week. African Journal of Clinical and

Experimental Microbiology (AJCEM) , a health and Environmental NGO, is therefore directing

the present publication to journalists we can immediately obtain their e- mail addresses. The

aim is to sensitize our journalists, as the voice of the people, to the type of environment the

nation ought to have produced after 50 years of independence. We have to keep reminding our

leaders because they pretend not to know. They say they love the nation, but they keep us

underdeveloped, with feelings of inferiority complex, while we should actually be leaders in the

world by now.

Former secretary general of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku at the inaugural lecture

series of the Federal Roads Safety Commission, which he delivered in July 2009 in Abuja, said

our roads were worse than those of war-ravaged nations like Iraq and Afghanistan. Speaking at

the annual lecture entitled ‘’capital waste on Nigerian roads’’, Anyaoku attributed the incidence of

auto accidents in the country to dilapidation of existing road networks. He stressed that the

pathetic state of Nigerian roads was a direct consequence of the failure of the government in

road construction and maintenance, saying as a result Nigerian roads have become a ‘huge

slaughter slab, where human lives are worth little or nothing."

According to him, "the condition of our roads, both the major arteries of this country and the

roads in most of our major cities, beggars imagination. And here I must ask the question: do

our government, ministers and leaders, who travel often and see the condition in other

countries never feel embarrassed by the condition of roads in our resource-rich country? Do

they not notice the large potholes that litter the roads and even bridges, including most

spectacularly, the third Mainland Bridge in Lagos? It is undeniable that among the most

potent indicators of the state of any nation is the condition of its roads. For example, it would

be hard to imagine that with the present condition of our roads, any visitor’s predisposed

favourable impression of our country can survive his/her road journey from Lagos to Benin,

or Onitsha to Enugu, or from Gusau to Sokoto."

What should we remind our politicians? Now our politicians are only talking of zoning, and

not a word of what they will do for us. The nation has a duty of reminding our politicians that




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those who ruled us in the past by zoning or otherwise have disappointed the nation. We only

need capable hands to transform the nation. The performance of our politicians has effect on

our environment, leisure, self esteem as a nation, health, and in fact, several ramifications of our

daily life. The pictures given below are to remind us of what we expect from our politicalleaders instead of people who are just bent on ruling us in turns.

1. The village should be as beautiful, if not more beautiful than the city. The type of

serenity found in the village explains why Chelsea Clinton’s wedding was conducted in

a village called Rhinebeck, NY, one of whose streets is shown below.

2. All our state capitals should be linked with express ways with 3 lanes. Examples are:

a. Muhammadu Buhary Way

b. Ahmadu Bello Way. Both in Abuja

There should be bold broken and unbroken white lanes and bold yellow lanes wherever

necessary, such as shown below.




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3. All our local government headquarters should be joined with dual carriage ways exactlyas shown above.

4. All our cities and towns should have parkways as shown below. These should not only

be in Abuja as it is presently.




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5. All our state capitals should have parkways like Nnamdi Azikiwe Expressway and Seni

Abacha Way, both in Abuja. Complete with bold lanes and tall street lights as shown

below.

6. Mass transit in all our federal and state capitals should be with street cars as shown

below. These are transit cars.




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Thank you very much. I hope this information will sensitize our journalists, who are the

voice of the nation.

Boaz Adegboro.(Retired Professor of Medicine).

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