When these useless entities we call state governors build their roads, it looks nothing like this picture below.

This is the standard way you build a road in any metropolitan area.

There is the road for driving, and then there is a sidewalk for pedestrians.

Then below the sidewalk is the drainage.

The sidewalk hits the wall so it blocks out all sand, meaning the road is SEALED. You don't even need to sweep it.

The drains are covered, so no need for ''ENVIRONMENTAL DAY'', with citizens digging out MUCK from filthy open gutters.

NOW HERE IS THE QUESTION:

What is so hard about building our roads like this??

I LAUGH when I hear Nigerians talking about attracting TOURISTS to the country.

In fact some of you should be stand-up comedians.

NO TOURIST goes to a place where the roads are not built like this road below.

TOURISTS do not travel to a place in order to ride around in cars.

They are there to WALK.

And WALKING is not supposed to be 'SUFFERING' as we regard it here.

It's meant to be enjoyable. PEDESTRIANS are also TAXPAYERS and deserve their own road infrastructure, along with drivers.

Do you know that when you build roads with wide sidewalks, you can walk up to 10 kilometres and not feel it?

But with these useless roads we build with no designated walking space, you can't walk up to 1 kilometre without looking for okada or taxi.

That's why everyone is so desperate to own a car.

How many gutters will you jump?

When will these so-called state governors finally become CIVILISED like their counterparts all over the world?

Kushites:
When these useless entities we call state governors build their roads, it looks nothing like this picture below.

This is the standard way you build a road in any metropolitan area.

There is the road for driving, and then there is a sidewalk for pedestrians.

Then below the sidewalk is the drainage.

The sidewalk hits the wall so it blocks out all sand, meaning the road is SEALED. You don't even need to sweep it.

The drains are covered, so no need for ''ENVIRONMENTAL DAY'', with citizens digging out MUCK from filthy open gutters.

NOW HERE IS THE QUESTION:

What is so hard about building our roads like this??

I LAUGH when I hear Nigerians talking about attracting TOURISTS to the country.

In fact some of you should be stand-up comedians.

NO TOURIST goes to a place where the roads are not built like this road below.

TOURISTS do not travel to a place in order to ride around in cars.

They are there to WALK.

And WALKING is not supposed to be 'SUFFERING' as we regard it here.

It's meant to be enjoyable. PEDESTRIANS are also TAXPAYERS and deserve their own road infrastructure, along with drivers.

Do you know that when you build roads with wide sidewalks, you can walk up to 10 kilometres and not feel it?

But with these useless roads we build with no designated walking space, you can't walk up to 1 kilometre without looking for okada or taxi.

That's why everyone is so desperate to own a car.

How many gutters will you jump?

When will these so-called state governors finally become CIVILISED like their counterparts all over the world?

Those people in that road pay 50% of their income as tax

Would u be ready to pay 50% of your total income to have such roads?

Or you continue the tax u pay now and manage the road u get?

mrvitalis:

Those people in that road pay 50% of their income as tax

Would u be ready to pay 50% of your total income to have such roads?

Or you continue the tax u pay now and manage the road u get?

Is that so?

So you don't need 50% tax to build all these main roads, expressways, flyovers, railway, airports, seaports, but you need 50% tax to cover your open gutters and build sidewalks for pedestrians?

GIVE ME THE BLASTED BUDGET AND I'LL FIX IT.

You people have no shame.

RWANDA builds its roads the right way, and I bet they don't demand 50% tax for it!

A country that is still recovering from a genocidal civil war!

Go there today, it's full of tourists walking around, spending dollars, and Rwanda is now the 3rd fastest growing economy in the world.

Because they use their SENSE when they do things.

Kigali, Rwanda

mrvitalis does make a point.

In UK, Fuel duty is currently levied at a flat rate of 52.95p per litre for both petrol and diesel. 20% VAT is then charged on both the duty and the standard price while Nigeria subsidises.

Unleaded is £144.76p. Enough to make one protest if charged in Nigeria. Road tax is £190 per annum.

budaatum:
mrvitalis does make a point.

In UK, Fuel duty is currently levied at a flat rate of 52.95p per litre for both petrol and diesel. 20% VAT is then charged on both the duty and the standard price while Nigeria subsidises.

Unleaded is £144.76p. Enough to make one protest if charged in Nigeria. Road tax is £190 per annum.

So you think Nigeria can't afford to cover its drains and build sidewalks?

How come Rwanda can afford it and they have no oil?

How come South Africa and even Kenya can afford it?

Kushites:


So you think Nigeria can't afford to cover its drains and build sidewalks?

How come Rwanda can afford it and they have no oil?

How come South Africa and even Kenya can afford it?

Those guys are thinking upside down


Comparing naija with US/UK

Kushites:


So you think Nigeria can't afford to cover its drains and build sidewalks?

How come Rwanda can afford it and they have no oil?

How come South Africa and even Kenya can afford it?

You are asking us to accept that Rwanda, South Africa and Kenya have better roads than we have when the truth is they have a lot of roads that are in the same condition ours are in.

budaatum:


You are asking us to accept that Rwanda, South Africa and Kenya have better roads than we have when the truth is they have a lot of roads that are in the same condition ours are in.

South Africa has no open gutters.

The difference between Nigeria and Rwanda/Kenya is that when they build new roads, they build them the right way.

In Nigeria, apart from Abuja, Lagos and Akwa Ibom, the NEW roads in other states are still built with open drains for the most part, and not a thought for where pedestrians will walk!

It's like they're determined to remain backward.

Kushites:


So you think Nigeria can't afford to cover its drains and build sidewalks?

How come Rwanda can afford it and they have no oil?

How come South Africa and even Kenya can afford it?

The Number one problem in Nigeria is corruption. Public funds that should be allocated for infrastructures end up in someone pocket

Horus:


The Number one problem in Nigeria is corruption. Public funds that should be allocated for infrastructures end up in someone pocket

Public ignorance is a bigger problem in this instance I feel.

Corruption hasn't stopped the govt from building roads for cars to pass, so why does corruption stop them from building covered drains and sidewalks?

It's because the PEOPLE do not know any better.

They think it is OKAY to build a road with open gutters and no walkway.

They even PRAISE such projects and post them here on Nairaland to say the governor is doing well!

That's why the governors don't bother building the roads correctly.

If the public become aware, and demand that the roads be built properly or the governor's convoy STONED, the governors will sit up.

Kushites:


So you think Nigeria can't afford to cover its drains and build sidewalks?

How come Rwanda can afford it and they have no oil?

How come South Africa and even Kenya can afford it?

If u transfer all the roads in Rwanda and add them to Lagos u won't see a difference

Some of you like comparing apple to orange

Kushites:


Is that so?

So you don't need 50% tax to build all these main roads, expressways, flyovers, railway, airports, seaports, but you need 50% tax to cover your open gutters and build sidewalks for pedestrians?

GIVE ME THE BLASTED BUDGET AND I'LL FIX IT.

You people have no shame.

RWANDA builds its roads the right way, and I bet they don't demand 50% tax for it!

A country that is still recovering from a genocidal civil war!

Go there today, it's full of tourists walking around, spending dollars, and Rwanda is now the 3rd fastest growing economy in the world.

Because they use their SENSE when they do things.

Kigali, Rwanda

Bros if u gather all the roads in Rwanda add them to Lagos... U won't see a dam difference that's one

Drainage system is the most difficult thing in road construction especially in places like Lagos and South South even Abia too

The cost of one road in Lagos or bayelsa would do 20 in Abuja or Rwanda

Talk about what u know

I remember when I visited a City my friends where like "you are an expert in fluid mechanics.. How do we solve the flooded road " I looked at it once I told them the solution to this flood would be in a different LGA... They thought I was crazy... 7 years later JB did it and the drainage passed 4 LGA to fix a small flooded road

Drainage system is complex and people like u would prefer 15 roads with open gutter to 1 road with proper drainage

mrvitalis:

Those people in that road pay 50% of their income as tax

Would u be ready to pay 50% of your total income to have such roads?

Or you continue the tax u pay now and manage the road u get?

You lie about 50% Income tax. Say what you know abeg.

Kushites:


Public ignorance is a bigger problem in this instance I feel.

Corruption hasn't stopped the govt from building roads for cars to pass, so why does corruption stop them from building covered drains and sidewalks?

It's because the PEOPLE do not know any better.

They think it is OKAY to build a road with open gutters and no walkway.

They even PRAISE such projects and post them here on Nairaland to say the governor is doing well!

That's why the governors don't bother building the roads correctly.

If the public become aware, and demand that the roads be built properly or the governor's convoy STONED, the governors will sit up.

People even praise politicians for street lights and open gutter roads.

Kushites:


South Africa has no open gutters.

The difference between Nigeria and Rwanda/Kenya is that when they build new roads, they build them the right way.

In Nigeria, apart from Abuja, Lagos and Akwa Ibom, the NEW roads in other states are still built with open drains for the most part, and not a thought for where pedestrians will walk!

It's like they're determined to remain backward.

I don't know about new roads in other places, and I bet I'm sounding like I'm defending the backwardness of Nigeria, which I'm not.

I call our open gutters 'mosquito farms', where we breed malaria to kill ourselves, and I doubt we can be anymore backward than that. And until we demand and pay for better, I doubt we'd have them covered.

Hopefully we'd learn from Akwa Ibom. And thanks for creating a thread about it.

Kushites:


So you think Nigeria can't afford to cover its drains and build sidewalks?

How come Rwanda can afford it and they have no oil?

How come South Africa and even Kenya can afford it?

how many of Kigali does Rwanda have? But I got your point though, Nigerian government can do better, but it will take more than crude oil earnings, it will take more

Take your campaign to Twitter.

I will be more appreciative if you can tag our Eastern governments.
I care less about the remaining 95%.

Thank you so much for the topic.

mrvitalis:

Those people in that road pay 50% of their income as tax

Would u be ready to pay 50% of your total income to have such roads?

Or you continue the tax u pay now and manage the road u get?

Oga you lie. Nobody pays 50% income tax anywhere. Do you even read what you type yourself?

Kushites:


Public ignorance is a bigger problem in this instance I feel.

Corruption hasn't stopped the govt from building roads for cars to pass, so why does corruption stop them from building covered drains and sidewalks?

It's because the PEOPLE do not know any better.

They think it is OKAY to build a road with open gutters and no walkway.

They even PRAISE such projects and post them here on Nairaland to say the governor is doing well!

That's why the governors don't bother building the roads correctly.

If the public become aware, and demand that the roads be built properly or the governor's convoy STONED, the governors will sit up.

Just look at the lame excuses you come up with. The people have to start throwing stones at the governor's convoy before the governor should build roads the right way? So they execute mediocre projects as long as the people do not demand for a better one? Kai. How do you guys even think?

Same question Ive been asking.

Why will a normal human being build a road and leave the gutter open to fill up within a year and overflow with sand which will start damaging the road right away?

Why keep the gutter open? So that people can sample smell of sewage water?

mrvitalis:

Those people in that road pay 50% of their income as tax

Would u be ready to pay 50% of your total income to have such roads?

Or you continue the tax u pay now and manage the road u get?

Not entirely the basis for having such poorly constructed roads. If so, why are there no such similar well-constructed roads in oil-rich states?

While I do agree that the economy has to grow so public authorities have enough funds to embark on such projects, the existence of states with huge oil windfalls or those with a low population base compared to how much they receive as allocation refutes that notion.

23jerryking:
Just look at the lame excuses you come up with. The people have to start throwing stones at the governor's convoy before the governor should build roads the right way? So they execute mediocre projects as long as the people do not demand for a better one? Kai. How do you guys even think?

Both of you are correct. He is correct that if the citizens are well-informed about how things should be properly done, they will stone politicians who present poorly done projects. You are correct that the politicians ought to know what is right. However, the mistake you make is assuming that Nigerian politicians are intelligent. At the same time, even Nigerian upper-middle-class folks aren't intelligent as well. If they are, why are there open gutters in elite residential districts (I don't mean enclosed estates)?

Summary of everything; Nigerians are not intelligent people.

Kushites:


Is that so?

So you don't need 50% tax to build all these main roads, expressways, flyovers, railway, airports, seaports, but you need 50% tax to cover your open gutters and build sidewalks for pedestrians?

GIVE ME THE BLASTED BUDGET AND I'LL FIX IT.

You people have no shame.

RWANDA builds its roads the right way, and I bet they don't demand 50% tax for it!

A country that is still recovering from a genocidal civil war!

Go there today, it's full of tourists walking around, spending dollars, and Rwanda is now the 3rd fastest growing economy in the world.

Because they use their SENSE when they do things.

Kigali, Rwanda

People can show you random pictures of Abuja and you would think all Nigerian roads are built like that.

Below are roads in Rwanda.

Kushites:


South Africa has no open gutters.

The difference between Nigeria and Rwanda/Kenya is that when they build new roads, they build them the right way.

In Nigeria, apart from Abuja, Lagos and Akwa Ibom, the NEW roads in other states are still built with open drains for the most part, and not a thought for where pedestrians will walk!

It's like they're determined to remain backward.

Akwa Ibom, and Lagos, in most parts of the state, have open gutters. In Abuja, open gutters exist too except in the elite/leafy parts.

23jerryking:
Oga you lie. Nobody pays 50% income tax anywhere. Do you even read what you type yourself?

Top income earners in the UK pay almost that percentage, ditto in Japan. There are similar or near-like percentages in the Nordic countries.

mrvitalis:

Those people in that road pay 50% of their income as tax

Would u be ready to pay 50% of your total income to have such roads?

Or you continue the tax u pay now and manage the road u get?

Those people you are talking about doesn't have the abundant natural resources that we have here.

Is it not Nigeria where beggars and traders aren't afraid of doing their things on rail tracks? Trust, the sidewalks will be filled with beggars, traders, urchins etc in no time, which defeats the purpose.

Kushites:


South Africa has no open gutters.

The difference between Nigeria and Rwanda/Kenya is that when they build new roads, they build them the right way.

In Nigeria, apart from Abuja, Lagos and Akwa Ibom, the NEW roads in other states are still built with open drains for the most part, and not a thought for where pedestrians will walk!

It's like they're determined to remain backward.

There are open gutters in South Africa too.

mrvitalis:

Bros if u gather all the roads in Rwanda add them to Lagos... U won't see a dam difference that's one

Drainage system is the most difficult thing in road construction especially in places like Lagos and South South even Abia too. The cost of one road in Lagos or bayelsa would do 20 in Abuja or Rwanda. Talk about what u know

I remember when I visited a City my friends where like "you are an expert in fluid mechanics.. How do we solve the flooded road " I looked at it once I told them the solution to this flood would be in a different LGA... They thought I was crazy... 7 years later JB did it and the drainage passed 4 LGA to fix a small flooded road. Drainage system is complex and people like u would prefer 15 roads with open gutter to 1 road with proper drainage

A drainage system is not a complex thing. Other people have done it. Invite them, pay them and it will be done. The issue is that Nigeria is not highly economically productive relative to its land mass and population to embark on such long-term projects. Nigerian politicians, just as most Nigerians, think in the short-term rather than long-term. Akpabio was said to have constructed the drainage system in the state or Uyo at least, but the IBB Way road leading to the state secretariat was impassable once rain fell. It took Udom more than four years to initiate the actual reconstruction of the road in his second term. Whether there exist open gutters, I don't know. I think the government even had to ask World Bank for funds, for an oil-rich state o.

Sapasenator:


People even praise politicians for street lights and open gutter roads.

Abia state 😂