How we want Nigeria to be Develop by 2015 2013

DEVELOPING NIGERIA
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 visitors 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 1

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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 political leaders 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 Clintons 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 exactly as 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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7. All our federal and state capitals should be linked with dual railroads with fast trains as shown below.

By the time they do all these feats, if they still have enough left in our treasury to pay senators N240 to N360 million per annum as they are doing now, we as Nigerians will have no reason to complain. But until they achieve all these feats as is done by other developing countries like China, Australia, South Korea, etc, they have no reason to earn more than 120% of what our highest paid civil servants are earning.

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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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