The Nigerian Senate recently introduced a new bill that aims at shifting the responsibility for the maintenance, rehabilitation, and construction of roads from the federal government to private investors. This is due to repeated failures in providing solutions to bad roads in the country. Nigeria has the largest road network in West Africa and the second largest south of sub-Saharan Africa. Despite this feat, the country has a huge deficit in road infrastructure with several roads in deplorable conditions, costing the government some N450 billion yearly. A lot of factors are responsible for this, ranging from poor maintenance, abandoned projects and high-level corruption from government officials who misappropriate funds allocated for infrastructure projects.
SOURCE: VENTURES AFRICA
