Most times, we have good ideas and our policy makers, as always, would come up with programmes we thought would advance our causes in good directions.
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But at the end, we fail because of poor and bad implementations, misplaced priorities, disrespect by the affluence and privileged circumstances. Geographically, Nigeria covers a wide expanse of land requiring that we should have adequate to enough road networks to serve the exploding population.
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Unfortunately, we are still contending with most of the major roads put in place by our colonial masters, narrow and squeezing. Our supposedly ultra modern roads, built from the 1970s, are not particularly wonderful and some of them are death traps. Our people are being killed on them in thousands every year and we are not bothered.
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To manage these roads and our road users, our policy makers came up with different programmes and agencies including, but not limited to, the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, the Federal Road Maintenance Agency, FERMA, all kinds of both state and local government traffic control programmes and personnel, yet lives are lost on our roads in thousands because of our carelessness and lackadaisical behaviours.
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The paradigm shift from our narrow colonial roads to ultra modern roads of the 1970s and all the traffic control programmes and personnel associated with them are nothing but false paradigm.
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This is not to criticize the programmes because it is not good and appreciated when criticized, but criticism is healthy when it attracts changes and developments. If we want growth and changes in these programmes, we must all get involved, speak with one voice and move towards one goal and would not allow any distraction or divides in the programmes.
That is a very bad sign. That should not be happening in a country like Nigeria. It is very bad omen for Nigeria