Nigerian roads: A death trap.

 A death trap is a place,structure, vehicle that is potentially dangerous.
 Below are pictures I culled from the net after I typed images of Nigerian bad roads on Google search engine.

Let's face reality, these roads are death traps. Some of you may ask me if am sure these are Nigerian roads. My answer is , i can't say I'm sure about these pictures because in actual sense I have seen worse. 

 In as much I'm going to apportion blames, I'm also going to highlight some adjustments we can make as individuals to reduce this menace.

  

   To the Nigerian Government,our roads are bad,accidents on our roads are a daily occurrence due to the bad state of the roads. I'm not saying the government isn't putting in effort to change the state of things but they can do more. Contracts should be offered to well meaning Nigerians who would employ the services of reputable construction companies to construct roads with good materials. We all know corruption has eaten into the heart of our leaders but kindly reduce the amount of money collected from contractors in the name of bribe. Mind you the money for the bribe is coming from the downpayment for commencement of the contract. 

 To those who finally bribed their way and won the bid for the contracts. Haba, how can a road that needs about 7 layers of sandfilling and laying of bitumen have just 3?(engineers in the house abeg clarify), how can you import materials that are below standard? You all should fear God o. How would you construct a road with no proper drainage? Do you expect the tires of the vehicles to sweep off the water collected when it rains? Even some that have drainages, have the drainages built so narrow that a cup of water would over flow the said drainage and cause flooding. Please, try and procure durable materials for the job. Quit cutting corners in other to stash a bulk of the money meant for a job in your accounts in the name of I must have multiple zeros attached to a figure. Remember you have taken a huge bulk to bribe. 

  

  Finally, to us the masses who use these roads,the onus is on us to maintain the little we have. 

  How can you build your house so close to the road that when the government hears your cry for good road network, the government has to demolish the walls of your house to creat room for road expansion and construction of drainages? ( warri people take note). Please, I believe there are state land surveyors that can give you directives on the siting of your buildings. 

  Yes,some of the drainages are narrow but that doesn't make it a refuse dump. We should stop clogging our drainages with dirt. There are designated sites for refuse disposal 

 There are some roads that are not designed for heavy duty trucks. Those of you that operate such machineries should take note of that.

 There are also some people that build their houses across routes for drainage of water to designated rivers hence causing water diversion and man made flooding. Please we should desist and I will advise the government to pull down such structures.

 We have seen the pictures and some of us have lost loved ones thanks to this. We can all effect a change if only we make an effort. The change starts with you.

   If you have any suggestions on how the state of our roads can be upgraded please kindly drop it as a comment. If you also need to rant on the said topic or have an experience to share you can drop it in the comment section.