Nigeria’s Bad Roads: ‘Good Roads Will Claim More Lives’–President Jonathan Hints

President Jonathan

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GEJ, has dropped a hint that the incessant road accidents in Nigeria are not caused by bad roads as it is being believed by many Nigerians but good roads.
The President, while speaking two weeks ago in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, at the burial of his former National Security Adviser, NSA, late General Andrew Azazi, said that according to what the boss of Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, told him, more auto accidents happen on good roads than the bad roads in Nigeria.
In his words, “there was a time the Controller General of the Road Safety [Corps Marshal and Chief Executive, COMACE,], and I had a discussion, and he was talking about how they were suppressing road accidents [in Nigeria].
“And I said, well, we are working very hard to resurface all our roads, [that] by the time we finish our roads, we believe that the number [of road accidents] will go down.
“Then he said one thing, that unfortunately, by their own analysis, there are more accidents even on the good roads in Nigeria than the bad roads.”
The President then added that the cause of this is not unconnected with altitudes of drivers on the good roads. He then implored Nigerians to have a good attitudinal change towards the way they do things.

GEJ, wife and Dickson at Gen Azazi’s burial

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