A shocking number of people lose their lives daily on our country’s roads. But not enough is said about our poor road infrastructure as a major contributing factor to road fatalities.
Our bad roads can be blamed on the government’s tender system for services - in this case, for road building and maintenance; the tender system is the midwife for major corruption involving politicians and big business. A tender to build a road is approved and awarded to a certain construction company that never completes the job, for which the company is hardly held accountable for not fulfilling its contract.
A rational government will hold such a company accountable, but this does not happen. The logic dictates the conclusion: the road to be built was only meant as a cash cow for the few politically connected business elites and politicians accepting pay-offs for turning a blind eye.
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