4 years ago, it cost N300,000 to take a 40FT container from Lagos to Kano. Last week, someone paid N900,000 to take a container from Tin Can Island port to Alaba International, a market in Lagos. Taking it to Kano will cost not less than N1.5 today.
The government has been talking about ease of doing business, but couldn't fix a road of less than 10km for over 3 years. It now takes a truck more than 2 weeks to and from Apapa to load a container through a queue that is almost stretching the length of the city.
This problem could have been solved within 6 months by diverting some of the cargo to other ports in the country and fixing the road. But reconstruction of one of the roads only commenced briefly one year after coming to power, and was abandoned for another one year.
If anyone thinks anybody can take charge of Nigeria with existing procurement laws, needless cumbersome bureaucracy and civil/public servants, and deliver anything different from what has been delivered over the years, then he has grossly misunderstood our reality.
What we need is a very intelligent, energetic and innovative leader, who will press our reset button and stop us from this outrageous retrogression into the abyss of anarchy and misrule.
There is no alternative to competence.
