Ex-Health Minister Isaac Adewole has berated how politicians focus on building flyovers for showoff instead of meeting the economic, health, and security needs of the country.
Adewole made this known in a socio-political programme aired on Channels Television on Friday.
The former minister lamented that there has been undue emphasis on infrastructure without commensurate human capital development.
According to him, politicians build flyovers for exhibitionism because they want to have something to show to the people at the end of their tenure.
In his words, “This is not what is needed to develop Nigeria. Investment in infrastructure must not be at the expense of investment in education and efficient healthcare delivery.
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“A political leader will rather invest in flyovers than invest in education and health. They want to build new schools, new universities that have no teachers, and new facilities called hospitals without human resources (doctors and nurses), without drugs, without laboratories.
“We just want people to say during my tenure, I put that up, I constructed 200km of roads, I built a flyover from Kano to Kaduna. That’s what politicians want to show off but that is not what we need to develop our country.
He continued, “The concept of investing in infrastructure is a critical strategy. The politicians who plan for four years, or eight years, do so because they want to show something off.
“I am not saying we should not invest in infrastructure but let us be balanced,” he said.
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