Anosike’s False Choice: You Cannot Build People By Insulting The Roads That Carry Their Food, Their Children, Their Patients And Their Businesses – By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke
ANOSIKE’S FALSE CHOICE: YOU CANNOT BUILD PEOPLE BY INSULTING THE ROADS THAT CARRY THEIR FOOD, THEIR CHILDREN, THEIR PATIENTS AND THEIR BUSINESSES Let us begin from the most dangerous weakness in Dr. Kelechi Anosike’s recent argument: he is trying to create an artificial quarrel between “roads” and “people’s wellbeing.” That is not development philosophy. That is campaign drama. No serious economist, planner, governor, development expert or public administrator separates people from the infrastructure that sustains their daily lives. Roads are not ornamental concrete. Roads are life channels. Roads carry food from farms to markets. Roads carry children to school. Roads…
