Nigeria, May 27 -- Every government that comes prioritises road infrastructure as if it was all there is to do to gain public accolades and acceptance. As good as it is to open up access roads to make transportation of good and services easier, it shouldn't be seen as the only yardstick for performance assessment of any government.

On the basic scale of human needs, construction of roads, building of flyovers, bridges etc are at the last rung.

At the first rung of the essentials are security and food. Life preservation very top-notch, it drives others, remove it, or rather down play on it, whatever infrastructure one is building becomes more of a round peg in a square hole.

From Abia to Imo, from Enugu to Anambra down to Ebonyi, road c...