Bad roads in the country have been described as the bane of business development, especially the movement of goods and services, from one part of the country to the other.

Speaking in a chat with The Tide in Port Harcourt, a transporter Mr. Daniel Eke who has 15 years experience in transportation business, said bad roads are fully responsible  for the hike in the prices of goods in the country.

He noted that bad roads push transporters to increase their charges which inturn affect  the prices of the products, even when the original prices are cheap.

The transporter also noted the resultant effect of bad roads to the life span of vehicles, stressing that “drivers in Nigeria have become regular customer to mechanics and this is why we have most vehicles that are suppose to be off the roads still plying and causing accidents everywhere.

Eke who also doubles as a distributor of cosmetics commended President   Jonathan who has promised to work  on all the federal roads in the next four years, adding that if this is done, it will bring a great  development  in the economy of the country.

It will be recalled that President Goodluck Jonathan  last week in Yobe assured that the Federal Government will in the next four years work on all federal roads  across the country as part of measures to guarantee free movement of goods and services, in order to boost the country’s economy.

The President also said that the Federal Government would exploit all available avenues to generate wealth for the benefit of the country.