‘Poor Infrastructure, Bane Of Nigeria’s Transport Dev’

A fellow of the Chartered Institute of Commerce of Nigeria, Senibo Abinye Iworima, has identified wrong placement of priorities as the reason for collapsed infrastructure in the transport sector of the country.

Iworima, who stated this during an interview  with The Tide in his office in Port Harcourt, on Friday, decried the rot in the transport sector occasioned by bad roads and collapsed rail system.

He contended that the sector is too important to be neglected even as he pointed out that transportation is the hub of commercial  activities  and development, whether viewed  economically or socially. He, therefore, urged government to partner with all stakeholders in ensuring that the trend is reversed.

According to him, “Transportation moves and shapes the world economy. The world is united because transportation bridges the space and time barriers. If you kill transportation it is like  you are killing  life and this is why the transport sector is too important to be neglected to the background. Even  with the digital revolution, transportation still remains  a key element of development because of its movement of people and goods  from one point to another,” he added.

The commercial administrator urged that professional bodies and institutions should be in the fore front of setting agenda on policy thrusts that will assist government in developing the transport sector, noting that if people are enlightened on the inherent opportunities in the sector, more jobs would be created; thereby reducing poverty and crime rate in the country.