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Government and the state of public infrastructure in Africa; Ontology of failing state and the social contract covenant (Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau)

Author Affiliations

  • 1Department of Social Development, Mai Idris Alooma Polytechnic Geidam, Yobe State, Nigeria
  • 2Department of Social Development, Mai Idris Alooma Polytechnic Geidam, Yobe State, Nigeria
  • 3Department of Public Administration, Mai Idris Aloma Polytechnic Geidam, Yobe State, Nigeria

Int. Res. J. Social Sci., Volume 11, Issue (2), Pages 22-26, April,14 (2022)

Abstract

Population in Africa keeps growing with time. This equally implies that infrastructures are been outnumbered by the increase in number of people. Available infrastructures are decaying without new ones replacing them. Minimal effort in the area of infrastructural development appeared to be part of bad governance states in Africa are suffering from. The state, government and people are bonded by covenant in which citizens pay tax to the state through the government on the condition that income generated through such payment is utilized in the development of public infrastructures to improve the leaving standard of people and promote the socio-economic growth of the state. The general direction of argument adopted by this study is that, government in African states has failed in fulfilling its own part of the covenant bonding it with the citizen and state. This study examined government and the state of public infrastructural development in Africa. It offered an ontological analysis on government insufficient attention to public infrastructural development in states on the continent. The study used explorative method of secondary method of inquiry. It found out that government in African states is reluctant in the area of public infrastructural development. The study recommended that government in African states must pay more attention to public infrastructural development so as to improve the living standard of the citizens as a fulfilment of its obligation to the people as bonded in the social contract covenant establishing state and government by and for the people.

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