Lack of serious attention to the declining state of infrastructure has forced many of the rural dwellers to migrate to the urban centres in search of employment opportunities and services of urban dwellings. With lack of education and entrepreneurial skills, many could not find jobs and had to resort to crime and other illegal activities as a means to survive.
The range of solutions does not take into account the scale of the financial and demographic challenges that exist in the firms’ LTMA portfolio. This is not just a case of requiring better use of existing waterfalls (as above), but consideration of whether the suite of solutions is sufficient.