Before we get to the roads, it helps to understand what a horticultural research institute actually does, because the gap between the mandate and the money is where the story lives. They are not in the Ministry of Works, nor in the NDDC, but rather, they are sitting inside the budget of a horticultural research institute. Not one explains what a fruit and vegetable research institute in Jericho, Ibadan is doing supervising a regional highway programme. When you force such projects through an agricultural research institute, the institute inevitably becomes a rubber stamp for external political sponsors who control the tender boards.” A horticultural research institute certifying the completion of a N4.6bn highway contract is not a technical impossibility.