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THE PRICE OF A BAD VOTE : What Your Vote Actually Costs You : Mass Reader Edition - Book 6  GNVIS
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THE PRICE OF A BAD VOTE

Ihe Ntuli Aka Gị Na-efu Gị N'Ezie

By Samuel Chimezie Okechukwu

The Mass Reader Edition of The Price of a Bad Vote is built around three ledgers: Mama Nkechi's thirty-year rice price notebook from Daleko Market (₦8,000 → ₦120,000); Tunde the printer's monthly diesel expense sheet (₦75,000 for power a functioning government would provide); and the hospital-without-drugs calculation that costs Nigerian families an average of ₦48,000 in private clinic fees for conditions that should be treated at the primary healthcare centre. Chapter by chapter, the book calculates the voter tax: the food price multiplier (driven by fuel costs driven by subsidy removal driven by a fiscal mismanagement that pre-dates the removal by thirty years); the generator tax (every household running a generator is paying a monthly surcharge for the power sector failures of successive governments); the Japa debt (the economic value of Nigerian professionals who emigrated because the governance environment made staying irrational); and the total four-year household cost of one wrong ballot. The final chapter is a four-year calculator readers can fill in from their own household data.

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THE PRICE OF A BAD VOTE : What Your Vote Actually Costs You : Mass Reader Edition - Book 6  GNVIS
Great Nigeria Collection
Reading in Igbo

THE PRICE OF A BAD VOTE

Ihe Ntuli Aka Gị Na-efu Gị N'Ezie

By Samuel Chimezie Okechukwu

The Mass Reader Edition of The Price of a Bad Vote is built around three ledgers: Mama Nkechi's thirty-year rice price notebook from Daleko Market (₦8,000 → ₦120,000); Tunde the printer's monthly diesel expense sheet (₦75,000 for power a functioning government would provide); and the hospital-without-drugs calculation that costs Nigerian families an average of ₦48,000 in private clinic fees for conditions that should be treated at the primary healthcare centre. Chapter by chapter, the book calculates the voter tax: the food price multiplier (driven by fuel costs driven by subsidy removal driven by a fiscal mismanagement that pre-dates the removal by thirty years); the generator tax (every household running a generator is paying a monthly surcharge for the power sector failures of successive governments); the Japa debt (the economic value of Nigerian professionals who emigrated because the governance environment made staying irrational); and the total four-year household cost of one wrong ballot. The final chapter is a four-year calculator readers can fill in from their own household data.

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