STOMACH INFRASTRUCTURE: The Hidden Interest Rate of Election-Day Rice: Full Edition - Book 2 GNVIS

The Hidden Interest Rate of Election-Day Rice

At 2:17 a.m. on election eve, a diesel truck reverses into Oyingbo Market. Mama Ngozi — fifty-eight years old, who has slept on the same wooden plank for thirty-four years — watches it back through a gate that was supposed to be locked. By dawn, its cargo of rice and Maggi has been distributed across eight wards. By 6 p.m., those votes belong to a man who does not know Mama Ngozi's name. Stomach Infrastructure is the forensic economics of vote-buying. It calculates what the ₦5,000 election-day gift actually costs the voter who accepts it: ₦649,000 paid out in four years of inflation, broken clinics, and empty promises. This book does not moralize. It does arithmetic.