If you go to a big African city like Lagos you will see that the cable that runs along the road between the street lamps has all been stolen so there are no street lamps working. The steel barriers on the elevated sections of motorway are stolen by somebody with cutting gear so it's not uncommon for vehicles to fall over the edge. In fact just about everything gets stolen, not least all the country's money, which ends up in private bank accounts in Switzerland.
(I suspect that this is the reason why, with the exception of the Pakistani community in the UK, very few people gave money for the Pakistan flood relief - they didn't believe it wouldn't get stolen.)