See List Of Things Buhari Promised Nigerians

On May 29, Muhammadu Buhari will take office
as President of Nigeria. Expectations are high as
most Nigerians expect the coming government to
wave a magic wand and make all their problems
disappear. The Buhari campaign which ran on a
‘CHANGE’ mantra made numerous promises to
Nigerians during the campaign.
Buhari’s campaign promises as presented by
Vanguard
On Politics and Governance:
I, Muhammadu Buhari, believe that our politics is
broken. Our nation urgently needs fundamental
political reform and improvement in governance
more transparency and accountable. If you
nominate me in December, 2014 and elect me in
February 2015, my administration will:
1. Initiate action to amend the Nigerian
Constitution with a view to devolving powers,
duties, and responsibilities to states in order to
entrench true Federalism and the Federal spirit;
2. Strengthen INEC to reduce, if possible,
eliminate electoral malpractices in Nigerian’s
political life;
3. Attract the best and brightest of our sons and
daughters into our politics and public service by
aggressive recruitment of private sector people,
academics, and professionals within
Nigeria and in the Diaspora through internships,
fellowships, executive appointments, and special
nomination to contest elective offices;
4. Prevent the abuse and misuse of Executive,
Legislative and Public offices, through greater
accountability, transparency, strict, and
implementable anti-corruption laws, through
strengthening and sanitising the EFCC and ICPC
as independent entities;
5. Amend the Constitution to remove immunity
from prosecution for elected officers in criminal
cases;
6. Restructure governance for a leaner, more
efficient, and adequately compensated public
service sector, while promoting effective
participation of the private sector for more robust
job creation programmes to employ the teaming
youth.;
7. Require full disclosure in media outlets, of all
government contracts over N100m prior to award
and during implementation at regular intervals;
8. Reform and Strengthen the Justice System for
efficient administration and dispensation of
justice with the creation of special courts for
accelerated hearing of corruption, drug trafficking,
terrorism and similar cases of national
importance;
9. Fully enforce the Freedom of Information Act l
so that government held data sets can be
requested and used by the public and then such
data sets be publish on regular basis;
10. Amend the Constitution to require Local
governments to publish their meeting minutes,
service performance data, and items of spending
over N10M.
Security and Conflict Resolution
On National Security and Defence:
I will urgently secure the territorial integrity of the
nation. I will never leave the defence of the nation
in the hands of Hunters, Children, and Civilian
JTF through the following:
1. Urgently address capacity building mechanisms
of law enforcement agents in terms of quantity
and quality as this is critical in safeguarding the
sanctity of lives and property;
2. Establish a well trained, adequately equipped
and goals driven Serious Crime Squad to combat
insurgencies, kidnapping, armed robbery, ethno-
religious and communal clashes, nationwide;
3. Consult and amend the Constitution to enable
States and Local Governments to create city,
Local government and State Policing systems,
base on the resources available at each levels, to
address the peculiar needs of each community. I
will therefore work with the National Assembly to
set and revised, when needed, boundaries of
operations, for Federal, State, and Local
government policing units, through new Criminal
Justice legislation to replace the Criminal Code,
the Penal Code and the Police Act.
4. I will push for more robust support in the
Security and Economic stability of the West-
African sub-region and African Continent as a
whole. I will seek and maintain close and frank
relationship with ALL of West Africa; Special
relationship with South Africa and its Sub-region;
UK, USA, Canada, EU, Asia, and the Middle East .
On Conflict Resolution, National Unity, And Social
Harmony:
I will;
1. Establish a Conflict Resolution Commission to
help prevent, mitigate, and resolve civil conflicts
within the polity;
2. Bring permanent peace and solution to the
insurgency issues in the North-East; the Niger
Delta; and other conflict prone states and areas
such as Plateau, Benue, Bauchi, Borno, Abia,
Taraba, Yobe, and Kaduna in order to engender
national unity and social harmony;
3. Initiate policies to ensure that Nigerians are
free to live and work in any part of the country by
removing state of origin, tribe, ethnic and
religious affiliations from documentation
requirements in our identification of citizens and
replace these with State of Residence and fashion
out the appropriate minimal qualification for
obtaining such a state of residency, nation-wide.
On Foreign Policy:
I will;
1. Make regional integration a priority within
ECOWAS including free trade with a view to
ensuring that common tariff currency are in use
by the end of my term in office, under Nigeria’s
guidance and leadership, base on the size of its
market force;
2. Maintain a strong, close and frank relationship
within the Gulf of Guinea, the Commonwealth,
South Africa and the rest of the world.
3. Establish a special relationship with the leading
emerging markets like Brazil; Russia, India and
China (BRIC) and other strategic partners around
the world.
The Economy & Infrastructure Base On the
Economy:
I will;
1. Maintain sound Micro and macro-economic
policy environment, and run an efficient
government and preserve the independence of the
Central Bank;
2. Restore financial confidence in the citizens and
the world, by putting in place a more robust
monitoring, supervising, and regulating of the
financial institutions;
3. Make our economy one of the fastest growing
emerging economies in the world with a real GDP
growth averaging at least 10-12% annually
4. As at 1999, Nigerian rate of unemployment
stood at about 8%, today it is estimated from
official statistics to be close to 30%. I will
embark on vocational training, entrepreneurial and
skills acquisition scheme for graduates along with
the creation of Small Business Loan Guarantee
Scheme to create at least 5 million new jobs by
2019. A Small and Medium Enterprises
Development Commission will be created for this
purpose. I will also encourage State Governments
to focus on employment creation, by matching
everyone job created in the same state.
5. Integrate the informal economy into the
mainstream and prioritize the full implementation
of the National Identification Scheme to generate
the relevant data;
6. Expand domestic demand and will undertake
associated public works programmes to achieve
this goal;
7. Embark on export and production
diversification including investment in
infrastructure; promote manufacturing, through
Agro Based industries; and expand and promote
sub-regional trade through ECOWAS and AU;
8. Make Information Technology, Manufacturing,
Agriculture and Entertainment key drivers of our
economy, by reviewing the present reward
system, which is based on certification, to that
based on skills, competencies, and performances;
9. Balance the Nigerian economy across regions
by the creation of 6 Regional Economic
Development Agencies (REDAs) to act as sub-
regional hubs in order to promote healthy regional
competitiveness;
Put in place a N300bn Regional Growth Fund with
an average of N50bn in each geo-political region;
to be managed by the REDAs, to encourage
private sector enterprise and to support places
currently reliant on only on the public sector, to
migrate to a private sector reality;
Amend the Constitution and the:
10. Land Use Act to create freehold/leasehold
interests in land along with matching grants for
states to create a nationwide electronic land title
register on a state by state basis;
11. Create an additional middle-class of at least 4
million new home owners by 2019 by enacting a
national mortgage single digit interest rates for
purchase of owner occupier houses as well as
review the collateral qualification to make funding
for home ownership easier, with a 15 to 30 year
mortgage terms. This will equally help our
banking system migrate from short to long term
perspective of their role in sustaining the
economy.
12. Create a Social Welfare Program of at least
Five Thousand Naira (N5000) that will cater for
the 25 million poorest and most vulnerable
citizens upon the demonstration of children’s
enrolment in school and evidence of immunisation
to help promote family stability.
13. Provide allowances to the discharged but
unemployed Youth Corps members for Twelve
(12) months while in the skills and entrepreneurial
development programmes.
14. Equate N1.00 to $1.00
On Agriculture:
I will;
1. Modernize the sector and change Nigeria from
being a country of self-subsistence farmers to
that of a medium/large scale farming nation/
producer;
2. Create a nationwide food inspectorate division
with a view to improving nutrition and eliminating
food-borne hazards
3. Inject sufficient funds to the Agricultural sector
to create more agro-allied jobs by way of loans
at nominal interest rates for capital investment
on medium and commercial scale cash crops;
4. Guarantee a minimum price for all cash crops
and facilitate storage of agricultural products to
overcome seasonal shortages of selected food
crops.
5. Move the nation to an all year round small,
medium, and commercial farming through a
coordinated integrative irrigation of our existing
dams as well as creation of more dam to collect
the over flooding waters, nationwide.
6. Revive our Agricultural Research Institutes that
are in a state of comatose;
7. Review and strengthened Veterinary practices
nationwide.
On Infrastructure:
I will;
1. Review the Public Private Partnership (PPP)
enabling environment with a view to addressing
the legal, regulatory and operational bottlenecks,
challenging the effective administration of the
system, by introducing enabling legislation. In
addition, I will create a National Infrastructural
Development Bank to provide loans at nominal
interest rates, exclusively for this sector;
2. Generate, transmit and distribute electricity on
a 24/7 basis whilst simultaneously ensuring the
development of sustainable/renewable energy, by
2019.
3. Embark on a National Infrastructural
Development Programme as a Public Private
Partnership that will
(a) ensure 5,000km of Superhighway including
service trunks and
(b) building of up to 6,800km of modern railway
completed by 2019;
4. Enact new legal and regulatory frameworks to
establish independent regulation and incentives to
accelerate public and private sector investment in
seaports, railways, and inland waterways;
5. Embark on PPP schemes that will ensure every
one of the 36 states has one functional airport,
with all 21st Century safety tools for effective
commercial air travel.
On the Oil and Gas Industry:
I will:
1. Revive and reactivate our minimally performing
Refineries to optimum capacity;
2. Make the industry and Nigeria one of the world
leading/cutting edge centres for clean oil and gas
technology; also producing leading world Oil and
Gas technologist, scientists, and owing mega
structure installations, drilling, processing, and
production facilities and engineers. These
facilities and scientists will be supported with the
best services and research facilities.
3. Fully develop the sector’s capacity to absorb
more of the nation’s new graduate in the labour
market. The sector will be funded to produce
more home-grown, but world class engineers,
scientists, technologist, etc.;
4. Modernise the NNPC and make it the national
energy champion. I will consider breaking it up
into more efficient, commercially driven units; and
may strip it of its regulatory powers, so as to
enable it tap into international capital market;
5. Enforce the government master plan for oil
companies to end flaring that pollutes the air and
damages the communities and people’s health
and ensure that they sell at least half of their gas
produced within Nigeria;
6. Speedily pass the much-delayed Petroleum
Industry Bill (PIB) and ensure that local content
issues are fully addressed
7. Make Nigeria the world’s leading exporter of
LNG through the creation of strategic
partnerships.
8. Stabilise oil price
The Society & Human Capital Development On
Education:
I will;
1. Fully review provisions of the Universal Basic
Education Act with emphasis on gender equity in
primary, secondary school enrolment whilst
improving the quality and substance of our
schools, through outcome based education, that
address the individual, family, and societal roles
in education; and the associative skills and
competencies that go with these responsibilities;
2. Targeting up to 20% of our annual budget for
this critical sector whilst making substantial
investments in training quality teachers at all
levels of the educational system;
3. Implement a performance based education,
predicated on outcomes, skills, and competences
as against the current certificate based
qualification. I will adjust the reward system
accordingly too. This way, exams malpractice and
certificate forgery will be resolved once and for
all. Young men and women interested in real
liberal arts education, based on a true
understanding of scientific, the humanistic, and
the social sciences will fill our classrooms to be
prepared for future leadership of the nation;
4. Enhance teacher training and improve the
competence of teachers in the light of the 21st
Century and beyond understanding of the learner
types, intelligence types, as the multiple
assessment types, in order to open up learning for
all our children types. The era of one student type
will give way to an all learner type for our
children and young people as well as adults who
want to return to the classroom to sharpen their
skills, competencies, and sensibilities. This re-
engineering of our education will be followed with
a clearly thought out and vigorous national
inspection programmes;
5. Make learning experiences more meaningful for
children as the nation’s education will no longer
be a preparation for life, but life itself. Our
children will be democratised for education, rather
than be educated for democracy. This view of
education will make educating our children more
cost-effective in the long run;
6. Provide One Meal a day for all elementary/
primary/Almajiri schools That will create jobs in
Agriculture, Catering, and Delivery Services
7. Develop and promote effective use of
innovative teaching methods/materials in our
schools;
8. Ensure a greater proportion of expenditure on
university education is devoted to helping our
youth to understand the juxtaposition of Science,
Technology, the Humanities and the Social
Sciences.
9. Establish at least six new universities of
Science and Technology with satellite campuses
in various states. These six universities should be
fully equipped with ICT technologies in order to
attract and encourage small and medium scale
ICT enterprises after their university education;
10. Establish technical colleges and vocational
centres in each state of the federation;
11. Provide more conducive environment for
private sector participation in all levels of
education. Re-authorised the NUC, TETFUN,
JAMB, etc, Acts to enable Private institutions of
Higher learning to benefit from research funds
and programmes that will serve the national
good;
12. Establish six centres of excellence to address
the needs of special education;
On Healthcare:
I will;
1. Prioritise the reduction of the infant mortality
rate substantially; reduce maternal mortality rates
to the levels acceptable by the World Health
Organisation; reduce HIV/AIDS and other
infectious diseases drastically and improve life
expectancy by an additional 10 years on average
through our National Healthy Living program;
2. Increase the number of physicians from 19 per
1000 population to 50 per 1000 through
deliberate medication education as epitomize by
nations such as Ghana. I will increase national
health expenditure per person per annum to about
N50,000 (from the less than N10,000 currently);
3. Increase the quality of all federal government
owned hospitals to world class standard by 2019;
4. Invest in cutting edge technology such as tele-
medicine in all major health centers in the country
through partnership programmes with
communities and the private sector;
5. Provide free ante-natal care for pregnant
women; free health care for babies and children
up to school going age and for the aged; and free
treatment for those afflicted with infectious
diseases such as tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS;
6. Boost the local manufacture of
pharmaceuticals and make non adulterated drugs
readily available.
Set an effective prosecution and punishment
systems, for those importing or adulterating
drugs in the country.
7. The enhancement of the Epidemiological
Units / Centres for Diseas Control to meet up with
Global standards in containment of disease
outbreaks, proper vaccine storage and research;
8. Create an Insurance Policy for our Journalists
as the nation faces hard times and our
Journalists face more dangers in the discharge of
their investigative work, to educate Nigerians in
their rights and responsibilities.
9. Ban medical tourism by our politicians from
May 29, 2015.
On Youth, Sports and Culture:
I will;
1. Provide the opportunities such as setting up
functional recreational facilities, Library with e-
services, Community Centers, in collaboration with
States, Local Government Authorities, Local
Development Areas, etc for youth to realize,
harness, and develop their potentials to the
fullest, in order to facilitate the emergence of the
new generation of citizens, who will be committed
to the sustenance of good governance and
service to the people and the country;
2. Establish Zonal world-class sports academies
and training institutes and ensure that Nigeria
occupies a place of pride in global sports and
athletics;
3. Revive and restructure the Nigerian Football
League and put incentives in place to make it as
competitive as other national leagues
4. Put in place measures to identify talents early
and ensure their participation in local and
international games to enable them to be true
professionals;
5. Help as well as mandate schools and
communities to create neighborhood playgrounds/
sports centre. I will create matching support
funds for communities to acquire the needed
equipment to develop skills and competencies;
6. Assist Nollywood to fully develop into world
class movie industry that can compete effectively
with Hollywood and Bollywood in due course. I
will support the creative and performing arts with
the necessary environment where by our great
entertainers do not end their lives in abject
poverty as is currently the case.
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