His Excellency President M. Buhari:
General Mohammadu Buhari, APC Presidential candidate
has announced to Nigerians what he will strive to achieve in his first 100 days
as President and Commander-In-Chief of Nigeria's Armed Forces:
Corruption
and Governance
I pledge to:
Publicly declare my assets and liabilities
Encourage all my appointees to publicly declare their assets
and liabilities as a pre-condition for appointment. All political appointees
will only earn the salaries and allowances determined by the Revenue
Mobilization and Fiscal Allocation Commission (RMFAC).
Personal leadership in the war against corruption
Inaugurate the National Council on Procurement as stipulated
in the Procurement Act. The Federal Executive Council, which has been turned to
a weekly session of contract bazaar, will concentrate on its principal function
of policy making.
Review and implement audit recommendations by Nigeria
Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative including those on remittances
and remediation.
Work with the National Assembly towards the immediate
enactment of a Whistle Blower Act
Work with the National Assembly to strengthen ICPC and EFCC
by guaranteeing institutional autonomy including financial and prosecutorial
independence and security of tenure of officials. Make the Financial
Intelligence Unit of the EFCC autonomous and operational.
Encourage proactive disclosure of information by government
institutions in the spirit of the Freedom of Information Act.
Ensure all MDAs and parastatals regularly comply with their
accountability responsibilities to Nigerians through the National Assembly.
All political officer holdersearn only the salaries and
emoluments determined and approved by the Revenue Mobilization and Fiscal
Commission RMFAC.
Work with the leadership of the National Assembly and the
Judiciary to cut down the cost of governance.
I will present a National Anti corruption Strategy.
Insurgency
and Insecurity
I have had the rare privilege of serving my country in the
military in various capacities and rose to become a Major General and
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. I defended the territorial integrity of
our nation.
I pledge to:
As Commander-in-Chief, lead from the front and not behind in
the comfort and security of Aso Rock to boost the morale of fighting forces and
the generality of all Nigerians.
Give especial attention to the welfare of our armed forces
and their families; lost heroes and their families and the victims of
insurgency.
Boost the morale of the men and women in the field by public
recognition of their efforts through memorabilia, stamps, statues, regular rotation,
regular payment of allowances, regular communication between the men and
officers of security agencies, provision of best health care and housing for
families of deceased comrades.
I will present a marshal plan to the nation that will combat
insurgency, ethnic and religious violence, kidnapping and rural banditry.
Provide of the best and appropriate military and other
materials the country needs to combat insurgency, ethnic and religious
violence, kidnapping and rural banditry.
Establish personal relationship with governors of the
affected states by insurgency, with leaders of the countries in the region and
with leaders around the world to coordinate efforts to combat insurgency, oil
theft, piracy and criminality.
Restore confidence in the bilateral and multilateral
partnerships in addressing insurgency including procurements.
Activate regular meetings of the National Police Council to
ensure the discharge of its true constitutional role in a transparent and
accountable way.
As a father, I feel the pain of the victims of insurgency,
kidnapping and violence whether they are the widows and orphans of military,
paramilitary, civilians and parents or the Chibok girls. My government shall
act decisively on any actionable intelligence to #BringBackOurGirls.
Niger
Delta
I pledge to:
Restore the integrity of the Niger Delta by implementing
relevant sections of the Ledum Technical Committee on human capital
development, resource management and distribution, governance and rule of law,
reclamation and environmental and sustainable development.
Commit myself and my administration to the phased
implementation of the United Nations Environment Program's(UNEP)
recommendations on Ogoniland.
Unveil a marshal plan for the regenerative development of
the Niger Delta.
Diversity
Diversity refers to the inherent complexities of the
variations in the social fabric of a people. Elements of poorly managed
diversities include absence of cohesion, low capacity or political will to
address resulting tensions, weak institutions of the state, in-equalities in
every facet, impunity, breakdown of mutual trust, rising incidences of violence
and total breakdown of law and order. To quickly reverse this observable trend
in our society:
I pledge to:
Continually acknowledge and consciously equality and equity
in all government businesses and activities.
Implement the National Gender Policy including 35% of
appointive positions for women.
Work with National Assembly to pass a National Disability
Bill, which I shall immediately assent, into Law.
Immediately charge relevant MDAs to implement new building
codes to ensure that people with disability have easier access.
I will lead the campaign for restoration of mutual trust and
cohesion for nation building, while also working with the National
Assembly to make appropriation to strengthen institutions
and platforms promoting dialogue and inclusion.
I will promote amendment to the provisions of section 14:3
of the Constitution to give effect to the expansion of the scope of
representation to include women and persons with disabilities.
Work with National Assembly to pass the National Disability
Act and the Equal Opportunities Bill.
Health
I pledge to:
Implement the National Health Act 2014,which guarantees
financial sustainability to the health sector and minimum basic health care for
all and ban medical tourism by government officials.
Launch special programme to improve availability of water
and sanitation.
Review occupational health laws and immediately commence
enforcement of the provisions to reduce hazards in the work place.
Unveil a health sector review policy to ensure the efficient
and effective management of our health systems.
Mobilize the health workforce needed for the all-round
implementation of our primary health programmes for rural communities.
Agriculture
I pledge to:
Make pronouncement to make agriculture a major focus of the
government and lay the institutional foundation to attract large scale
investments and capital into the agricultural infrastructural sector
Launch a massive agricultural infrastructural investments
plan that will focus on production, transportation infrastructure and marketing
logistics across Nigeria
Launched a massive, well-coordinated and innovatively funded
Youth in Commercial Agribusiness Programme.
Establish agricultural produce pricing and marketing
mechanism and institutions
Work with State and Local Governments to launch Agricultural
Support Programmes that will drive state level massive agricultural land
development and mechanization agenda
Revamp, revitalize and continuous improvement on the
national agricultural extension and rural support service system
Initiated a holistic project aimed at promoting and securing
access of standardized agricultural products to both local and international
markets
Lay the groundwork for a standardized market uptake and
aggregation outlets for specific agricultural produce
Initiated a comprehensive revamp of key development banks
(Bank of Agriculture, Bank of Industry and Nigeria Import & Export Bank)
operations to fund inclusive agricultural value chain operations
Lay the groundwork for an ambitious, massive, seamless,
accessible single-digit agricultural value-chain finance programme
Initiated the process to appropriately liberalise and expand
agricultural and rural insurance system with premium subventions support to
farmers
Revamp the agricultural cooperative system to drive rural
agriculture and improves stakes for smallholder farmers
Launch appropriate tariff rectification instrument to
support import-export anomalies
Management
of the Economy for prosperity
Every Nigerian deserves to benefit from the running of our
collective resources. We promise not to leave any Nigerian behind in our
determination to create, expand and ensure equitable and effective allocation
of economic opportunities. No matter the amount of funds we generate, unless
there is an efficient and effective utilization, it will only create few
billionaires. Unless we fight corruption, the economy will only benefit the
greedy in our society.
I pledge to:
Work with the legislature to strengthen constitutional
provisions to make the meetings of the National Economic Council more periodic
and predictable and its decisions more binding.
Present annual report on the state of the economy to the
National Assembly and the Nigerian People.
The Preparation of Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF)
and annual Budget will be guided by job creation projections.
Negotiate rule-based oil revenue management process, and
adopt a rule based excess crude account management process, which will entail a
fixed percentage (e.g. 10% or 20%) of oil revenue each year, and also set clear
rules about where the proceeds will be domiciled, when the savings can be used,
by whom, and what the savings can be used for.
Work with the National Assembly to adopt a rule based,
realistic and predictable oil benchmark as a basis for a more transparent
management of federation account revenue and excess crude account.
Launch a Small Business Loan Guarantee Scheme in partnership
with Commercial Lenders to improve access to finance for SMEs.
Automate the business registration process to ensure sole
proprietorships can be opened within 24 hours and incorporated business within
5 days.
Reduce the cost of company registration to a maximum of N10,
000 for sole proprietorships to encourage formalization.
Review and regulate import duty waivers to promote
transparency and accountability;
Forge partnerships with state and local governments and
private sectors to promote innovation, entrepreneurship and cottage industries;
Work with the National Assembly to review and finalize work
on the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB);
Boost community and local participation in downstream
through expansion and promotion of local content development;
Commence organizational reforms to curb corruption in NNPC
and its subsidiaries
Industrial
Relations
I pledge to:
Give political force to collective bargaining in all sectors
of the economy, revive Tripartite Committee of Government, employers and
workers organisations, whose task would be to constantly review matters of
labour relations and the practice of industrial relations.
Undertake to institute an annual statutory tripartite body
contribute towards formulation and implementation of broad macro economic
policies.
Reposition Ministry of Employment, Labour and Productivity
and all relevant agencies mandated to manage labour dispute and grievance
handling process to ensure pre-emptive strategies to halt the current frequent
incessant strikes phenomenon.
Power
The power sector has become a monstrous demonstration of
corruption. Despite investment of more than X there is nothing to show but few
fat cats.
I pledge to:
War against corruption in the power sector
Tackle the issue of gas availability for the proposed power
plants
Emphasis alternative sources of power such as small, medium
and large hydro plants (Mambilla has capacity for 4,700 megawatts), wind, coal
and solar. Efforts will be geared towards smaller and potable power supply.
Start an accelerated training of human resources for the
power sector.
Work with PenCom to consider giving soft loans to power
sector operators.
Youth
and ICT Development
The youth are the salt of the nation. More than 60% of our
population is categorized as being of youth age. The future of the nation
depends on the brains of the youth and not on what is buried under the ground.
I pledge to:
Declare support for the appointment of young people with
requisite qualification into key political offices to begin the incubation and
mentoring for a successor political generation.
Unveil a policy that all federal contractors must employ at
least 50% young people.
Work with the private sector to establish innovation fund
for young people.
Encourage that girls’ and boys' education is prioritized in
states where this is established to be a big problem.
Review and make pronouncements, with attendant political
will and commitment, on the full implementation of the national youth policy.
Establish innovation centers in conjunction with proposed
National Science Foundation and the private sector.
Include vocational skills in the curriculum of Almajiri
schools so that they become self-employed.
Unveil a policy that will begin to multiply the efforts and
effects of technology incubation centers to at least establish two of such
centers in each of the geopolitical zone.
Establish a free-tuition and scholarship scheme for pupils
who have shown exceptional aptitude in science subjects at O/Levels to study
ICT-related courses.
Immediately establish linkages with friendly names to
champion exchange programmes for the acquisition of IT related skills.
Extend the local content policies to cover software and
hardware developments in the youth-driven markets. Put in place a quality
assurance mechanism to ensure that standards are met and adhered to and make it
a policy for companies to procure a % of their ICT needs from the local market.
Hold a summit of all ICT service providers, OEMs, etc both
local and foreign that are doing business in Nigeria to device concrete skills
transfer and capacity building models in a sustainable manner.
Conclusion: According to Chinua Achebe the problem of
Nigeria is problem of leadership. You can only kill a snake from the head. Make
the right decision
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