Muhammadu Buhari, the
presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), plans to
establish a soft loan bank for small traders and artisans, called the People
Moni Bank.
The People Moni Bank is an
offshoot of the People Moni Scheme, which aims to house the Trader Moni, Market
Moni, and Farmer Moni schemes, with plans to reach 10 million Nigerians.
According to the Muhammadu Buhari
campaign manual and the Next Level Scorecard, the president plans to provide 24
hours of electricity for Nigerians in the next five years.
Running with the theme, Next
Level, the president and his running mate, Yemi Osinbajo, plan to establish
10,000 smart classrooms every year — totaling 40,000 smart classrooms in four
years.
The document highlights the
achievements of the Buhari administration, including ongoing projects, while
stating what will be done to get to the promised land.
ON EDUCATION
The incumbent plans to “continue
to implement education policy which will support the revamp of public primary
and secondary schools revamp that includes setting up 10,000 smart classrooms
across the country”.
“Continue to structure the
education system to develop skills that are key to nation building such as
hardwork, discipline, cooperation, unity, respect, honesty, service,
leadership, accountability, and integrity
“Expand NHGSFP to be in all
states and reach at least 12 Million children”.
ON SECURITY
On security, the Buhari government
plans “to build a knowledge and technology-driven Army, the Government would
take steps to encourage the smartest Nigerians to enlist in the armed forces”.
It also plans to decentralise the
Police for effective policing of states and communities, while “ensuring that
we derive more strategic security benefits from our relationship with our
foreign partners”.
“Deploy adequate resources to mop
the illegal arms in circulation in the country and stop the proliferation of
arms around the country, and build one of the strongest and well-motivated
fighting forces in the World.”
ON THE ECONOMY
The Buhari admin plans to
continue a consistent delivery of the targets of the economic recovery and
growth plan, while providing a $500 million tech fund, aimed at creating 500,00
jobs in the creative sector.
The government plans to stop the
importation of petroleum products via private refineries and repair of
state-owned refineries, leading to “significant increase in GDP”.
“Continue investment in the most
vulnerable through the National Cash Transfer Program (NCTP) that identifies
the poorest in communities and makes a monthly amount of N5,000 available to
them and reach the target of 1 million poor households”.
BUILDING INFRASTRUCTURE
With infrastructure, the
government plans to keep up with the projects it says it has embarked on,
including, the Mambila power project, Lagos-Kano rail line, Second Niger
bridge, among others.
“Undertake an urgent review of
the Public Private Partnership (PPP) enabling environment to address the legal,
regulatory and operational challenges,” the document read in part.
The government plans to complete
all the roads under the SUKUK bond funding path, including the Lagos-Ibadan
expressway.
ON HEALTH
The incumbent plans to ensure 45
percent of the population is covered by the national primary health plan by
2023, from the current 12.6 percent today.
“Execute the National Strategic
Health Development Plan II that spans 5 years from 2018 to 2022,” the document
read.
“The six key pillars of the Plan
include providing an enabling environment for the attainment of health sector
goals, increased utilisation of essential package of health services,
strengthening the health system, improving protection from health emergencies
and health financing.
“The plan will attract N6.1
trillion of both public and private sector funding”.
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ReplyDeleteHmmm... Interesting!
ReplyDeleteI just hope these are real and not mere campaign promises