CountDown To Nigeria 2015: APC Promise Of Hope For Nigerians * APC government shall vigorously pursue the expansion of electricity generation and distribution of up to 40,000 megawatts in four to eight years. * APC government will constitute a Presidential Task Force on Power put the nation’s power generation at 3,311.40MW, making power available from renewable energy sources such as coal, solar and wind. * Its government would muster the political will to wage a stringent war against corruption. The party warned that without successfully waging war against corruption, Nigeria’s post-oil-economy would be disastrous. * APC will embark on a massive and progressive re-organisation and revolution of the agricultural industry. * APC would embark on a national infrastructural development programme through a private-public sector partnership.it would construct 4,000 kilometres of “supper highways and revatilse the railway system through the modernisation and rehabilitation of tracks. The party added that it would build 200 kilometres of standard railway lines annually. * Allocation up to 10 per cent of the country’s annual budget to the education sector.The party promised to re-introduce technical and vocational education and review the 6-3-3-4 system * In the health sector, the APC said that it would work to reduce infant mortality rate by 2019 to three per cent and reduce maternal mortality by more than 70 per cent.The APC said that it would make free ante-natal care for pregnant women and provide free health care for babies and children up to school going age. * On industrialisation, the APC said that it would conduct a state by state census of ailing industries that would enable it to establish an industrial resuscitation fund. The party added that it would create new development banks that would make affordable credits available for industrial growth. * On job creation, the APC said that it would maintain “a sound macro-economic policy environment, run an efficient government and preserve the independence of the Central Bank of Nigeria. The party said that it would make the economy one of the fastest growing economies by achieving a real GDP growth of 10 per cent annually.
Posted on: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 08:51:32 +0000
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