How My Team And I Plan To Fix Nigeria – Buhari General Buhari After years of broken promises, hyper-corruption, the feeling that politicians have become too remote from the people, etc., it is no wonder that Nigerians have completely lost faith in the country’s ability to govern itself not just because of the problems facing the country, but the lack of faith in the present set of leaders at the helm of affairs. WITH YOUR VOTE IN FEBRUARY 2014. WE CAN MAKE CHANGE HAPPEN ( A) POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE 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. I, Muhammadu Buhari, believe that our politics is broken. Our nation urgently needs fundamental political reform and improvement in governance, more transparency and accountability. If you elect me in February 2015, my administration will securing Nigeria’s future. (B) SECURITY AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION On National Security and Defence: We will urgently secure the territorial integrity of the nation. We 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, based on the resources available at each level, to address the peculiar needs of each community. We will therefore work with the National Assembly to set and revise, 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.We will push for more robust support in the Security and Economic stability of the West-African sub region and African Continent as a whole. We will seek and maintain close and frank relationship with ALL of West Africa; Special relationship with South Africa and its Sub-region, the rest of Africa; the UK, USA, Canada, EU, Asia, and the Middle East. On Conflict Resolution, National Unity, and Social Harmony We will: 1.Establish a Conflict Resolution Commission to help prevent, mitigate, and resolve civil conflicts within the polity; 2.Bring permanent peace and solutions 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 We 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, based 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 On the Economy: We 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, Nigeria’s rate of unemployment stood at about 8%, today it is estimated from official statistics to be close to 30%. We will embark on vocational training, entrepreneurial and skills acquisition schemes for graduates along with the creation of a 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. We will also encourage State Governments to focus on employment creation, by matching every one job created in the same state. All Progressives Congress We are completely committed to change Nigeria
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