Three days to the first year anniversary
of its Federal Government, yesterday, presented its mid-term scorecard
for the past 12 months, saying the present economic challenges facing
the country were not enough excuse for failure in fulfilling electoral
promises.
Presenting the scorecard yesterday, at a
meeting with a team of ministers and the Broadcasting Organization of
Nigerian, BON, in Abuja, the Minister of information and Culture, Alhaji
Lai Mohammed, said the administration had made giant strides in the
three key areas of its campaign.
The meeting, which had the ministers of
the Federal Capital Territory, Power, Works and Housing, Labour and
Employment and Trade and Investment in attendance, afforded the media
the opportunity to engage in a robust engagement with key players in
government.
The minister who expressed optimism
about the achievement of the present administration, insisted that the
administration was on track and reeled out the achievements in three
broad campaign areas.
Insecurity:
In tackling insecurity, Mohammed said the administration had succeeded in clipping the wings of Boko Haram in the past one year, to the point of insurgents having lost their capacity to carry out the kind of spectacular attacks for which they became infamous.
In tackling insecurity, Mohammed said the administration had succeeded in clipping the wings of Boko Haram in the past one year, to the point of insurgents having lost their capacity to carry out the kind of spectacular attacks for which they became infamous.
Fight Against Corruption:
On the fight against corruption, the
minister maintained that the Buhari administration had demonstrated
enough political will to tackle corruption that was winning war.
For him, it was corruption that
prolonged the war against Boko Haram and dispatched many soldiers and
civilians to their early graves.
His words: ‘today, the issue of
corruption has become topical in national discourse and the corrupt are
no longer able to flaunt their ill-gotten wealth with impunity, as they
used to do. This is because the government has succeeded in sensitizing
Nigerians to the cost of corruption to their lives.
Economy
In the face the present economic
challenges, Mohammed said that government appreciated the great
challenge facing it and decided to see opportunities rather than
difficulties by working assiduously to diversify the nation’s economy
away from oil.
While these efforts are on, he also said
that the administration equally decided to plug all financial loopholes
through the Treasury Singles Account(TSA), into which trillions of
Naira have accrued so far.
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