Change a gradual process or just another scam by our politicians?

President Muhammadu Buhari promised to change Nigeria. At the time, his supporters had reeled out a lot of positives which were to be achieved in the first year. His opponents, however, derided him for not telling Nigerians the type of change he meant, whether positive or negative.

Nigerians would recall that security, corruption and job creation were the three main issues on which Buhari premised his campaigns. While he may have tried in the area of security, a lot still needs to be done in revamping the economy as well as creating jobs.

Some of the issues President Buhari had to tackle in an attempt to bring these craved change to Nigerians

Insurgency

 President Buhari fulfilled the promise made during his inaugural speech that the insurgency of Boko Haram is the most immediate problem which security forces cannot solve with the nation’s command and control centre based in Abuja. The government immediately relocated the command centre to Maiduguri and changed the service chiefs to win the war against terrorists. Today, the security forces have taken the fight to the sect and many Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) have returned home including the much publised chibok girls

The corruption fight of the present administration has been challenged by many Nigerians. While supporters of the administration hail Buhari for this ‘feat,’ his opponents have said the battle is one-sided and more of a media trial cum political witch-hunt. An essential milestone recorded by President Buhari’s administration in fighting corruption in the public sector is the implementation of the Single Treasury Account (TSA), which government said generated N3 trillion ($15 billion) at the end of March.

Foreign trips Although questioned in some quarters, the foreign trips engaged in by President Muhammadu Buhari have continued to impact positively on the image of Nigerians home and abroad. On the economy and corruption fight, President Buhari had used the advantages of some of these trips to sign Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) that would, in the long run, result in repatriation of the stolen monies and encourage foreign direct investments in the economy to achieve the diversification projects.

Job creation have strategies have been but in place to provide jobs for the Nigeria masses, programs such as the 

N- power program

Bank of industries loans

Massive employment into the civil service with 

The Nigerian immigration recruiting

The FIR recruiting

The recrution of teacher's

These maybe a very bold step in the reduction of unemployment and poverty elevation but its a little drop in the pan, as the issues of unemployment has become a so entangling on the Nigerian system that it would take a very long and slow process to contain and reduce its effect to the minimum.

But the question is now that the president Muhammadu Buhari is sick and not within the country. 

Will the acting president be able to make good of the promises?

Will the process be faster as many have accused the president of being slow?

Or it be just another hiccup in the way causing the process to slow down?

Or is it all a mirage made by the government and non of these policies are really working?

As always we love your comments! How has the adminstration affected you? 

Will you vote change again in the next election? Is it too early to say??