President Buhari it has been about 14+ months since you have been elected President and why should you keep blaming the past govt for your present and foreseen failures?
The past govt was already diversifying the economy when the gullible zombies voted you in and you came and obliteratd the good efforts by the previous govt. Through the comprehensive Agricultural Transformation Agenda program of the previous govt, they recorded many landmark achievements.
Through agriculture they created thousands of jobs across the country.
The provision of inputs in 10 Northern states enabled dry season farming; and profitably engaged over 250,000 farmers and youths even during the dry season.
Through the comprehensive Agricultural Transformation Agenda program, inflation fell to 7.8% in October 2013, its lowest since 2008, as a result of higher domestic food production.
The previous govt launched the Growth Enhancement Scheme to provide targeted support for seeds and fertilizers to 5 million farmers per year or 20 million farmers within four years.
Through the scheme, they were providing subsidized inputs to farmers via an e-Wallet program.
In fiscal year 2013, an estimated 4.2 million farmers received subsidized inputs. As a result, in 2013, they produced 1.1 million metric tonnes of dry season rice across 10 Northern states; and over 250,000 farmers and youths in these states are now profitably engaged in farming even during the dry season.
The Jonathan Administration launched Staple Crop Processing Zones to support investments in the entire agricultural value chain. There are significant private investment commitments from agribusiness ventures such as: Flour Mills of Nigeria, the Dangote Group, Syngenta, Indorama, AGCO, and Belstar Capital just to name a few.
In 2012, 2.2 million metric tonnes of cassava chips were exported, exceeding the Agricultural Transformation Agenda’s target by over 100%, while the 40% substitution of cassava for wheat has been achieved through research and collaboration with the IITA and Federal Institute for Industrial Research.
Similarly, there has been a decline in wheat imports to Nigeria from an all-time high of 4,051,000 MT in 2010 to 3,700,000 MT in 2012.
About 200 women in Benue State were trained on how to make compost for farming and 360 farmers in the same state, were trained on climate change adaptability in agriculture.
The environment and farming in Benue state got a boost from about 600 men and women in Benue state who participated in training on how to be environmentally better farmers.
The GEJ Administration established community woodlots of 10 hectares each in Plateau and Kogi states. They restored 10 hectares of degraded forest in Achareni Forest Reserves in Kogi state and rehabilitated 10 hectares degraded forest reserves in Niger state.
The GEJ administration also launched Presidential Initiative on Coastal and River Bank protection on flood in Asa River (Kwara State).
They established two skill acquisition centres to train people on the fabrication of solar -powered grinding machines in Kaiama and Baruten in Kwara State. and so on!
Nigeria was ranked as the 3rd fastest growing in the world, but Buhari's govt took Nigeria to about 20th in Africa, not even the world.
It took Buhari virtually a year to appoint ministers and even the ministers he appointed were selected out of cynicism and cronyism, non of them is as competent as Jonathan's ministers.
Finally, What policies has Buhari projected to diversify the economy?
He is rather busy depriving private stakeholders of economic policy making participation and turning Nigeria into a Socialist economy instead of a Mixed economy.
Now i ask are we in a communist state?.
We forget too soon. That's our problem.
We also forget that diversification is a journey and the past administration has started, as i rightly pointed out.
What is needed is to sustain and speed it up instead of blame game propaganda.
Only the truth shall set Nigerians free!
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