Presidency announces Buhari’s 57 achievements

The Presidency on Saturday released what it called the 57 achievements of the Muhammadu Buhari administration as the nation marks 57 years of Independence.

The list was released by the Vice President’s Office.

The achievements were listed under different categories that included security and related matters, economy, anti-graft war and others.

Topping the list of Buhari’s achievement under security, according to the document, is the release of 106 Chibok girls, as well as taking as captives over 16,000 Boko Haram members.

Other achievements under security are tackling insurgency, decimation of Boko Haram in the North East, recovering of 14 local governments and territories previously under Boko Haram’s control in the North East, rebuilding lives of citizens there, with about one million displaced persons in the region returning to their communities in two years of this administration.

The Presidency also listed curbing the incidence of kidnap across the country, including the arrest of kidnap kingpins and dismantling of kidnap cells across the country.

Others are restoring morale of the Nigerian military; re-organising and better equipping of the Nigerian Armed Forces; purchase of 12 Super-Tucano aircraft worth $600m to aid the Nigerian military’s current operations in the North East; ensuring continued peace in the Niger Delta through consistent funding of the FG amnesty programme for ex-militants; and the introduction of an improved mechanism for distribution of aid to IDPs in the North East through the establishment of the Special Intervention Programme of the Federal Government called door-to-door strategy. Read more….