Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - SUNDAY MUSINGS: President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) at Six Months: My Score-Card

Prof. I must say you are too generous with your marks. Perhaps your generosity is of superficial data.
On Sunday, November 29, 2015, Mobolaji Aluko <alukome@gmail.com> wrote:
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> SUNDAY MUSING:  PMB @ SIX MONTHS:  MY SCORE-CARD
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> Mobolaji E. Aluko. PhD
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> alukome@gmail.com
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> November 29, 2015
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> TABLE 1: A Score-card of PMB at Six Months
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> Remarks
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> Grade
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> Basis
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> What is there left to be done?
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> Ascension to Presidency by Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) and Vice-Presidency by Yemi Osibajo (VYO)
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> May 29, 2015
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> Preached "Change", he "belong(s) to everybody and to nobody" in particular…..
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> A
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> Free-and-Fair election; Goodluck Jonathan handed over peacefully
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> Focus on mandate delivery in the next three-and-a-half years
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> 2
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> Filled Various Administration Positions that don't require Senate Approval (SGF, etc.)
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> Various dates
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> Criticisms of ethnic unfairness, etc.
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> A
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> Has a right to choose these officials; within his constitutional limits. 
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> "6,000" more positions yet to be filled…
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> Filled Ministerial positions (36 in 25 Ministries)
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> Various dates
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> Some portfolios were surprising, but all in all competent hands, but will they succeed in present positions? (see Table 2)
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> B+
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> Fashola, Fayemi, Ngige, Audu, Amaechi, Udo Udoma…these are proven performers…the taste of the pudding will be in the eating
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> Ensure that each minister and ministry fit into the three-point agenda of Security, Anti-Corruption and Employment, with growing an INCLUSIVE ECONOMY as the over-arching ambition, not just INDICIAL DEVELOPMENT
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> Security
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> Various
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> Chose physically-fit and performing Heads of Military service branches; offensive strategy; increased morale, equipment, intelligence and information.  Gave a target deadline for eliminating Boko Haram; degraded, but not fully yet
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> Regional and international collaboration on cross-border security matters
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> Whole tracts of land have been recovered from BH, and many IDPs are returning to their homes.  However bombings continue – to be expected of insurgencies of this type
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> Pressing on with the offensive strategy
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> Looking out for security challenges elsewhere in the country (SE, SS), using lessons learnt in previous instances to stem further conflagration
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> Establish state and community policing in the shortest possible time
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> Anti-Corruption
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> Various
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> Initial focus on stemming corruption in Federal public service, in conjunction with its interface with the private sector (particularly oil and gas, as well as agriculture and insurance)
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> Enforcement of Treasury Single Action, Bank Verification Number (BVN) and the banning of payment of foreign currency (cash) into Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) inside Nigeria.
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> Re-energizing EFCC and ICPC, and going after loot recovery, both at home and abroad
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> These are far reaching steps, that may not yield all fruits right away, but in time, I am absolutely confident that they will.
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> Asset Declaration by all public officials should be accessible to all registered  NGOs who have "right-to-know"
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> Amend Section 308 of Constitution to enable criminal prosecution of Executives at Federal, State and Local Government levels.
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> Institute absolute zero tolerance for bribery and corruption among (1)  the Police and (2) Judges…zero tolerance…even a hint of it.
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> Employment
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> Various
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> PMB has identified ECONOMY DIVERSIFICATION – in non-oil sectors such as solid minerals, agriculture, culture and tourism, infrastructure and service industries – as the key to increasing employment, both on the short run and the long-run
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> B
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> Our oil economy has tanked, unlikely to recover any time soon…..yet we still have oil than most countries in the workd, and also have 1 million square kilometers of fertile and God-endowed land, sea and air….Competent ministers have been placed to guide these vital sectors
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> I am looking forward to the 2016 BUDGET – it will give an indication of the true direction of PMB's ECONOMIC POLICY.  I expect (1) removal of subsidy (2) conditional cash transfer (3) massive infrastructural development coupled with work corps (4) agricultural incentives with low-interest-rate loans, (5) a better balance between recurrent and capital expenditures (6) a quadrupling of the budget quantum etc.
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> OVERALL GRADE
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> A-
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> Table 2:  PMB and His Ministers – My Charge to Them
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> Minister
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> My Charge
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> North-West
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> A
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> A
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> Katsina
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> Muhammadu Buhari
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> President & "Prime Minister"
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> All buck stops at his desk as the only elected "Minister"; all blame on him, all praise to his team
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> B
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> South-West
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> B
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> B
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> Ogun
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> Yemi Osinbajo
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> Vice-President & "Deputy PM"
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> Ditto – Economy matters in particular, as Chair of NEC
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> South-West
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> Ekiti
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> Kayode Fayemi
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> Solid Minerals
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> Diversify, diversify, diversify the economy; there is solid mineral of commercial value in each state, unlike liquid mineral (oil)
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> Lagos
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> Babatunde Fashola
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> Power, Works & Housing
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> As "Infrastructure" Minister, Ensure Reliable power, good roads, affordable housing
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> Ogun
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> Kemi Adeosun
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> Finance
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> Manage our money better, re-balance our capital and recurrent expenditures;  balance our budget
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> Ondo
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> Claudius Daramola
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> Niger-Delta (State)
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> Enrich, empower, employ the Golden Goose area that lays the national egg
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> Osun
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> Isaac Adewole
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> Health
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> Strengthen the national health system, particularly health insurance and primary health care
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> Oyo
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> Adebayo Shittu
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> Communications
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> Strengthen our national communication system (postal, tele- and other electronic), remove customer exploitation
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> South-East
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> 7
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> 1
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> Abia
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> Okechukwu Enelamah
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> Industry, Trade & Investment
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> Enlarge our national industrial base, seek international markets for our goods, increase FDI
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> Anambra
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> Chris Ngige
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> Labour & Employment
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> Increase employment, reduce labor tensions
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> Ebonyi
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> Ogbonnaya Onu
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> Science & Technology
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> Deploy 21st Century S&T in all ramifications, including in education delivery
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> Enugu
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> Geoffrey Onyeama
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> Foreign Affairs
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> Complement our domestic policy in economy, education, security and anti-corruption; engage our Diaspora more positively
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> 5
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> Imo
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> Anthony Anwuka
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> Education (State)
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> Lift education standards, increase access, including for the girl-child
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> South-South
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> Akwa-Ibom
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> Udoma Udo Udoma
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> Budget & National Planning
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> Re-balance capital and recurrent budgets, and offer quality evidence-based planning
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> Bayelsa
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> Heineken Lokpobiri
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> Agriculture & Rural Development (State)
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> Diversify our economy, feed the nation, increase employment,  reduce urban drift
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> Cross-River
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> Usani Uguru
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> Niger-Delta Affairs
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> Enrich, empower, employ the Golden Goose area that lays the national egg
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> Delta
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> Ibe Kachikwu
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> Petroleum Resources (State)
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> Manage our main resource better, reduce corruption in the industry,   enlarge the value chain
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> Edo
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> Osagie Ehanire

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