In this report by Maxwell Adeyemi Adeleye Nigerians score president Muhammadu Buhari on his performance in the last two years as President of Nigeria. Read on
Price of Gaari Ike Oda (paint rubber) jumped from #400 to #1,100 within two years.
. Toyota Camry Pencil Light jumped from #900,000 in 2015 to #1.3million within two years. Middle class Nigerians can no longer afford tokunbo cars. They now buy Naija used cars.
. A liter of Petrol increased from #87 to #145 within two years. The campaign promise was to reduce it to #40 within two years. Cost of transportation is no longer smiling.
. NYSC allowance has remained the same with prices of goods and high standard of living turning corps members to beggars in their places of primary assignment.
. For the first time since independence, a dollar was exchanged for over #500. The campaign promise was to put in efforts that would reduce the strength of dollar over naira.
. Power supply has gone from hold your candle to sleep in darkness. The price of I better pass my Neighbor generator gone from #12,000 in 2015 to #35,000 in 2017.
. Essential commodities have been taken out of the reach of common people. Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) are dying. Manufacturers are packing off the radar. Stock market dying. Influx of Foreign investors declining.
. Though public office holders now steal with caution, but largely, the much talked-about anti-corruption war is more of a window dressing than reality. It is selective, bias and operationally targeted at those not on the same page with central government.
Looters within the government are either shielded out rightly or fought with toy gun while opposition looters are either hounded in prison custody or confronted with AK47 coupled with well-oiled media trial.
The Army remained unreformed. Corruption in Custom, Police, Air force and other uniform organizations is booming like wave of Pacific Ocean. States and LGAs could no longer pay salaries. Immigration officers collect money before stamping your pass at airport.
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Herdsmen are becoming more dangerous than Boko Haram. You cultivate 30 acres of land to plant maize and cassava. In less than 2 days, herdsmen finished it. Subsistence and Mechanized Farming dying in Southern Nigeria and Middle Belt.
I say expressly that aside the almost 60% nailing of Boko Haram, the government of President Muhammadu Buhari has been a disaster to the commoners whose back he rode to power.
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