The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the Buhari Administration has recorded laudable achievements, despite a terrible economic downturn and an empty purse foisted on it by those who monumentally mismanaged the economy. In his remarks at the launch of a book chronicling the Administration’s achievements in Abuja on Thursday, the Minister said, “despite those who are daily trying to muddle the waters, this Administration has, through fidelity to discipline, determination and transparency, recorded landmark achievements that are putting our country on the path of sustainable growth. Taking a broad view, this Administration is delivering in the broad areas that form the plank of its policies which includes the massive provision of infrastructure, ease of doing business and agriculture, just to mention a few.”
Alhaji Mohammed said with the fact that nothing can be achieved without security, the Administration has successfully tackled the menace of Boko Haram, which had crippled the North-east and even put the residents of the Federal Capital Territory on tenterhooks, following attacks on the UN Complex, the police headquarters and crowded motor parks, all in the FCT. He reeled out the Administration’s achievements in several sectors, including power where he said generation has increased from 2,690MW on 29 May 2015 to 6,619MW; transmission capacity from 5,000MW to 6,700MW and distribution capacity from 4,000MW to 4,600MW as at September 2017.
On Infrastructure, the Minister said the Administration has increased, many times over, the budget allocated to roads (from 18 billion to 198.25 billion Naira), power (from 5 billion to 91.2 billion Naira) and housing (from 1.8 billion to 71.559 billion Naira), hence was able to construct or rehabilitate a total of 766 kilometres of roads across the country in 2017. On the economy, he said headline inflation has fallen for nine consecutive months this year and that foreign reserves are up to $34 billion, from $24 billion a year ago.
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