FOURTEEN ARCHIVEMENTS OF GENERAL BUHARI WHILE IN POWER Here are some of General Buharis numerous achievements while in office; 1. The wrestling of a major concession from OPEC in 1984 to increase Nigerias oil production quota from 1.3 million barrels to 1.45 million barrels per day. 2. The initiation of a public campaign against indiscipline known as War Against Indiscipline (WAI). This policy won him national and universal applause, as a result of its effectiveness. 3. In order to reform the economy, as Head of State, Buhari started to rebuild the nations social-political and economic systems, along the realities of Nigerias austere economic conditions. The rebuilding included removing or cutting back the excesses in national expenditure, obliterate or remove completely corruption from the nations social ethics, shifting from mainly public sector employment to self employment. Buhari also encouraged import substitution industrialisation based to a great extent on the use of local materials and he tightened importation. 4. General Buhari in 1984, was able to achieve 15 percent cut from Shagaris 1983 Budget. 5. The victory of Nigerias Under-17 Team (the Golden Eagles) at the Kodak World Cup Soccer Competition in China in August, 1985. 6. Even as a Military Head of State, Buhari maintained and enhanced diplomatic relations with all countries and international organisations such as the OAU, UN, OPEC, ECOWAS and the Commonwealth of Nations. He also honoured all treaty obligations entered into by previous governments. 7. The freezing of accounts of political parties and corrupt ex-political office holders in the Second Republic in 1984. 8. The change of colour of the nations currency notes (except the fifty kobo note) in April 1984 to stop currency trafficking. The exercise rendered almost half of the estimated N6 billion in circulation worthless at the expiration of the change. 9. The launching of the Expanded Immunization Programme (EPI) in May, 1984. 10. The introduction of a new Customs Tariff, which reduced the range of import duties from between zero and 500 per cent to between 5 per cent and 200 per cent. 11. The granting of import duty exemption to only twenty items including agricultural implements, air craft, fuels, lubricants, educational films, technical assistance materials etc. 12. The imposition of a levy on dormant companies 13.The rescheduling of the nations short term trade debts valued at over =N=5 billion and the subsequent issuance of promissory notes to the uninsured creditors. 14. The procurement of new Air Buses by Nigeria Airways in 1985 to boost air transportation. Note that all these were achieved in less than 3 years, and his outstanding achievements as PTF chairman have not been mentioned. #TeamGMB All the way
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