The Buhari Legacy - Killings Without End, N77 Trillion Debt, 22% Inflation vanguardngrnews: Nigeria
By Charles KumoluNo, it won't be like the bequest of many leaders, who had superintended over the affairs of nations for years.
His staunch supporters and the President himself had severally scored the administration high, but statistics say something different on the economy, security, anti-corruption, infrastructure and national unity among others.At the time Buhari came to power on May 29, 2015, Nigeria's economy wasn't the best of it as crude oil earnings had plummeted.The country's GDP was $493. 3 billion but it declined to $440.8 billion in 2021.
When the President took over from Jonathan, Nigeria's had single-digit inflation, which stood at nine percent. But as of December 2022, the NBS put the rate at 21.34 per cent. "Nigeria's development progress has stagnated. Between 2001 and 2014, Nigeria was a rising star in West Africa, with an average growth rate of seven per cent per year, and it ranked among the top 15 fastest-growing economies in the world", the Bank noted.
It observed that total power generation capacity loss in the energy sector rose to N1.76tn, between 2015 and 2022. The Yar'adua/Jonathan government added $1.39 billion to what they inherited while the Jonathan government incurred an additional $3.8 billion.As of May 29, 2015, Boko Haram terrorists posed a major security challenge to the nation. They held sway in some territories and at the same time could commit large-scale atrocities. The Buhari administration at some point succeeded in degrading the group's capacity to commit mass murder beyond Borno State.
The activities of Ansaru terrorists, herdsmen, bandits, kidnappers and Unknown Gunmen, UGM, have led to the death of thousands under Buhari's watch.
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