BUHARI’S QUIET REVOLUTION IN OUR UNIVERSITIES

President Buhari is not forward because he is intelligent - Garba Shehu

BUHARI’S QUIET REVOLUTION IN OUR UNIVERSITIES AND WHY CROOKS SAY NIGERIA IS NO LONGER WORKING!

 

by Cham Faliya Sharon

 

Anyone closely monitoring the news since the advent of the Buhari administration will not have missed the reports of the administration’s injection of funds in the provision of independent power plants for each of the country’s federal universities as well as internal road networks, water supply schemes, and many other infrastructure aimed at enhancing the status and quality of our universities. Mind you, all of these were done (and are still being done) with very minimal revenues unlike the profligate administrations before it that enjoyed huge revenues but did very little for our educational sector, and, in fact, all other sectors.

 

Apparently, President Buhari’s investments in our federal universities have begun paying off with the cheering news emerging from the Bayero University Kano that the institution is now saving 4.5 million Naira monthly on diesel after the federal government through its Rural Electrification Agency (REA) completed and commissioned Africa’s second largest off-grid hybrid solar plant there. The solar power plant has a 7.1MW capacity, and now provides uninterrupted power supply to about 55, 815 students and 3, 077 staff of the university. Just like I mentioned earlier, this isn’t Bayero University Kano alone; the Energizing Education Programme of the Buhari administration is currently developing such clean and sustainable energy scheme for all the 37 federal universities.

BUHARI'S QUIET REVOLUTION IN OUR UNIVERSITIES
BUHARI’S QUIET REVOLUTION IN OUR UNIVERSITIES

Having said that, you will now begin to wonder where the noises that Buhari’s administration is a failure are coming from. But let me give you a clue for free. You will all agree with me that the diesel supplier to Bayero University Kano, who has been netting 4.5 million Naira monthly over a long time has now lost that “opportunity” of reaping dividends over the contrived poor power supply that existed for decades. Chances are, this supplier could be chanting that Nigeria is no longer working under Buhari! And if you could stretch it a little bit further, the university’s staff hierarchy that may have been in the loop of benefits of the monthly 4.5 million Naira diesel supply payments could also be chanting that Nigeria is no longer working under Buhari because of this lost “opportunity”!


Just pause for a minute and ponder within you why a certain class of people keep wailing loudly and shamelessly that Nigeria is no longer working under Buhari in spite of the massive infrastructural developments his administration is doing across the country! Electricity supply has improved significantly; roads and bridges are being built across the country; deep seaports are being rebuilt and our local airports being turned into model international standards; railways are being built with modern trains purchased to run on them; broken dams are being fixed; new gas plants and many other infrastructure keep cropping up here and there, yet their song is “Nigeria is no longer working under Buhari”!

 

Clearly, that song is a composition of those who have been thrown off the train of wicked opportunism that has been feeding fat on Nigeria’s misfortune. And they knew that if they kept on singing that song, the poorly informed street person will also clutch it and begin to sing it. And when they sing this song of lies, you – the rational being – gets to wonder what was it that was working during the 16 years of plunder and rape that was unleashed on Nigeria by the criminal class that held sway between 1999 and 2015? Is their concept of a working country a country without motorable roads, bridges, railways, poor electricity, food imports, and irregular payment of workers’ salaries in spite of huge revenue earnings?


Well, let them keep singing their song of lies. It merely gives them cold comfort from the blazing heat of the truth they are running away from. But then, just as the sun cannot be hidden, Buhari’s projects and achievements are also not hidden. They are visible and provable.

By the time they wake up from their dizziness of lies, Nigeria will have been transformed from the village crooks turned it into to a city shining on a hill.

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