I would like to see President Buhari’s New Year’s Day address set production targets in several key sectors with punitive measures for ministers for fail to fulfill their quotas

By Ayo Akinfe

Can someone please explain to me why we should not meet these targets?

(1) Steel - 10m tonnes
(2) Cocoa - 1.5m tonnes
(3) Natural gas - 100m cubic metres
(4) Rice - 10m tonnes
(5) Distributed electricity - 20,000MW
(6) Tarred roads - 200,000km
(7) Assembled automobiles - 500,000 units
(8) Bitumen - 10m tonnes
(9) Palm oil - 20m tonnes
(10) Clean energy - 5,000MW

Any minister who fails to meet his targets should be removed from office and face a statutory charge of economic sabotage, which should attract a minimum one year jail sentence. If we want Nigeria to advance, we must be prepared to force the pace of development.

“We cannot afford the tranquilising drug of gradualism.” - Dr Martin Luther King