The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) Monday stated that the President, Muhammdu Buhari should be made to fulfill his 174 promises made to Nigerians during his campaign.
The Centre, which stated this during the launch of Buharimeter also commended him for officially declaring his assets, stating that he needs 30 days to declare the assets publicly.
According to the Centre at a press briefing in Abuja, the Code of Conduct Bureau has to verify what was declared by the President and after 30 days the President can make it public.
The official assets declarations of the President, Muhammadu Buhari and his vice, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo have been subjects of controversy.
CDD in its official launch of Buharimeter stated that: “It is conceptualized to address the challenges of governance, civic participation and effective service delivery in Nigeria.
“The central focus of this initiative is to bridge existing gap between the government and the governed thereby facilitating a process through which democratic accountability becomes the norm.
“It is a platform to ensure that the dividends of democracy are delivered to Nigerians who overwhelmingly voted for change during the general elections.
“Through Buharimeter, civil society groups, citizens, the media, academia, practitioners, political parties and other stakeholders will have access to reports on the status of the implementation of promises made by President Muhammadu Buhari. This is because all the promises made by the current government are documented in different sectors for easy identification”.
Talking about the promises and how to track the promises, the Director of CDD, Idayat Hassan said: “Through the support of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) has so far tracked and is set to monitor 174 promises cutting across different sectors/issues of national development including women, youth, persons with disability, agriculture, corruption, security, power, oil and gas, health, education, transport, governance etc.
“The performance of the government will be measured using three interrelated approaches. First, through different web-based applications, the general public will have the opportunity to make contributions to discussions, comment on policy pronouncements of the government in achieving its set targets, participate in periodic surveys, and suggest priority areas that require urgent attention. Second, through rigorous policy and media monitoring exercise, policy statements will be tracked, analysed and used as a basis for gauging the performance of the government. This will be complemented by the third approach which is spot-checks of projects and programmes being implemented by the government.
“All these will form a framework for measuring the status of the promises made by the government. The report of this process will feed into a monitoring and evaluation strategy that will show the overall status of the progress made by the government in fulfilling promises made to Nigerians. While the intervention will be critical of government’s policy options to achieve set goals, it will also endeavour to provide alternative framework where necessary”.
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