19 great achievements of late President Yaradua

As we remember late President Yaradua,  We present to you a quick highlight of some of his amazing achievements as superbly recounted by twitter user @TheAishaJibril. 

*Restoration of peace in Niger Delta. 

*He made way for ND Amnesty Programme which led to increase in oil output & increase in revenue. 

*He recommended dredging of River Niger after 40 years. 

*He Upheld rule of law and due process. 

*He released the N10 billion Lagos State local government councils’ funds withheld by Obasanjo.

*He had courage to reserve Obasanjo’s controversial sale of national assets. 

*The first & only president to publicly declare his assets. 

*He demanded unspent funds be returned to national treasury by all MDAs. 

*He took care of Almajiris by building Almajiri Schools. 

*Initiated Abuja-Kaduna rail route, Abuja-Kano rail, Abuja Metro Line. 

*He built Abuja airport highway after decades of abandonment. 

*Construction of 5 agro-export conditioning centres got started.

*10 rice processing centres being built for processing 1m metric tons. 

*Increased 4000 hectares of irrigated land to over 150,000 hectares. 

*Created Federal Ministry for Niger Delta. 

*Petroleum Industry Bill(PIB) was developed and presented to the National Assembly. 

*Electoral Reform was iniated. 

*Contracts awarded for rehabilitation & construction of 34 Federal Highways. 

*He completed 13 of major highway works inherited from Obasanjo administration. Yar’adua achieved all this & more by 29 May 2009. 

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