TRIUMPH, CONSOLIDATION, PAINS AND ACHIEVEMENTS - PRESIDENT BUHARI'S DEMOCRACY DAY SPEECH

PRESIDENT BUHARI'S DEMOCRACY DAY SPEECH MAY 29,2016.

My compatriots,

It is one year today since our administration came into office. It has been a year of triumph, consolidation, pains and achievements. By age, instinct and experience, my preference is to look forward, to prepare for the challenges that lie ahead and rededicate the administration to the task of fixing Nigeria. But I believe we can also learn from the obstacles we have overcome and the progress we made thus far, to help strengthen the plans that we have in place to put Nigeria back on the path of progress.

We affirm our belief in democracy as the form of government that best assures the active participation and actual benefit of the people. Despite the many years of hardship and disappointment the people of this nation have proved inherently good, industrious tolerant, patient and generous.

Jonathan Scraps NAPEP, FRC, Merge Aviation Agencies

• Rejects Oronsaye committee recommendations to fuse EFCC, ICPC, others
• Refuses to abolish tuition in govt varsities, disband NECO

The federal government has agreed to scrap the National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) and the Fiscal Responsibility Commission  (FRC) in line with the recommendations of the Presidential Committee on Restructuring and Rationalisation  of Federal Government Parastatals, Commission and Agencies.

Former Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mr. Stephen Oronsaye, chaired the committees, which submitted its report to President Goodluck Jonathan on April 16, 2012.

The federal government also accepted the recommendation to merge the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) and the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) into a new body to be known as the Federal Civil Aviation Authority (FCAA). Their respective enabling laws are to be amended accordingly to reflect their proposed new status.