Nigeria, May 30 -- The Buhari Years: What We Ordered vs What We Got - civil society leaders reflect on the Buhari administration and its achievements, shortcomings, and regressive actions.

A reflection on the Buhari administration easily throws up a semblance of the popular 'what we ordered versus what we got' mantra. Buhari was elected in 2015 on the promise of tackling the country's burgeoning security challenges that seemed uncontrollable by the Jonathan government. Boko Haram, in the final months of 2014, was in control of 15 local government areas; an area, as the saying went at the time, "bigger than Belgium". At the same time, clashes between farmers and militant herdsmen in the food-producing areas were racking up casualties, and...