ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER. [ A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja.] Vol.25. 02-01-14. LET THERE BE EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION OF OUR GOD-GIVEN COMMONWEALTH! The generation, transmission and equitable distribution of God-given resources to all citizens, must not be bedevilled with myopic politicking but, treated as the most important priority policy of serious government administrations. The genesis of such policy should be premised on honest party manifestoes of electioneering campaigns that are later transmuted to the operative agenda, when victory is achieved. The Nigerian ruling party’s seven – point political agenda on assumption of office was hinged on Education, Food security or Agriculture, Power and Energy, Transport sector, Wealth creation, Land reforms, and Security: Niger Delta/Boko Haram; which the Opposition and Civil Society Organizations [CSOs] are closely monitoring. The verb, ‘generate’, means, to cause something to happen or exist, to produce capacities in some particular forms, to articulate or create a new development and in this context, something positive and beneficial, to all and sundry. Because the Nigerian Project needs capable and dedicated managers who can generate and deliver sound and workable, basic opportunities of life for the citizens, Mr. President has wasted no time in reshuffling his cabinet for better deliverance of the dividends of democracy. The next eleven months will be very crucial for Mr President who is still nursing the inordinate ambition of another (third?) term in office! Let us scrutinize his deft moves and permutations on the ‘Chess Board’ of the, ’Transformation Agenda’: *Shortly before the close of 2013, ‘massive funds’ were injected into the tertiary Education sector, in order to douse ASUU’s [Academic Staff Union of Universities’], hardened posture to dent his political credentials for 2015! However, he still has a deficit in respect of the Polytechnic Lecturers Strike, now in its sixth month, because the PDP [Peoples Democratic Party], has reneged its agenda which specifically states that government would ensure that the minimum acceptable international standards in tutoring and learning skills in science and technology, would be achieved to launch Nigerian students as future innovators and industrialists! What was GOD’s agenda on Education? After creation, man was given incisive lectures on the nature of his new environment and also divine instructions in respect of his moral and spiritual obligations. At a point in time God set an examination to test Adam’s intellectual capacity by asking him to name all beasts of the field and all birds of the air.[Genesis. 2:19-23]. Adam passed with distinction and also identified the woman as, “….bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, for she was taken out of woman.” How intelligent are Nigerian students of the 21 Century technologically-advanced universe? *On Food Security or Agriculture, we share the testimonies of both Mr. President and his Minister, which confirm credible successes in that sector within the past three years of this administration. We have it on good authority that this agrarian reform which places emphasis on modern technology, research, production and development of agricultural inputs, would revolutionize the sector. In fact, it is projected that in no distant future, Nigeria will not only be self-sufficient in massive domestic and commercial outputs but, will also export agricultural products to earn the revenue, needed to boost our depleting foreign reserves! We do pray that unlike Adam, who derailed after much successes in the Garden of Eden, (Gen.3:1-24), Jonathan’s administration, would remain on course and salvage this nation from the very dicey, ‘crude-oil mono-product’ monopoly! *Mr. President who is also very passionate to deliver on his electioneering campaign promise to ensure Nigeria’s ability to develop as a modern economy and an industrial, nation by the year 2015, is working very hard to fulfil the target. We are convinced, like Mr President, that as long as the SUN rotates in its orbit, and government’s infrastructural reforms are in place, solar Power and Energy, will not by-pass or elude this great nation! * The Transport Sector is not side-lined, though, Mr President hardly travels by road. His energetic and very efficient Minister of Works, has revolutionized the poor road networks to allow for smooth mass transit of people, goods and services across the length and breadth of this vast nation. The perennial gridlock, regularly experienced by transporters at the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Benin-Ore Road, Onitsha Head Bridge, Kaduna-Zaria-Kano Road, have all disappeared, due to presidential interest that also embraced the rehabilitation and modernization of the Railways and the opening of the inland waterways. *The need for diversification from total reliance on non-renewable crude oil revenue, actually prompted Mr President’s policy on Wealth Creation through multiple revenue generation from Agriculture and the Solid Mineral Sectors. There is no doubt that government’s efforts are yielding positive results and we hope that the in-coming 2015 Administration, will eventually actualize, Nigeria’s dream in this direction. *Past and present administrations have failed the citizens in respect of policies on Land Reforms, which became obnoxious with military fiat which declared every inch of the Nigerian nation as ‘government’s property! All lands in Nigeria belong to Nigerians, who inherited them as birthrights from their ancestors and it is anti-people for any government, democratic or military, to STEAL these inalienable properties under any guise, because, the people’s representatives, must always form the governments according to divine order![Gen. 1:26-31; Deuteronomy. 17:15;Jeremiah.30:21]. Like its predecessors, this administration has deprived the masses of their rights to land ownership and decent accommodations but consented to insensitive acts of demolition of the masses properties to pave way for the ‘rich and affluent’ in the society to increase their avarice. A people-friendly government should, under normal circumstances, purchase or request for willing land donations for purposes of commercialized farming, industrialization and other such ventures that would improve and boost the masses economic status. *Security challenges have been the bane of all emerging administrations, since the end of Nigeria’s 30-month civil war, which ended in January 1970. Before the advent of the revived democratic dispensation in 1999, Niger Delta militants began demands for resource control/adequate compensation for damages done to their lands through oil exploration and exploitation. Bombs detonated indiscriminately by the militants and which continuously resulted in massive losses of innocent lives, forced government to negotiate amnesty. The persistent Boko Haram security challenge facing Mr. President as he dreams for another term in 2015, was actually ‘inherited’! So far there is a stalemate and it is expected that God will impart wisdom to the new Service Chiefs for a final and lasting solution to the almost five-year of insurgency, which began in 2009. Has the present administration been TRANSMITING, the dividends of democracy to the uncommon masses of Nigeria, through credible execution of all of the items on its articulated 7-Point Agenda? There should be no confusion between TRANSFORMATION AND TRANSMISSION. Transformation is the President’s own formula through which, he strongly believes, he could change the Nigerian State, from the position of a developing nation, to an economically viable State, to be listed among the twenty most-industrialized nations of the world, in the year, 2020! Transmission, is the process of passing something, (in this context, dividends of democracy), from one person or place to another. If the answer to this question is in the affirmative, there is yet another question begging for an answer; “Is Mr President’s administration, DISTRIBUTING, (equitably), to the masses, dividends of democracy according to his 7-point agenda? We would like to inform our readers that, there is an unbreakable bond of unity between, GENERATION, TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION. Whatever is generated as the commonwealth , MUST be forwarded without delay to the transmission crew, who in turn MUST, despatch expeditiously to the distribution personnel, who MUST be judicious and prudent in ensuring that everyone got his/her fair share! Transmission is the link between, Generation and Distribution; …… without genuine transmission, nothing positive would happen or achieved! With a kind of sincere arrangement as this, all righteousness would be fulfilled as security challenges (bane of economic development), would disappear and the much-sought-after PEACE, would envelope the land. Our democracy is hinged on the three tier system of government, the EXECUTIVE, LEGISLATIVE AND THE JUDICIARY, which must unite to balance the equation of the Nigerian Project and our advice to Mr. President, if he makes it in 2015, is to introduce a completely new agenda of TRANSMUTATION! Transmutation means, to change something COMPLETELY, especially, into something different and better; like changing LEAD into GOLD, for instance, without exterminating all DROSS AND CORRUPTION!!! Goodluck, Mr. President. ! If you have not accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour, don’t miss this great opportunity as you pray this prayer: Lord Jesus; I confess that I am a sinner who needs to be saved through the grace of the New Testament of your Blood, shed on the Cross at Calvary; I renounce every sin in my life and accept you as my Lord and Saviour. Please forgive me and write my name in the Book of Life. Amen. If you prayed this prayer, you have been admitted into the family of sons and daughters of God, who are born-again. Congratulations. Please look forward to more divine revelation in the next edition of Zion B-BC Newsletter as you share this with friends and remain blessed in the Lord. [For weekly access,to this newsletter, log on to: facebook.com/zionfaithbible.believingchurch]. I am, Yours sincerely,Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor.08058436756 08098194390.g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com . st