ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER. [ A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. ] { VOL. 2. NO 40. 18-05-14.} “SHE, NA SO WE GO DE, DE-E-E”? [SHALL WE, AS A NATION, CONTINUE IN SIN?] The Book of Romans, Chapter 6:1, poses this question on divine salvation through a process of deliverance from the bondage of Satan and Sin and asks: “What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?” The import of this verse is that GRACE, (the unmerited favour of GOD upon the human race), MUST NEVER BE ABUSED! All of creation must be dead to sin and all forms of carnality through the Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit and avoid ever backsliding! Though, official corruption, extortion by public officers and judicial corruption, are serious offences punishable by law if found guilty, with seven (7), three (3), and fourteen (14) years imprisonment respectively, and have become commonplace and a ‘recurring decimal’ in Nigeria, these economic offences are handled with “kid gloves” and as such, were neither investigated nor punished unlike what obtains in other climes. The reasons for these lapses are not far-fetched! *Since the inception of this present administration, the Number One citizen, who should be the citizens’ role model in ethical norms and moral standards, had publicly and consistently declared at every opportunity, (home and abroad), that the DOMESTIC AND GLOBAL ACCUSATIONS OF OFFICIAL CORRUPTION AGAINST HIS GOVERNMENT WERE EXAGGERATED AND BLOWN OUT OF PROPORTION! *We of this editorial board will continue to disagree with Mr. Number One because with his executive fiat, the unpatriotic and criminally-minded Nigerians in the Civil Service and the Private Sector are having a field day in bribery, extortion, money laundering, oil theft, manipulation in contract awards and outright stealing of Pension Funds, etc. What about all detected and pending cases of economic crimes against the ‘untouchables’ of his government, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission[EFCC] who cannot be prosecuted due to deliberate under-funding of the organisation? *We therefore make bold to state that these crimes which continuously decimate Nigeria’s collective economic gains unhindered and the very elections that brought the present crop of leaders on board are all corruptly-powered! If you are a Nigerian of proven-integrity, please, travel down the memory lane, check your nation’s score-card on the Amnesty International Global Index on corruption and other related offences in the last four years and you may want to deny your nationality when you travel abroad because we have been permanently grounded at the bottom of the ladder! A dangerous dimension of official corruption is being introduced by heartless officials in the Military through the inappropriate manner of handling the allowances of troops engaged in overcoming the Boko Haram insurgency. In two separate past editions of this Newsletter, we warned against demoralizing our soldiers and creating an avenue for mutiny, when this heinous crime was first exposed, but the deeply-corrupt mafia in the military lost all sense of decorum which nearly cost the life of a General Officer Commanding[GOC]! What they dismissed then, as a rumour, now stares all of us in the face as the ‘bitter truth’! The Police is not excepted in this unpatriotic crimes of bribery corruption and extortion. Millions of naira of Police Pensions and Welfare Funds were stolen and an Inspector General had already served a prison sentence on conviction! How can a country dwell in peace when the leaders constitute themselves into an “Army of Occupation” to perpetrate the very crimes they should prevent? The National Assembly[NA], of this present administration like its past counterparts, have been accused of appropriating fat salaries and allowances to themselves contrary to the rule of law and no one has refunded monies collected in excess or penalised to date which proves the attitude of corruption with impunity of the ‘untouchables’! The Revenue Mobilization and Fiscal Responsibility Commission [RMFRC], saddled with fixing adequate salaries for the Three Arms of government, stipulates the official salaries of NA Legislators as follows: SENATORS : N954.096.67kobo per month and, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE MEMBER: N794.084.95kobo per month, to take care of their mobility, fuelling security, utility, entertainment etc. These salaries which are less than ONE MILLION NAIRA PER LEGISLATOR, according to RMFRC, were reckoned at par with the pay-packet of a civil service Director; but it is an open secret that the Legislators live LARGER THAN LIFE because, with the connivance of the National Assembly CLERK they appropriate, not only jumbo salaries but also, outrageous quarterly constituency allowances for themselves, in spite of the fact that, over 100 out of about 175million Nigerians are dwelling in abject poverty! It is on record that Senators of the Federal Republic and their House of Representative counterparts, collect, N45 and N37million, four times annually, ie. N180 and N148 million respectively, to “execute constituency projects”! When did legislators become CONTRACTORS and who authorised the Clerk, an accounting officer, to dabble into the duty of fiscal appropriation, because one naira in excess of RMFRC official figures, is absolutely illegal and not known in law! The Clerk has neither been sanctioned nor all excess salaries, allowances and QUARTERLY CONSTITUENCY ALLOWANCES, refunded to the Federation Accounts! *Maybe we should not be too amazed because some tenants of the National Assembly, are past governors and administrators who have been accused by the EFCC of economic crimes, but have BOUGHT TIME through the COURTS! Having now manipulated themselves into the law-drafting, fiscal appropriation and OVERSIGHT processes, they are better positioned to embezzle the nation’s coffers with so much ease once again! *WHAT IS YOUR PRESENT OCCUPATION, AS THIS END-TIME CLOCK, IS TICKING AWAY EVERY EARTH PILGRIM TO DEATH AND TO ETERNITY OF EITHER DAMNATION OR SALVATION? *The Word of God says: “For God so love the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. [John.3:16-17]. God is not condemning the thieves amongst us, but requests that all sinners be ready to face all consequences of their actions or inactions make necessary restitutions and be saved through the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the WAY, TRUTH AND THE LIFE.[John.14:6]. *It is however very pertinent that the present administration should desist from the attitude of indulging in official corruption with impunity. Starting with the ruling party’s chairman, former governors, legislators and administrators, all indicted officials, MUST as a matter of urgency, be relieved of their posts, released to go and face their trials, in order to prove their innocence or guilt, as the case may be! *This is the surest way of running a government with probity and integrity. *Last week in Israel, a former Prime Minister, EHUD OLMERT, who was twice indicted for bribery and official corruption, both as Head of State and as a one-time Mayor of Jerusalem, was jailed for SIX YEARS, having been thoroughly investigated for over three years in respect of the economic and financial crimes! * Why should every administration in Nigeria postpone the evil day but remain under the illusion that certain “sacred cows” should be spared, no matter their CRIMINAL RECORDS? *The only plausible and sensible conclusion to warrant an attitude of cowardice on the part of an incumbent, to overlook the vices of his predecessors in office, must be an induced allegiance due to the unclean hands being brought to equity; cupboards full of SKELETONS and prone to blackmail, reproach and public shame! Let all past Presidents, Heads of State, Governors, Legislators and Administrators (military or civilian), who have been under EFCC investigations for economic and financial crimes, including money laundering, be recalled to face trials to ascertain their guilt or otherwise so that this nation can begin on a new slate with a crop of patriotic men and women of clean records after the 2015 general elections. It is time to VOTE AND FLUSH OUT ALL THIS PRESENT BAD AND UNWANTED ‘EGGS’ IN GOVERNMENT! There must be sanity in this nation, the bloodshed must stop and Boko Haram must become a bad dream, needed to be quickly forgotten! We enjoin all patriotic citizens of this great nation refuse the Voter Bribery Syndicate of the rural areas who offer A FIVE HUNDRED NAIRA NOTE PLUS A LOAVE OF BREAD PER VOTER AND THEIR URBAN counterparts who offer larger sums of Nigeria’s stolen and embezzled monies to bribe gullible voters! OUR VOTES AGAINST THESE OPPORTUNISTS WILL PACIFY INSURGENCY AND NIGERIA WILL BE AT PEACE ONCE AGAIN! AMEN, 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 & Zfbbc1.blogspot.com]. I am, Yours sincerely,Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor.08058436756 08098194390.g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com .

ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER. [ A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja.] { VOL. 2. NO 38. 04-05-14.} CORRUPTION IN THE JUDICIARY! WHERE RESTS THE LAST HOPE OF THE COMMON MAN? Three quarters of Nigerian prisoners are AWAITING TRIAL DETAINEES, most of whom have spent over 15 years in detention! Comptroller General of the Nigerian Prison Service [NPS], in a shocking revelation, recently said, “….of 50,601 inmates in the various prisons, 36,934, are awaiting trial.” Majority of the detainees, not including those held in the various Police cells across Nigeria and who have been refused bail, are charged with capital offences, such as armed robbery and many have since died incarcerated! A Committee set up by the Interior Minister recently, also reported that the Nigerian Prisons are congested because they house more than a triple number of inmates specified, adding, “the slow process of trial of inmates by the courts is also responsible for more than 90per cent of prison population in urban centres.” The Committee concluded that Nigerian prisons are unfit for human habitation as most detainees were usually ill because they are kept under inhuman conditions, shackled and manacled like condemned dangerous criminals! These awaiting-trial detainees are the poor masses of our societies, as no rich man or woman ever waits for any trial since favourable and pre-determined judgments are courier-delivered to their homes, in some cases, by crooked judges! The Rule of Law specifies that every suspect is presumed innocent until found guilty by a competent court of jurisdiction, but what obtains in Nigeria’s prison system is “the RUSE of LAW”, where suspects, with the deliberate connivance of the COURTS are refused bail or prosecution, and are condemned to dungeons and early graves! Judicial powers of the Nigerian State, both at the Federal and State levels, are vested in the JUDICATURE, which consist of the superior courts of record, established for the Federation, according to Section 6, subsection(5)(a) to (i) of the 1999 Constitution. These consist of the following: the Supreme Court of Nigeria, the court of Appeal, the Federal High Court, the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, a High Court of a State, the Sharia Court of Appeal of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, a Sharia Court of Appeal of a State, the Customary Court of Appeal of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and a Customary Court of Appeal of a State. A search-light into the activities of some of these COURTS has revealed dirty, sordid and gruesome manipulation and perversion of the course of justice by corrupt judges! According to an insider, a retired President of the Court of Appeal, the Nigerian Judiciary harbours corrupt elements who are politicians and government apologists who attend all manner of social gatherings and frolic even with litigants with pending cases before their courts! How can judges decide cases against their political parties and people they wine and dine with? As a guest speaker at a recent lecture titled, “Nigeria at Centenary: A Nation In Bondage”, the retired President of the Court of Appeal said that the noble efforts of the incumbent Chief Justice of Nigeria, to sanitize and rid the judiciary of corrupt elements were being frustrated by “the crop of people calling the shots at the Nigerian Judicial Council[NJC],” adding that some dishonourable people, “not fit to be judges and senior lawyers, get into the system, make it to the highest level of the judicial career and subsequently frustrate the common man’s quest for justice and equity!” He also claimed that it was an open truth that, both serving and retired judges act as the “arrangees” or couriers, who reach out to “purchase justice on behalf of crooked litigants” and concluded that the problems with the Nigerian Judiciary might be compounded or unresolved for a long time because Nigerians naturally hate the truth and whoever dared voice the truth was marked for destruction! We salute the courage of this fearless retired President of the Court of Appeal whose entire professional career at both the Bar and the Bench, remained untainted and impeccable like the likes of Justices Chukwudi Oputa, Bobakayode Eso, Ayo G.Irikefe, John Idowu Conrad Taylor, Ovie Whiskey, Chiefs ‘Tunji Braithwaite and Gani Fawehinmi etc; because what we have today are judges who have made Nigeria’s justice system by itself very criminal. We have this official statement also by the Economic And Financial Crimes Commission [EFCC], that some serving judges are deeply immersed in corrupt practices. This high-profile revelation should alarm all Nigerians, especially the down-trodden whose last hope is rested on the judiciary as their final ARBITER! It was a divine miracle that the EFCC, which was notorious for not respecting the Masses Petitions, decided to probe the myriads of petitions levelled against the said judges and traced into their accounts, hundreds of millions of naira! These fraudulent judges who also possess multi-million naira worth of assets are alleged to have adopted unconventional methods, such as accepting VALUE CARDS and PIN NUMBERS from criminal litigants, who approached them for FAVOURABLE JUDGEMENTS in order to beat the various anti-corruption agencies! This current malaise which has dented the image of the Judiciary, is no doubt an indictment on the present administration, which had always encouraged corruption in all its ramifications through the under-staffing and under-funding of anti-graft agencies which should check-mate any form of fraudulent venture by any citizen of this great nation! At the Federal level, Mr. President appoints the judges, while the Governors perform this exercise at the State levels according to some constitutional principles, but the fact remains that the judges’ remunerations are bound to the whims and caprices of their EMPLOYERS who hold the REMOTE CONTROL for the judgement of litigations which must favour them and their cronies! As a people who should insist on the rule of law for justice, equity and fairness to all litigants, poor or rich, this unholy development at the Bar and Bench, should be of great concern to us because fraudulent court proceedings could neither pass through the “needle’s eye” nor the forensic tests to arrive at the truth! In February 2014, the NJC under the pay- roll of Mr. President, merely retired two Justices of Federal High Courts and one of the Plateau High Court of Justice, who were indicted for professional misconduct, instead of apportioning very strict penalties and they smiled home to enjoy their ill-gotten loots! What are the expectations of GOD in respect of Judges’ ethics when conducting themselves in office? (a)They should be capable and God-fearing.[Exodus.18:21; 2Samuel.23:3; Ezra.7:25]. (b)Truthful.[Deuteronomy.16:19]. (c)Must have hatred for covetousness. [Exo.18:21]. (d)Must be of a disposition to refuse bribes.[Exo.23:8]. (e)Wise and understanding.[Deut.1:13]. (f)Articulate and impeccable.[Deut.1:13,16]. (g)Having love of justice and judgment.[Deut.1:16,16:18-19,27:19,Zechariah.7:9-10]. (h)Without respect of persons.[Deut.1:17;16:19;25:1;Isaiah.5:23]. (i)Fearless.[Deut.1:17]. (j)Conscientious.[Deut.1:17]. (k)Strong and courageous. [Joshua.1:7]. (l)Obedient to the law.[Josh.1:7-8]. Nigeria has in the past produced decent, brave, fearless, intelligent, impeccable and incorruptible judges, who avoided filthy lucre, treaded the path of integrity and lived above board! The story was told of Late Justice John Idowu Conrad Taylor, a Chief Judge of Lagos State during the military administration, who turned down his Governor’s official invitation to a State Dinner on the following grounds: “ Lagos State Government has several pending cases before me…… I find it inappropriate to honour the invitation”. At his demise, Military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon eulogised him for his sterling qualities. Do such Nigerian judges exist in today’s 21 century universe? The Federal Government should be more pro-active in funding the EFCC to pursue to its logical conclusion, all vital allegations of graft against these judges and publicly bring them to justice in order to purge and cleanse the judiciary, restore her reputation and establish a deterrent to others of their ilk! Of the late Supreme Court Judge, Bobakayode Eso ,(1925-2012), were the following WORDS ON MARBLE crafted: “He was an Icon even in death; Nigeria may never have his replacement – a very rare breed. Justice Eso was an untainted Judge with high integrity; one of the great Nigerians, incorruptible, academic, intelligent, serious-minded patriotic, scandal-free. A courageous judge and a consistent advocate for an independent judiciary whose long and exemplary life was dedicated to the service of law and order and the dispensation of true justice, equity and fairness to all.” We need more of the Eso’s, Conrad Taylors, Gani Fawehinmi’s, Oputas in our modern judiciary to re-build and restore the lost confidence of the COMMON MAN in Nigeria’s judicial system. We have a crop of patriotic legal minds, men and women of proven integrity who are ready to serve our great nation without soiling their hands and names! Will the corrupt politicians at the helm of affairs give them the opportunity to serve their Fatherland? Let Nigerians be assured that if they fail to make the necessary RESTITUTION now, GOD WILL REMOVE AND REPLACE THEM ACCORDING TO HIS SOVEREIGN WILL! AMEN. 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 & Zfbbc1.blogspot.com]. I am, Yours sincerely,Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor.08058436756 08098194390.g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com . st

ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER. [ A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja.] VOL. 2. NO. 37. 27-04-14. NIGERIA’S RE-BASED GDP SHOULD DELIVER DIVIDENDS OF DEMOCRACY! Gross Domestic Product or [GDP], is an economic gauge of the value of total production attributable to overall factors of generation of goods and services in a given country if prudent calculation is based on the national product or income. This economic evaluation is aimed to achieve the specific purpose of proving a country’s viability as an international entrepreneurial destination and it is termed ‘gross’ because allowance was not yet made for the ingestion of the fixed capital expended in production, to establish or determine actual market price. Nigeria’s GDP was last calculated in 1990! Since all incomes are generated through production, total national earnings of a given period are established by the application of monetary evaluation to all agricultural goods, labour and capital resources, hence Nigeria’s GDP estimates for the year 2013, which makes her the largest economy in Africa, and the 26 globally, is put at $510billion US dollars or N80.3trillion naira, taking into account, a range of new sectors and industries like the mobile telephone market and Africa’s largest-music and the entertainment local Nollywood film enterprise, which has now produced 12per cent of the GDP, or N853.9 billion naira. The re-based GDP numbers imply that the level of economic activity which is much higher than in the past 24years, is now being more driven by the SERVICE SECTOR, which means that we now have a clearer picture of Nigeria’s economic landscape which offers a significant opportunity for growth and wealth creation. But on ‘per capita’ basis, Nigeria is number 121 in the world! The universal index for measuring living standards and welfare is per capita income which is obtained by dividing the total national income by the total population; the higher the quotient, the higher, the standard of living, provided leaders are righteous and accurate census is achievable! A World Bank’s recent research has revealed that about 100million Nigerians dwell in abject poverty on a per capita of $1.5US dollars or N250 naira per day which makes the re-basing on Nigeria’s GDP as a total contradiction, a misnomer! WHAT ARE THE SOURCES OF THE GDP OF EVERY NATION? The poor masses of course and not the power usurpers! Masses are the, “hewers of wood and drawers of water” who will always procure wealth for the rich through cheap labour in the formal and informal sectors of the economy. In the formal sector, the civil servants, armed forces, police, customs, immigrations etc, are paid paltry sums as salaries, forced to pay taxes, labour and die as patriotic citizens! The elites hardly pay taxes because they are very fraudulent when it comes to declaration of incomes! In the industrial or informal sector, which is privately powered, driven and funded, workers are goaded by task masters to work far beyond their pay packets! This bunch of unfortunate third rated citizens of the third world countries are also forced to bear the brunt of all societal ills, disasters and calamities resulting from consistent maladministration! WHO ARE THE EASY TARGETS OF BOMB BLASTS? WHOSE GRAVES ARE FOUND ON ROAD SIDES AND RIVER BANKS? WHO ARE THE ROBBERS AND KIDNAPPERS VICTIMS? WHO DWELL IN THE SLUMS AND THE WORST OF ALL RURAL AREAS? WHO ARE THE “AWAITING TRIAL” INMATES IN ALL THE PRISONS AND DETAINEES IN ALL POLICE CELLS AND SECURITY DETENTION CAMPS OF THE LAW-ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES? WHO ARE THOSE WHO GOT HIT BY STRAY BULLETS OF TRIGGER-HAPPY POLICEMEN? WHO SUFFERED HIGH-RATES OF CHILD/MATERNAL MORTALITY? WHO ARE DENIED MODERN HEALTH FACILITIES AND PORTABLE WATER SUPPLIES BUT CONDEMNED TO DRINK FROM THE SAME POOLS WITH ANIMALS? WHO ARE THE DREGS OF THE SOCIETY, WHO SHOULD BE LEFT TO ROT AWAY UNEDUCATED? The poor masses of course! But this scenario is not DIVINE it is man-evolved through an orchestrated abuse of the fundamental human rights, coercion and manipulation of the masses by a devious few and with God’s intervention, this ugly trend which has become a universal norm can be reversed! The Labour Force of these nations are the ordinary everyday people around the neighbourhood, the streets, the vicinities, hamlets, villages and rural areas who eek their living at the mercy of the high and mighty of the urban societies of all third world countries! Except for the United States of America and a few civilized countries of Europe and the Near East, the glaring neglect, of basic amenities and necessary infrastructures of life, like decent housing scheme, good roads, electrification, portable water, is visible all over rural Africa and Asia! Are we all conscious of the, “divide and rule” tactics, handed over by colonial masters to indigenous neo-colonialists, now responsible for the chaos of non-development in these countries? At the period of “independence”, the colonialists always ensured that a legacy of tribal sentiments and segregation, nepotism, religious bigotry, north-south dichotomy, land disputes, indigene/settler controversies, etc. were left unresolved while they imposed their surrogates to continue the oppression where they stopped! The following countries, Democratic Republic of Congo [DRC], Central African Republic [CAR], Somalia, Sudan, Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Turkey, Burundi and Rwanda, Cote’ de Voire [Ivory Coast], Sierra Leone, Liberia, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia and Nigeria, have all tasted the bitter pills of wicked and ruthless colonization experiences of the past and are still struggling to rise from the ashes of the devastation that have wiped out most citizens from existence! Presently in these countries, ‘dividends of democracy’ is ‘anathema’, meaning an accursed expectation, because, the few, who are at the helm of affairs, have sworn to keep their grip on all loots through the services of the police, and armed forces, recruited from among the masses! It is an irony of faith, but hope is not lost, because, the ONE who is in charge, is JEHOVA, who created the Heaven and the Earth and who has promised that He would neither forsake nor abandon his faithful children! When Prophet Elisha found himself with a similar situation of a pleasant land which harboured bitter springs of waters, he wasted no time in seeking divine solution to heal the waters which story, the Bible records as follows: “And he said, bring me a new cruse and put salt therein and they brought it to him. And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land. So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake”[2Kings.2:19-22]. In Nigeria, bad leaders and their acts of corruption with impunity, constitute the “bitter springs” and the “bareness”, in our pleasant land flowing with milk and honey! Nigeria is so blessed with natural, economic and human resources, that with good leadership and sound management, there should be no citizens regarded as “poor masses”! Scientists have always tried unsuccessfully to prove the theory of EVOLUTION OF HUMAN SPECIES, asserting that men are “descendants of baboons and gorillas”! We disagree with that theory because, GOD created Man in His own image and likeness and gave them the mandate to be fruitful multiply and fill the earth. Man is also commanded to have dominion over all other creations! [Genesis.1:26-30]. But we are likely to agree with the scientists that the African elites evolved and not created because like all animals, they are neither God-conscious nor sensitive to wickedness and brutality against their fellow humans! In Nigeria for instance, these masses of poor people are “ local government” authorities unto themselves because, out of their poverty, they still provide all the basic amenities of life – houses, water, light and community-funded roads; they also purchase electric transformers for government to supply them power! The Big Question is, “Why should those who occupy transient positions of authority become so heartless, so ruthless and so insensitive to the citizens from one administration to another? WHO GAINS FROM THE PRIVATISATION INSTEAD OF COMMERCIALISATION, WHICH WOULD ENGENDER PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF ALL GOVERNMENT COMMERCIAL VENTURES? WHO GAINS FROM THE SUBSIDIES ON THE DOWN STEAM OF THE PETROLEUM SECTOR OF THE ECONOMY? WHO GAINS FROM ORGANIZED VANDALIZATION OF OIL AND GAS PIPE LINES? WHO GAINS FROM OIL THEFT, OIL BUNKERING AND MONEY LAUNDERING? They are the ‘ELITES’ of course! They have all the wherewithal to organize any act of wickedness including, high-tech robberies, large-scale forgeries kidnappings and assassinations! For instance, no one has arrested or interrogated the OGA AT THE TOP, under whose supervision, millions of dollars of oil moneys are being stolen with impunity and who brazenly, in spite all legally-instituted probes, issue media statements that no money was missing from the NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION [NNPC], COFFERS! We need to remind the ‘BIG MAN OF NIGERIA’ that he is only but, ONE HUMAN ORGANISM, who without the supportive structure of his ‘conscripted’ retinue of HELPERS – servants, batsmen, houseboys/girls aide-de-camp, vice brother, assistant sister etc, he is HELPLESS! Recently, Mr. Joe Biden, US Vice President, said in Ukraine, that, “Government exists to serve the people and not the people to serve government.” We agree with this factual 21 Century statement and pray that those, in government, who do not want to serve the people, from whom sovereign power is derived, should be made to account for their period of stewardship and be shown the way out! DIVINE JUDGEMENT IS AT THE DOOR! 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 & Zfbbc1.blogspot.com]. I am, Yours sincerely,Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor.08058436756 08098194390.g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com . th st