ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER. [ A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. ] { VOL. 2. NO 58. 21-09-14.} NUPENG IS ANTI-NIGERIAN MASSES! “One strike, too many!” No year virtually run its full course in Nigeria without being punctuated by the intermittent labour disputes of OIL WORKERS, for one genuine or very petty reason! During the several military illegal administrations, Nigerians had the Niger Delta Militants agitation for a better life and ecological environment, to contend with because they behaved out of proportion by catapulting bomb explosives roundabout, to prove their point! Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers [NUPENG] have since taken over from those renegades who opted for violence instead of collective bargaining which eventually brought “peace” to the region! The only difference between NUPENG and the Militants is that the oil workers do not carry arms during trade disputes! NUPENG is very SELFISH for declaring another trade dispute and failing to consider the hardship and pains that non-oil workers who are in the majority, would suffer! Petrol and Kerosine, which are obtained at high costs by the masses, the only “dividends of democracy”, which trickle down from the Masters’ Table, are now being withheld by the unregenerate and uncircumcised at heart! In fifteen years, [1999-2014], of another opportunity of practising true federalism, our characteristic traits of patriotism should emphasize sincerity, probity, faithfulness in fiscal appropriation and responsibility; but what we have on display is the same old business of “robbing Peter to pay Paul”! Have Nigerian politicians ever learnt from past calamities that befell their counterparts who betrayed the masses of people, through embezzlement of the COMMONWEALTH? From the First to the Seventh Republic, we can authoritatively confirm that none of them escaped GOD’s PUNISHMENT! Their tight security arrangements comprising of police and military personnel, armoured carriers and vests, have failed to shield them from God’s wrath! The following are the Words of God: “I will punish them for their sin (Exodus.32:34); “I will punish the world for its evil (Isaiah.13:11); “Your wickedness will punish you” (Jeremiah.2:19); “I will punish you as your deeds deserve” (Jere.21:14); etc. OIL WORKERS under the aegis of NUPENG (registered in 1978 as one of the 46 industrial unions, currently affiliated to Nigeria Labour Congress [NLC], embarked on another, “indefinite” strike action from Tuesday15th September, 2014, to press home their incessant demands, this time, in respect of, “….irregular funding of their Pension Scheme, which has led to about N85billion deficit!” One very salient issue can be deducted in this new grouse over pension scheme, which is, that this selfish OIL WORKERS have also become very rich like their MASTERS, that it became expedient for them to SECURE THEIR FUTURE THROUGH FAT PENSION INCOMES ON RETIREMENT ESPECIALLY NOW THAT THE NEW PENSION REFORM ACT 2014, HAS BEEN SIGNED INTO LAW BY MR PRESIDENT! According to inside sources, this particular strike action is aimed at ‘crippling’ the nation’s OIL and GAS Sector, though the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation [NNPC], which claimed to have made moves to avert it! NUPENG suspended loading of petroleum products from NNPC depots nation-wide following unresolved dispute on pension issues with the national oil and gas conglomerate from the early hours of Tuesday 16 Sept.2014, to press home their demands until they were resolved! It is very glaring that Oil workers are capitalizing on the defective policies of AN INEPT AND CORRUPT FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, which by reason of Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution, Second Schedule, Part 1, Exclusive Legislative List, Item 39, has monopoly of the nation’s, “Mines and minerals, including oil fields, oil mining, geological surveys and natural gas”, to explore and exploit with exclusive prerogative and sole proprietorship! However, the following questions needed to be asked again! *Since 1968, when CRUDE OIL was discovered in commercial quantity in Nigeria, have OIL MANAGERS, employed the system of KEEPING RELEVANT RECORDS on land acquisitions, explorations, excavations, and exploitations by foreign OIL COMPANIES, volume of barrels of lifted oil, quantity and quality of excavated crude, sales and compensations paid, to whom and by whom, a list of major stake-holders and shareholders, OWNERS OF OIL WELLS, et-cetera! Crude Oil and Minerals exploration and exploitation should be listed on the CONCURRENT LEGISLATIVE LIST so that all States could excavate the earth for the mineral resources divinely deposited by nature in their various domains. With such an arrangement, the continuous arrogance of OIL WORKERS would be completely eliminated and the Federal Government would not continue to deceive Nigerians through continuous payment of billions of naira for “PHANTOM PETROLEUM SUBSIDIES” TO THEIR OFFICIALS AND CRONIES IN RESPECT OF FAKE IMPORTATION OF FINISHED PETROLEUM PRODUCTS FROM OVERSEAS! Till date, no comprehensive records have been produced by the Sole Proprietor, the Federal Government, because a FORENSIC AUDIT ordered by the Minister of Finance since February 2014 is still in session! From all of the above, it should be very clear to all down-trodden Nigerians that “members of their own household”, that is, the Federal Government in collaboration with the State Governments and the Oil Workers, are their ENEMIES!” The few cabal,(military and civilians), who forced themselves into leadership positions in government are solidly in control of all oil resources and maintain monopoly in order to buy up “agitators” who are privy to secrets of the stupendous wealth and riches of the OIL SECTOR, through which they have perpetrated themselves and their surrogates in office since Nigeria’s independence! THESE OIL WORKERS ARE AMONG THE AGITATORS AND WHAT THEY ARE AFTER THIS TIME AROUND, IS ANOTHER PORTION OF THE “NATIONAL CAKE”, BECAUSE NO CALENDAR YEAR IS EVER COMPLETE WITHOUT THEIR SELFISH DEMANDS! *In July last year, these egoistic oil workers declared an industrial action in respect of the following UNEDUCATED REASONS as if they just arrived from Planet Mars: (1) High level of insecurity in Nigeria. (2) Bad state of the roads. (3) Rising oil theft in the Niger Delta. (4) Non-adherence to guidelines on contract staffing and casual workers in the sector. (5) Abuse of expatriate quota. (6) Inhuman treatment of its members by the management of Chevron, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) and Agip Oil Company. (7) Refusal of Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners [NARTO], to implement the signed collective bargaining agreement with petroleum tanker drivers. Out of shame, the above-mentioned complaints did not crop up this year which is the EVE OF THE 2015 GENERAL ELECTIONS! These shameless oil workers are about the 89 Group of greedy Nigerians, who have, in one accord, clandestinely strategized to have their share of the illegally- siphoned oil money LARGESSE, currently flowing into the pockets of all who support CONTINUITY! But in their precarious position as an industrial union, the only option opened to them was to disrupt the OIL FLOW, until they could cleverly grab a sizable PORTION OF THE COLLECTIVE OIL MONEY WHICH REPRESENT THE BLOOD AND SWEAT OF PATRIOTS AND THE FOUNDING FATHERS OF THIS NATION! We witnessed a very sordid scenario on the Nigerian highway during a prolonged fuel scarcity period, in which a young woman -PETROL HAWKER- in her early twenties, endangered the lives of her two sons- a one-and-a-half and three-year olds- as she deployed them to signal motorists to purchase her PRODUCT and it took divine intervention to save the kids from being knocked down! She was not the only one exposed to that predicament which happened to be the fall-out of failed government policies, promises and programmes –they were many – mostly women with kids! If you are reading this piece, MR. OR MRS. PROTESTING OIL WORKER, IT IS TIME FOR YOU TO BACK DOWN ON INCESSANT AND UNWORTHY DEMANDS! It is high time you turned a new leaf and become a nation builder and not destroyer because you are an integral part of the people. Those who should be denied the benefits accruing from the oil products and wealth are those who have turned the nation’s CRUDE OIL into family enterprise! We should collectively fish them out and send them to PRISON, where they should rot and not support their inglorious behaviour while our brethren suffer untold trials, hardship and persecutions! We should all have access and equal economic share of OIL DIVIDENDS! The Word of God states as follows: “God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from Heaven in blazing fire with His powerful Angels. He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of His power on the day He comes to be glorified in His holy people and to be marvelled at among all those who have believed. This includes you, because you believed our testimony to you.”[2Thessalonians.1:6-10]. Almost everybody, (including members of the ruling party), except the GOD-FEARING, has endorsed the UNSOLICITED CONTINUITY OF THE INCUMBENT WHO IS CONSTANTLY BEING REMINDED BY GOD-THE HOLY SPIRIT, NOT TO RENEGE ON HIS GENTLEMAN’S PROMISE OF SERVING “O N E T E R M O N L Y”! The Holy Spirit has told him that the document of promise, which forms the bases of agreement with the Nigerian electorate and witnessed by the ANGELS [Ministering Spirits of God], is in HEAVEN, before the THRONE OF GRACE and would be scrutinized and used in evidence at the most appropriate time! And that is very CORRECT! With this SPIRITUAL EVIDENCE, Transformation Agenda Facilitators [TAF], should let the “sleeping dog lie”, but pray for Nigeria to win this war against the insurgents and bring back our Chibok School girls whom God will miraculously save! On behalf of the over 170 million good people of this great nation, we thank our very courageous and diligent combatants of the Armed Forces and the Police for their resilience and beseech our Heavenly Father to guide them to defeat the Boko Haram terrorists and bring this mindless war to a victorious end for our troops. Amen. We also have this divine revelation that the life of the 12 condemned mutinous soldiers would be spared through a presidential reprieve, to serve as a morale booster for those in the trenches and simultaneously, a warning to would-be mutineers that the death sentence would always remain in FORCE! As at the time of publication, the OIL WORKERS were reported to have called off their “indefinite” labour dispute, but the filling station queues remain transfixed and may take a while to abate! May the good Lord deliver us from HOUSEHOLD ENEMIES! 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 or http://www.zfbbc1.blogspot.comhttps://www.google.com/+zionfaithbiblebelievingchurch . I am, Yours sincerely,Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor.08058436756 08098194390.g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com .]