A TALE OF TWO TRANCHES OF MISSING $20 BILLION US DOLLARS EACH!

ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER. [ A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. ] { VOL. 3. NO 93. 24-05-15.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32). A TALE OF TWO TRANCHES OF MISSING $20 BILLION US DOLLARS EACH! Once upon a time in March 2013, the Nigeria’s Central Bank Governor, who was the chief custodian of the Federation Account, raised an alarm to inform Mr. President, in respect of unremitted proceeds from sales of crude oil, which ran into some staggering, mouth-watering billions of United States dollars, by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)! Although the alarm was in the form of a secret letter, it was in no time leaked to the Press and social media and within days of reconciliation of figures, the missing or unremitted amount was whittled down to $20 billion US dollars from about $48.9 billion dollars but that tranche of money is still missing an unremitted! In the third week of May 2015, the unconstitutional Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), at the dusk of demise from the political terrain of the nation, threw some spanners in the works again through an allegation that another tranche of $20billion US dollars was missing from the illegal and unconstitutional Excess Crude Account (ECA)! The body expressed outrage against Okonjo Iweala, Co-ordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance, questioned her integrity and demanded an explanation for the $20 billion dollars from the State’s coffers! The forum, chaired by the Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, demanded immediate explanation from the minister who expressed shock over the development but promised to release and publish all official disbursements of the last four years from the ECA, which could be verified by Finance Commissioners of the 36 States of the Federation who were always in attendance at every disbursement from the ECA! *The question on every lip was whether this fresh allegation had any link with that made in 2013 by the erstwhile Governor of Nigeria’s Central Bank, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, now the Emir of Kano, who was sacked by the outgoing President Jonathan for blowing the whistle against corruption in government? *A controversial Federal Government report of the audited account of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), contracted to the foreign firm of Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC), has exonerated both the NNPC and Federal Government from any form of culpability in respect of the allegations through a global press conference broadcast on print and electronic media verdict that, “….no money was missing”! *Now the NGF is demanding explanations from the Finance Minister in the light of the facts that funds in the ECA were last disbursed in May 2013 and that there were accruals from that period to April 2015, which estimated at over $20 billion dollars, proved that this is a fresh allegation and different from that of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, in 2013! *When converted to the Nigerian Naira, $40 billion dollars would amount to N8trillion (at exchange rate of one dollar to N200) which is equivalent to almost double of the recently endorsed 2015 Federal Government Budget of N4.357 trillion or the annual budgets about ten States put together! We of this Editorial Board, all patriotic and well-meaning Nigerians, including the local auditors who were sidelined, have condemned the PWC’s international audit as another fraud and have demanded for a fresh, external and neutral auditing of NNPC accounts by the in-coming administration of Muhammadu Buhari, which has indicated a green light in that direction! Organised and orchestrated looting of the State treasury tantamount to injustice and deprivation of the fundamental human rights in the areas of the social contract of all basic amenities of life, education and opportunities for gainful employment, by a cabal in government and should be opposed, condemned and categorized under “crimes against humanity and crimes against peace”, by the International Criminal Court (ICC)! We make bold to state that the evil monster tagged Boko Haram, in Nigeria stemmed from this social injustice of brazen looting of state treasury by a few greedy people in government! It was high time the ICC which is an independent permanent court that tries persons accused of the most serious crimes of international concern namely genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, take a very serious notice of our recommendations and include them on their list of crimes to be prosecuted, especially in Nigeria where the rule of law had been expunged from our statutes and where impunity had been the order of the day in the past sixteen years! We are aware that the ICC as an independent international organisation was established by the comity of nations to help end impunity for the perpetrators of the most serious crimes of concern to the international community, when formal proceedings were undertaken to shield persons from criminal responsibility, as obtains in the most heinous corruption of the Nigeria’s oil and gas sector of the economy! Up till date, successive civilian administrations, have not come up with relevant daily statistics of lifted crude oil nor the annual audited accounts from the sector through which the cabal operates illegal wealth-creation pools in spite of the dwindling resources from nation’s mono-economic product! Nigeria is a signatory to the ICC Charter based on a treaty joined by 123 countries and must therefore be ready to welcome investigations or prosecutions in respect of identified crimes against humanity in the nation by the international body at any moment or time. It is worthy of note but not surprising that the ICC Chief prosecutor and her officers were in Nigeria during the just concluded 2015 General Elections, to warn all and sundry against all manner of electoral malpractices, acts of thuggery, vandalism, arson, sabotage in any form and the consequences of immediate arrests and prosecution of offenders, suspects, or sponsors of such crimes against humanity! With the arrival of the ICC team in Nigeria, Mrs Patience Jonathan mellowed her hate speeches and campaigns against Muhammadu Buhari, who, through the special grace of God is now the President-elect of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, waiting for his investiture on the 29th May, 2015, for the first term of four years in office. Crimes against humanity is the same as man’s inhumanity to man, which the Bible describes as crime against God in whose image and likeness, man was created! The Word of God says that man should love his neighbour as he loves himself and should do unto him (neighbour) as he would wish someone else do to him! The outgoing government neither loved Nigeria nor Nigerians as they perpetrated corruption with impunity as it is glaring that none of them is under any form of investigation or prosecution except for Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) spokesman during the 2015 elections, Femi Fani-Kayode whose 84-count-charge offences of money laundering has been reduced to only two and who may soon be left off hook! *During his tenure the outgoing President believed that the issue of corruption was always blown out of proportion, in spite of the annual disgraceful position of Nigeria as the most corrupt nation of the world, in the annual Transparency International Index Report. Patriotic Nigerians just like America’s late Martin Luther King junior, have dreams of a new United States of Nigeria where slavery, poverty, corruption with impunity, violence, embezzlement, fraud, avarice, money laundering, and all manner of crimes would have been totally eliminated and righteousness would exalt the nation and we believe that this time around, these dreams would not be aborted in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. *Joseph was sold into slavery through envy by his siblings because he had dreams of future success which if allowed to materialize would have benefitted the entire family without creating bad blood and acrimony. In Genesis.37:1-36; 39:1-50:26; Joseph’s ordeals, and his courage and temerity to uphold righteousness led him to become the Prime Minister of Egypt, a foreign country where he was sold to in slavery after an elongated period of suffering and pains of manner of the vicissitudes of life, which included prison and jail terms, just like many righteous Nigerians whose dreams would not die nor be aborted in spite of all the ordeals of the past 16 years of PDP governments! The new government is being put together by God through fervent prayers of the righteous who believe that all the messes of the outgoing team would be removed in no time and that the missing or unremitted monies that are outstanding would be fully recovered and the so-called almost empty treasury would be resuscitated by a faithful team who would hit the ground, running an effective government from day one! The task ahead will require the support of every patriotic Nigerian to proffer information that would lead to the quick recovery of these missing funds and other loots that have been recovered from the late Abacha’s family! We strongly believe that ICC would urgently consider our proposal which we will make every effort to submit to their headquarters in the Hague, Netherlands, even as the new government takes over the mantle of office for the very cogent reasons that we have proffered earlier! It has become imperative that every attitude of government that could cause the youths of any nation to stumble through bad governance or maladministration, like outright embezzlement of public funds through diversification of such to private pockets and accounts should no longer be tolerated nor allowed, but be nipped in the bud through devoted activities and faithful services of righteous men and women of integrity in the new government of Alhaji Buhari’s cabinet. *We recommend that ICC should rise up in support of our collective resolve to establish the brand new United States of Nigeria, beginning from Friday 29th May, 2015, which is exactly FIVE DAYS from the date of this publication! This request is made on behalf of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. 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.com, https://www.google.com/ +zionfaithbiblebelievingchurch . I am, Yours sincerely,Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor.08130669886, 08098194390.g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com .]