ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER. [ A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. ] { VOL. 3. NO 100. 12th july, 2015.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).

100th EDITION

NIGERIA MUST NEVER NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS!

The driving forces behind the economies of world powers like America, Britain, France and Russia are the strong, reliable and dependable security institutions structured to fight crimes, criminalities and create conducive business environment for smooth governance! These institutions were deliberately planned and established over the years to uphold the tenets of democracy and entrench the judicial exercise of rule of law! They are the security organizations legally constituted and saddled with specific duties and responsibilities of ensuring that the letters and spirit of the social contracts with the citizens remained sacrosanct! In other disciplines like education, medicine, finance/accounting, engineering, science/technology and peace/conflict resolutions, there are also institutionalised credible organisations of world repute which have carved their niche and are no push-over! We will restrict this piece to the imperative but very sensitive operations of Security/Intelligence gathering and Counter Terrorism Institutions because of their integrated significance to the very existence of any polity!

*Establishments like the London Metropolitan Police, MI5, The Scotland Yard, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Israeli Defence Force (IDF), Israeli Intelligence Agency (Mossad), US Army and Navy Seals and a host of others are strong institutions which have outlived Heads of States, Presidents, Kings and Queens, and Captains of Industries. *The London Metropolitan Police successfully tracked down two thieving Nigerian Governors, one of whom is still serving jail terms in London prisons with some members of his family. *The greatest hostage rescue in history code-named “Operation Entebbe,” was achieved by the Israeli Army which successfully released 102 Israeli and Jewish hostages during the famous Ugandan Entebbe Airport, night rescue operation which lasted for 90minutes on 4th July, 1976! A week earlier on 27th June, an Air France plane with 248 passengers was hijacked by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the German Revolutionary Cells and flown to Uganda. *It very instructive to note that with all the recent threats of nuclear genocide by IRAN against ISRAEL, the Jewish nation (with its scores of very strong security and intelligence institutions) had remained unperturbed but warned its aggressor of the shame of imminent and consequences of defeat in the event of any attack! *It on record that this same Iran engaged IRAQ (a sovereign State as Israel) in some war of attrition for over ten years but could not prevail!

*Shortly before the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 Twin Towers and other simultaneous attacks on the United States, a high level, top secret combined US Security Operatives, trapped and killed the supposedly invincible Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda terrorist acclaimed leader who had escaped several arrests, at a remote location in Pakistan. Nineteen militants associated with the Islamic extremist group hijacked and commandeered four commuter airliners jets which they converted to guided missiles to carry out suicide attacks against targets in the United States on September 11, 2001: *Two of the planes were flown into the towers of the World Trade Centre in New York City; *A third plane hit the Pentagon nerve centre of the US military just outside Washington D.C. and caused devastating inferno that led to the structural collapse of a portion of the giant concrete building killing 125 military personnel and civilians in the Pentagon along with all 64 passengers aboard the ill-fated airliner! *The fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania on that deadliest day in the history of the United States as a nation! Although the synchronized simultaneous attacks of 9/11 in which over 3000 people, 400 Police Officers and Fire Fighters were killed, dealt a devastating blow on the military prowess, shook the intelligence network sagacity of the United States Government to its very foundation and forced a dent on its acclaimed status as a World Power, President George W. Bush did not yield to the Islamic terrorists al-Qaeda demands to release their very dangerous members, detained in several cells in the US! *The following were some of the terrorist grouses against the US Government: Firstly, they accused the US of supporting Israeli political interests against the Palestinians’; Secondly, al-Qaeda accused US of involvement in the Persian Gulf War triggered by Late Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein who aggressively annexed the neighbouring State of Kuwait to his country early August 1990, and which eventually attracted Western Nations intervention allied coalition forces led by US Army in January 1991! Thirdly, the terrorists criticized US continued Military presence in the Middle East. *Do these haters of peace and of organized societies have the “loci” (any particular position) to challenge the authority and sovereignty of legitimate States organised and by credible, legal and constitutional minds and have become Republics for ages?

Can the Republic of Nigeria boast of strong security intelligence and counter terrorism institutions of the likes of their foreign counterparts? We hardly think so for such reasons as political partisanship to which the Nigerian Armed Forces and the Police Force have been immersed since 1966! They virtually took over the political space as military Heads of State, Regional and State Governors, Military Administrators, State Commissioners, Heads of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA’s) - one of them even wore the toga of military President! In the process of about 30years Nigeria built up a very strong Military/Civilian Joint Task Force (MCJTF) and in almost 55 years of Independence from the British Colonial masters, the country still grapples with the challenges of insurgency and terrorism and how to overcome the pride and brazen effrontery of Boko Haram sponsors and financiers! We believe it was high time that the new Administration of President Buhari give marching orders to the Defence/Police High Commands to re-build, re-organize refurbish and re-orientate the Armed Forces/Police and transform them to the strong institutions of international repute for which they were identified before Independence and into the first five years of freedom from Britain! Nigeria needs to build up strong institutions out of the existing Armed Forces Commandos, the intelligence gathering and anti-crime agencies of the Special Secret Service (SSS), the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), the Nigeria Police Mobile Force and the Highway Patrol network across the nation, and fund them adequately in order to win the ongoing war against the Boko Haram terrorists!

* Any form of negotiation with terrorist will be a big slap on the face of the new, combined, formidable, determined, re-invigorated and encouraged security team, under the watchful eyes of Mr. President who is the Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria! How can the Boko Haram terrorists Cell which had destroyed thousands of lives, properties worth billions of naira and placed citizens on the edge for over a period five agonizing years brazenly turn round to demand release of detained ranking leaders of the militant group in prison incarceration in exchange for more than 200 girls earlier abducted between 2013-2014 in the war-torn North-East States of Bornu, Yobe and Adamawa! *The news making rounds is that President Muhammadu Buhari, a retired military General of great experience, could be willing to use the BAIT as a link to open a channel of dialogue and negotiation with the ruthless terrorists who slaughtered Nigerians citizens irrespective of age, religion, tribe, culture or gender like animals and posted such horrible and heinous crimes against humanity on internet videos and we opine that neither President Buhari nor any Nigerian Government Security Agency, individual or group, should ever dialogue or negotiate with Boko Haram terrorists for the following cogent, reasonable and truthful reasons: This terror group is on REVENGE MISSION. In October 2014, when the militants structure had virtually collapsed for shortage of military hardware supplies, their sponsors deceived the failed Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Administration into a cease-fire agreement only to re-equip, refurbish, re-organize and re-group to unleash further havoc on the populace of that region! Chadian President was said to have negotiated on behalf of that administration at an Saudi Arabia location but from denials and rebuttals, it turned out to be a hoax and an easy avenue of BLOOD MONEY for the purported “negotiators”! Whosoever sponsored this new dialogue venture is a “mole” who wants to cash-in on the President’s inaugural speech which promised proper attention to the Chibok School girls issue with express dedication of resources at securing their release. Over 600 people have been killed since that inauguration speech; should they have killed more people before seeking the direction of negotiation? Between Saturday 4th, and Tuesday 7th July, 2015, alone, 400 deaths were recorded when terrorist suicide bombers struck in some remote villages of Bornu State, attacked a church in Potiskum, Yobe State, detonated twin bombs in Plateau State and also another attack in Zaria, Kaduna State. Let us assume Boko Haram key leaders are exchange as requested, what next? Would they go into limbo? Would they surrender or cease fire? The militants are out to BUY TIME and re-equip like previous times but this is the time to deal the decisive blow on these enemies of Nigeria, their sponsors and collaborators. What becomes of the Commander role of Nigeria in the Multi National Joint Task Force (MNJTF) to which it is a signatory and to which millions of US dollars have been committed? Should our friendly neighbours who have shown such solidarity just pack their bags and baggage and return to their homelands while we negotiate with revengeful and unrepentant terrorists? God forbid! How had the United States, Britain, Israel and other serious foreign countries in Europe and Asia coped with insurgency and terrorism issues in their various nations without dinning with their enemies? The answer is simple; they built, sponsored and financed formidable security and intelligence gathering institutions of patriotic, fearless and dedicated men and officers who were well-motivated, as expressed in the opening analysis, to take extreme defence measures to defend their countries and citizens-even with their blood when unavoidable! These governments appropriate quality monies into the Defence, Security and Intelligence gathering sectors of their economies, procure, employ and install the latest, newest and top grade state-of-art technological equipments like the Satellite-controlled Close Circuit Television (CCTV), cameras, metal and bomb detectors, in all government structures, on the highways, streets, motor parks, amusement and fun-centres, including all shopping malls and open markets, public conveniences in all locations up to the rural areas! In addition these governments subsidized customized versions of these security gadgets, especially the CCTV cameras for all private and commercial residences, schools hospitals and health care centres!

The United States has 50 independent States and none is bereft of these the security devices that have helped to prevent, detect and solve crimes in its 239 years of independence! *Boston, Massachusetts marathon race bombing of 15th April, 2013 should serve as a recent and latest case study in crime detection through modern technology of the CCTV surveillance cameras which captured the two bombers before the dastard act was committed and was therefore faster to identify their get-away vehicle in which one of them died in a shoot-out with the police while the other who has now been sentenced to death was arrested within the vicinity three days later! We have on credible authority that a whooping sum of $470million US dollars was appropriated by the last PDP Administration to install CCTV cameras in the city centre including all the nooks and crannies of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), but to the surprise of the world at large, because neither images, photos nor surveillance video of the suicide bombers who invaded Abuja City and the satellite rural settlements for almost three consecutive years were recorded - they were mere elephant projects used to siphon monies from government vault into private pockets! It is not certain that official CCTV surveillance cameras are working successfully anywhere across the nation for the purposes of crime prevention and detection! This is Nigeria’s opportunity to go for the “KILL” and smash the Boko Haram Cell once and for all! They must not be allowed to regroup; their food supply network must be identified and blocked; their arms and ammunition supplies including communication links must be intercepted and cut off; they must not be given any breathing space at all! *We are aware that the erstwhile Chief Security Officer (CSO), has some explanations for President Buhari over the last 2014 One billion dollars appropriation for military hardware and the other tranche of $9.3 million dollars hard currencies now in the custody of the South African Government which suspected a crime of money laundering, the Commander-In-Chief, must as a matter of utmost priority release funds to his trusted military top notch through due process to address the very urgent supply of security hard and soft ware of CCTV and metal and bomb detectors, thermal imaging, etc., to the North East for faster intelligence gathering and crime detection to crush these enemies of the State of Nigeria without further delay! “If God be for us, who can be against us?” The Islamic terrorist groups of Syria and Libya are not spared by the US Army and the combined Arab Security Forces, because all these countries have developed their security institutions over the years to defend their citizens and territorial integrity whenever threatened! 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.

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