Please Forgive Our Errors Of Commission And Ommission !- Buhari

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 5. NO 137. 27th March, 2016.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

[2016 EASTER EDITION]

“PLEASE FORGIVE OUR ERRORS OF COMMISSION AND OMMISSION!” – BUHARI.

If you were domicile in Nigeria for up to a quarter of a century, you would have been accustomed to the annual Amnesty International Corruption Index Reports which repeatedly stated that deep-rooted institutional corruption had been the bane of all the woes, trauma, agony and vicissitudes of life imposed on hapless citizens by successive administrations! The common wealth of monies and national assets kept in the custody of the soldiers and politicians respectively were diverted for the benefit of a few while the rest of the population were abandoned to their fate of penury and abject poverty which had dragged for too long unabated!
How do you explain the lingering inflation-plagued economic down-turn of Nigeria which had the highest Gross Domestic Product (GDP), in Africa in mid – 2014 with the confessions by the incumbent administrators that the country was left high and dry with a virtually empty treasury! In TEN MONTHS the Buhari Administration was still struggling to manoeuvre the nation’s economic ship to keep it afloat through experts who could not make much impact because of mind-blowing discoveries of unprecedented depth of corruption and enormous embezzlement of public funds stacked away in foreign countries and which needed international diplomacy and tact to recover! Currently, cost inflation and petroleum products scarcity hardship must be borne by the poor masses who have no other country they could call theirs and must either swim or sink in the tide of the inefficiency of fellow Nigerians whom they voted to elective offices to cater for their welfare until MAY 2016, when a permanent solution to fuel scarcity would have been formulated!
In the meantime, the common men, women and children, as they were usually described by past governments were still being punished for the ripple effects of past rots of their maladministration of 1999-2015!
Global celebration of Easter, the annual Christian religious festivity to commemorate the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, in Nigeria turned sour as usual for the poor masses who had no access to private petrol dumps but who had to queue at petrol fillings stations for endless days without getting the product after all stress and sufferings! Though the period also afforded Christians to take stock of their pilgrimage engagements and make amends where necessary before the Day of Judgment, this year’s celebration on the queues may not provide such opportunity and that could be very inimical to their faith!

It is common knowledge that the nation was always jinxed because no festivity (Christian or Muslim) was ever celebrated in Nigeria with availability and free flow of petroleum products for the general populace, though the country is an OIL PRODUCING NATION!  Many negative comments of institutional corruption had become synonymous with the attitude of the economic management team of Nigeria which refused to build more refineries but decided to import refined products and paid billions of naira in questionable subsidies since the new attempt at democracy in 1999! OIL BLOCKS were awarded by successive Presidents to their cronies without recourse to international best practice which would have provided federating States the  opportunities to earn more monies that should have provided better infrastructures for their citizens; instead they were “dashed away” as party patronage rewards to dubious citizens most of who were fifth columnists within the system!

WHY HAD THE BOKO HARAM INSURGENCY TAKEN SO LONG TO OVERCOME IF THE TERRORISTS WERE NOT REGULARLY SPONSORED BY THOSE WHO HAD TOO MUCH MONEY IN THE SYSTEM AND WHO WOULD CONTINUE TO BENEFIT AS LONG AS THE WAR PERSISTED?

President Buhari’s Confessions and Apologies!
Although he is a staunch Muslim, President Muhammadu Buhari, through the Spirit of God realised that the period of Easter was a period of stock-taking, repentance and restitution because the celebrant of the season Jesus Christ gave His life to save all races, creed or people of various religious inclinations of the world! (John.3:16). On Thursday 24th March, 2016, the President during a meeting with APC’s National Executive Council (NEC), in Abuja apologised for dissolving Universities Governing Councils along with the Boards of Parastatal Agencies in the following words:

“We gave a blanket order which we had to rescind when we said all boards were suspended or dissolved.
“We had to go back and lick our vomit in terms of Universities Councils, because we found out that according to their laws, they could not choose Vice Chancellors unless the Councils sat and interviewed candidates who wanted to become VC’s.
“So there’s nothing wrong in saying sorry and going back on your decision.
“So we said sorry and allowed all the universities to continue with their councils.
“So please try to bear with us as we reflect on where we found ourselves.”
On the much criticised issue of “globe-trotting”, the President explained that “sometime you need to present your case on personal basis to your economic colleagues and neighbours because nothing is better than personal touch and I believe we are learning a lot and eventually, the nation will realise the dividends of those strategic trips.” The President also promised to personally monitor the implementation of the N6.06trillion 2016 Budget recently approved by the National Assembly to ensure an all inclusive welfare package that would embrace every economic life of all citizens.
He also disclosed that his administration had made tremendous progress in the area of security in that 14 of the 774 Local Government Areas seized by the insurgents had been recaptured by the Federal Forces! With regards to the state of the nation's coffers, the President said that the Treasury Single Account (TSA), which his administration opted for had yielded dividends as more than THREE TRILLION NAIRA had been recovered as government insisted on "what comes in and what goes out to make a comprehensive amendment to the economy" adding that it would never be business as usual for those who usually siphoned all unused funds into private pockets at the close of financial years! President Buhari was also displeased with the shoddy accounting system of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), which never disclosed, "what amount of crude oil was taken, sold or into which account monies were paid" as at the time he took over the mantle of leadership on 29th May, 2015.

The Mixed Multitude Syndrome In APC!
Though some patriotic Nigerians heaved a sigh of relief when some motley but determined opposition parties finally agreed to merge to break the jinx of eternal slavery cast over the nation by mercenary neo-colonialist politicians for sixteen consecutive years but little did the corruption-drunken ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) think that APC had the slightest chance of victory at the 2015 polls! Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and New PDP however successfully won the presidential election and also 23 Gubernatorial seats!
However, the mixed multitude syndrome of strange bed fellows had crept into the picture and is taking its toll to the surprise of the founding fathers who believed in PARTY SUPREMACY! A lot of grumbling is going on within by those who believed that politics in Nigeria must remain a business empire where lots of money must always be generated and distributed among only the players to the detriment or other stakeholders! They began by accusing President Buhari of being "stingy" for not allocating government funds to cater for the principal officers of the ruling party! The early manifestations of power tussles at the National Assembly (NASS), against party supremacy reared its ugly head when the PDP cabal of the mixed multitude bared its fangs and installed Saraki as Senate President against the wish of the APC leaders including Mr. President who had promised not to interfere in the internal affairs of the legislators!
Presently there exists several camps which include, those of Ahmed Bola Tinubu, Saraki, Odigie Oyegun, Dogara, Gbajabiamila, even Ekeremadu etc, rocking the boat of APC through individual inordinate ambitions, to the detriment of the ruling party which if care is not quickly taken could spell a future disaster that should be avoided now! We need to remind the APC that it was the Nigerian Electorate which voted all of their successful candidates including the President to power and not those ungrateful, selfish and power-hungry elements within their folds and that efforts should be made quickly to fish them out through the RECALL PROCESS as stipulated in the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and cast them into the labour market!

At inception, the ruling party made several promises, including but not limited to the following:
Respect for the rule of law, promotion of transparency, genuine anti-corruption measures, implementation of efficient public financial management strategies, promotion of healthy lifestyle through availability of balanced, preventive and curative healthcare and availability of quality education at all levels and also strive to create a pool of skilled Nigerians that will form the bedrock of the nation's economic agenda!

The Way Forward!
The disgruntled persons in the Change Party should please sheath their swords for the following reasons:
Nigeria is bigger than APC and the citizens have made their decision at the polls for good leadership in the person of the charismatic President Buhari and the APC Caucus!
Nigerians have never been blessed with an honest, faithful and righteous president with a good pedigree and impeccable antecedent like Muhammadu Buhari who is drunk with total and absolute love for his country and so must be supported to fulfil his mission which has been divinely enunciated even before the foundations of the world!
When past leaders encouraged and relished institutional corruption Buhari stood out of the crowd to condemn the evil and rebuild from the ashes of an almost empty treasury left behind by his predecessors!
The President humbled himself and said he was sorry for the errors of commission and omissions of his administration in its ten months of "teething problems" because the buck stops at his table!
It is only a righteous government that would exalt Nigeria, as a sinful administration would constitute a reproach to her citizens!

"Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men". (Proverbs.22:29). President Buhari deserves the support of all legitimate and patriotic citizens of Nigeria!  It's "forward ever for Nigeria and backward never". Amen.

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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.

I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor. 08130669886, 08098194390.  08080243066   g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.