Saraki's False Declaration of Assets Case Should Face The Acid Test Now, And Be Put To Rest!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 5. NO 141. 24th April, 2016.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

SARAKI'S FALSE DECLARATION OF ASSETS CASE SHOULD FACE THE ACID TEST NOW AND BE PUT TO REST!

The Legislature as the representative assembly of the citizens of a country is empowered by their Constitution to enact, revise or repeal the laws and statutes regularly to ensure political/socio-economic advancement of the people in comparison to acceptable international standards. It is therefore imperative that such a body must exude top-notch, efficient and qualitative administration laced with some degree of expertise and specialization by the elected legislators who should be proven professionals in their various fields to match the growing complexities of a modern world! But Nigeria's distinguished body of legislators of the 8th National Assembly - most especially - the exalted upper house of the bi-cameral arrangement (Senate), has woefully failed the nation since inauguration on 9th June, 2015 through a coup-de-grace against  the ruling party that brought 'Bukola Saraki on board as Senate President! Barely four months into his newly conquered office precisely 11th September, 2015, the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), filed a 13-count charge No.ABT/01/15, against Saraki before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), for offences of anticipatory declaration of assets, false declaration of assets while Governor of Kwara State (2003-2011), failed to declare some assets acquired as governor, acquiring assets beyond his legitimate earnings, operating foreign accounts while being a public officer, among other charges, and the upper legislative chamber, had remained in turmoil because the very weighty accusations against him by the Federal Government was a jolt out of the blues, for a house that was divided against itself since inauguration! Saraki, who was eventually arraigned on 22nd, September, 2015 and his apologists have claimed that the pressed charges were nothing short of "political witch-hunt" to punish him for defying Party supremacy and by installing himself as Senate President with the succinct connivance of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), opposition members who captured the deputy president's position in the bargain! The mammoth crowd that trooped to court with Saraki on his first court appearance was evidence that most legislators and civil servants were equally in default of the CCB Act and had to show solidarity with such impunity!

The Biblical History of the Mixed Multitude!
The mixed multitude syndrome which is very visible within the APC dates back to the biblical times when the Israelites were liberated by God to depart Egypt after 400 years of slavery and servitude. They were to move into a promised land flowing with "milk and honey" and dwell forever in peace and tranquility, but a mixed multitude from Egypt followed them out on their journey and caused them not only great discomfort, but also led them to all manner of sinful pleasures which ultimately separated them from God who loved them so much as to use them as His show piece to the world! (Exodus.12:38-39; Numbers11:41-28; I Corinthians.10:6-12).
Majority of all those who moved out of PDP led by Saraki are the mixed multitude now trying very desperately to rip All Progressives Congress (APC), asunder if great care is not taken by the divinely chosen managers of the Party led by President Muhammadu Buhari! Political watchers all agree that 'Bukola Saraki is a die-hard and core PDP faithful because he reluctantly joined APC when it was certain that he would lose his senatorial position if he remained in the PDP since the whole State had defected to the Change Party!

The Genesis Of Saraki's Travail!
Having enjoyed two terms as PDP Governor of Kwara State (2003-2011), through the popularity of his philanthropist father, late Dr.Olusola Saraki, Bukola gunned for the Senate Chambers seat through the Kwara Central Senatorial District and was duly elected to take over from his half sister, Gbemi, who aspired to become the first female governor of Kwara State, but failed! Bukola returned to the Senate in 2015 under the banner of the APC with a determined but hidden agenda to occupy the prestigious number three seat of Nigeria as Senate President to equal his father's record of Senate Presidency of the Second Republic from 1979-1983! To achieve this feat he had to disrespect the APC President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and entire Party hierarchy which invited him to a caucus meeting to caution him on his inordinate ambition since that position was already zoned to the North East but he dodged the meeting which was to be held two hours before the inauguration of the 8th National Assembly, disguised himself, drove a private vehicle to the National Assembly and got seated in the hallowed chamber with his "coup plotters" while he was still being expected at the Party caucus meeting! At 10am on the said day, the Clerk of the Senate began proceedings for the inauguration of the 8th NASS without forming a quorum because almost all APC elected Senators were at the Party's caucus meeting and in the process of time, the shocking news that Bukola Saraki had emerged as the Senate President of the 8th NASS with opposition candidate Ike Ekweremadu, as his vice, hit global air waves as the rudest shock of the 21st Century! The unfolding commotion and ripple effects of that "coup-de-grace" are still reverberating and would not settle until 'Bukola Saraki vacates that seat honorably or dishonorably!

Call It Witch Or Wizard Hunt, Certain Facts Are Very Germane:
That 'Bukola Saraki during his 8-year tenure as Kwara State Governor actually filled and filed those Assets Declaration Forms in question. That he had neither questioned nor denied the validity of the information on the said forms but had queried the lapse of time between 2011 and 2015, before CCB decided to bring up the charges against him. That he had fundamental rights to have been notified of any of the discrepancies allegedly discovered on the said forms. That CCT Judge, Justice Danladi Umar, lacked jurisdiction to try him and for those reasons, his team of 79 lawyers - mostly senior advocates - advised him to challenge the suit from the High Court up to the Supreme where he lost all appeals.

The Supreme Court Judgment!
On Friday, 5th February, 2016, the Supreme Court's Seven-man Panel, presided over by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, unanimously ruled in its judgment that Saraki's appeal against the jurisdiction of the CCT and the competence of the charges,  lacked merit. Justice Walter Onnoghen, who delivered the lead judgment, dismissed all Saraki's seven grounds of appeal, affirming that the charges instituted against him were valid and that the tribunal was validly constituted with requisite jurisdiction to try him!

Show Me Your Friends Mr. Senate President!
The embattled Senator, is blessed with scores of friends, who would go the extra mile to see him out of his self-imposed travails, no matter the cost! First, Kwara friends who voted for him at all elections since his debut into the political turf and regularly queued up to collect annual Rammadan/Sallah food items, clothings and cash gifts as rewards, even at the risk of their lives during human stampedes that regularly marred the philanthropic gesture! It is on record that between 2010-2016, at least 67 people including seven of his campaigners died in such gory incidents according to newspapers reports which queried several cover-ups by the Police of credible figures of deaths!
'Bukola followed up in the footstep of his late father, a philanthropist who often distributed those items during the annual Muslim celebrations to the poor, needy, widows and the aged of Ilorin communinities until his demise on 14th November, 2012. Second, political associates and praise-singers who have immensely benefited through juicy Senate Committee appointments for their loyalty and support in his drive to the number three position! Third, legal team friends made up 79 wise men who assured him of judicial victory provided all professional fees were settled up-front. Though they were well informed as "learned brothers" that there was no provision for declarants to be invited by CCB to clear grey areas in their filed forms, yet they assured Saraki of his fundamental rights and tried fruitlessly to disqualify the Judge from sitting over the case for lack of jurisdiction, until they totally crashed and lost at the apex court! Fourth, the camaraderie of 84 distinguished senators of the Federal Republic of Nigeria at the early stages of the trial which - seven months - have dwindle to less than 12 at the last hearing on 22nd April, 2016 since the trial Judge, Justice Danladi Umar had ruled that trial would be held daily from Monday 18th April 2016, to its conclusion without any entertainment of adjournment! Fifth, a lone-ranger Senator friend who stood up to challenge the very enactment of the CCB/CCT Act and introduced a controversial bill on the floor of the house to whittle down the powers of the constitutionally constituted body and transfer its control from the Executive to the National Assembly though aware that beginning from the CCB, all the 14 Federal Executive Bodies are the responsibities of the Federal Government (Third Schedule.Part I. A-M). The first time Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, representing Delta North Senatorial District prayed that the CCT should no longer treat false declaration of assets and other related breaches in the CCB Forms as criminal trials but as mere civil matters that would attract only fines! With the support of mixed multitude in the Chamber, it was smooth sail from first to second readings and passage to the Committee on Judiciary within a week of submission knowing fully well that the Senate had no power to initiate retroactive laws and that Saraki would in no way be favoured even if they succeeded in pushing through the very ambiguous and pro-corruption bill!
An investigation by Sahara Reporters of New York revealed that Nwaoboshi who is a lawyer had ulterior motives for sponsoring the bill to decriminalize corruption by public officers! One was that he was equally guilty of non-declaration of several assets which he acquired as Political Adviser to James Ibori, former governor of Delta State now serving jail term for corruption in the UK and whom he regularly visited because he also secured his senatorial ticket from jail! Saraki and Ibori according to the investigation are close friends. The other reason had to do with self preservation since Senator Nwaoboshi allegedly bought a Delta Government property in Lagos in a shady deal and which he failed to declare in his CCB Assets Declaration Forms! The avalanche of public outcry over the VODOO BILL almost brought the Heavens down and the "most distinguished Senators" had to discontinue action! FOR HOW LONG WILL THE NATION BE TAKEN THROUGH THE RIGOURS OF DECEIT BY THOSE WHO CLAIM TO BE ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OF THE MASSES BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF STRONG INSTITUTIONS?
The specified punishment which the Code of Conduct Tribunal may impose on a person convicted of charges of false declaration of assets and other related offences under the Fifth Schedule, Part I, Section 18(1) (2) (a)(b)(c) are as follows: Vacation of office or seat in any legislative house as the case may be, Disqualification from membership of a legislative house and from the holding of any public office for a period not exceeding ten years, and Seizure and forfeiture to the State of any property acquired in abuse or corruption of office and 18(3-7) which state that the sanctions mentioned above shall be without prejudice to the penalties that may be imposed by any law where the conduct is also a criminal offence. That guilty persons shall have right of appeal but that nothing shall prejudice the prosecution of such officer or preclude him/her from being prosecuted for an offence in a court of law and that the provisions of the Constitution relating to prerogative of mercy shall not apply to any punishment imposed in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 18(1-7).
The good people of Nigeria do not deserve legislators selected through bribery and corruption; who are UNFIT, UNEDUCATED, AND CLUELESS! No one should blame 'Bukola Saraki for exercising his "fundamental human rights" in a system that is fraught with institutional corruption which is still is being entrenched in the system by the mixed multitude who are APC members in the day time and PDP in the night!  Legislators are empowered to make laws for the peace, order and good government of the Federation and not to contradict the Constitution according to Section 4(8)(9). 'BUKOLA SARAKI'S CASE IS THE LITMUS TEST ALL PATRIOTIC NIGERIANS HAVE BEEN PATIENTLY WAITING FOR! Thy will be done in Nigeria O Lord!

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The Abels of Our Time!

THE SURE WORD.
[Gospel Series 15]. Only the truth will set you free!

THE ABELS OF OUR TIME.

After Adam and Eve were expelled from the luscious and mineral-rich Garden of Eden as punishment for their flagrant disobedience to the sovereign law of God, they gave birth to Cain and Abel.
Cain was a farmer and Abel, a keeper of sheep. The biblical account in Genesis 4: 1-10 reveals that in the process of sacrifice, Abel’s offering of the, ‘firstlings of his flock and the fat thereof’, was accepted by God while Cain’s fruit of the ground was rejected because of its origin. [cp. Heb. 9:22; 11:4].
Cain got very angry, rejected God’s verdict and counsel, murdered his sibling and became the first homicide convict on earth! When queried, the unrepentant villain denied knowledge of Abel’s whereabouts, and retorted, “Am I my brother’s keeper?”

The blood of Abel, an innocent victim of an evil sibling is still crying from the ground to the LORD for vengeance and so is the blood of several innocent Abels of our time; “ For the life of the flesh is in the blood…..” [ Leviticus. 17:11a ].
Homicide had since that generation became the order of the day across the entire universe with modern weapons of warfare belching and spitting death upon innocent citizens. One cannot easily forget the pogrom against the Jewish and Japanese nations during the First and Second World Wars when chemical weapons and the hydrogen bombs were engaged by the so-called world powers. Though, there had not been another world war since 1945, this present generation till date has witnessed heavy currents of rivers of human blood flowing all over the earth through the heinous activities of man’s bestiality against man. Today, the human flesh and blood have become the lucrative merchandise of the occult and no country or community in the universe is immune from this dastard and ungodly attitude! As Cain was divinely punished, so will everyone who has shed innocent blood be judged by our sovereign God.

Because the rulers of Jerusalem, the holy capital city of the nation of Palestine, continuously indulged in the shedding of righteous and innocent blood of servants of God, the Lord Jesus Christ prophesied the destruction of Jerusalem before He also, was crucified in the same city, over two thousand years ago.  [Matthew. 23:37-38].

Earlier in verses 35 and 36, the Lord also said, “……upon you may come all the righteous blood, shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zach-a-ri’as son of Bar-a-chi’as, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.”
I pray for a divine intervention against the shedding of innocent blood in Nigeria and across the world in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

In A D. 70, the Romans besieged and utterly destroyed Jerusalem, thus fulfilling the Lord’s prophecy. Judgement will continue to fall upon succeeding generations as long as disobedience to God’s holy laws subsists.
PRAYER.: The sixth commandment says, “Thou shalt not kill.;”  and because I believe in the sanctity of the human life, I pray that the Spirit of the love of our neighbours as ourselves will overwhelm every soul so that homicide and assassinations will become alien to world societies in Jesus Christ name. Amen.

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THE HOLY FLOCK OF ZION FAITH BIBLE-BELIEVING CHURCH, NIGERIA (ZFB-BC), IS 18 YEARS OLD. GLORY BE TO GOD!

THE HOLY FLOCK OF ZION FAITH BIBLE-BELIEVING CHURCH, NIGERIA (ZFB-BC), IS 18 YEARS OLD. GLORY BE TO GOD!

It has been over 20 Centuries of the mandate of the Great Commission from the Master Jesus Christ to his 12 Apostles and also His declaration: "And if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me"; but the power of attorney and the truth of the prophecy still remain sacrosanct and binding on all end-time evangelists till date! (Matthew.28:18-20; John12:32).
Corporate Zion B-BC Nigeria was privileged to be divinely-absorbed into the membership of the BODY OF CHRIST through the unction of the Holy Ghost and called according to His purpose to work in the Vineyard, in a spiritual investiture at the Galilee Rendervous of Easter Monday, 13th April, 1998, in a never-to-be-forgotten, outlandish but supernatural atmosphere of the outpouring of His Spirit, second only to the Day of Pentecost!
In 18 years of growing up to adulthood, the good Lord had been faithfully supportive, incredibly loving and diligently instructive as we navigated the rough seas and stormy blitz of the wild and wicked terrain of the Prince of the World!
We have remained focused and steadfast to our hallmark of dwelling in the attribute of Holiness of God, through deep study of His Word and obedience to His Commandments, as entrenched in our Mission Statement from the day of commission and had continuously and consistently solicited citizens of the global village to accept Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Saviour through our evangelical activities and several incisive/spiritual publications!
The Lord Jesus Christ who defeated the Tempter in the wilderness as He prepared for His arduous Ministry ( Matthew. 4: 1-17) and who faithfully testified to the Father before He conquered the Cross,  "I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world;.... and they have kept thy word", had been our pillar of strength, role model and the "..author and finisher of our faith". (John.17:6; Hebrews.12:2).
THE HOLY FLOCK OF MOUNT ZION DO NOT INDULGE IN TELLING LIES AT ALL - WE SAY THE TRUTH AS IT IS, IN ALLEGIANCE TO THE HOLY GOD WITH WHOM WE WILL SPEND OUR ETERNITY! (Revelation.21: 1-7; compare verse 8).
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Please forward your personal details immediately if you have been convinced by the Holy Spirit that you would never TELL LIES, NEVER AGAIN, but determined to live a sinnless life. Your name will then be recorded in the Holy Register through the unction of God the Holy Spirit and consequently through divine approval, in the Book of Life, if you do not ever break this COVENANT throughout your LIFETIME!
Always remember that the SALVATION OF GOD IS FREE TO ALL CREATION! May the goodness and mercy of God be upon you and your loved ones today and always. (Psalm. 23:6; compare verses 1-5). Amen.

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NIGERIA'S ROMANCE WITH CHINA, THE SECOND LARGEST ECONOMIC NATION, IS BEARING FRUIT!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 5. NO 140. 17th April, 2016.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

NIGERIA'S ROMANCE WITH CHINA, THE SECOND LARGEST ECONOMIC NATION, IS BEARING FRUIT!

It may be too early to assess the rate of Nigeria's economic growth in the area of diversification from the sole crude oil foreign exchange earner to agriculture and solid minerals mining, but we can assure Nigerians that, a silent revolution by the new economic team is underway to replace oil monopoly and take the nation out of the woods! In November 2015, Nigeria was rated as the 22nd world's largest economy by International Monetary Fund, (IMF), yet classified as a poor and developing nation all because of the infrastructural decays of many decades and the mismanagement of the nation's finances through endemic grafts, but in spite of this gloomy picture there lies a bright light at the end of the tunnel with the strategic economic plans of this new administration!
Although a lot criticisms had trailed the several overseas trips of President Buhari since his assumption of office, we make bold to state that those trips were geared towards bridging economic deficit gaps through strategic feasible foreign loans and diversification through domestic resources to sustain the ongoing efforts to revamp the economy at a time when the global economic recession remained unabated in view of crude oil glut which resulted from the worst and lowest international prices ever experienced in 12 years! President Buhari just returned from China, which had invaded Africa's developing and under-developed countries on a rescue mission to set them free from self-inflicted poverty to economic viability through the template which catapulted them to becoming one of the current world powers and respected economic blocs - in fact, the second largest after the United States! Several bi-lateral economic agreements were signed between the two countries and efforts were made to quickly bridge the trade imbalance of 80 - 20 per cent  in favour of China, due to Nigeria's penchant for "CHINCO" export products, within a very short time to reverse the trend for massive Nigerian exports to China!

Dividends Of The 5-day State Visit.
Beijing signed agreements to develop infrastructure in Nigeria as part of a drive to deepen its ties with Africa and has offered a loan worth Six billion US dollars to fund infrastructure projects.
President Xi Jingping assured Buhari that there was huge potential for economic co-operation with Nigeria in oil refining and mining.
In view of this developments, Nigeria would soon commence issuance of the cheaper Panda bonds (mainly Yuan denominated) as against Euro bonds and Nigeria-China lopsided trades, which accounts for over 70% of imports into Nigeria would now be concluded in Yuan, while Nigerian traders and businesses, which import mainly from China would conclude their transactions in the Chinese currency, the Renminbi (Yuan), instead of the dollar!
Nigeria's opportunity to trade in the Chinese national currency, the Renminbi (Yuan), instead of the US dollar in a swap deal is geared to shore up investment opportunities that would favour Nigerian businessmen, educational and health care opportunities in China and also, a move to break the dependence of Nigeria on the dollar for international financial and business transactions!
Previously, over 90% of international trades and financial transactions between Nigeria and other countries of the world was done in dollars which exerted much pressure on the naira but CBN would now diversify a huge chunk of Nigeria's foreign reserve from dollars to the Yuan to perfect the agreement and ensure its free flow among the banks as one of the foreign exchange currencies that could be sourced from the foreign exchange reserves of Nigeria! This agreement on Yuan transaction which would create a window for the resuscitation of the Naira slump against the US dollar since January 2016, was signed between the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited and the Central Bank of Nigeria on 13th April, 2016, in Beijing, to include the currency into Nigeria's foreign exchange reserves, an indication that President was determined to transform Nigeria into an exporting and no longer a consuming nation and also a fulfillment of the promise to strengthen the Naira against the US dollar!
Yuan financial transactions is not new to Nigeria because in 2014, there was a move by the Central Bank to increase its Yuan foreign reserves to seven per cent, but in view of this present move by the Buhari Administration to break the US dollar jinx, the percentage might increase to over thirty digits for better international business leverage between Nigeria and its African peers!
Nigeria is now in league with other African countries like Ghana, South Africa and Zimbabwe and also Kazakhstan and Argentina which had integrated the Yuan into their financial markets which at this rate of spread, has become a most-likely replacement to the US dollar, not only in Africa, but globally in settling international trade deals. It is heart- warming to note that Nigeria would become the clearing house for Yuan denominated transactions for the whole of Africa following the agreement with the Chinese Government.

Nigerian Judas Kicks Against Chinese Loan to Nigeria!
Ayodele Fayose needs no further introduction as an enemy of the State of Nigeria! He has never had respect for constituted authority and was always quick to pour vindictive and verbal abuses on elder statemen and even on the incumbent highly respectable and dignified personality of President Muhammadu Buhari whom he swore would never win a presidential election in Nigeria.
In a strongly-worded letter dated 12th April, 2016, Fayose requested Chinese President, Xi Jingping, to cancel the US 2 billion dollar loan being purportedly sought by the Federal Government in view of the fact that "Nigerians were totally opposed to increment of country's debt burden which was already being serviced with 25% of Federal Government's annual budget." One copy of the letter was delivered by Fayose's aides to the Chinese Ambassador in Nigeria while another copy was taken by him (Fayose), to China, to be delivered personally to the Chinese President!
He also said that some of the projects which included the Lagos-Calabar (Chinese-partnership) rail project, for which the loan was being sought, were not captured in the 2016 Budget for which a total sum of N1.84 trillion was needed to execute; adding that he was concerned about the great debt burden that would be transferred to the economy by 2017 when the country would begin to service additional debt to be incurred in 2016 which only portrays insincerity in the fight against corruption!
The Governor alleged that hundreds of millions of British pounds in foreign aid to Nigeria to combat Boko Haram insurgency was diverted to fund "a witch-hunt" against opposition politicians and that the future of Nigerians should not be mortgaged by an autocrat in the person of President Buhari "who has travelled outside of Nigeria for 28 times in ten months of assumption of office at a cost of 50million US dollars!" We are not surprised at Fayose's vituperations against President Buhari because he was opposed to a righteous government being part and parcel of the corrupt Peoples Democratic Party's (PDP), 16 years administration which allowed for free embezzlement of government funds and we know that in a matter of the next three years, would lose his immunity and face the pending fraud case against him in the law courts! "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God; and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation."(Romans.13:1-2).
President Buhari is the anointed of God and on special mission to clear the Augean stable in Nigeria; he is a spiritual moving train which no human power can stop until he arrived divine destination! An enemy of Nigeria and Ekiti poor masses like Fayose would promise "stomach infrastructure" but renege, collect with the connivance of the State Assembly, a whooping sum of N19.6 billion of naira in Bank Loans within SIX MONTHS of assumption of office as governor for basic infrastructure, social amenities and payment of backlog of workers salaries but veered into elephant projects to build an International Airport and flyovers of several kilometers in a poverty-stricken State whose workers and pensioners are virtually living from hand to mouth, while the patriotic President of the Talakawas travelled round the world to seek succour for his friends and would never rest until they were nourished nurtured and pacified! The day of reckoning and judgment is closer than Fayose thinks, who was one of the political jobbers who almost destroyed Nigeria's economy through massive institutional corruption believes, when the Almighty God will "give every man according as his work shall be." (Revelation. 22: 11-12).

Divine Rescue Of Nigeria's Economy Is Paramount!
Though neither China, nor the United States, will be the Messiah that would rescue Nigeria from its economic challenges, all the economic gains traceable to the President's overseas journeys in the last 10 months and credited to sound economic judgments of the economic team, Nigeria with resilience will overcome all pressing trade obstacles with all the agreements already in place in no time! However consultations for divine direction for subsequent international contacts must be sought and confirmed spiritually at all times and Mr. President's very senior aides starting with his Vice, should be deployed to represent him according to the "doctrine of division of labour", while he handled the most exigent matters. (Exodus:18:14-27).

How Does The Budget Affect Your Economic Life?
No country can function effectively without proper sectoral allocation of government's expenditure for the delivery of social infrastructure except through a system of annual budgeting of accumulated revenues in its consolidated revenue account! The most important is the Federal Budget which signifies the direction which the federating States would go especially in Nigeria where federal allocations overshadow Internally Generated Revenues (IGR's) of the States!
The Federal Government must ensure even distribution of funds to education, health facilities, sports, housing,  power, energy, agriculture, industry, mining of solid minerals, defence, security, infrastructure etc. according to the enactments in the constitution.
In Nigeria, most citizens believed that corrupt and unimplementable Federal budgets ended with past administrations because none of those documents between 1999-2015 was ever implemented half way at the close of each financial year and unspent funds were never returned into the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation! The Budget which is an annual financial document of statements and estimates designed by governments or corporate bodies to analyse income and expenditures of a previous year in comparison to the expectations in the coming year with a view to accommodating any foreseeable fluctuations, had remained an albatross and a jinx year after year in Nigeria!
For instance, the 2015 Nigerian Budget was prepared by a previous administration which virtually drained the coffers before the hand-over date of 29th May, of that year and without sufficient funds, made its implementation almost impossible; and except for some miracles, about half of the 2016 Budget would be implemented with borrowed funds!
Searchlight is usually beamed on the Federal Budget because of its enormous influence and impact on the citizens as a vehicle of economic investment and development in areas of tax evaluation, check on inflation and incentives through legal subsidies on goods and services, determination of foreign exchange rates for business entrepreneurs, and the stimulation and recovery from economic and trade recession as had been the case in Nigeria since 2014!
In the continuous absence of a Federal Budget in April 2016, unpatriotic Nigerian traders are having a field day of illicit gains from inflated prices of local and foreign food items without discrimination or sensitivity to the plight of their very poor fellow citizens while government officials folded their arms in complacency! The entrepreneur is uncertain of the survival of his business in view of the fact that he has no economic guidelines on government's new trade policies or the tax regime in respect of income taxes, imports and exports, customs and excise duties including foreign exchange allocations in the following year!
The Nigerian Electorate and the generality of the populace are in utter confusion and great anxiety as there seemed to be no bright prospects for them in view of the fact that the economy had crashed due to institutional corruption and the unprecedented sharp fall in international crude oil price, long before the All Progressives Congress (APC), took over the mantle of leadership on 29th May, 2015, in spite of the lying lips of former economic gurus!
Is it therefore not surprising that the 2016 Federal Budget which was transmitted to the National Assembly (NASS), in December 2015, is yet to be assented to by the President in the second quarter of 2016 because of a myriad of discrepancies of massive padding by "trusted civil servants", and the contest for supremacy of oversight functions between the Executive and the Legislature?

Who Has Greater Constitutional Powers Of Budget Oversight?
According the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, Section 81 (1) (2) the President shall cause to be prepared and laid before each House of the National Assembly at any time in each financial year estimates of the revenues and expenditure of the Federation for the next following financial year by presenting the heads of expenditure contained in the estimates in a bill to be known as an Appropriation Bill, providing for the issue from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the sums necessary to meet that expenditure and the appropriation of those sums for the purposes specified therein.
In Section 81(4), the President can also initiate a Supplementary Appropriation Bill in any given financial year, if there was insufficiency of funds in the main appropriation and lay such before each House of the National Assembly for oversight and approval. The Legislature on the other hand has very wide powers in the oversight and scrutiny of every budget submitted according to Sections 80(1) (2) (3) (4) (a) (b), and 83(1) (2) and no expenditure could be made by the Executive without the expressed approval of the body of law makers.
However in an unenvisaged situation as the present imbroglio of delayed budget, the President has authorization of expenditure from the  Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation, in default of appropriation for the purpose of meeting financial exigencies of government under Section 82 for a period not longer than six months or until the coming into operation of the Appropriation Act, which ever is earlier, provided such expenditures did not exceed the amounts in the appropriation of the previous financial year! It is evident that the tradition of checks and balances as entrenched in the Constitution has played out especially when it is evident that in spite of the Legislature's wide powers of oversight in the Appropriation Act it is only the Executive that can authorize the expenditure of appropriated funds!
It is therefore incumbent for both arms of government to always work in unison and not at cross purposes in spite of allegations and counter allegations of inclusions and exclusions of unappropriated items by interest groups on both sides that are flying around! The only people who suffer are the poor masses whom the so-called representatives in both sides of the divide claim to be protecting their interests as enumerated in earlier paragraphs!
ENOUGH OF BLAME GAMES AND ORGANIZED DECEITS BY THE AFFLUENT AND OPULENT IN THE LEGISLATURE WHOSE MEMBERS TOTAL ASSETS AND PROPERTIES TOTAL FIGURES, SUMMED TOGETHER, IS MORE THAN NIGERIA'S GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT (GDP)!

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.

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.

Exposed! Nigerian Politicians And Civil Servants Are Milking The Nation Dry!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 5. NO 139. 10th April, 2016.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

(18th CHURCH ANNIVERSARY EDITION).

EXPOSED! NIGERIAN POLITICIANS AND CIVIL SERVANTS ARE MILKING THE NATION DRY!

They are all heartless, unempathetic, selfish, insensitive, wicked, callous and very ruthless; those politicians and technocrats in leadership positions, who without iota of self remorse or moral condemnation, still collect monthly double and triple salaries from governments even at this austere period when almost all States of the Federation could hardly pay their workers stipends!  What do we make of a civil servant school principal  who on retirement moved on to become a politician and got elected as a legislator and much later, a governor of his State and who now collects, on monthly basis, two pensions as a retiree and also governor's  salaries and allowances simultaneously! Or of governors turned senators or executive ministers or vice-versa  at the Federal level who have become multi millionaires in the unhindered corruption of double/triple payments which is having a free-run in the polity. Outside of this unchecked and officially-backed shameful rip-off of the nation's dwindling coffers, unfaithful and unrighteous civil servants remained unrepentant in defrauding the Federal Government of millions of naira in monthly organized salary fraud! It is on record that government is presently probing no fewer than 23.306 civil servants and some commercial banks who have been accused by an official panel of investigators of collusion in the scam! We are all conversant with the cliché, "ghost workers" but what we might not understand is how such spirit beings operate in working places! Ghost workers are the dubious creation of living workers who register fake identities on the centralized payroll of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), called Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information Systems (IPPIS), in Nigeria for the sole purpose of eliminating such scams of multiple payments, but who still succeeded in hacking the system to have their way undetected for a period of time!
Recently, an unemployed couple were arraigned before a law court for having collected ghost workers monthly salaries of N600.000 each, for six consecutive years from one of the Federal Ministries before being detected by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC); it is as bad as that! In the Nigerian Senate, there are not less than 15 ex-governors who are enjoying triple salaries in addition to mind-bugling gratuities/ severance allowances already paid into their kitties by their State Governments including imperial mansions in their state capitals and at the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and fleet of state-of-the-art automobiles that are renewable regularly!
This is the worst kind of an officially-backed colossal racket being perpetrated against the Electorate which had clamoured for change of the corruption attitude of the past 16 years of bad governance by voting the All Progressives Congress (APC) to power at the centre and in 23 States of Nigeria! The Executive also has its own fair share of some four ex-governors enjoying double/triple salaries and possibly President Muhamadu Buhari who is a retired Military General/Head of State who is also entitled to double or triple salaries, now as the incumbent President and Commander- in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria! Former President Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo had a two-term stint from 1999-2007, but it is yet to be verified if he collected double salaries as a retiree Military General/Head of State during his tenure! Since President Buhari and his Change Government promised to block all loop holes of financial wastages in governance and expose, investigate and prosecute all indicted persons involved in financial malpractices and economic crimes, this should serve as a wake-up call for him to take up the gauntlet and bring the BROOM symbol of APC to sweep clean the Augean stable by empowering the Civil Service Panel already in place to also probe the Executive Arm and put all records straight!
Doctors in Osun State went on strike in respect of unpaid salaries and allowances for a period of SEVEN MONTHS only to return to work early April 2016, without receiving one kobo from Rauf Aregbesola's Administration, which claims to be utterly broke but could maintain two serviceable HELICOPTERS which transport Mr. Governor on official trips across the nation on regular basis! It is also on record that Osun State civil servants like their counterparts in other States of the Federation, are owed over nine months salaries in arrears without the hope of payment in spite of the Federal Government's bail out support of 27 States with N662 billion in 2015 whereas all the elite members of the Executive, Legislative, and the Judiciary, had not missed one month's salary plus all requisite allowances/appurtenances to date in spite of the general complaint of low funds from Oil revenue, Agriculture and Solid Minerals!

Resident doctors across board are also planning to embark on nation-wide strike for similar reasons while one of the two factions of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), is also threatening a one-day warning strike against the abnormal hike of electricity tariff across the nation! The Word of God says: "...... And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts. (Malachi.3:5b). We are not ignorant that there are legislations against collection of double/triple salaries by employed civil servants, but are they being implemented even though the Provisions of the ICPC Act 2000 extant laws are very much valid?

It is time for positive judgment action against  these bare-faced robbers of the nation's lean coffers and these inordinate/heartless political jobbers and the immediate recoveries of all excess double/ triple salaries from all beneficiaries at least from 1999-2016! Who should bell the cat if not President Buhari who should quickly inform the nation of his position whether he is culpable like the legislators and if not, swing into immediate action to recover and plough back the officially-backed loots of several years into the Treasury Single Account (TSA), to service the 2016 Budget of Hope which is going through the last Presidential scrutiny before assent!
In addition, we also urge the President to urgently publish the full list of all recovered and repatriated ABACHA LOOTS from overseas countries with dates and the accounts in which they are deposited in order to dispel the rumours that the monies had been corruptly shared among the politicians! What about the $USD 9.5 arms deal cash which was transported from Nigeria and seized in South Africa during the last administration and yet to recovered since 2014? Patriotic Nigerians are patiently waiting to get the TRUTH directly from our trusted President Muhammadu Buhari without the slightest delay!

Wonders Will Never End!
The Benue State Internal Revenue Department had come up with an ingenious method of increasing Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), through annual taxes to be paid by private owners and commercial users of generating sets for polluting the OZONE LAYER in the State! Private owners would pay N50.000, annually and the commercial users, N150.000, to offset government expenses on environmental pollution of the ozone layer!
The Ozone Layer is a layer of air high above the Earth, which contains a lot ozone (poisonous form of oxygen), and which prevents harmful ultraviolet light from the sun from reaching the Earth. How can Benue State which can neither boast of constant electricity nor adequate portable water supply to its citizens; of modern health facilities nor good roads/markets “maintain” the global ozone layer from Makurdi?  We have one advice for these revenue geniuses; they should also tax all private owners of WATER WELLS and FARMLANDS in order to ganner more monies from the indigent but determined peasants who do not even believe in the existence of the State government!
IS THIS THE CHANGE AGENDA OF APC IN BENUE STATE WHERE THE AGATU PEOPLE ARE STILL MOURNING THEIR DEAD?

“Operation Safe Corridor” For Boko Haram Prisoners of War (POW) ?

The Defence Ministry in a recent statement told Nigerians that all Boko Haram terrorists who voluntarily surrendered to the Military Joint Task Force (MJTF), would be provided a SAFE CORRIDOR where they would be rehabilitated and reintegrated into the mainstream of the society! Could this be an “Amnesty” formula through the backdoor?
The Word of God supports benevolent moves because He does not wish that sinners should die but that they would repent and be saved; ( Ezekiel. 18:23; 2 Peter. 3:9), but caution should be employed to separate the "sheep from the goats" that is, to separate those who were conscripted and genuinely repentant, from the fundamentalists, fanatics and demon-possessed who could be faking repentance!
Measures must also be taken to ensure that the "surrender move" was not the enemy's ploy to infiltrate the rank and file of the Federal Forces and elongate the war, taking into consideration the recent internet news "threat" by Boko Haram that they could attack the Presidential Villa! Who is vested with the power of Amnesty, the Ministry of Defence, the Commander-In-Chief or the National Assembly?

Taking Fanaticism to the Extreme!
Chief 'Tony Momoh, a veteran journalist, an erudite lawyer and chieftain of the ruling Party was recently reported to have vowed that members of his party would surrender themselves to be publicly stoned if  in two years, President Buhari failed in his divine mission to cleanse the rot in the polity and set the nation on the right economic footing! Is that not taking fanaticism to the extreme considering the fact that life which is God's creation and prerogative (Genesis. 2:7), is sacred and cannot be punned by any individual? What President Buhari needs are patriotic citizens, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO's) and genuine crusaders who would support the campaign for moral re-orientation and character reformation against all forms of corruption in the polity and also vital and genuine information on all economic and financial crimes saboteurs so that the so-called Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Cabal which had held sway and recklessly decimated the Nigerian economy and foreign exchange earnings for 16 years through organized institutional corruption would be unmasked and destroyed through all legal apparatuses once and for all!  We are no longer in the STONE AGE! The Word of God states that the soul that sinneth shall die! (Ezekiel. 18:4). We are 18 years old and still marching on, to the glory of God the Father!

Let all hands be on deck to salvage this nation from the brink of socio-economic and political disaster! Let us support President Buhari and the APC with our patriotic actions and prayers and we shall collectively succeed in Jesus Christ's name! Amen and Amen!

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.

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.

Kidnappers Have Three Choices- Repent, Rot in Jail or Face The Hangman!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 5. NO 138. 3rd February, 2016.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

KIDNAPPERS HAVE THREE CHOICES -  REPENT, ROT IN JAIL OR FACE THE   HANGMAN!

High profile kidnapping of persons in Nigeria gained international prominence and dimension when, militants of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MENDS), combined abductions of expatriate oil workers with the vandalization of pipelines to ventilate their disgust and anger against social injustice, exploitation, marginalization and ecological degradation of the region through crude oil exploration! They accused the Federal Government (military/ democratic), and the foreign oil firms of collusion to keep their region in perpetual enslavement and abject poverty through continuous exploitation without infrastructural development that would provide the imperative social amenities of health facilities, portable water, arable lands for agriculture, motorable roads, electricity power for industrialization,  qualitative education etc, for the people to show for their sacrifices and sufferings!

In the height of the tussle, the Federal Government established a Ministry of the Niger Delta Development Corporation to cater for all the issues of contention raised by the militants but which the agitators condemned and labelled as most inefficient to meet their demands and virtually ineffective! In all honesty, the Niger Delta area of Nigeria, in spite of the stupendous wealth derivable from its natural resources of CRUDE OIL remains a sorry sight to behold with regard to environmental pollution and degradation through massive oil spillage, acid rains and devastation of most of the arable lands! Their successive governors did not help matters either, as some of them in Bayelsa and Delta during their tenures, illegally diverted development funds into their private accounts abroad! MENDS capitalized on the ugly situation and made billions of naira and dollars through those abductions and thus signaled other defiant groups across Nigeria that KIDNAPING of men, women and children was a big time and very lucrative business in the country! Discreditable politicians also cashed into the unsavory situation by procuring arms for jobless youths to perpetrate election malpractices of ballot box snatching, kidnapping of their opponents and rioting during elections at all levels during which human blood always flowed like rivers of water unabated!
Abia, an oil producing State in the South East, soon became very notorious as the leading kidnapping State of Nigeria and the escalation of the crime became a daily occurrence before the Federal Government intervened to capture the notorious kingpins of the booming industry of the obnoxious business!

The Advent of a Sinful World!
Though vices are as old as life itself, but how Satan successfully lured Adam and Eve into a grievous sin of disobedience to God's command shortly after they were created in goodness and absolute innocence, would still remain a mystery to the human mind but the most perplexing part is that Satan is still left in the world to contend man's imperative and unflinching obedience to God his creator!
It has gotten even worse now in Dispensation of Grace which is biblically described as "perilous times", because men have forgotten that the same God that then was, is still the same now and would not withhold the chastisement of sinners for one second! The world end-time atrocities had exposed the violent attitudes of men's greed, through avarice, covetousness, pride, disobedience to God, parents and lawful authorities, bribery, institutional and societal corruption, kidnapping and abduction of fellow human beings, indulgence in unnatural affections of homo sexualism, murder, arson, election malpractices through violent rigging, cyber crimes, etc. as predicted in the Word of God, but must be redressed and reversed by obedient children of God through prayers, fasting and eternal vigilance! These kidnappings and forcible abduction of human beings whether or not for ransom had posed yet another threat to the nation's political stability because the continuous North East six-year-long Boko Haram insurgency had witnessed the worst kind of wholesale abductions of men, women and children especially the over 250 CHIBOK SECONDARY SCHOOL GIRLS, of Bornu State, on 14th April, 2014, and who are yet to regain their freedom in spite the strenuous efforts of the security agencies!
These inhuman and heinous crimes had taken its toll on the economy and had scared several willing and serious investors away from the Nigerian shores for the fear of being kidnapped to go through the painful deprivation of their freedom and liberty and possibly killed in the process of negotiations for ransom! Although, all of the above societal malaise had repeatedly manifested across board because of the love of money, which the Word of God described as "the root of all evil", the recent escalation of the crimes of kidnappings and abductions were heightened because of the explosion of jobless youths in the labour market, the economic recession which had created general scarcity of foreign reserves due to diminishing revenue from international crude oil sales which price hangs between $USD 40 & 45 dollars per barrel, the dwindling patronage of local goods and services due to cost inflation, the slow flow of foreign investments into the country and general cash crunch of purchasing power among the poor masses of the population!
Since over 250.000 graduates from all tertiary institutions of higher learning in Science and the Arts are churned out annually into the labour market without the hope of any form of employment and in the absence of regular crime contracts from politicians and the looters of the treasury, some jobless youths with seared consciences would make merchandise of their fellow citizens, rich or poor, even family members, all for the sake of money!
A long list of kidnappings and abductions in which huge sums of ransom payments have exchanged hands had adorned the tabloids and the social media in the past four months and public outcry against the menace had been very loud and devastating!

The following kidnappings out so many, took place in several parts of the federation, between the months of January and March 2016;
Three Pastors on their way to a meeting in Abuja from Kaduna were abducted by gunmen. Two of them were recently released probably due to conclusive negotiations, while one was found dead!
An eight-year-old school boy was kidnapped between Orozo and Nyanyan, a suburb of the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC). After much negotiation, a ransom of N400.000 Naira was paid to the abductors before they were arrested by diligent officers of the Nigeria Police Force who trailed all transactions!
A serving Colonel of the Nigerian Army was kidnapped from his vehicle on his way to Kaduna and his dead body was later discovered on the following day on the outskirt of the city without any demand for ransom! The Nigerian Army High Command had vowed to get to the root of the crime and fish out the perpetrators for justice!
In Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, a primary school boy abducted his friend for a ransom of seventy-thousand naira but was caught during the process of negotiation by police detectives who monitored the crime from the beginning of report!

Though MENDS had seized to perpetrate acts of militancy in the Creeks, the seed of kidnappings which they planted thrives very much in the prosperous South-south oil States where abductors were known to net millions of dollars in ransom payment on regular basis if they escaped arrests!
Before the 2015 General Elections pirates abducted nine people in the Delta region while in Ogun State, gunmen killed a German construction worker and abducted another. An Indian and two Pakistani expatriate workers were also kidnapped in Bayelsa State during the period in question. It has been widely reported that the cattle rustlers who had of recent been overwhelmed by the superior counter-criminality strategies of the security agencies, are the master-minds of most of the kidnappings across the nation and since the reasons for the escalation of this global crime of kidnapping had been identified as joblessness, poverty, political squabbles, ethnic and religious differences, we advocate that this heinous crime of man's inhumanity to man should be categorized as godlessness according to the following Word of God:
"KNOW YE NOT! THAT TO WHOM YE YIELD YOURSELVES SERVANTS TO OBEY, HIS SERVANTS YE ARE TO WHOM YE OBEY; WHETHER OF SIN UNTO DEATH OR OF OBEDIENCE UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS." ( Romans.6:16).
Man was a moral agent from the beginning of creation, because he had permission to either obey God or follow his instincts and intuitions as recorded in Genesis.3:1-24, contrary to God's commandment in Genesis.2:16-17!
No one should therefore be surprised about the attitude of the kidnappers who chose to serve Satan instead of God because of the ephemeral things of life but we must exhort that obedience to God's holy laws and His commandments is more preferable and rewarding than the possession of illegal wealth and blood money through abductions!
Kidnapping of persons which is classified under Section 361 of Nigeria's Criminal Code as "Deprivation Of Liberty" states that: "Any person who, unlawfully confines or detains another in any place against his will, or otherwise unlawfully deprives another of his personal liberty, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and is liable to imprisonment for two years"; but it must be proved that the accused actually confined another in a place against his will; that the detention was unlawful and that the victim had been unlawfully deprived of his personal freedom and liberty! The Police Commissioner of the Federal Capital Territory (FTC), in a recent Radio programme said his Command had unraveled a strange form of kidnapping which he described as, "SELF KIDNAPING" in which the supposed victims actually master-minded their own fake abductions and later shared ransom with their supposed "kidnappers" which emphasizes the love of money which is a biblical sin and the crave for earthly wealth which deprives the infatuated person of eternal life with the Lord Jesus Christ!

Jobs For The Jobless!
We recommend massive job creation platforms by all governments of the federation to cater for all idle hands in the labour market and advocate a more stringent punishment of life imprisonment and death penalties in order to stop the perpetrators of this heinous crime of deprivation of freedom and liberty, once and for all from their nefarious activities which are detrimental to godly virtues if they refuse to repent! We should all be vigilant and close ranks in order to identify and unravel the evil doers amongst us before they can strike at any time again and bring them to justice!
If God be for us, who can be against us?

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.

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.