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?

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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.