PIPELINES VANDALS ARE HOUSEHOLD ENEMIES! THEY MUST BE DEFEATED TO SAVE NIGERIA'S FLAGING ECONOMY!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 5. NO 145. 22nd May, 2016.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

PIPELINES VANDALS ARE HOUSEHOLD ENEMIES! THEY MUST BE DEFEATED TO SAVE NIGERIA'S FLAGING ECONOMY!

Some Nigerians who are sold to Satan in the Niger Delta region are on the rampage again! They have christened themselves as "Niger Delta Avengers" (NDA), and in two consecutive, devious and terribly destructive operations they vandalized the Forcados Export Line which supplied crude oil to the Warri and Kaduna refineries. They also burst gas pipelines supplying the product to gas-fired Thermal Plants across the nation with the resultant effect of a drop in production from 2.2 million barrels per day, which the 2016 Budget was predicated, to 1.4 barrels as at Monday, 16th May, 2016, because 800.000 barrels of the mono-economic product was lost per day to vandalism! Not only that, electricity megawatts have also dropped from 2.500 to about 1.400 since the last blow-ups of the same damaged pipelines that had just been repaired by NNPC Engineers at exorbitant costs and risks while the nation had been thrown into utter darkness! The NDA vandals' grouse is that Federal Government had consistently denied their region of all basic amenities under various pretexts and that the Ogoni Land compensation judgment including the land degradation clean-up agreement by responsible international oil companies had all been reneged!
Therefore they decided to take laws into their own hands by ensuring that production lines were continuously vandalized to prevent other parts of the federation from benefitting from the supply of the products but forgetting in the process of unjustifiable anger, that the oil spillages would become toxic wastes over the farmlands and fishing waters of the majority poor masses who have never enjoyed any social benefits from oil exploration in the region! During political events that led to the last general elections, ex-militants in the persons of Asari Dokubo, Tompolo, Ateke Tom and Boyloaf all of the same region vowed to make Nigeria ungovernable if the former president, Ebele Jonathan failed at the 2015 Presidential polls, but these demonized youths have claimed no affinity with all the old foxes but made it abundantly clear that they were independent in their operations and would not attack the people but only oil pipelines! According to the Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu, government was committed to ensuring that all destroyed facilities were repaired and effectively protected, and that it would work hard to resolve all grey issues in respect of the deregulation of the downstream sector of the industry and get the 2.2 barrels per day production back on stream! In three different administrations, beginning from Obasanjo to Jonathan, those renegade militants blackmailed government that they would be the most suitable people to protect the oil pipelines being sons of the soil and indigenes who understood the terrain more and for peace to reign, they were contracted and have all become millionaires/billionaires; but now that the contracts have expired, they turned out to become monsters and enemies of the state!
Billionaire militant, Mr. Government Ekpemupolo alias, Tompolo who is believed to own a private jet aircraft and a warship, is on the wanted list of the EFCC and being tried in absentia, for defrauding Federal Government of N47 billion naira from the pipeline surveillance contract agreement, though boasted to return to the creeks to vandalize pipelines, is on the run! However one of his allies, Ateke Tom, former Commander of the Niger Delta Vigilante has promised President Buhari to guarantee protection of the vandalized pipelines during and after the repairs! He described the so-called Niger Delta Avengers as frustrated, faceless and desperate masked group! He also appealed to the elders in the region to call the criminal youths to order to avert further sufferings of the poor masses!
Kachikwu was very straight forward with the facts concerning why it was so easy for the vandals to gain access, destroy the pipelines and escape apprehension and justice this far: In his words,"There are still a whole lot of things we need to pay attention to; infrastructure is key, but we have not as a country over the last 20 years invested in infrastructure in the oil sector. Our pipelines are 35 years old and none has been replaced; we have not been able to put gas infrastructure in place, our refineries are next to comatose and old and we are working hard on them.
"Our critical facilities are at a breakdown stage, so no serious infrastructure has taken place. No country in the world will expect that the price system in the country will benefit its citizens if it doesn’t invest in infrastructure. So the energy we put on PMS we need to begin to focus on building massive infrastructure all over the country. I know how much efforts it has taken to pump products from the south to the north, to the east and to the west. It has been one battle after another, but the time has come to invest in proper pipelines, proper tracking, proper buried levels and begin to move with the world". Previous administrations, for 30 years, neither constructed new pipelines nor made efforts to follow international mould and depth specifications in respect of existing ones to increasing laying and burying depth procedures, it was very easy for criminals to vandalize and escape with much ease. Why would it be so difficult for the Federal Government to ensure fool-proof security of these pipelines at this auspicious moment when it needed every accruable revenue from all God-endowed sources to escape glaring "brokerage"! The heart of man is exceedingly wicked, otherwise, why should some youths decide to compound an already bad situation of national insecurity at a time when every Nigerian was expected to support the new Change Government's populist policies?
Before the global Flood recorded in the Old Testament Bible, God saw that the wickedness of ante-dilluvian man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually and He decided to destroy that evil generation because it was corrupt and filled with violence! (Genesis.6:5-13).  It's over 6.000 years since that divine intervention, but has corruption and violence ceased, or had the evil imagination of the thoughts of man been reformed in today's global earth? In comparison, crimes and criminalities of the ante-dilluvian generation can be best described as child's play to present day scenarios of  global acts of terrorism,  gun attacks, suicide bombings, bank robberies, human kidnappings, abductions, and traffickings, fornication, adultery, murders, assassinations, contract killings, increasing statistics of gang rapes, oil thefts, pipeline vandalism, money laundering, high seas piracy, massive frauds and embezzlement of public funds, election riggings, examination malpractices, false declaration of assets by public officers etc. All over the world, no government, country, nation, society, community or family is spared from experiencing the ordeal and corresponding trauma of the listed crimes! From the North to the South Poles, and East to West of the Equator the sordid stories are the same!

Several years before the insurgency of the Boko Haram which began in Nigeria in 2009, some organised Niger Delta Militants also took up arms to agitate against exploitation of crude oil natural resource of the South-south region, degradation of farmlands, pollution of the fishing seas through oil spillages, marginalization in terms of basic infrastructures of good roads, schools, potable water, adequate health facilities of modern health care centres, clinics, hospitals, housing programmes etc, and they moved into the Creeks to vandalize oil installations, oil rigs, oil wells, oil pipelines of the NNPC and those of the international oil companies as well, to buttress their anger against the alleged injustices! And so the cycle of senseless agitations as against peaceful negotiations have continued since the military era of Generals Babangida and Abacha and the poor masses of that region in the past 30 years, had been the worst for it because in all these years of agitation their farm lands and fishing waters remained further polluted like what is being witnessed with more oil spillages, courtesy of Niger Delta Avengers scoundrels!
It is reported that NNPC had lost N2.4billion in February to the Forcados pipeline vandalism which is strongly believed to be the handiwork of some unpatriotic sponsors who must be quickly exposed. It is also being suggested by NUPENG, and the Nigeria Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE), that tougher penalties should be meted to pipeline vandals who are both criminals and terrorists and that government should quickly fish out the masterminds! Supply of gas also declined of 70 million standard cubic feet per day (mmscf/d) to power plants in the same month due to vandalism of 48inch Forcados Export Line, in its February oil and gas report which also showed that the Warri Refinery was not in working order in January and February, while Kaduna Refinery did not produce in February. According to NUEE, Nigeria is one the countries that kept suffering from power poverty because the international best practice specification of the supply of 1.000 megawatts of power to one million population was recommended, but the country had at one peak period, only 3.000 megawatts for 170 million people! There can be no better time than now to unleash the Federal might on these scoundrels if they refused to accept the "Olive Branch" being personally offered by Mr. President for dialogue and a peaceful resolution to the imbroglio! However we still believe that the larger majority of the very poor masses in the Niger Delta Geo-Political Zone deserve a better life of modern social amenities as compared with other zones!
We have been reliably informed that President Buhari, will flag off the CLEAN-UP OGONI LAND PROJECT, to which N10 million had been earlier dedicated, in the second week of June, 2016. This is a cheering news and a right step in the right direction to show those wicked youths that it was better that the land be recovered for farm land than further pollution through pipelines vandalization!  Crude oil, gas, and all solid mineral resources extracted or mined in Nigeria, still remain Nigeria's major foreign exchange earner according to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, Second Schedule, Exclusive Legislative List and by implication, the Federal Government's prerogative. Militants of all categories - especially the so-called Avengers, should be constitution-compliant and patiently wait until necessary constitutional amendments were made to increase their 13% derivative formula earnings or until they become stronger federating units for them to keep most of their oil revenue!
Pipeline vandals are vicious criminals, they must be quickly apprehended by combined security operatives of the Federal Government and be prosecuted as economic saboteurs if they rejected all entreaties to surrender peacefully and embrace dialogue!
NIGERIANS ARE TIRED OF THE INCESSANT BRAGADO OF THESE NIGER DELTA CRIMINALS WHO ARE SO MYOPIC AND PARANOID TO REALISE THAT CRUDE OIL AND GAS ARE NO LONGER THEIR EXCLUSIVE PRESERVE! CRUDE OIL HAS BEEN DISCOVERED IN LAGOS, EDO, ANAMBRA, AND THE CHAD BASIN OF THE BORNU STATE AND WOULD EVENTUALLY BE EXTRACTED IN COMMERCIAL QUANTITIES!
DIVERSIFICATION FROM CRUDE OIL TO AGRICULTURE, SOLID MINERALS EXTRACTION, FILM INDUSTRY, ENTERTAINMENT, TOURISM, etc. as foreign exchange earner products are also in the front burner in other states of the Federation! The "Avengers" madness must stop immediately and permanently!

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.

NIGERIANS MUST "GO FORWARD" IN SPITE OF HARSH FUEL PRICE DEREGULATION!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 5. NO 143. 15th May, 2016.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

NIGERIANS MUST "GO FORWARD" IN SPITE OF HARSH FUEL PRICE DEREGULATION!

Patriotism which is an attitude of deep love for one's country should be cultivated with an understanding that leaders in government would always seek the welfare of the citizenry through sound economic policies and judgments not predicated on selfish interests or avarice! On Wednesday 11th May, 2016, the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), announced an upward adjustment from N87.00 to N145.00, which turned out to be a total removal of subsidy by government on the Premium Motor Spirit (PMS or Petrol), since it was not even captured in the just signed 2016 Budget; but 99.9 per cent of Nigerians were not actually surprised because they had always agitated for regular supply of the product even if they had to pay more! Not surprisingly, the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, ( IPMAN)    Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria ((PENGASSAN), and Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), had welcome the new price regime and promised to cooperate with government by ensuring regular supply of the products and selling not beyond N145.00 across the nation. But the National Assembly, (NASS), Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), which were privy to government's plan to expunge the subsidy had been very diplomatic in condemning the price hike and promised to take appropriate action like organized protests!
WE MUST WARN THE GOOD CITIZENS OF THIS GOOD NATION THAT THE PRICE FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE COULD BE PAINFUL AND ENTAIL GREAT SACRIFICES/HARDSHIPS, BUT IN THE LONG RUN EVERYONE WHO PERSEVERED WOULD BE BETTER OFF IN RESPECT OF THE GOOD DIVIDENDS OF DEMOCRACY!  FELLOW NIGERIANS, PLEASE ENDURE AND FOREBEAR! SHUN ANY KIND OF ORGANISED  PROTESTS BY NIGERIAN LABOUR CONGRESS AND TRADE UNION CONGRESS BAND WAGON WHO DWELL IN OPULENCE AND COOL COMFORT BUT WOULD USE THE POOR MASSES AS PUNS FOR THEIR OWN GAINS BY INSULTING THEIR SENSIBILITIES! HOW MANY OF THEIR MEN DIED IN PROTESTS THEY ORGANISED IN 2012 WHEN JONATHAN'S ADMINISTRATION PARTIALLY REMOVED FUEL SUBSIDY? NONE OF THEM DIED! WHY WOULD THEY PROD YOU TO DIE FOR THEM TO ENJOY YOUR DIVIDENDS OF DEMOCRACY ALONE? GOD FORBID! AMEN?

In our Volume 3. No. 82 of 08-03-15, titled," Petroleum Subsidy Is A Monumental Fraud Against Nigerian Masses", we discredited government policy of forcing the masses to painfully pay for their deliberate dereliction of duty by failing to build more crude oil refineries.

In another edition of Vol. 4. No. 123 of 20th December, 2015, we published another Newsletter titled, “Nigerians Must Swallow The Bitter Pills Of Total Fuel Subsidy Removal In 2016 To Save The Economy", having researched deeply to finding a lasting solution to that recurrent issue which has outlived all governments of Nigeria - military and democratic! Below are some excerpts from the 123rd Edition
"Corruption in Nigeria is a Hydra-Headed Monster that must be attacked and destroyed not by government alone but by all patriotic citizens who should be determined to resist the temptations and allurements of illicit monetary gains that could be manipulated to turn them into accomplices by unfaithful operators in the various sectors of the economy! Since the determined effort by the new leadership to recover all stolen and embezzled funds by officers of past administrations, lots of billions of naira have been recovered through probes and investigations while some were voluntarily returned into the Treasury through plea-bargains
".......but the biggest head of the monster that urgently needed the full support of all patriotic citizens to be cut off and destroyed is the total removal of illegal payment of Petroleum Products Subsidy which had been the most daring robbery of government treasury since the turn of the new millennium!
" THIS SUPPORT WILL TURN OUT TO BE BITTER PILLS, BUT IT IS OUR FERVENT BELIEF THAT IF QUICKLY SWALLOWED AT THIS OPPORTUNE TIME, NIGERIANS WOULD IN THE SHORT AND LONG RUN ENJOY FULL BENEFITS OF THE DIVIDENDS OF DEMOCRACY UNDER A RIGHTEOUS GOVERNMENT OF PRESIDENT BUHARI

"APC had very good intentions for good governance which prompted the leadership through its flag bearer, President Muhammadu Buhari to promise:
2. "That the massive corruption and impunity of the past 16 years of PDP governance would be wiped off..!
4. "That PETROLEUM PRODUCTS ( premium motor spirit or petrol and kerosene to consumers without continuous payments through the largest corrupt drain-pipe of the outlandish FUEL SUBSIDY PAYMENTS which gulped about SEVEN TRILLION NAIRA in four years (2011-2015), according to recent World Bank Report on the state of the Nigerian economy!
"SINCE GOOD INTENTIONS WOULD NOT AMOUNT TO GOOD GOVERNANCE, ALL NIGERIANS SHOULD READ THE  HANDWRITING OF PRESENT ECONOMIC REALITIES AND CO-OPERATE WITH APC MANAGEMENT TEAM TO SWALLOW THE BITTER PILL OF THE TOTAL REMOVAL OF FUEL SUBSIDY PAYMENT ROBBERY INTRODUCED AS PARTY PATRONAGE BY PDP FOR THEIR CRONIES, ONCE AND FOR ALL IN 2016! "

Prophet Moses, the deliverer of the tribe of Israel from the 400 years bondage of Egyptian's servitude at a critical stage of his divine assignment was sandwiched between two unacceptable options - either to move on and perish with his contingent in the deep Red Sea ahead of them, or remain static, be recaptured and taken back into slavery, by the angry and violent Pharaoh-led Egyptian Army, which had encamped behind the over two-and-a-half million frightened vulnerable men, women and children! Going through the biblical records in Chapter 14:15-16, of the second Book titled Exodus (Greek word which means, "outgoing"), the LORD told Moses:
"Wherefore criest thou unto me? Speak unto the children of Israel that they they go forward: "But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea." The scenario above clearly depicted that God could not be separated from the affairs of men because He owns them and everything in creation organic/inorganic; and would always intervene to ensure that events worked out according to His purposive Will and that His world was not overrun by evil persons at any time!
In obedience, "Moses stretched out his hand over the sea and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided."(verse 21). President Muhammadu Buhari is the Moses of our time! He has been divinely prepared for such a time as this to rescue the over 80 per cent of Nigeria's impoverished citizens from the few neo- colonialist predators who had enslaved them through selfish grip on all sectors of the economy since independence in 1960!
1. Why is the Power Sector still comatose? Because the importers of all electric generating sets in Nigeria are the economic saboteurs and their cronies in government establishments where management decisions are taken!
2. Why would Nigeria fail to build more crude oil refineries but depended on importation of finished products from abroad? Because the importers are people in positions of authority who shape economic policies to favour payment of fraudulent subsidies which had virtually run the economy aground!

It has taken Buhari 31 years to get back to the saddle of power to accomplish the divine mandate of setting up a righteous government since he was chased out of office and later incarcerated during his first outing in 1984/85! Buhari could decipher the economic challenges to know exactly what panacea to introduce at every point! He met on ground an almost empty treasury and immediately opted for the Treasury Single Account (TSA), which would proffer better accountability. He exposed the terrible corruption in the Oil and Gas sector and promptly identified the controversial issue of payment of subsidies on petroleum products as the worst of the conduit pipes through which lots of foreign exchange reserves were stolen unnoticed and having paid off the "outstanding subsidy debts" in 2015, braced up for frontally attack the monster by cutting of its head through total removal of the rougish subsidy to allow for free market price regime that would eliminate product scarcity permanently.
Nigerians are all aware that they were being ripped off through payment of petroleum products because in spite of the deal they always suffered to acquire the products all year round! When NUPENG OR PENGASSAN did not strike over some frivolous demands, the Tanker Drivers Association or Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) would hoard the products and create artificial scarcity in order to earn more illicit money! Why was is so difficult for consecutive Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Administrations to diversify the economy from the mono-crude oil product to agriculture and solid minerals extraction; entertainment and tourism industries which are abound in all 36 States of the federation?
Because the money bags who made free illicit monies through allocation of OIL BLOCKS which constitutionally belonged to all Nigerians, had flooded local markets with foreign goods of all categories from foods, to cosmetics, exotic wines, jewelries, farm products like rice, beans, millet, corn, potatoes, oranges, guavas, paw-paws, coconuts and cocoa-related confectioneries like chocolates and sweets, candies, electronics, clothing’s for all category of peoples, motorcycles, tri-cycles, cars, buses, lorries, exotic jeeps, with laundered monies from illicit sources of drugs, oil thefts, gambling, prostitution, stolen subsdies etc. and Nigeria became the dumping ground for all foreign unwanted foreign goods at the expense of the Nigerian industrialists and manufacturers local products!
With this bold step by Buhari to take up the gauntlet and "GO FORWARD" with the total removal of the fuel price subsidy as commanded by God, the nation will eventually take its rightful place among the 20 economically-viable comities of nations even before the year 2020!
Let all hands be on deck to destroy the cancerous wound called fuel subsidy and march with assurance into the Promised Land! IT IS NOW OR NEVER, FORWARD EVER, BACKWARD NEVER AGAIN FOR NIGERIANS! AMEN. TOTAL DEREGULATION IS THE ONLY SOLUTION TO PETROL SCARCITY AND FILLING STATIONS QUEUES.IT IS THE BRIDGE WE MUST CROSS NOW!

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.

RAMPAGING FULANI HERDSMEN CANNOT TURN BACK THE HANDS OF THE CLOCK!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 5. NO 143. 8th May, 2016.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

RAMPAGING FULANI HERDSMEN CANNOT TURN BACK THE HANDS OF THE CLOCK!

Social analysts strongly believe that a nation's diversity of tribes, tongues, cultures or traditional values should serve as bond of strength to build a very solid foundation for peace, unity, and good governance. For instance, if 500 tribes of about 250 diverse tongues, traditions and cultures, were annexed to brainstorm and harness their innate abilities,skills, talents, capabilities, and prowess in areas of arable farming, agriculture, animal husbandry, damming, mining, architecture, building, communication, administration, transportation, art, music, etc, as divinely apportioned to each tribe, to build ONE virile nation of immense social opportunities as it obtains in other climes, definitely a classic Utopia should emerge!
Nigeria is one country where national diversity has become a bane and a curse instead of an advantage and a blessing which was why the Spirit of Truth could not indwell many citizens, who preferred to pursue the doctrine of national deceit whenever their tribal brethren ran foul of the law! Until Wednesday, 4th May, 2016, when a distinguished Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria disclosed that Nigerian Fulani Herdsmen "were pushed to the wall to retaliate", the criminals who razed down the entire Agatu Community in Benue State and killed over 40 people and also those who massacred 46 citizens on 25th April, 2016, in Nimbo Community of Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area, Enugu State, were alleged to be MALIAN BANDITS who penetrated the Nigerian borders to perpetrate the mayhem! When the Boko Haram sect, as a small Islamic group in Maiduguri, Bornu State, began to preach hateful controversial doctrines/ideologies, and subsequently upgraded into armed insurgency, tribal brothers keepers said they were not Muslims but some miscreants who planned to desecrate the religion! Nigerians have all suffered the consequences of national deceit with the loss of over one million citizens and billions of naira worth of goods and properties in seven years of a mindless war of attrition! Nomad Fulani herdsmen have fundamental rights under the nation's Constitution to their vocation just as the farmers also do; and though, the herdsmen have no such rights as to graze their animals on the private farms of others, this had been the trend for many years now!

Let us refresh your memory with some part of our publication of over TWO YEARS; Edition No. 30. of 9th March, 2014, in which we warned the Federal and State Governments about the imminent dangers posed by Fulani herdsmen.
Please read as follows: "THE NOMAD FULANI ‘MILITANT BASE’ IN BENUE IS A TIME BOMB!"  In spite of the move by President, Goodluck Jonathan, to assist Benue State to dislodge armed nomadic Fulani herdsmen who were threatening their peaceful co-existence, they, (nomads), succeeded in attacking and killing several people, mostly Benue farmers, last week!
The nomads’ strategy is to create an assault launch- base in this Central State, from where they could attack in any direction round-about, to Plateau, Nassarawa, Kaduna or even, Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory. These Fulani  are extremely dangerous because, they are always fully armed, itinerant and can easily disappear into bushes and forests without ever being apprehended after any attack, and there is virtually no Nigerian farmer who has not had a ‘deadly’ brush with these nomads in any part of the federation!
The Fulani herdsmen/ farmers clashes over grazing rights in Nigeria, has
always been a bone of contention between the two parties from time immemorial. In some cases, amicable solutions were proffered, while others, resulted in bloody clashes with fatalities!
A renewed and sustained assault of these herdsmen with Tiv farmers in Adeke Village, a suburb of Makurdi, erupted late 2013 and spread with impunity to Kaduna, Plateau, Benue, Bornu, Imo, Enugu, Kwara, Oyo, Ogun, in January 2014! In all, hundreds of human lives, including some soldiers and a Senator’s nephew in Oyo State, were lost; over 200 houses were razed!
We are aware that all security agencies are at ‘red alert’, but the most important and very urgent action is a quick resolution of this grave conflict which poses a time bomb, just waiting to detonate! Though, the right to free grazing routes across Nigeria seems to be the crux of the incessant conflict, it is believed that, some fifth columnists, are supplying arms and ammunition to the herdsmen in order to make the Nigerian State ungovernable for their selfish political gains through these itinerant ‘foot combatants’!
We must not forget that the Fulani nomads are mere custodians and serfs to the millionaire owners of these cattle, goats and sheep.
Second, we must also be wary that if cautious steps are not urgently employed, insurgents may infiltrate their ranks to penetrate other parts of the nation! There are also Fulani cattle rustlers, mercenaries who would work for the highest bidder! With the right incentive, they had invaded well-stocked cattle ranches, maimed and killed watchmen and guards, carted away stolen cattle to their principals for disposal in the black market!
We are aware that there is a Bill in respect of the need for approved grazing routes before the House of Representatives which deserves urgent attention to avoid further violent clashes between these two groups which play vital roles in our agrarian and livestock economy. The problem seems recalcitrant: will the Buhari Administration proffer the political solution; we do not have much time!

"E Pluribus Unum", is the United States of America's motto which appears on the nation's coins, currencies and many of its public monuments; and it simply means, "From many, one"! America, a nation of immigrants of different nationalities boasts of a population of over 300 million people of diverse tribes, languages, cultures, castes and traditions with which it has built a united nation in which the American citizen's welfare remained government's priority of action and with such an uncommon policy, is globally classified as the best democracy in about 300 years of existence as an independent nation! One must therefore salute the ambition for lofty ideals by Nigeria's patriotic leaders, who fashioned the nation's 1999 Federal Republic Constitution, as a replica of that of the United States with a view to emulating and attaining to their high standards of monumental and international acclamation but, did they pause to study the US Blueprint, that their democratic foundation to serve the people who must be respected as "sovereign" in all matters, was laid in a righteous, faithful and faultless Declaration Of American Independence since 4th July, 1776? Did they bother to dig into the achieves to understand the history of how the now giant Republic developed from colonial beginnings, like Nigeria, in the 16th Century, when the first explorers arrived to mingle with the native Americans in 1580, until the modern times when it attained the Olympian heights as a world power of great economic opportunities? But in spite of the fact that Nigeria's very first inspiring National Anthem which lyrics was written and composed by expatriates, Lilian Jean Williams and Frances Berda; and sung between 1960 and1978; can Nigeria in 56 years of independence, boast of maximizing its diversity positively and dwelling as one united nation?

The famous fist stanza of the 1960 Anthem states as follows:
" Nigeria we hail thee, our own dear native land; though tribe and tongue may differ, in brotherhood we stand; Nigerians all and proud to serve our sovereign motherland." In today's 21st Century Nigeria, are issues of tribes and tongues: indigenes and settlers; north and south, east and west; religious and political affiliations, diverse cultures and traditions, not creating serious, dissensions, strifes, disagreements, boundary disputes resulting to the vicious levels of communal clashes in which scores of lives and properties were regularly lost, in most cases without compensations? Unlike the US, Nigeria's diversity since the year of independence in 1960, had always manifested as a curse instead of a blessing for the following reasons:
1. With only five years of freedom, on 16th January, 1966, Military officers, mostly of Eastern Region extraction, executed a coup-de-tat (the first in Africa), and seized political power from legitimately elected politicians! In that intervention, only politicians of other tribes were summarily executed while those of the coupists were spared and from then, the bitter seed of tribalism, ethnicity and religious bigotry was wickedly  introduce into the polity and still growing wildly and uncontrollably in 2016, in spite of efforts of the present administration of Muhammadu Buhari to bridge the gap!
2. The battle for supremacy between the North and South took deeper root in that same year when in a reprisal move, soldiers, mainly of the Northern extraction struck in a bloody counter coup which eliminated the Eastern Nigeria military Head of State and other officers across the three regions and a Northern Head of State was installed to run the affairs of the nation. The military has ruled for 30 out of the 56 years of the independent republic!
3. Nigerians have never enjoyed peace ever since because military mentality of divide and rule, introduced since 1966 has its tentacles firmly rooted in the socio-economic and political activities of the nation and only divine intervention would save the situation!

Urgent Solutions Open To The Change Government!
1. All culprits of the several mayhems must be apprehended according to Presidential orders and subjected to the rule of law.
2. Federal/State Governments should rise in unison to rehabilitate affected communities and also pay adequate compensations for their losses.
3. More security personnel should be deployed to work with neighborhood vigilante groups to forestall any future occurrences.
4. The Bill in respect of the construction of grazing ranches now before the National Assembly should be expedited to accommodate all interest groups and stake holders in the animal husbandry industry across the nation since cattle rearing is not an exclusive preserve of the Fulani’s! The National Reserve Grazing Bill should be the long-term panacea to incessant confrontations and mindless killings of citizens by fellow citizens in an economy that should be, not only a pride to Africa, but by extension, the world at large if the diverse advantage was diligently, meticulously, and professionally managed!
There is in existence, a National Grazing Reserve Act 1965, which had become obsolete due to population explosion/creation of 36 States from former THREE REGIONS and we believe that it should be repealed while Committee stage of the present Bill should be accelerated and passed in consensus, to restrict the nomad herdsmen to their reserves according to its innovative clauses! Some enemies of the people whose relatives were not affected by the killings have begun to politicize the Bill by accusing its sponsors of trying to ISLAMIZE Nigeria through "forceful acquisition" of SOUTHERN LANDS for the North! For how long would we remain at daggers-drawn against one another as a nation? The nagging crime of kidnapping is equally in the front burner to make matters worse! We congratulate the quick response of a delegation of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF), which included Ibrahim Shetima of Bornu State, whose statement should be commended by all patriotic Nigerians. "We are one nation with a common destiny. The killers should be treated as criminals and should fished out and dealt with. Since our travail of years of Boko Haram insurgency, the empathy of those of you outside of that region had been our strength. Times like this call for maturity, calmness, leadership role - we are one nation."

Can the DSS Be Exonerated From Culpability in the South East Herdsmen Attack?
When shallow graves of 50 persons were discovered in Umuaniyi Forest of Abia in March 2016, the Department of State Service (DSS), Headquarters, Abuja made an inciting statement through one Tony Opuiyo that FIVE of the dead persons were identified by DSS Operatives as Fulani men who were reportedly abducted from Isuikwuato Local Government Area, Abia State and killed by the Indigenous Peoples Of Biafra (IPOB), members! In less than one month of the condemnable DSS Statement, Fulani herdsmen struck in neighboring Enugu State and hacked down 46 innocent and defenseless Nigerians including women and children with the same "modus operandi" deployed in Agatu, Benue State! Abia Government and IPOB have denied all allegations of ethnic killings by DSS and asserted that the shallow graves were the handiwork of kidnappers who murdered their victims! Must the volatile national debacle of rampaging Fulani herdsmen be further fueled through tribalism, nepotism and incitement by a security agency which should play the role of an ARBITER?  It is most unfortunate that the DSS boss, Lawal Musa Daura is not a detribalized Nigerian like Mr. President, he is an indigenous FULANI MAN!
ALL NIGERIANS SHOULD FEAR GOD AND RESPECT HIS SOVEREIGNTY OVER THEM BECAUSE HE (GOD) CANNOT BE DECEIVED! WHATEVER A MAN SOWS, THAT HE WOULD SURELY REAP IN QUANTUM! (Read Galatians.6:7-8).

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.

WOE BE UNTO THE PASTORS THAT DESTROY AND SCATTER THE SHEEP OF MY PASTURE! SAITH THE LORD. (JER 23:1).

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 5. NO 142. 1st May, 2016.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

WOE BE UNTO THE PASTORS THAT DESTROY AND SCATTER THE SHEEP OF MY PASTURE! SAITH THE LORD. (JER 23:1).

Most Nigerians have penchant for religiousity! They worship God from different spiritual perspectives. Some statistics state that Christians and Muslims dominate the religious space while those who prefer the Traditional mode of worship occupy a negligible portion of about five per cent! Since religion is the belief in the worship of the GOD of Heaven by Christians and also the worship of traditional gods fashioned through man's imagination by idol worshippers, and because it is assumed to be a peaceful vocation, governments classify it as a fundamental and inalienable human right of freedom of worship which should neither be legislated against nor tinkered with, because of its sensitivity and sacredness!
Nigeria proudly boasts of the biggest Pentecostal Church in the world with the auditorium capacity for 500.000 worshippers seated at every service and hundreds of forests/wilderness Christian religious gatherings hosting unlimited and unrestricted adherents running into over five million in some weekly/monthly REDEMPTION meetings across the nation in which it is believed that thousands of  such lives were always surrendered to the authority of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, through unction of the Holy Spirit! However, the annual escalation of crime statistics  which portrayed graphic rise in cars and bank robberies, human kidnappings, assassinations, arsons, murders, insurgency, militancy, violent crimes of cultism, drunkenness, fornication, adultery, wife-battering, child abuse/molestation, gangsterism and most recently, the ravaging and rampaging of private farmlands across the nation by Fulani herdsmen, armed with sophisticated military weapons who operate like the  Boko Haram terrorists, through gun attacks, dispossess defenseless villagers of their farmlands, killed them in their scores without pity, and burnt down their homes, has given much  concern as to whether, Christians prayers were ever answered by the God of Heaven, since people of His creation, whatever their religious belief, perpetrate these heinous crimes!
We cannot but also mention the persistent Boko Haram terrorism which had devastated the Nigerian landscape, people and the economy for seven years on! With about 85million Christians, 30 million Churches and about 40 million Pastors in Nigeria, faithfully worshipping the God of Heaven, should there be such a gory scenario as we practically experience today, in which no one is spared of pain and agony, except the rich, affluent and powerful in the government and society who surround themselves with State security apparatuses 24 hours daily! Christians tag their weekly and monthly mammoth gatherings, in those far-flung forests, "redemption atmosphere for lost souls" and we wonder why since the 1990s till date when the fire of Pentecostal Christianity had raged relentlessly, lost souls remained unredeemed and unredeemable in Nigeria! Did you know that though those forest/wilderness mammoth crowd were fashioned after the Lord example of preaching and feeding of 5.000 people, but because new generation pastors could not attain to miracle feeding like the Lord, they always abandoned the multitude of people to feed themselves during every break of the all night vigils which in most cases were held for a whole week! On those occasions, the congregation could hardly wait for the spiritual food to be distributed before declaring open their bazaars and barbecues to serve grilled chickens/assorted beefs, fried/jollof rice, "isi ewu" pepper soup delicacies, various exotic snacks and chilled red wine brands to calm strained and stressed nerves from "spiritual ecstasies"! If the General Overseers or Superintendents claimed ignorance of the regular break-time jamborees, and the bad character influence of the old believers over the fresh converts at such gatherings, what about the hundreds of ushers and assistant pastors who mingle with the multitude to ensure orderliness and godly behaviors throughout those occasions? Our research pointed in one direction, which is that an unchristianly attitude of backpedaling on one's spiritual belief, which is termed APOSTASY, has not only crept into the Church, but has taken the front seat from where it operates conveniently from the pulpit teachers (2Timothy.4:3; 2Peter.2:1-19; Jude.4,8,11-13,16), to Galatian congregations of the present age! (Galatians.3:1-5f).
Biblical apostasy ( 2Timothy 4:3-4), is a religious rebellion against the Body of Christ, which tenets are founded on holiness, righteousness, truth and perfection of God the Father, it is a falling away by Christians from the faith and not the outward profession of Christianity! ( 2Timothy.3:5). It is an act of a professed Christian who deliberately rejects revealed truth as to the Deity of Jesus Christ and redemption through His atoning and redeeming sacrifice on the Cross. ( I John.4:1-3); Philippians.3:18; 2Peter.2:1). Apostasy in the Church, as in Israel (Isaiah. 1:5-6; 5:5-7), is irremediable and awaits judgment (2Thessalonians. 2:10-12; 2Peter.2:17,21; Jude 11-15; Revelation.3:14-16). On noticing the unending cycle of human religious retrogression and the Scripture which states that those who pay lip service to the Lord Jesus Christ, would not spend eternity in the Kingdom of God, (Matthew.7:21), we embarked on marathon intercessory prayers for God to quicken the spirits of His faithful and devoted remnants whom He had always preserved for His Holy name for immediate intervention because there was no way that the sinful man can ever measure up to God's plan for the ages and please Him throughout all different dispensations, and fulfill His purposive Will! In a similar case of apostasy in Israel, Fire Prophet Elijah the Tish'bite was told by God: "Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all knees which have not bowed unto Ba'al, and every mouth which hath not kissed him". (I Kings.14-18). What were our prayer thrusts? That the Shepherds of the Christian Flock in Nigeria should boldly preach the TRUTH! That they should tell members of their congregation about God's expectations of complete obedience to His holy laws without any form of compromise because of ephemeral financial or property gains that should accrue to them through tithes, offerings and very expensive gifts! That they should be rigid and fearless to preach the Word in and out of season, reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all longsuffering against gluttony, immoral tight-fitted dressings that enhance and pronounce their cleavages in or out of church, the use of attractive lip sticks, sensuous beauty make-ups, outrageous and repulsive perfumes; but emphasize the doctrine of moderation in all manner of human behaviour!

We did not have to wait long, for God raised a lone voice from the wilderness in the person of Pastor William Kumuyi, of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry, aka."Deeper Life", whom the Holy Spirit recently used as His vessel to voice a timely warning against the dangers of coveting or romancing the Spirit of Apostasy in the Christendom and shouted unequivocally at the top of his voice to his million of millions members of congregation and by extension to all Nigerian christians/all good people of the good nation; and we quote his exhortation in a recent sermon in Lagos titled: "Heaven's Response To Earth's Request", which was in fact God's speedy answer to our request in the preceding paragraph!
Pastor Kumuyi in the strongly-worded sermon on 24th April, 2016, warned Deeper Life members that Hell would be hotter than normal for them if after being regularly fed with God's Word, they missed the opportunity to repent and did not make heaven adding that the hottest part of hell would be reserved for them because they knew the truth and did not do them! "Turn away from your secret sins; I don't know how you can be in a church like this and there is fornication, adultery, lying and others in your hands. All your work in the church will be useless if you don't repent of your sins. You need to run away from your sins and run into Jesus. If you say you have repented, you will not continue to spend stolen money. You need to restore all the stolen money if the repentance is genuine. Those who steal church money and government money have not truly repented; except they repent they would go to hell"!
This a challenge to all other "God's Generals" who control mammoth weekly/monthly forest/wilderness crowds to preach the truth and nothing but the truth like Pastor Kumuyi and save their naive multitudes who are so mentally and spiritually lazy to study the bible to show themselves approved unto God, workmen/women that needed not be ashamed and rightly dividing the word of truth at all times from spending their eternity in the deepest part of hell fire! (2 Timothy. 2:15; Revelation. 21:8). Did you remember that Prophet Moses, the Deliverer, who was divinely assigned to lead the Israelites from Egypt to the Promised Land with all his spiritual forthrightness, fire for the holiness and righteousness of God, faithfulness, resilience and diligence to the mandate, lost the over two million able-bodied men of war, their wives and children in the 40-year wilderness wanderings? He also did not enter into the Promised Land not because of bad leadership but because of righteous anger that led him to disobey God's instruction to "speak to the rock" and not smite it as he did! (Numbers.20:7-13). If the present generations of Christians would miss eternity with Christ, it should not be adduced to the fact that millions of millions perished in hell fire due to the Pastors' selfish pursuit for illicit wealth through the cunning and deceitful collection of tithes and offerings for aggrandizement in trendy fashion outfits, state-of -the-art automobiles, most expensive houses, modern jet aircrafts; dining and wining with corrupt politicians for filthy lucre through false prophecies etc. This is the time for those of them who are still alive to preach the truth, save lives and rather dwell in penury instead of coveting Jacob's RED POTTAGE that would steal, destroy their anointing and blessings together!

Must Worshippers Perish In The Wilderness To Make Pastors Rich?
Are there spiritual takeaways from these forest/wilderness vigils? The answer is a capital NO! The whole exercise is nothing short of robbing Peter to pay Paul! For instance, the biggest church auditorium can sit only half a million people! If on the average offertory falls between N200 and N500 per member/worshipper, inclusive of regular payment of tithes from genuine living wages and not BLOOD MONEY, total collections would translate to some millions and not billions of naira which some pastors were always targeting to live big like their European Union and United States counterparts! Therefore their solution to that challenge lied in the forests/wilderness vigil gatherings to fleece worshippers of their monies, possessions and all means of livelihood through night vigil false prophesies, instead of feeding them with the solid Word of Truth! We were able to establish that clever USHERS/CASHIERS in charge of the EXCHEQUER at those gathering are also members of the Millionaire Club!
For the past quarter of a century Christian evangelical crusades took the front burner of religious activities in the Christendom yet, more Christians are languishing in prisons yards at home and abroad. They are all over Italy, USA and the EU countries engaged in prostitution, drug and human trafficking, crude oil bunkering, money laundering, internet fraud activities etc. They are not the replica of the EARLY CHURCH! (Acts of the Apostles.2:41-47; compare verses 14-40). It is time to bring true believers back into the Church structures and Home Cells as practiced in India where everyone would imbibe the true doctrine of the Word of God under the tutelage of genuine pastors like the BEREA Christians of the early Apostolic period, who had opportunity to be taught and to cross-check the Word of God in their homes to prove its authenticity!  IT WAS HIGH TIME NIGERIAN CHRISTIANS DEPARTED EVIL FORESTS AND WILDERNESS VIGILS IN ORDER TO ESCAPE THE ANIMALISTIC INTUITION AND MENTALITY WHICH IS DEVOID OF THE KNOWLEDGE AND TRUE EXISTENCE OF THE LIVING GOD AND HIS EXPECTATIONS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AMONG HIS HIGHER CREATION!

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.