THE NIGERIAN SENATE COLD WAR AND BUHARI'S PRESIDENTIAL PROBE!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  
(Looking at Nigeria's Political System from a godly Perspective).

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 5. NO 176. 25th December, 2016.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

THE NIGERIAN SENATE COLD WAR AND BUHARI'S PRESIDENTIAL PROBE!

{2016 CHRISTMAS EDITION}

The fact that "distinguished and honourable members" of the 8th National Assembly of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), shunned party's supremacy through arbitrary and selfish selection/ appointment of principal officers at inauguration in 2015, will forever remain in the annals of Nigerian history as a "coup de tat" and a show of ingratitude to the platform through which they climbed the rostrum! Nineteen months down the line of APC's Change Administration, the Senate in particular, had stuck to its gun that all illegal appointments influenced by the opposition PDP remained sacrosanct and that not even the President could make them change their decision; especially when the bubble burst on Senate President 'Bukola Saraki's hidden sins in respect of false declaration of assets while he was Governor of  Kwara State and the Federal Government insisted on his prosecution and also when he, his deputy and two clerks of the Senate were also arraigned for forgery of House Rules!
A cursory scrutiny of the 109 Senators antecedents has revealed that, beginning with Senator Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu and through the rank and file, very few senators of the 8th NASS are grassroot APC faithfuls. Majority of them are the desperate and die-hard Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), members who were determined to remain in power at all cost and only jumped ship when it dawned on them that PDP would woefully lose the 2015 General Elections, and having read the hand writing on the wall, took advantage of President Buhari's high-rising political profile/pedigree and rode on his impeccable integrity to attain their present positions! But it did not take long for them to show their true colours and identities by identifying with 'Bukola Saraki whom over 80 of them flocked in solidarity with, to answer to charges against him at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), during the early stages of his trial and have since then declared a COLD WAR between the Upper Chamber and the Executive!

Recent subtle attacks through rejections of the followings are the very glaring fallouts of their strategy:
1. Rejection of the list of about 48 non-career foreign ambassadorial nominees by the President;
2. Rejection of the Executive's Mid Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF), document which Senator Ali Ndume contemptuously described as EMPTY;
3. Rejection of the $29.9 USD foreign loan request by the President aimed at cushioning the biting effects of the economic recession;
4. Refusal to confirm Mr. Ibrahim Magu as substantive Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Chairman; and,
5. Recent accusations of corruption at plenary against Babachir Lawal, Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF), who was alleged to have employed the services of his private company to siphon millions of naira from the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), Rehabilitation Funds and the chorused call for him to resign immediately; support the deliberate attitude of the Senate to match the Executive, action for action!
Senate's refusals, rejections and accusations in all of the above have been adduced to an orchestrated plan by PDP to paint the ruling party as incompetent in view of their desperation TO REGAIN POWER AT ALL COST IN 2019!

First, Senate's claim that several Nigerians petitioned against the ambassadorial nominees was unfounded and in bad taste! Second, the MTEF Document was not empty as claimed by Ali Ndume because the Minister of Budget and National Planning addressed the Press and elucidated the well-articulated document to debunk the upper chamber's untruthful claim. Third, the rejection for sourcing foreign loan to beef up the economy had been faulted by the House of Representatives which has vowed to commence discussions at plenary after the Christmas/New Year recess and ensure an accelerated approval for the loan without further delay. Fourth, the rejection of Magu as EFCC Chairman was based on TWO indicting, contradictory and damning security reports by State Security Service (SSS) which claimed that Magu had some "integrity issues", but differed on suggested steps for action!
According to Premium Times, one of the reports stated that to clear Magu for the substantive position would spell danger for the administration's anti-graft war, while the second described him as having performed excellently so far and should therefore be favourably considered for the post. The two conflicting reports dated 3rd October, 2016 and addressed to NASS acting Clerk, Mohammed Sani Omolori and to Senior Special Assistant to the President on NASS matters, Ita Enang, respectively by one Folashade Bello, were read to the lawmakers during the Executive Session held to decide the fate of Magu on Thursday, 15th December, 2016. Some political analysts have adduced that the negative reports which the Senate acted upon confirmed an ongoing rivalry among security agencies which would negate the anti-corruption crusade of President Buhari, but we totally disagree with that notion. For the SSS to shun affinity with a sister agency in an area of oversight request from the Upper Chamber is a clear indication that the anti-graft war was on track, because traces of corruption in any form should not be entertained in all persons to be appointed into positions of authority. Detailed negative report on Magu included the following: (1) That during the tenure of Mrs. Farida Waziri as EFCC Chairman, he kept official documents at his residence Karu Site, a satellite suburb of Abuja; (2) That he was redeployed to the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), on suspicion of corruption but; wriggled his way back to be appointed Chairman in acting capacity; (3) That with his new appointment, he moved out of Karu Site into a N20 million per annum apartment in the Central District Area of  Abuja metropolis; and, (4) That he was not cleared of accusations of corruption before his appointment.

Was the President properly briefed before he sent Magu's name for confirmation? To whom was the damning report from SSS first forwarded, the President or the Senate? Our strong belief is that the politics of the COLD WAR that has played out can strengthen the democracy positively because from the President's stand, whoever was found culpable would receive the full weight of the law - whether he/she is a KITCHEN or BANQUET HALL Cabinet staff! What about SGF Babachir Lawal, the "numero uno" of the Change Agenda Civil Service, whom the Senate also fingered for some unorthodox/fraudulent business transaction and diversion of an estimated 2.5 billion naira in IDP's Camps in the North East through a company in which he allegedly has financial interest? The Senate also indicted him for intensifying instead of alleviating the sufferings of the displaced in that region through the fraud which he committed at the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE). But information provided by some of his legal aides revealed that the SGF severed relationship with the said business concern since 29th August, 2015, - the day after his appointment by President Buhari and that the papers being bandied around were forged by Senators who were prone to forgery!
Outside of this very grave allegation was another accusation that Babachir had once juxtaposed a foreign private trip for an official one by collecting ESTACODES from government to cover all of his expenses abroad! The Grape Vine says he had some other dirty deals which had been swept under the carpet! However, the good news is that the President has ordered the Attorney General of the Federation to instigate a probe into all allegations against Magu and Babachir and other allegations making the rounds against any of his appointees. In a statement issued on Sunday 18th December, 2016, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, confirmed the planned presidential probe into allegations of corruption levelled against some top officials of the Change Administration, with categorical emphasis that anyone found culpable would not escape prosecution! We are very much aware that President Buhari is being stampeded by detractors of his Change Administration to tinker with his ministerial cabinet members early in the year 2017, but we trust in the godly wisdom which guided him in their appointments to still support him in his assessment of their performances and selfless contributions during their first year in office TO AVOID ROCKING THE BOAT OF A WINNING TEAM but, notwithstanding, any BLACK SHEEP should be shown the way out! We welcome the presidential probe which we suggest should be an all-encompassing exercise within the hierarchy of government's top appointees.
FOR THE SENATORS, THEY SHOULD NOT FORGET THE ADAGE THAT SAYS, "WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND" AND THAT HE THAT LIVES IN A GLASS HOUSE MUST NOT THROW STONES!
The current administration in Nigeria is divinely ordained and only God's counsel for the nation would stand the test of time and not man's idiosyncrasies, as it is written: "Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure. There are many devices in a man's heart, nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand" Amen. (Isaiah.46:10; and Proverbs. 19:21). God's counsel will stand to protect the Nigerian poor masses and downtrodden (Talakawas), who would always bear the brunt (pain and agony of abject poverty and sufferings), whenever the TWO ELEPHANTS (Senate and Executive), fought!

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CHRISTMAS TO THE WORLD.
Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the image of the invisible God, was born at Christmas by a virgin mother, THE HOLY MARY, with one great mission, which was, to save mankind from their sins. He had to shed His blood for the remission of the sins of the world, on the Cross of Calvary, to accomplish His mission over two thousand years ago, but the GRAVE could not contain Him! He RESURRECTED from the dead and is now seated at the RIGHT HAND OF GOD! Today, He remains the embodiment of Truth, Righteousness and the only MEDIATOR between Man and God. (I Timothy. 2: 5-6; compare, John.14:6). He is the greatest GIFT of God to mankind for their SALVATION through the gospel message which says: "For God so loved the world that He GAVE His only begotten Son, that WHOSOEVER believeth in Him, should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent NOT His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved". (John.3:16-17). XMAS 2016 is another opportunity for all sinners to accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour in order to enjoy a peaceful eternity with God in the hereafter. JESUS CHRIST IS ALIVE! Hallelujah!  MERRY XMAS TO ALL OF YOU OUR ESTEEMED READERS AND FOLLOWERS. LET THE CHANGE FROM A CORRUPT TO A RIGHTEOUS GOVERNMENT UNDER THE ABLE LEADERSHIP OF PRESIDENT BUHARI BEGIN WITH US! Amen.

Please look forward to more divine revelations 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;  also in The Sure Word Gospel Tracts; and our divinely inspired books on the Amazon KINDLE Store namely: The Unbroken Chain of Grace, Nigeria’s Pot Pourri (Volumes 1-5), Godly Politicking For World Peace, and The Wedding Mascot Died. 

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.

CAN MALLAM NASIR EL RUFAI SAVE SOUTHERN KADUNA FROM POGROM?

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.

(Looking at Nigeria's Political System from a godly Perspective).  

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 5. NO 175. 18th December, 2016.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

CAN MALLAM NASIR EL RUFAI SAVE SOUTHERN KADUNA FROM POGROM?

Before the Nigerian Regional Political Structure was fragmented into twelve States through a military fiat on 27th May,1967, by Lt. Colonel Yakubu Gowon, Kaduna City was the regional capital and seat of power of the then Northern Region where all political, economic, and social policies were co-ordinated and executed through articulate blue prints. With such an imposing and intimidating status, Kaduna wielded so much power through the enigmatic personality of late, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sardauna of Sokoto, of blessed memory, who in1952 became leader of Northern People’s Congress (NPC), which metamorphosed from a cultural organisation called Jamiyya Jama'ar Arewa (meaning, Congress of Northern Nigeria), with the motto, "One North, One People", and in 1954, the Premier of the Northern Region. Without diminishing nor relegating to the background, the power and influence of Alhaji Tafawa Balewa (the NPC member), who was elected as the first Prime Minister of Nigeria at independence, the Sardauna stood out and towered like a colossus, high and above other politicians of his time, aroused political consciousness among the Northerners and was very diligent to close literacy gap between the South and the North through consistent government advocacy and implementation of compulsory primary educational policy throughout the entire region until his death during the first military coup in1966!
It is instructive to note that through the political administrative sagacity of the late Sadauna, whose party subsequently assumed a national outlook with a new name, “Nigerian People’s Congress”, the party had a firm grip on both the Federal Government/Northern State from 1960- 1966, a period in which it deliberately laid a solid foundation for Northern politicians of consecutive administrations to build on! Mallam Nasir El Rufai (author of, a book titled, ("The Accidental Public Servant"), was elected and sworn in as Governor of Kaduna State, under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and inherited a dichotomized KADUNA STATE - "Northern and Southern Kaduna", as opposed to the late Sadauna's advocacy for Northern unity of "One North, One People"! Before his election, El Rufai was the Federal Capital Territory's (FCT), Minister between (2003-2007), and cut a niche for being the good, the bad and the ugly; depending on which side his tenure was perceived by residents - especially by satellite and rural dwellers whose homes were delomolished in respect of Land Act contraventions!

Before his assumption of office on 29th May, 2015, defenceless citizens of SOUTHERN KADUNA had suffered persistent, consistent, organized and strategized violent attacks by mercenary Fulani Herdsmen, who according to meticulous and painstaking investigations, claimed that the entire areas of Sanga Local Government consisting of the underlisted communities which are indigenous farmlands,(but which they, herdsmen insisted) were GRAZING ROUTES allocated to them by previous administrations: Fadan Ninzom, Gwantu, Ayu, Mayir, Aboro, Wasa Station, Jagindi, Godogodo, Gidan Waya, Atan, Kagoro, Koi, Kagarko, Kachia, Kafanchan etc. Since 1999, not less than 500 peasant farmers and members of Southern Kaduna families have been massacred by the ravaging heinous murderers according to witnesses who survived the mayhem! Women and children who were the most vulnerable had the highest casualty figures, while surviving adult males have been deprived of their farmlands/livelihoods because, according to them, the herdsmen could strike at random, day or night and that they were caught unawares on several occasions! In the last 19 months under the watch of Mallam El Rufai, the communities had recorded not less than five devastating attacks by the herdsmen who usually masked their faces with turban/mufflers to avoid identification, had taken place in Sanga and Jemm'a Local Governments because it is strongly believed that they enjoyed the support of resident military and police operatives whom the current administration had posted to provide "adequate security" to these endangered and helpless Nigerian citizens!

The following narratives are highlights of one of the many incidents of vicious, gruesome and devastating attacks on the vulnerable inhabitants of Southern Kaduna:
On one very hot afternoon in July 2014 a Toyota Hilux pick-up van which conveyed seven armed military personnel led by a Lieutenant was driven into Pasakori Community under Jema'a LG. and parked on the road side beside a group of vigilante who worked as scouts to alert villagers of any infiltration or invasion into their lands by Fulani Herdsmen, who frequently attacked their people without any form of provocation! The Lieutenant and one other soldier got down, walked up to the men and advised  them to go and hide away, far from their homes all hunting weapons like dane/double-barrel guns, arrows, spears etc, because there would be a sudden house-to-house search for arms mop during which their superiors would order seizure of all kinds of weapons. According to this narrator, a vigilante who escaped death by the whiskers and hid in a thicket, "none of us suspected that it was a ploy by the soldiers to disarm us for Fulani invaders to have a field day shortly afterwards in connivance with the army who should under normal circumstances defend us from such disaster! We thanked them and quickly rushed to our homes after their departure, took away all such arms as we were advised and hid them far away in the bush only to discover too late within hours to our dismay and peril when gunfire boomed from all directions and fire gutted several homes as men, women, children ran frienzily in all directions and scampered for safety! The disguised herdsmen used our people for sport as they gunned them down mercilessly for being vulnerable! They also broke into some homes that were not set on fire, and summarily executed frightened occupants who hid in them. I also saw that some of those soldiers shot and killed three villagers who were escaping"!

EL RUFAI ADMITS INVADERS WERE FULANI HERDSMEN!  
Governor of  El Rufai, in an interview quoted from Vanguard: said "We paid Fulani Herdsmen to stop the killing in Southern Kaduna - and have constituted a Committee to investigate the killings in Southern Kaduna." The Committee headed by General Martin Luther Agwai (rtd), - identified that the 2011 post-election violence triggered off the violence. According to the report, the committee stated that Fulani Herdsmen who were moving out of Southern Kaduna ran into the rioters who allegedly descended upon them, killed many of them and destroyed their cattle while those who escaped at a later date re-organized for a reprisal!  On receipt of the report, Governor El Rufai sent a message to the aggrieved attackers who were identified as Fulani Herdsmen from neighbouring countries of Chad, Cameroun Niger, Mali and Senegal to inform them that there was a new governor in Kaduna State who was a Fulani like them and that he paid them monetary compensations. The Vanguard’s report further claimed that Governor El Rufai believed that recent attacks in Southern Kaduna between September and November 2016 - purportedly alluded to Fulani Herdsmen were by bandits though on 14th November, 2016, over 40 people were killed by assailants believed to be nomad Fulani Herdsmen in Chawai Chiefdom under Kauru LG, Southern Kaduna!

SOUTHERN KADUNA RESIDENTS BELIEVE THAT MIYETTI ALLAH CATTLLE BREEDERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA [MACBAN], ARE THE FULANI MERCENERY CONTRACTORS!
Nomad Fulani mercenaries have been linked to Miyetti Allah which actually contracted them to avenge any infringement by farmers against "rights and privileges" of its loyal members who paid their regular dues with cow donations. It was reported that during a monthly security review community meeting in one of the very few peaceful areas in Southern Kaduna, in August, 2016, a resident Fulani man boasted that if he had reported the said Community to MACBAN, they would have razed the area to the ground! In October 2016, MACBAN alleged that Ekiti State Government killed some cows belonging to its members and warned against severe repercussions that would reverberate beyond Ekiti if immediate compensations were not made! It was later discovered that the cows were actually arrested for violation of State Laws on cattle rearing and kept in safe custody and blood letting was avoided!

IS THIS THE SADAUNA'S DREAM OF "ONE NORTH ONE PEOPLE?"
Apart from being the seat of political power of the then Northern Region, Kaduna was also the commercial and industrial destination, alive and famous for high quality textile material production, flour mills, motor assembly plant, etc. Worthy of note also was that the military strength (Nigerian Defence Academy, Nigerian Air Force Flying School) of the nation was concentrated in Kaduna, Jaji, and Zaria, all within very short distance of each other - and it was no wonder that the first military coup was planned and executed in Kaduna by Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, whose escapade with his collaborators actually snuffed the life of several politicians - including the Sadauna himself! In respect of social activities Kaduna ranked first among other major cities of the North with modern clubs and international hotels which attracted a lot of foreign industrial clientele. Today Kaduna State is a far cry from being peaceful as it is now clustered with social disorders, civil disobedience by SHI'ITE MUSLIMS in Zaria! Religious bigotry/discrimination in spite of the SECULAR STATUS of the Nigerian nation and persistent foreign Fulani mercenaries’ invasion! There was the Sharia Imposition Law conflicts from Kaduna to Kafanchan in the year 2000; and in Sanga LG, 2001; also in 2011, Post Election Riots across Kaduna metropolis; 2014, Youth Clashes in Kagarko community; July and December 2014, Fulani Herdsmen invasion in SangaLG; and also in January and June 2015.The months of September and November 2016, were not spared from the continuous bombardments of the rampaging herdsmen - especially in Pasakori and Godogodo Communities!

THE WAY FORWARD TO RESOLVE HERDSMEN/FARMERS CLASHES!
Governor Nasir El Rufai plea/monetary settlements with the foreign Fulani Herdsmen no doubt, was a right step in the right direction but he needed to speedily co-ordinate with MACBAN, who have not denied their contractual links with the same group who would always go for the highest bidder, and iron out the conflict areas and claims by both parties - the pastoralists and the indigenous farmers. The outcome of this co-ordination should be merged with the Federal Government's findings through a Technical Committee launched on 8th November, 2016, by the Minister of Interior to resolve the same conflict, while quick measures should also be initiated by all State Governments (like Ekiti), to enact laws that would create grazing lands and periods in order for peace to reign across the nation. In the meantime genuine security efforts should be made by both the Kaduna State and Federal Governments to bring lasting peace to these helpless and downtrodden peasants who are being gradually decimated by vicious force into oblivion. We must always remember the cliché which says, "A house which is divided against itself will surely fall." SOUTHERN KADUNA DESERVES OUR SUPPORT - WE MUST REMAIN OUR BROTHERS KEEPERS.

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.

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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.

"AN EYE FOR AN EYE, AND A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH" ?

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.
(Looking at Nigeria's Political System from a godly Perspective).  

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 5. NO 174. 11th December, 2016.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

"AN EYE FOR AN EYE, AND A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH" ?

The 2015 General Elections in Rivers State witnessed rivers of blood, shed from innocent citizens, before, during and after the "do-or-die" exercise, due to the desperation of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stalwarts to win back the State at all cost from the incumbent All Progressives Congress (APC) Administration! Scenarios of the gruesome and murderous activities of Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, (MEND) in the '90s, all in the name of "emancipation of Niger Delta", were re-enacted to the extent that newly-sponsored CULT GROUPS, which specialized in the decapitation of HUMAN HEADS emerged, and headless corpses littered the streets of Port-Harcourt, the State Capital /suburbs; and though Nyesom Wike, was declared governor, parliamentary and state assembly elections were inconclusive.
Two efforts at re- run were made by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in March and July 2016, of the outstanding THREE Senatorial Districts, EIGHT House of Representatives Constituencies, and THIRTEEN House of Assembly seats, (consisting of 4.400 polling units across the 23 Local Government Areas), and both were aborted due to negative security reports in the State!
We are aware that two political gladiators in the persons of the immediate past governor of Rivers State and the incumbent, (whose personalities could be aptly described as the incongruity of  "day and night", which must give way for each other to thrive), should be held responsible for the present level of insecurity, which even law enforcement operatives found difficult to comprehend in spite of President Buhari's appeal for a peaceful election. It is a fact that PDP defeated APC by wining all 16 National Assembly seats in the election which was held during the 2015 General Elections but having been nullified by the Election Petitions Tribunal and the Court of Appeal, INEC was ordered to conduct a re-run of national and state assembly elections within 60 days which could not materialize until Saturday, 10th December, 2016, because the attempt of March 2016, was botched with much violence!
Almost two years on with the advantage of incumbency as Governor in control of all 23 local councils and the declared seats of the State House of Assembly, Wike, who enjoys immunity, believed PDP would win all of the remaining, federal and state seats at stake with violence and more bloodshed of the electorate and through his psychological warfare upon the masses and hate speeches against the APC ruling party. Inciting messages during the recent Rivers State political campaigns by leaders of the two major parties for the re-run, were very clear, unambiguous and reminiscent of the lawful act of vengeance in the Old Testament times: "If they shoot at you, dodge the bullet and shoot them back... if they slap you, slap them back...if they attack you, attack them"; all in the aid of re-run elections in which all stake holders were armed to the teeth!

The re-enactment of the Law of Moses which encouraged vengeance or retaliation in the event of physical breach or injury was resurrected and incited by those political party leaders who hid members of their families far away from danger, but were ready to sacrifice the lives of the electorate for their own political gains and comfort! In the Book of Leviticus 24:20, 21b, an Old Testament law says: "Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.....he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death;" but the message of the Lord Jesus Christ in the New Testament Book Matthew. 5: 38-42, has abrogated and nullify the old law of vengeance and retaliation as follows: "Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. But I say unto you, that ye resist not evil; but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if any man will sue the at the law, and take away thy coat, let him thy cloak also. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. Give to him that asketh thee and from him that would borrow of thee, turn thou not away." The gospel of the Lord is loud and clear; we must love one another, even our enemies and eschew violence and vengeance.
IS THE BLOOD OF THE ELECTORATE WORTH THE INORDINATE AMBITION OF THESE OPPORTUNISTS WHO DO NOT POSSESS THE SLIGHTEST QUALITY OF LEADERSHIP IN THEIR VEINS AND ARTERIES?

The loudest incitement was from Governor Nyesom Wike, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who violated all norms with a tirade of incitements when preparations for the re-run of inconclusive 2015 parliamentary and state assembly elections began in earnest. He publicly declared that officials of the INEC, should write their testaments before travelling to Rivers State, if they intended to rig the re-run elections for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and true to his boasting, some persons, including an official of INEC and an NYSC female member, lost their lives during the first attempt of re-run of the elections, in March, 2016! Not perturbed with incessant loss of human lives, since election violence was synonymous with his State, he also told all PDP members during recent campaigns across all 23 Local Government Areas, where elections would take place to avenge themselves if they were attacked because Rivers State would belong to PDP even if elections were to be conducted ten times over!
There had been myriads of accusations and counter accusations that both parties had perfected orchestrated plans to rig the re-run elections while Governor Wike alleged threat to his life by former Governor, Rotimi Amaechi; and sandwiched between all of the political permutations and calculations were the hapless electorate who had been boxed into a corner and were totally confused whether to come out to vote or to stay indoors for fear of losing their lives, a decision which resulted in voters apathy! We give glory to GOD that the re-run election, though rowdy did not record major casualties inspite of sporadic gunshots to the air and also a bomb which was detonated to scare away voters at the Andoni Local Government Area. Majority of the electorate were wiser than the selfish and egoist politicians whose "modus operandi" was an insatiable thirst to remain permanently in position of authority, by rejecting and turning deaf ears to the incitements but opted for a majorly peaceful re-run election except for pockets of violence and attempted snatching of ballot boxes in the Port-Harcourt Tai, LG. There was also a head injury inflicted to one of the NYSC male official through a conflict at the polling station.

The role of an unprecedented army of over 28.000  combined security agents which invaded the Rivers State volatile terrain to ensure that no criminality held sway, deserved commendation of all well- meaning and patriotic citizens of the Change mantra even though their effort was largely condemned by critics who believed that they were partisan! The re-run election have come and gone but mention should be made of two distinguished APC members who did not emulate President Buhari's leadership qualities, who in the face of provocation, through character assassination /malignment and unfounded hate speeches against him and his family, during the 2015 Presidential campaigns, kept mute and dumb for the Almighty God to fight for him!
THE MOST UNACCEPTABLE OF ALL VITUPERATIONS DURING THE RIVERS RE-RUN ELECTION, WAS THE OUTBURST OF ELDER STATESMAN JOHN ODIGIE-OYEGUN, NATIONAL CHAIRMAN OF THE RULING APC, WHO ADVISED PARTY MEMBERS TO FIGHT BACK PDP MEMBERS BECAUSE THEY WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF 95 APC MEMBERS WHO WERE KILLED ACROSS RIVERS STATE DURING THE 2015 GENERAL ELECTIONS!

The following is an unelderly and unstatemanly incitement of party faithfuls in Rivers State by Chairman Odigie-Oyegun as published by the Press and which he is yet to deny: "IF THEY SLAP YOU! SLAP THEM BACK!" Former APC Governor of Rivers State, now Minister of Transport, also followed suit and advised APC supporters to "retaliate anything and any action taken by the opposition party", during the re-run slated for Saturday, 10th December 2016! Interestingly, these respectable and high-ranking members of the ruling party believe in Christian values, doctrines and the sanctity of life, yet they got themselves involved in inciting their followers to execute the Law of Moses which was abrogated by the Lord Jesus with the advent of the Dispensation of Grace or Church Age!
Imagine if at anytime during the 7-year Boko Haram insurgency, all aggrieved citizens - especially Christians - who were the terrorists early targets- were incited to avenge themselves, would there be anything left of this geographical sovereign nation called Nigeria? Let all gladiators remember that all ephemeral things of the world including, transient political power/position of FOUR YEARS INTERVAL would pass away, but God, the ultimate JUDGE would request for accountability from every soul!
We hereby counsel all aggrieved stakeholders in the just concluded re-run to opt for the tribunals and not take laws into their own hands!
A WORD IS ENOUGH FOR THE WISE!

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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.

NIGERIAN GOVERNORS FORUM IS ALIEN TO THE CONSTITUTION! IT MUST BE PROSCRIBED NOW!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.
(Looking at Nigeria's Political System From a godly Perspective).  

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 5. NO 173. 4th December, 2016.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

NIGERIAN GOVERNORS FORUM IS ALIEN TO THE CONSTITUTION! IT MUST BE PROSCRIBED NOW!

A very insignificant number of Nigerian "elected" governors, past or present ever cared about the basic needs of the suffering multitude of citizens, once they mounted the saddle of higher political offices in spite of the sugar-laced promises contained in their party manifestos! You can count very few faithful governors on your finger tips, because they run economically-viable States and pay workers salaries as at when due. The Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) assumed the mafia status when majority of the members became super-rich overnight through sudden inflow of monies which accrued from the pecks and largesse of office, and also because the corrupt among them always had the greater figure of the 36, from the onset of the second attempt at constitutional democracy in 1999!
The SIXTEEN consecutive years of governance by Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP); the most corrupt and most devious political party in Nigeria and by extension, Africa, actually turned those governors into MAFIA CAPONS whose wishes and commands MUST be obeyed, because they were able to hijack Party Structure and Supremacy to intimidate the three Presidents [1999-2015], and most Legislators to carry out illegitimate and unconstitutional orders according to their whims and caprices! In the the meantime, they have succeeded in breaking the PDP into two factions but are unable to influence the Change Administration where PARTY SUPREMACY remains sacrosanct! In those most shameful period in the annals of the history of Nigeria, the nation  always scored the highest index figures as the most globally-corrupt country after Bangladesh, according to Amnesty International ratings, year-on-year but they unabashadedly denied the reports! During those dark periods, some of the NGF capons were reluctantly put on trial for misappropriation and embezzlement of public funds, only to be released by their accomplices in the judiciary until one of them was nabbed in London by Scotland Yard operatives, tried and sentenced to several years in prison while the other who disguised as a woman and escaped from London to Nigeria, still faced the law courts because of international embassment! Though, found guilty and sentenced to serve three years in prison, he was eventually pardoned and given amnesty by a PDP President before his demise! The abashless ones among them who are still on trial for similar offences, are barefacedly parading themselves as Senators of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, with all their loots intact! Would it have ever occurred to patriotic Nigerians that the NGF would re-incarnate the colonialist-oriented version of the British Governors who behaved like "semi-demi-gods" over their enslaved subjects throughout the centuries of colonisation before independence in 1960?
Who would have thought that those who begged and wooed the electorate for their votes during political campaigns would metamorphose into Frankenstein monsters to seek their livelihood in the blood and sweat of the poor masses who voted them into office? Apart from stipulated official salaries, they were allocated unspecified amounts of money ranging from one to six billion naira as SECURITY VOTES, and could manipulate contract awards as they pleased and from other multiple sources of dubious and illicit incomes, they were able to amass great wealth within very short period of time in office to perpetrate themselves for at least two terms of eight years whether they performed creditably or not!  But with all they have coveted while in office (contrary to the Tenth Commandment in Exodus.  20:17 ), they still demanded that their States should cater for them and their families in retirement through an outlandish severance allowances which included but not limited to the following items while workers salaries were unpaid as at when due:
1. Two magnificent fully-furnished mansions, one in the State capital and another in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT);
2. Annual severance salary of between N250-370 million naira for life;
3. Free medical services and facilities for life;
4. Fully-paid annual vacation for life;
5. Two state-of-the-art vehicles; - an SUV (Sports Utility Vehicle), and a saloon car;
6. Numerous home servants and assistants who would also be remunerated by their States!!!

Is it not ANATHEMA, that most of these "retiree governors" who are still serving as legislators and chairmen of various MDAs, are collecting double salaries and multiple allowances in spite of national economic recession? This is the gospel TRUTH; and the latest addition of Nigerian emerging billionaires are the ex-Governors of Kogi, Edo and Ondo States which are APC States. We have it on good authority that the Edo State House of Assembly amended their rules to give all of the above and more to Mr, Adams Oshiomole, who before his eight-stint in office as governor, was an accomplished labour leader and past President the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC)!
Will he accept these outrageous monies and properties while Edo State workers and pensioners were still owed unpaid salaries and allowances not caring that he Word of God says that: "A labourer is worthy of his wages?"  Will other APC States pay such inhuman severance allowances to past governors in spite of the economic melt-down? It was time for all patriotic Nigerians to rise against the advent of modern slavery already introduced by the NGF Mafia which has its tentacles all over the nation in order to impoverish the masses through their greed and gluttonous life-style! THOSE SEVERANCE ALLOWANCES ARE FAR BEYOND WHAT THE REVENUE MOBILISATION AND FISCAL ALLOCATION COMMISSION RECOMMEND! WHAT THE EX-GOVERNORS COLLECT IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL, ILLEGITIMATE, INHUMAN AND MUST BE STOPPED NOW BY ALL GOVERNMENTS OF THE FEDERATION! ALL NIGERIAN WORKERS SHOULD PROTEST AGAINST FURTHER PAYMENTS AND DEMAND THAT PAST EXCESS PAYMENTS SHOULD BE REFUNDED WITHOUT DELAY! We advocate that it was time the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), and Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), waded into the financial crimes perpetrated with impunity by this NGF MAFIA and bring them to book! NGF is alien to the constitution and MUST be proscribed by the Change Administration now!

NIGERIAN MINISTRIES, DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES, ARE ALSO ENEMIES OF TALAKAWAS!
Governance, include the control or influence in the conduct of fiscal and monetary policies, political and social affairs of a State; the provision of critical infrastructures like durable electricity power-generation grid for the manufacturing, agricultural, and the extractive industries sectors; motorable roads, potable water and most importantly, internal and external security of lives and properties within its geographical space. Therefore government revenue-generating agencies which have specific constitutional duties in that regard, must be diligent to perform such with much devotion and great passion for government to fulfil the all-important social welfare contracts with the people.
Some of these Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), including Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC),  Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS), to mention a few, have been mandated to deposit such funds collected in the process of their operational duties into the central coffers of the Federal Government to provide the very important Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), which forms the foundation for annual budgets. For instance, NCS personnel are empowered to collect revenues which accrue from custom duties from all imported goods and items of sundry types, excise duties from manufacturing industries; NIS earns revenue from issuance of the Nigerian Passports, and expatriate immigration services; FRSC, collects enormous revenue from fines imposed on traffic offenders; NBS, derives revenue from mandatory licences imposed on all radio broadcasting and terrestrial television stations; FIRS, the chief revenue collector of the Federal/State Governments, collects all manner of sundry taxes, income, personal, Value Added Tax (VAT) etc, on all goods and services; NCC, collects revenue from compulsory licences issued to mobile telecommunications service providers and other miscellaneous or ancillary charges. ALL OF THESE TAXES ARE MANDATORY BY LAW BUT, PAID ONLY BY THE MIDDLE-CLASS INCOME EARNERS/POOR MASSES, WHO COULD NOT DODGE TAX PAYMENTS LIKE THE VERY RICH AND AFFLUENT WHO USUALLY CONNIVED WITH TAX OFFICIALS TO AVOID SUCH PAYMENTS!  However within one and a half years of the advent of the Change Administration of the All Progressives Congress (APC), a lot of endemic financial sharp practices - running into the misappropriation of over N1trillion naira, within the inner caucuses of these agencies, was unearthed by policy administrators, who discovered that officers held back bulk monies for dubious sundry allowances with which they lived in opulence, and larger than life! The Minister of Finance announced on Thursday, 1st December, 2016, that a sum of N450 billion already traced to some particular agencies was yet to be deposited in the Treasury Single Account (TSA), which negates government instruction on financial prudency and threatened to make an official report to the Economic Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), if they further defaulted!

HOW WOULD GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO EXECUTE DIVIDENDS OF DEMOCRACY IF PRODIGALITY AND CORRUPTION WITH IMPUNITY REMAINED ENTRENCHED IN THE SYSTEM? The Federal Government is desperately sourcing for a foreign loan close to $30 billion USD to fund some capital projects in the 2016 Budget because these MDAs withheld larger portion of projected funds that should accrue from them, and to compound the muddled financial quagmire, funds from crude oil/gas virtually ceased due to continuous vandalization of pipelines by Niger Delta terrorists!

NCC's Brazen Effrontery to Hike Telecoms Data!
In the last week of November 2016, the NCC directed the five big telecommunications operators in the country to increase their data tariffs in order to allow "small operators and new entrants acquire market share" and operate profitably in spite of the intensity of economic recession on the masses, a decision which portrayed NCC as executing a hidden agenda through which it could amass illicit gains without an officially constituted Board in place! Public outcry by all Nigerian stakeholders including legislators of the National Assembly (NASS), against the unilateral decision has quashed the inordinate ambition of the proponents of the obnoxious planned robbery of the peoples' lean purses and the illegal package dumped into the incinerator where it rightly belonged! It was high time that President Buhari and his economic team beamed their searchlight on tax evaders at this very crucial period when prompt collection of taxes actually occupy top priority as the most effective bail-out tool from the present economic recession. Only righteousness will exalt this nation of Nigeria. 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.

IT IS DANGEROUS TO JUMP THE GUN BEFORE THE EXPORT RACE BEGAN!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.
(Looking at Nigeria's Political System from a godly Perspective).

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 5. NO 172. 27th November, 2016.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

IT IS DANGEROUS TO JUMP THE GUN BEFORE THE EXPORT RACE BEGAN!

There is a brazen attempt by some unpatriotic Nigerian traders to further subvert the economy which is in the process of revival and reverse the gains already recorded by the Federal Government to revamp it through massive bumper harvests of agricultural crops in the fourth quarter of the 2016 Budget year!  According to a revelation by an honourable member on the floor of the House of Representatives, these greedy traders  connived and smuggled out of the country, 500 TRUCKS on weekly basis to neighbouring countries, the costly but scarce staple commodities of RICE, CORN, MILLET, BEANS, CASSAVA, YAM, etc, which had virtually been out of the reach of the downtrodden masses since the first quarter of the year in order to earn foreign currencies through the back door and further weaken the NAIRA to create induced famine in the land?
According to the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics' (NBS) , latest economic index, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), shrunk by -2.24% and inflation rate hit the two-digit mark of 18.3%, which is precarious and could spell some set back to successes already achieved due to the selfishness of a few!

And whereas, government's policy thrust on Food Exportation, was predicated on the following planks:
1. That, between the year 2015-2018, all agricultural crops would be harvested and stored for local commercialization, consumption and preservation of surplus in governments SILOS as buffer to ensure FOOD SECURITY AND SUFFICIENCY during rainy days;
2.  That from the year 2019 upward, exportation of food stuffs would commence in earnest to debut Agriculture as the major foreign exchange earner instead of crude oil, but would be executed through the application of due process/procedure and according to the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), guidelines, interested and legitimate exporters could register to obtain necessary documents and licences.
3.That all farmers should key into government's credit support through CBN's, ANCHOR BORROWERS PROGRAMME which was already being enjoyed by farmers in 13 of the 36 States of the Federation;
4. That, there was urgent need to re- invigorate agriculture in all rural communities of the 774 Local Government Areas of the nation; and
5.That an all encompassing national  Water Resources Policy, National Irrigation and Drainage Policy, to improve management of water and irrigation development in the country, was imperative and that a law should be speedily enacted by the National Assembly to back the policies but in the meantime, measures to revive the 12 River Basin Authorities of Anambra-Imo; Benin-Owena; Chad Basin; Cross River; Hadejia-Jama'are; Lower Benue; Lower Niger; Niger Delta; Ogun-Osun; Sokoto-Rima; Upper Benue; and Upper Niger, would also be fast tracked.

In addition to all of the above measures, alternative technologies such as Hydro, Wind and Solar were under consideration as Thermal power generation was being sabotaged by the Niger Delta terrorists through vandalization of gas pipelines.
Did you know that electricity power from the national grid rose from 3,324 megawatts in June 2015 to a peak of 5,074 mg. in February, 2016 for the very first time, and the level could have been improved and maintained but for persistent vandalization which made output to drop through 16 systems collapse to introduce low-shedding and power rationing.
But, in spite of all those plan to improve agriculture and power, those cluster of very greedy traders still indulged in the illegal exportation of raw cereals through the nation's porous borders without milling or processing the crops in any form, thereby losing all by-products that could have accrued as multiple gains if processed! From processed Parboiled Rice alone, the following bye products could be sourced: STARCH, SYRUP, WINE, MILK, etc, while the rice hull or husk (the hard protection coverings of the grains of rice), can be used as building materials, fertilizers, for fuel and gas and there would be no need to import those items with the very limited foreign exchange resource at the disposal of government! It has been revealed that Rice Hull Ash is the major raw material in the production of the renowned international Portland cement products! All processed agricultural crops have by-products which could add value to exportation and reduce importation of exotic products foreign countries.

Nigeria would still import rice to the tune of $2 billion USD to augment local productions until the aggressive thrust by the new administration to venture into massive cultivation of grains and cereals materialized, starting with Kebbi State's 2016 bumper harvest of ONE MILLION TONNES of locally-grown rice, and similar expectations from other States including, Lagos and Ogun in the year 2017! For instance, before the present administration embarked on a determined effort to diversify from the CRUDE OIL foreign-earner mono-product (which had sustained the economic resource up to 85% at some point),  into agriculture and solid mineral sectors exploration, this natural resource, was and is still being exported in its raw form instead of being refined into PMS (Petrol), and as Kerosene, Diesel oil, Grease, Plastics, Rubber, Nylons etc, which are bye-products from the crude oil for maximum gains and profits if all four refineries worked at maximum capacity!

Mallam Shehu Garba, Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, also alerted the nation about the illegal exporters unscrupulous attitude and warned on the danger it would portend to the ailing economy if not quickly checked. He implored all relevant agencies, especially, the Nigerian Customs Service, the Immigration Department and border patrol law-enforcement officers to be on "red alert", in order to arrest further contraventions!
The Minister of Agriculture, has also condemned the illegality and called for very stiff penalties against the saboteurs because his Ministry and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), which mobilized peasant farmers for local production of rice, maize sorghum, millet and soya beans, aimed at achieving domestic sufficiency in those staples by 2018, before official exportation could commence; therefore, it was criminal for any trader to engage in illegal exportation!
Nigeria has now experienced three consecutive economic recession which economic analysts fear could lead to a depression, but the good news is that, the economic team had envisaged the set-backs and had put palliatives in place to succour the masses of marginalized Nigerians who are President Buhari's major CONSTITUENCY through the SOCIAL INTERVENTION POLICY! These Nigerians would now benefit from the N500 billion intervention fund already set aside as soft loans for market women; for employment opportunities for 200.000 graduate teachers, (who would be employed from 1st December, 2016), and other youths to be engaged in various vocations through Small and Medium Scale Enterprises, under the macro-economic agenda of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Minister of Budget and National Planning, has allayed fears of economic depression in line with the above measures and further explained that the NBS' statistics of shrinking GDP and two-digit inflation, would surely be reversed in a very short while.

In his 56th Independence Anniversary broadcast, President Buhari emphasised the cyclical behaviours of global economies and asserted that all countries faced ups and downs like in Nigeria where economic recession was forced through a critical shortage of foreign exchange that resulted from international oil price drop from $100 per barrel to an average of $40 USD since late 2014, and further self-inflicted through "the damage perpetrated by Niger-Delta thugs on pipelines - which reduced production to below one million barrels per day"!
However with the aggressive posture of governments and the patriotic peasant farmers towards diversification to agriculture from the mono crude oil exportation, we believe that solutions to the lingering economic recession are definitely in sight. Up to the time of this publication, no official arrests of the unscrupulous Nigerian traders who stubbornly put off the thought of GOD and HIS unavoidable JUDGEMENT for the love of ephemeral gains and MONEY, had been reported, but the most opportune period for righteous and truly patriotic citizens to support the CHANGE AGENDA GOVERNMENT of President Buhari to succeed in its determination, not only to diversify the economy, but to also fulfil the other two legs of the tripod structure, consisting of total war against corruption and Security is NOW!

Let all hands be on deck! Let the masses at the grassroots organize neighbourhood VIGILLANTES, WATCHMEN, AND SCOUTS to keep vigil on all outlets of their various communities, to arrest the scoundrels who might - no matter how highly placed - attempt to smuggle out the grains illegally! Name, shame and hand them over to law enforcement agencies who would prosecute them for the crime of economic sabotage and YOUR RESOLVE FOR THE ENTHRONEMENT OF A RIGHTEOUS GOVERNMENT IN NIGERIA SHALL SERVE AS YOUR SPIRITUAL STRENGTH AS YOU ALSO ENGAGE IN PRAYERS! Amen.
The Word of God says to the carnal and worldly breed: ".....Fear God, and keep His commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgement, with every secret thing, whether it be good or it be evil". (Ecclesiastes. 12:13-14).

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.

NIGERIAN SOLDIERS CANNOT BE LURED INTO A COUP DE TAT, NOT NOW! NOT EVER!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER. (Looking at Nigeria's Political System from a godly Perspective). 

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 5. NO 171. 20th November, 2016.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

NIGERIAN SOLDIERS CANNOT BE LURED INTO A COUP DE TAT, NOT NOW! NOT EVER!

Short of precipitating a military coup, some groups of unscrupulous and soulless politicians still believed they could manipulate mass sentiments to stampede President Buhari's administration out of office through outright condemnation of its policies and actions at this period of transient economic recession! But they are wrong, very wrong because coup de tat had become anathema world-wide! Apart from the global repulsion for this act of treason, the present crop of officers and men of the Nigerian Army have proved beyond any doubt that they were thorough-bred, well-disciplined, professionally-trained, faithful and dedicated to the Nigerian Project, the people and Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces, by affirming their constitutional duties of defending Nigeria from external aggression and maintaining its territorial integrity and securing its borders from violation on land, sea or air. International communities, including the United States of America (USA), applauded the new Change administration for immediate onslaught against the 6-year-old Boko Haram insurgency, which was completely decimated, disorganized and disorientated within one year of assumption of office, because the terrorists were dislodged from 14 local government areas where they hoisted their flags in North East, Nigeria!
We have it on good authority that some Nigerian "blood money-bag politicians" who had stolen too much money from the system in over 16 years of horrendous corruption still believed that the "status quo" should continue in spite of the massive campaign for a righteous and faithful government that would dispense dividends of democracy with justice and equity, and for them to have their way, had employed all manner of civil unrest/disobedience, armed resistance by new-generation militants, state-creation agitators and hired protesters from Lagos to Rivers; Enugu to Sokoto; Bayelsa to Benue; Kaduna to Plateau; Ekiti to Kwara States and even in the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT), Abuja;  etc, with the sole aim of deceiving the masses that the new administration had failed and by implication provoke the Armed Forces to take over the democratic government in a coup de tat! They are the same set of people who insisted that retired Colonel Sambo Dasuki, presently being tried for fraudulently diverting $2.2 billion US Dollars arms money to execute the 2015 presidential political campaign project of ex-President Ebele Jonathan, was innocent and had agitated that he should be released in spite of evidences that proved otherwise!
Population of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), camps that are strewed all over the Northern States had shot above 2 million people due to the act of terror by Boko Haram while death statistics soared over 1 million people - including military and terrorists casualties as a result of the nefarious activities of these criminally - rich individuals whom the long arm of the law would soon catch up with because they are also vulnerable before the superior power of government law-enforcement institutions! At a recent discussion with US Secretary of State, Mr John Kerry, in Marakesh, Morroco, President Buhari, disclosed the existence of those odious citizens whom he promised would not get away with all illegal funds in their possession as his government was poised to take all legal steps and follow due process to recover and prosecute those found culpable. FOR WHAT DOES IT PROFIT A MAN IF HE GAINED THE WHOLE WORLD AND LOSES HIS SOUL? AND BEHOLD I COME QUICKLY AND MY REWARD IS WITH ME TO GIVE TO EVERYMAN ACCORDING TO HIS WORKS SHALL BE, SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS!

The following TRUTHS should be disseminated to the poor masses in order to debunk the rumours being peddled by these ENEMIES OF THE STATE who bank-roll all forms of insurgency within the country, including the resurgence of soft-target suicide bomb attacks by Boko Haram terrorists in Maiduguri and its environs and assure them that they would soon be rounded up to face charges of treasonable felony against the Nigerian people:
1. That the Small And Light Weapons (SALW), and all the explosives being employed by more than 18 armed militant groups which vandalize crude oil pipelines in the Niger Delta region, were regularly supplied by the crooked politicians;
2. Armed herdsmen, who have terrorized resident farmers and citizens in all the six geo-political zones without exception had operated with the tacit financial support of blood money donations from these dirty politicians who recruited many of them through the nation's porous borders.
3.The sixty per cent (60%) mercenary group that make up the Boko Haram terrorist splinter groups was recruited from neighbouring border States and sustained by these politicians who have no qualms about the sanctity of life, to unleash mayhem upon the innocent resilient masses of Nigerians who are just minding their own businesses;
4. The major cause of the provoked economic recession was the brain-child of these saboteurs who ensured that the daily crude oil output was continuously depleted, from 2.2million barrels per day (bpd), to less than one million (bpd), by their sponsored armed terrorists who specialized in the vandalization of critical oil installations in the Niger Delta Region since the advent of the new administration because of their insatiable and wanton greed to remain in power at all cost!
5. From the day of the investiture of President Buhari on 29th May, 2015, the failed Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), opposition stalwarts began to boast about how they would regain power in 2019, without showing any remorse for public funds mismanagement during the most corrupt administrations ever witnessed in the West Coast of South Sahara from 1999-2015!
6. These house-enemies equally complained that the President was senile and could die any time soon to pave way for them, in their wildest imagination, to move in and take over the government - presumably through a military coup?

BUHARI'S EFFORTS AT RECOVERING LOOTED PUBLIC FUNDS!
According to information, culled from the Leadership Newspaper, the Federal Government swung into action within the first three months of inauguration and recovered N3.4 trillion, stolen/looted cash/assets as follows:
1. N3.8 trillion out of the N8.1 trillion earned from crude oil (2012-2015), withheld by Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC);
2. $2.1 USD from Excess Crude Account - unaccounted for;
3. N109.7 billion unremitted royalty from oil firms by Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR);
4. 160 billion barrels of crude worth $13.9 billion USD, lost between 2009-2012;
5. $15 million USD from botched arms deal yet to be returned to Nigeria;
6. $13 billion Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG), dividends, mostly unaccounted for;
7. N30 billion Rice Waiver; and,
8. N183 billion unaccounted for at Niger Delta Development Corporation (NDDC).
All of the above lootings and corrupt acts occurred during ex-President Ebele Jonathan's Administration and several other monies and immovable assests had been recovered in the last 14 months from August 2015; all of which the Federal Government promised to give proper account for at the appropriate time., while part of it would be utilized for funding the 2017 Budget.

THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY STRATEGY REPORT (ERSR).
President Buhari and his Economic Management Team (EMT), would put their detractors to shame with the ERSR Document soon to be presented to Nigerians as the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP), which would steer the country permanently out of its economic quagmire to a buoyant economic growth, having worked in collaboration with the Ministries of Budget and National Planning, Finance, The Presidency and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), to produce the blueprint. The document, regarded as the most-desired panacea to ease out the economic recession according to government sources, is hinged on the following five critical sectors of the economy, namely:
1.  Macroeconomic policy;
2. Economic diversification and growth drivers;
3. Competitiveness;
4. Social inclusion and jobs and;
5. Governance and other enablers.
With all of the above measures in place as the nation proceeds determinedly into year 2017, we have no iota of doubt that the nation would have come out of the woods!
WHY WOULD ANY RIGHT-THINKING NIGERIAN THEREFORE BELIEVE THE WICKED PROPAGANDA OF THESE ENEMIES OF THE STATE WHO HAVE ORGANISED A CAMPAIGN OF CALUMNY AGAINST THE FORTHRIGHT AND DEDICATED TEAM OF GOVERNMENT ECONOMISTS/TECHNOCRATS WHO HAVE DEDICATED THEIR SERVICES TO DISPEL THE NOTION THAT NIGERIA WOULD REMAIN A CORRUPT NATION AND AS SUCH EXPOSE HIMSELF/HERSELF TO STRAY BULLETS FROM POLICE/ARMY RIFLES WHILE PARTICIPATING IN ORCHESTRATED AND ILLEGAL STREET PROTESTS?
The set time for the down-trodden Nigerians TO THINK OUT OF THE BOX is now or never! They should support a change from the old order of doing business to the new righteous way; because if the divine opportunity to do things right once and for all now was missed, then it would be too late to "cry over split milk!" A WORD IS ENOUGH FOR THE WISE WHO IS TRULY WISE!

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.

THESE FEDERAL MINISTERS ARE TRULY ROUND PEGS IN ROUND HOLES, HURRAH!

    ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.(Looking at Nigeria's Political System from a godly Perspective).  

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 5. NO 170. 13th November, 2016.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

THESE FEDERAL MINISTERS ARE TRULY ROUND PEGS IN ROUND HOLES, HURRAH!

Nigeria’s Change Administration Ministers of President Muhammadu Buhari had been the most criticised, intimidated, harassed, disrespected and most lambasted of political office holders around the globe in recent times! Before the eligible chosen citizens were unveiled, bitter members of the failed opposition party unleashed all manner of reckless accusations that the President's nomination of his "kitchen cabinet", (i.e. close and personal aides), was predicated on a Northern agenda since majority of the appointees, were mostly of northern origin, and advocated civil disapproval against the government without success! But in spite of all efforts by the opposition to stampede government to act at their bidding, it took a period between 29th May, 2015; to 12th November, 2015, (134 days), for the President, his "Think Tank"/Consultants to prayerfully, carefully and painstakingly conclude the selection and investiture of the Federal Ministers who, (inclusive of the first two citizens), made up the Federal Executive Cabinet (FEC).

The following ministers chosen from the 36 States of the Federation who scaled through Senate scrutiny and vetting are as follows:
1. Chris Ngige – (Anambra) Minister of Labour & Employment; 2. Kayode Fayemi- (Ekiti) Minister of Solid Minerals; 3. Rotimi Amaechi – (Rivers) Minister of Transportation; 4. Babatunde Fashola - (Lagos) Minister of Power, Works and Housing; 5. Abdulrahman Dambazau- (Kano) Minister of Interior; 6. Aisha Alhassan – (Taraba) Minister of Women Affairs; 7. Ogbonaya Onu- (Ebonyi) Minister of Science and Technology; 8. Kemi Adeosun – (Ogun) Minister of Finance; 9. Abubakar Malami – (Kebbi) Minister of Justice & Attorney-General;  10. Sen Hadi Sirika – (Katsina) Minister of State, Aviation; 11. Barr. Adebayo Shittu – (Oyo) Minister of Communication; 12. Suleiman Adamu – (Jigawa) Minister of Water Resources; 13. Solomon Dalong – (Plateau) Minister for Youth and Sports; 14. Ibe Kachikwu – (Delta) Minister of State, Petroleum; 15. Osagie Ehanire – (Edo) Minister of State, Health; 16. Audu Ogbeh – (Benue) Minister of Agriculture; 17. Udo Udo Udoma – (Akwa Ibom)  Minister of Budget & National Planning; 18. Lai Mohammed – (Kwara) Minister of Information;19. Amina Mohammed – (Gombe) Minister of Environment; 20. Ibrahim Usman Jibril – (Nasarawa) Minister of State, Environment; 21. Hajia Khadija Bukar Ibrahim- (Yobe) Minister of State, Foreign Affairs; 22. Cladius Omoleye Daramola (Ondo) Minister of State, Niger Delta; 23. Prof Anthony Onwuka (Imo) Minister of State, Education; 24. Geoffrey Onyema (Enugu) Minister of Foreign Affairs; 25. Dan Ali (Zamfara) Minister of Defence; 26. Barr James Ocholi (Kogi)  Minister of State, Labour & Employment; 27. Zainab Ahmed (Kaduna) Minister of State Budget and National Planning; 28. Okechukwu Enelamah (Abia) Minister of Trade, Investment & Industry; 29. Muhammadu Bello (Adamawa) Minister of Federal Capital Territory; 30. Mustapha Baba Shehuri (Bornu) Minister of State, Power; 31. Aisha Abubakar (Sokoto) Minister of State, Trade & Investment;32. Heineken Lokpobiri (Bayelsa) Minister of State, Agriculture; 33. Adamu Adamu (Bauchi) Minister of Education; 34. Isaac Adewole (Osun) Minister of Health; 35. Abubakar Bawa Bwari (Niger) Minister of State, Solid Minerals; 36. Pastor Usani Uguru (Cross River) Minister of Niger Delta.

With the capable assistance of Mr. Ibe Kachikwu, President Muhammadu Buhari oversights the Ministry of Petroleum Resources as substantive minister to ensure that all sensitive issues and grey areas that have doggedly ridiculed the industry, were handled with utmost high level attention and sagacity required. As at the time of this publication, Late Minister of State, Labour, Barr. James Ocholi (Kogi), was yet to be replaced. May his good soul rest in perfect peace with the Lord, amen.

...THE RACE IS NOT TO THE SWIFT, NOR THE BATTLE TO THE STRONG...
On Friday, 12th November, 2016, - two days after its 52nd  meeting - the Federal Executive Council, clocked exactly 365 days in office having weathered through extremely rough and stormy seas of political opposition of all of its professionally well-calculated moves to ensure smooth transition from a battered economy to avoid a glaring recession which was bound to result from a culture of mismanagement and wastages by past administrations - especially of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), 1999-2015!
The cabinet had been dogged, consistent, focused and resilient in its commitment to ensuring that all strategic economic policies were executed to the letter with the tacit support of the Private Sector and the Stock Exchange to keep the economy on course as business partners in spite of all distractions by the detractors of government. At that meeting of Wednesday 10th November, 2016, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the President charged his ministers " to work harder to endear themselves to Nigerians" as he reviewed the progress, sundry challenges and social commitments of the cabinet to the people in one year.
Some members of the cabinet - especially those of the Economic Team - had severally been castigated for non- performance and classified as being unfit to hold their portfolios because of the recession which is gradually receding through meticulous strategies that have been applied. This cabinet deserves the commendation of all well-meaning Nigerians because it hit the ground running to mitigate all glaring symptoms that had manifested by placing greater emphasis on capital expenditure in the Rail and Ports Sectors to lessen the burden of roads dilapidation caused through commodities transportation across the wide terrain of the country. The 2016 deficit Budget had been implemented with available funds but MUST need to borrow in order to achieve commensurable and commendable percentage.

Below are Details of Money Released for 2016 Budget by Federal Government as released by the Ministry of Budget and National Planning:
"THE Federal Government has released the sectoral performance details of capital allocations in the 2016 Appropriation Act for the different ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) as at the end of October, 2016. The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udoma, said on Friday, 12th November,2016,  that government had spent about N3.577 trillion, or 58.7 per cent of the N6.06 trillion 2016 budget.
The amount included a total of N2.44 trillion for capital, non-debt recurrent and service-wide vote expenditures, in addition to about N1.14 trillion, or 46.7 per cent paid out to service domestic and foreign debts. The total expenditure also included about N44billion transferred to the Sinking Fund to retire maturing obligations on bonds issued to contractors handling various projects across the country. He said all the releases had been cash-backed. In terms of performance, the minister said this translated to 79 per cent, in terms of the pro-rated budget allocation for the three quarters up to September 30, 2016. Mr. Udoma described a total of N753.6 billion already released for capital expenditure in 2016 out of a total allocation of N1.8 trillion allocation approved for capital expenditure as the highest in the nation’s recent history, even in the era of low oil prices.

Details of the capital releases from the Federal Ministry of Finance headquarters showed the Ministry of Power with the highest allocation of N209.25 billion, followed by defence (N69.5 billion), and transport (N30.54 billion). The Ministry of Agriculture has so far received N29.58 billion; water resources (N25.2 billion); interior (N21.2 billion); health (N18.47 billion); education (N16.74 billion) and Niger Delta (N8.16 billion). The other ministries included science and technology (N6.68 billion), mines and steel development (N3.36 billion), petroleum resources (N2.414 billion) and other agencies (N312.5 billion)."

Nigeria's Senate rejection of $ 29.96 billion foreign to fund all capital projects as enunciated by the Federal Government should not be further delayed if members of the hallowed chambers were true democrats because the process could be overtaken by further inflation since recession was not limited to Nigeria alone! Much as we would want to agree with those who had canvassed that all recovered looted funds should be pumped into the economy without foreign loan indebtedness, they should be informed that there are fiscal principles and financial due process that must be followed before such monies could be touched and also that when all righteousness must have fulfilled, those funds would then be deployed to refund borrowed loans!
In addition, we believe that the Federal Government stood the following advantages if it borrowed without futher delay while the country was still in recession:
1. A moratorium concession to pay back between 5 - 10 years and at lesser exchange rates, since it is believed that recession and inflation would have fizzled out and had been accorded its rightful place in the archives of history;
2. There are predictions by some economists that inflation rate could go higher and into the year 2017, but we believe that with all economic measures already put in place by President Buhari's Administration with the support of the National Economic Council (NEC), through diversification to the agricultural, solid mineral resources, manufacturing, entertainment, tourist and film industries, etc, the recession and inflation would both disappear together!

For instance, inflationary cost of grains like rice, beans, corn, etc are believed to be gradually receding and before the advent of the new year, according to the Minister of Agriculture, massive harvests that would drown HOARDERS STOCK, would flood all markets across the nation to stamp out the unacceptable cost inflation forced upon the poor masses by Nigerian Shylocks who had no qualms in respect of the pains, hardships and sufferings of the downtrodden who could hardly make a meal per day.
"God cannot be deceived, whatever a man soweth, that he shall reap."

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.