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.

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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.