ENOUGH OF DISASTERS IN REFUGEES AND IDPS CAMPS, LET THEM GO HOME TO ROOST!

   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. 6. NO 181. 29th January, 2017.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).

ENOUGH OF DISASTERS IN REFUGEES AND IDPS CAMPS, LET THEM GO HOME TO ROOST!

Refugees and Internally Displaced Peoples (IDPs), of the North East States of Nigeria, comprising Bornu, Adamawa, Yobe and spill overs from the Cameroon, Niger and Chad borders, have suffered enough hardships, deprivations, squalor, all forms of communicable diseases, random physical abuses of rapes, and impregnation of the women and minors by officials who should normally protect and succour them, intermittent attacks by Boko Haram suicide bombers, who infiltrated the camps with various forms of devices and worse still, accidental air strike by government forces, and now that the nefarious gang had been defeated, these maligned masses should be disbanded to go home to roost! It was time all stakeholders took the "bull by the horn" and let the people go to fulfil their destinies in their home lands. It does not matter whether the whole lands were still in ruins or not, the important thing now is the determination of people and governments to jointly build together from the ruins and from grass to grace!
The Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE), to which a sum of N10 million naira was allocated as operational costs, is the umpteenth apex body to be set in motion for all necessary feasibility measures for RECONSTRUCTION, RE-INTEGRATION AND REHABILITATION, (RRR), since the year 2014, which makes it the most appropriate time for the incumbent administration to inquire for the percentage of implementation so far achieved?
CHIBOK TOWN, which gained universal attention due to the abduction of over 275 secondary school girls by the Boko Haram terrorists on 14th April, 2014, has sprung back to life and all social activities including schooling, presumably under the Safe School Initiative Programme (SSIP), have commenced on full stream. The same scenario is playing out in Maiduguri, the State Capital and other major towns of the 27 Local Government Areas, (LGAs).
We have it on record that FOUR MONTHS after the publication of our Vol. 2. No. 29 Edition of the Zion B-BC Newsletter Edition, dated 2nd March, 2014, and titled, "Social Injustice, Boko Haram Terrorism, Jonathan's Role And Divine Solution", God the Holy Spirit touched ex-President Ebele Jonathan to carry out some of the recommendations as outlined below:
(1) He established, “THE INSURGENCY VICTIMS FUND” [TIVF], a special fund to cater for victims of insurgency in parts of the NORTH.
The funds for TIVF will be raised through donations and contributions by a Committee of very eminent and trustworthy Nigerians drawn from both the public and private sectors of the economy.
(2) He also on Thursday 17th July, 2014, in Abuja, inaugurated, the “SAFE SCHOOL INITIATIVE PROGRAMME” [SSIP], which was announced by the Business Community at the recently concluded World Economic Forum on Africa. [WEFA].
(3) His Minister of Finance said that the sum of $20million US dollars, was set aside for the take off of SSIP by WEFA and in addition, the Nigerian Business Community and the Federal Government, had also contributed $10 million US dollars each, totalling $40 million US dollars, to support the programme.
(4) It was revealed by that government that the International Community also indicated strong interest to support the SSIP project which will compliment TIVF, because parents, victims and other people, who suffered hardships, would have a portion, in terms of support for them.
(5) Jonathan's Administration also announced another package tagged the Presidential Initiative on the North East States, which would ensure that emergency reliefs and other emergency support to people, who were affected, were urgently implemented.
(6) The Finance Minister, further explained that a component of RECONSTRUCTION OF DAMAGED INFRASTRUCTURE under the Presidential Initiative on the North East would also work with the SSIP; adding that, THE WHOLE PACKAGE WAS DESIGNED TO COMPLIMENT ONE ANOTHER IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE THE DESIRED SUCCESS!
All of the above, were efforts presumably made by the last Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Administration under the watch of former President Jonathan to ameliorate the degradation of human lives at the various camps with the collective efforts of the States’ Local Government communities as well as International Partners, working in partnership with the Federal Government until it was later discovered at the advent of the Change Government of the All Progressives Congress (APC), that over $2.2 billion US dollars, voted to prosecute the war against Boko Haram terrorists, was actually disbursed to pursue the INORDINATE AMBITION of the ex-President for a THIRD TERM TENURE!

NOW, THE ONUS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE RRR PROJECT RESTS ON THE CHANGE AGENDA GOVERNMENT!
The mass movement of peoples from their comfort zones to strange environments and cultures due to aggravated ethnic, tribal, or religious disagreements had been the major causes of global refugee and internally displaced persons challenges presently confronting all governments, even the most advanced nations! It was therefore no wonder that even, the United States of America (USA), a nation chiefly populated by immigrants has vowed, through the new helmsman, President Donald Trump, that all strangers would be expelled for Americans to occupy their rightful places in the business of nation building and for adequate national security to be guaranteed! Is America not well informed that the droves of refugees from Syria's 5-year-old civil war which began in 2011, had been unprecented, because multitude of war victims had to be absorbed into the European Union (EU), countries on humanitarian grounds and that their influx into those countries resulted in the infiltration of the immigrants camps by terrorists who perpetrated their ranks to execute dastard attacks in France, and Germany, respectively? Though the Refugees and IDPs camps should be temporary shelters for displaced people, contemporary events have proved the opposite, because most of such congregations have outlived their purposes and have subsequently transformed into soft targets which any criminal could infiltrate to cause worse havocs. Security intelligence report revealed that Boko Haram terrorists gathered to attack a military target close to the Refugees Camp in Raan, Bornu State, near the Cameroon borders!  An air strike was ordered to hit the location but the refugees camp was mistakenly targeted and bombed by a Nigerian Air Force jet fighter on 17th January, 2017! Rann was once occupied by Boko Haram terrorists in the height of their rampages, but was recaptured by the Federal Troops who established an IDPs Camp among the heaps of ruins of burnt buildings with a view to eventually rehabilitate and resettle the inhabitants of the area in due course.
If all of the above palliatives of both the outgone and incumbent administrations are to be fully implemented, the refugees and IDPs camps must be disbanded and all of them moved to their various Wards and Local Government Areas with full complement of security protection which is now supported by Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF), local vigilante groups, and the National Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), to start a new life after over SEVEN YEARS of forced deprivation, gradually erase SOFT TARGET opportunities for Boko Haram suicide bombers and also create the craving desire for the natives to go back to the land and support Federal Government’s initiative for diversification of the economy from crude oil to AGRICULTURE  and SOLID MINERAL ECONOMIC RESOURCES. This movement back home would also afford the locals to have direct partnership in the RRR PROJECT, save operational costs, and enhance faster economic growth as all artisans would be fully and adequately employed in building constructions, roads rehabilitation, mining and vigilante activities, to earn living wages and provide for their families. The LORD would surely protect these seemingly vulnerable species with His Angels roundabout! It is also very imperative for President Buhari's administration to harmonize all funds that have been injected into the RRR PROJECT since 2014, especially the $40 million US dollars donated for SSIP and TIVF projects, verify, authenticate and make public their findings to assure the tax payers that nothing was amiss in this arduous humanitarian task.
In Yobe State for instance, the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), programme which had been suspended for SIX YEARS had bubbled back to life as the "Batch A" members, resumed at their Orientation Camp on Tuesday 25th January, 2017, for a three-week orientation course in Damaturu, the State Capital! Of the over 2.4 million refugees and IDPs of the North East, Boko Haram insurgency, more than 400.000 camped around Yola, Adamawa State capital were catered for to resettle in their indigenous locations by several organisations including, Adamawa Peace Initiative (API), a group of business, religious and community leaders and the Adamawa Muslim Council (AMC), while the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), ensured continuous humanitarian assistance. With such bold drive, Boko Haram terrorists attacks were drastically reduced because most soft targets locations created through refugees and IDPs congregation had disappeared!

The National Assembly (NASS), was equally involved in the RRR Project through an eight-man ad-hoc committee constituted to ascertain how much of funds were released to PINE and how they were disbursed because complaints of mounting humanitarians crisis in the North East. Senator Kaka Bashir Garbai (APC: Bornu), recently drew attention of Nigerians to a report by the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), which stated that about 4.5 million people were in dire need of assistance, with about a million people at the verge of extreme malnutrition. He also disclosed that the Senate increased revenue allocation for IDPs in the 2016 Budget from N6 billion to 10 billion naira, but regretted that PINE, which was inaugurated by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 was yet to show tangible results in ameliorating the crisis in spite of the fact that over half of the appropriated N10 billion naira, including several donations by Donor Agencies and philanthropists had been released to the body! The concern of the Senators, who also resolved to donate N300.000 naira each for the maintenance of the IDPs is commendable and their resolve to probe all activities in respect of funding, donations and disbursements by government so far is highly patriotic. Allegations of fraud and mismanagement of funds, diversion of grains and other food items from the strategic grains reserves, by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) officials and Security agents should not be delayed but accelerated to fish out all culpable officials, who must be sanctioned and speedily prosecuted according to the LAW, in order to serve as deterrent to would-be malfeasants! IT WAS TIME WE LOVED OUR NEIGHBOURS AND BECOME OUR BROTHERS KEEPERS! 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.

Please look forward to divine revelations in  The Sure Word Gospel Tracts, 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.