WHO HAS INTERGRITY ISSUES - IBRAHIM MAGU, STATE SECURITY SERVICE (SSS) OR THE SENATORS?

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 6. NO 188. 19th March, 2017.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

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

WHO HAS INTERGRITY ISSUES - IBRAHIM MAGU, STATE SECURITY SERVICE (SSS) OR THE SENATORS?

EVENTS OF WEDNESDAY 15th March, 2017, which led to the SECOND rejection of Ibrahim Magu for the substantive post of Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on the floor of the NIGERIAN SENATE, was nothing short of TRUTH being cast upside down for falsehood to reign; EQUITY, deliberately thrust into the dust bin by political opportunists who were vehemently opposed to the anti-corruption crusade of Buhari's Administration; and have forced DEMOCRACY TO WALK ON ITS HEAD, on a day that was reminiscent of THE ROMAN "IDES OF MARCH!"
"Ides of March", the fifteenth day in the Roman Calendar was made popular, when the great Julius Caesar was warned by a soothsayer, of an imminent danger to his life if he attended Senate plenary on that day!  The events that preceded and culminated into the "ides of March" scenario in Nigeria, were laden with premonitions of another negative outcome of Ibrahim Magu's screening by an already biased motley crowd of frightened Senators of the 8th National Assembly, who had a premeditated verdict, written, signed, sealed and to be delivered on 15th March, 2017! During his first advent to the "hallowed chambers", the Senators were sore afraid that they could not meet him "eye ball to eye ball", because the SLEUTH had a very intimidating RESUME when it comes to successful investigations, arrests and prosecutions of the Nigerian Treasury marauders, who were among the panel of JUDGES and who were to be seated at plenary, and so an inconsequential Senate Executive Committee on 15th December, 2016, rejected his nomination on behalf of the plenary by citing TWO indicting and conflicting reports by the SSS which claimed that the appointee had some INTEGRITY ISSUES! In our commentary at Magu's first rejection, we assumed that the SSS was neutral but when another negative report to the Senate caucus was again submitted on Tuesday, 14th March, 2017, we became suspicious of the Agency's role in the entire imbroglio. One of the two reports submitted to the Senate in December 2016, described him, ".....AS HAVING PERFORMED EXCELLENTLY SO FAR AND SHOULD THEREFORE BE FAVOURABLY CONSIDERED FOR THE POST." But the second NEGATIVE REPORT, which stated that Magu should not be considered for the post, was the one that was re-forwarded to the Senate on the eve of his second screening for obvious reasons which have now played out!

Who has integrity issues in view of the trending developments - is it Magu who has performed creditably, or the SSS which submitted double-edged sword reports signed by a female junior officer instead of Lawal Musa Daura, Chairman of the SSS, or the EFCC- indicted senators who were expecting to have their appearances in the courts in respect of alleged corruption offences in the days and months to come?

Although General Caesar's imposing and colossal personality would easily swallow a dwarf Magu's profile, we will not be beclouded to lose sight of some very salient similarities in the events which led to BOTH TRAGEDIES OF "IDES OF MARCH" in Rome in 44BC and Nigeria in the 21st Century 2017!
1. Like Ceasar, Magu attained the position of a national figure through dint of hard work, commitment, resilience and diligence."Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men." (Proverbs.22:29). General Julius Caesar, who lived between the year 101-44BC, was a military genius as well as a great statesman, politician, orator and a man of great vision.
2. Magu, has the zeal to fight corruption deliberately introduced into the system through unpatriotic politicians who had diverted the tax-payers monies for their personal use in successive administrations, by investigating, arresting, and prosecuting them in courts for convictions if found guilty and also to RECOVER ALL OF THE STOLEN MONIES AND PLOW THEM BACK INTO THE ECONOMY TO SUCCOUR THE NEEDS OF THE POOR AND DOWNTRODDEN IN THE SOCIETY!
3. Julius Caesar was highly revered as, "Father of his country",  because of his love for the people of Rome because he provided lands for army veterans and poor citizens, instituted tax and legal reforms, constructed drainages for marshes and built canals and roads. As Magu was rebuffed by the Senators for his rising profile and popularity amongst the masses, the great General was resented by the upper class who feared that he wanted to establish a hereditary monarchy, while other less noble-minded, had strong personal grudge to settle with him!
4. Like Julius Caesar whom on the "Ides of March" (15th March), 44BC, a group of conspirators led by Senator Marcus Junius BRUTUS and Gaius Cassius Longinus, stabbed to death at a special secession of the Senate because he was not a coward to absent himself in spite of the soothsayer's warning, - Ibrahim MAGU, in spite of the odds against him, fearlessly faced the conspirators who discredited all his credentials in one fell swoop to earn themselves massive public condemnation! Magu later walked into the arms of patriotic CRUSADERS AGAINST CORRUPTION who expressed solidarity for him within the premises of the National Assembly.

Shortly after his first rejection by the Senate in December 2016, the Presidency instructed the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, to investigate the allegations of the SSS against Ibrahim Magu and he was exonerated on all charges before he was RE-NOMINATED FOR THE SECOND TIME BUT THE NEGATIVE, INSTEAD OF THE POSITIVE OF THE TWO SSS REPORTS, WAS ADOPTED BY THE SENATE CABAL TO REJECT HIM AGAIN! Except for SENATOR ALI NDUME who stood for the Magu's confirmation, all others shouted, "CRUCIFY HIM"!

ACHIEVEMENTS OF EFCC UNDER MAGU SINCE HIS APPOINTMENT IN OCTOBER 2015!
Ibrahim Magu (an Assistant Commissioner of Police), left no one in doubt from 11th November, 2015, when he was appointed by the Presidency in an acting capacity, that he was a worthy, patriotic and dedicated officer, who would not be compromised by political moneybags who were bent on circumventing the law with impunity! We have it on good authority that he had been approached severally to soft-pedal on many high-profile cases involving dubious politicians, especially, the law makers! He was among the EFCC team of investigators who combined with the SSS and Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), to unravel the skeletons in Senator Saraki's cupboard of falsified declaration of assets and liabilities while he was Kwara State Governor between 2003-2011, which case is now before the CODE OF CONDUCT TRIBUNAL (CCT)! 84 Senators, opposed to APC’s  anti-corruption crusade followed him to the Tribunal in solidarity!  He was also responsible for the interrogation of Mrs Bukola Saraki, who was also alleged to have diverted some Kwara State Government funds to support her pet Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), projects while her husband held sway as the boss! Under Magu, over ONE TRILLION NAIRA including millions of US Dollars/Euros/pounds sterling, of looted government funds had been recovered to be ploughed back into the economy - the most recent being million of dollars recovered from ALISON MADUEKE and ANDREW YAKUBU, ex-Minister of Petroleum Resources and ex-Group Managing Director of NNPC, respectively. Also, on 6th March, 2017, EFCC obtained conviction in all five-count charge of conspiracy to award contract amounting to the tune of N167, 812,500 for the purchase of operational vehicles for the Adamawa State without compliance with due process against former Governor Bala Ngilari, who was sentenced to cumulative sentence of FIVE YEARS IN PRISION without the option of fine in a land-mark judgement!

LAWAL MUSA DAURA AS DIRECTOR GENERAL OF SSS OR DSS!
Lawal Musa also tried to make some impressions as the boss of the SSS since his appointment in July 2015 by President Muhammed Buhari. That, he is a controversial figure is not in doubt because he has bungled some operations which he actually had his grip on and could have successfully executed with due diligence! For instance he incurred condemnation for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Government, when allegations of impunity, recklessness, harassment, intimidation and high- handedness, were levelled against him and the government agency in an unprecedented invasion of the Akwa Ibom Government House, Uyo, in a "gestapo" manner without prior notice to its State's resident officers, to recover some "cache of firearms" which were allegedly stockpiled within the edifice which should normally enjoy a measure of immunity! At the conclusion of the obnoxious operation in that Peoples Democratic Party's (PDP), opposition State, no arms were recovered neither were any incriminating or offensive criminal evidences found! However, in the SSS covert operations against some highly placed judges, Lawal was able to recover some lost image!
SSS constitutional duties of SSS in the areas of defence and protection of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and its topmost officers against domestic threats, the enforcement of criminal laws/criminal justice service to both Federal and State Law Enforcement Organs, should be very complimentary and not unfriendly or aggressive. From the roles played by SSS in the first and second rejection of the EFCC's acting Chairman by the Senate caucus, Lawal Daura needs to fall in line with global trend of inter-agency rapport instead of rivalry!

SENATORS OF THE 8TH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
What do they have to hide? What are they afraid of? Were they all qualified to sit in judgement at plenary over Magu? How many of them are still under EFCC investigations or searchlight for offences bordering on corrupt practices in view of provisions of Sections 56, 172 of and paragraphs 1 &9 of the Fifth Schedule of the1999 Constitution and Senate Standing Orders 2015, which prohibits "conflict of interest by public officers," - including SENATORS? Should Saraki and those other legislators under corruption enrichment allegations sit in plenary to adjudicate over Magu's confirmation? Is the Criminal Justice System so weak that corrupt politicians could continue to parade themselves as "angels of light"? Senate President, 'Bukola Saraki and TEN legislators, were prohibited on 13th February, 2017, by an Abuja High Court, upon a motion ex parte, to exclude themselves from plenary during the screening process of Ibrahim Magu but did they comply?

HAS THE PRESIDENCY LOST ITS STEAM IN THE ANTI-CURRUPTION WAR IN VIEW OF THIS UGLY DEVELOPMENT AT THE SENATE?
NO! The Presidential Committee on Corruption is very much on course and has given a verdict that Ibrahim Magu should carry on the CRUSADE AGAINST CORRUPTION in his capacity as acting Chairman of EFCC indefinitely, until the battle is convincingly won! We hear that SARAKI is singing a new song that Magu was not rejected because of SSS negative report but for the absence of "INTERNAL CONSULTATIONS!" Why did the Senate surreptitiously request for a report from the SSS which is an Agency under the Executive? Magu should hit the ground running and get convictions against all ex-Governors-turned serving Senators, whose cases are already in the law courts and send them behind the bars! Patriotic Nigerians are behind him! WHERE THERE IS A WILL, THERE IS A WAY!

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LET'S AVOID SHEDDING OF HUMAN BLOOD ON ABUJA AIRPORT TARMAC!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 6. NO 187. 12th March, 2017.} “ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).
(Looking at Nigeria’s Political System from a godly Perspective).

LET'S AVOID SHEDDING OF HUMAN BLOOD ON ABUJA AIRPORT TARMAC!

The Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja tarmac, presently under resurfacing had been in use for 34 consecutive years according to Aviation authorities - Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), and Minister of State, Transport - without any significant repairs until its closure to both international and domestic flights, for a period of SIX WEEKS - 8th March to 19th April, 2017, to avoid an imminent and catastrophic air crash that would consume scores of sacred human lives!

WHAT STAKEHOLDERS NEEDED TO KNOW!
(1) The repairs to the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja tarmac was long overdue because it had been delayed for about 14 years and was becoming a death trap to air passengers, ground crew and all airport critical infrastructure.
(2) In those long years, no second runway was built while pot holes of various sizes welled up on the runway and created serious challenges for aircraft pilots when taking off or landing without crashing their planes!
(3) It is a known fact that Nigeria has a poor safety air record because at least, there had occurred 11 airline crashes since 1995 - killing more than 470 people. On October 23rd, 2005, a Belview Airline Plane went down in bad weather near Lagos - killing all 117 people on board. Also an aircraft operated by Sosoliso Airline, crashed in Port Harcourt on 10th December 2005 - killing all 118 on board - including several school children.

There was another major air disaster at the Abuja Airport, on Sunday 29th October, 2006, when a Boeing 737, Nigerian ADC Airliner crashed close to the edge of the runway, after takeoff! It was believed to have carried about 100 passengers - including the late Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Maccido and his son, a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and a grandson! The aircraft (Flight 53) was headed for Sokoto from Abuja from10.35hrs and to land one hour later! Only FOUR persons were believed to have survived the crash! If aviation management had stuck to their client's specifications, the tarmac in question would have been resurfaced and refurbished after its utilization for 20 years and not the improvisation of an unethical 14-year-period of patching of POTHOLES, which have broken open after such lengthy years of absolute neglect and non-maintenance! It was reported that one of such potholes damaged the LANDING GEAR of a foreign aircraft and was by God's grace that an accident was averted!

When the idea of a new Federal Capital City (FCT), was conceived and was eventually created on 3rd February, 1976 by the military, one most important critical infrastructure that demanded urgent attention to facilitate rapid socio-economic and industrial growth in the new capital, was air transportation which was in fact given priority consideration. Members of the Supreme Military Council argued that the then Federal Capital City of Lagos, had become very congested due to the myriad of economic activities within the region, because of its sea ports and proximity to the Atlantic Ocean. However, it took a period seven years before the Abuja, (now renamed), Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, came into existence.  Though, the massive monolith ZUMA ROCK, (1,125 metres above sea level), north of Abuja, but located Niger State, on the Kaduna road, was believed, could pose some obstruction and danger to the taking off/landing off aircrafts, according to aviation experts and meteorologists, but in the 34 years of its existence, the Airport had been one of the busiest and most prized airports in Nigeria, being the fastest connection to the seat of power in the FCT!
Between 1983 and 1999, the airport was maintained by the Federal Military Government until the now existing edifice of the airport complex was built between 2000 and 2002 by the newly-elected democratic government. In November 2006, the Abuja Gateway Consortium, (AGC), signed an US$101.1million contract - which included the construction of an airport hotel, private car parks, shopping malls, and a bonded warehouse, totalling US$50 million during its first five years and an additionally upfront payment of US$10 million, - for the management of the airport for an initial period of 25 years, i.e., 2006-2031! According to that business plan, the total investments would have amounted to US$371 million during the period in question; but late President Umaru Yar'Ardua revoked the contract in April 2008, before it could even incubate! The government then settled for the construction of a SECOND RUNWAY which was first awarded at a cost of US$423 million to Julius Berger Construction Company and later revoked because of high cost for fresh bids which never saw the light of the day! The airport runway had gone through tremendous stress in over 30 years of constant use when it should have been refurbished and resurfaced when it was 20 years old in 2003; and according to the experts it is now at a terribly dilapidating condition that could cause landing mishaps if not quickly fixed. And so, with the recommendations of the Ministry of Aviation, the Federal Executive Council (FEC), decided on 4th January, 2017, to close the airport for SIX WEEKS, to enable repairs of the runway which was said to be dysfunctional and utilize all facilities of the Kaduna Airport, which is the closest to Abuja, as the alternative international destination entry point to the FTC with a sum of N1billion naira voted to complete the renovation of its terminal.

There had been public outcry against the closure which many people - including members of the National Assembly (NASS), - who believed that the period of six weeks closure would further depreciate the economy and cause avoidable hardships on both local and international travellers whose burden would be increased through imposed land journeys from Kaduna to Abuja. They also complained of likely insecurity exposure of air passengers on that highway in spite of the assurances by the Federal Government that adequate measures had been put in place to ensure adequate security of lives and properties and free traffic flow between the FCT and Kaduna throughout the period in question.
Abuja Airport is the second busiest after the commercial city's Lagos Murtala Mohammed International Airport and it is believed that its temporary closure might produce a negative impact on the economy which is just recovering from a recession of three consecutive quarters of 2016 and would also gulp a sum of N 5.8billion to be paid to the contractors!  At the initial stages of the planned closure, many international airlines rejected the alternative route of landing at the Kaduna International Airport, which they regarded as inferior and of low-class facilities and could not accommodate large planes like its Abuja counterpart, but with all diplomatic moves and interventions, it was clear that the Kaduna Airport would serve the intended purposes throughout the period - especially when it was evident that Federal Government would ensure security and bear costs of air passengers transportation from Kaduna to Abuja and vice versa.

WHO ARE AND WHAT IS THE GROUSE OF THOSE OPPOSED TO THE WORN-OUT TARMAC RESURFACING?
(1) Airline operators (foreign and local), who feel threatened that their clientele statistic percentage would drastically reduce due to the additional challenge of road transportation before getting to their various destinations in the FCT!
(2) Businessmen, contractors, investors, lawyers, etc, who compete with time to fulfil appointments in the FCT, and depend on strict punctuality without the incuberances of glaring disappointments through road transportation set-backs!
(3) Food vendors, commercial drivers, small and medium scale investors etc, who depend on daily doses of daily bread and whose life-line would definitely be "cut off" without hope from elsewhere?
(4) Airline workers, who might have to receive small percentages of salaries or even pittance from their employers who are equally grumbling by pre-empting the likelihood of low-patronage of passengers during the duration of the temporary closure.
(5) The daily paid/temporary airport workers - cleaners, sweepers, dry cleaners, shoe-shiners, gardeners, grass mowers, local security personnel etc, are also among those who are vehemently opposed to government's arrangement!
(6) They claimed that in other climes, airports were never closed for resurfacing or refurbishing but that one side of the runway would be closed for renovation at night when their would be less air traffic and that method would save massive financial losses to airlines, private investors and governments.
(7) They threatened to boycott the Kaduna Airport for the period of the temporary closure if government was bent on carrying out the resurfacing because of all of the above greedy and selfish reasons centred on the LOVE OF MONEY without recourse or empathy for the sanctity of life that could be lost if there was another major aircrash like that of 29th October, 2006 at the Abuja Airport!

OFFICIAL DERELICTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL DUTIES BY PAST ADMINISTRATIONS!
Out of the 14 years - 2003- 2017 - of non-compliance with the maintenance of the Abuja Airport tarmac, the defunct Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), administration, which was in government for 12 of those years, toyed with the lives and properties of air passengers without recourse to their fundamental right to LIFE  - an international treaty to which Nigeria is a signatory!

SALUTE TO THE TENACITY OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF CHANGE AGENDA!
That the Federal Government had stuck to its guns and refused to bend to the whim and caprice of charlatans and all forms of dissenting opinions in respect of this wise move, poised to save sacred human lives, is a right step in the right direction! President Muhammadu Buhari, who returned to Nigeria from London through the Kaduna Airport on Friday, 10th March, 2017, has proved once again, that the mandate given to him by the people would provide for them all dividends accruing from a dispensation which is very passionate about their right to life in all mode of transportation - air, land and sea!
Six weeks will soon fizzle out and the Abuja Airport will bounce back to life with better assurances for air safety services that would further support the economy positively. A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE.

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OSINBAJO'S PRAISE SINGERS ARE MISCHIEF MAKERS WHO ARE BENT ON HEATING UP THE POLITY!

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 186. 5th March, 2017.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

OSINBAJO'S PRAISE SINGERS ARE MISCHIEF MAKERS WHO ARE BENT ON HEATING UP THE POLITY!

As the elected Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Professor 'Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), is referred to by the 1999 Constitution as an "associate" of the President in Section 142 (1), because the one ticket for the post of President, binds both of them as ONE CANDIDATE before the law! In view of this BOND, the constitutional duties of both men which dovetail into each other’s are also ONE bundle of assignments which clearly stipulate that, one cannot do without the other. According to the application of the word, the Vice President would be an associate, i.e., a friend, whom the presidential candidate MUST nominate from the same political party as his running mate in order to be deemed as VALIDLY NOMINATED. The establishment of the office of the Vice President, his nomination and election, from the onset did not portray him as an appendage or "spare tyre", as some unpatriotic citizens usually derogated that highly revered office. In addition to the foregoing affirmation of the indivisibility of the two offices in the presidency, the Constitution went further to ensure that at no time was any vacuum created at the apex office by ensuring that the President handed over to his Vice (associate), whenever he went on leave or was indisposed, to continue the single administration in acting capacity through a letter to be forwarded to the Senate. Recently, President Muhammadu Buhari, having properly briefed and handed over the reigns of power to his Vice, fulfilled the law by communicating a letter to the Upper Chamber, and when he had to extend his holidays at the expiration of the period earlier requested, he forwarded another letter to explain reasons for the elongation.

In spite of the fact that all of the above steps were in conformity with Section 145 of the 1999 Constitution, in respect of an Acting President, detractors of the All Progressives Congress (APC), have tried very hard to create a dichotomy in the Presidency and by extension create two different interests and factions by sponsoring some "do-gooders" to HAIL Acting President, 'Yemi Osinbajo, as the "action man" and  the "go-getter", with a view to breaking up the VERY SOLID BOND of friendship between the TWIN TOP OFFICERS of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, but they have FAILED! The performing DUO do not need distractive and noisy STADIA OVATION!

Between 19th January, 2017, and the date of this publication, the Acting President was able to prove to the whole world and Nigerians that he and his Associate who is on both holiday and medical check-up in London, were more than capable to deliver the dividends of democracy to the downtrodden according to their campaign promises:
1. The second stage of the Social Intervention Programmes (SIP), in areas of the creating employment opportunities for all youths - artisans and graduates - teachers; empowering of market women and traders with moderate capital incentives; free daily nutritional meals for school children; technological support, treated seeds, regular supply of subsidized fertilizers for farmers; employment of construction workers, road workers and miners through ongoing Road and Mining capital projects etc, have effectively progressed!
2. About 300.000 graduates have been engaged and attached to both public and private sector enterprises to acquire technical and business knowledge that would enhance the economy when they eventually detach to become employers of labour. The first set of 200.000 are still on stream and they enjoy a monthly stipend of N30.000. 00. The Conditional Cash Transfer of N5.000, to 25 million poorest Nigerians is progressing steadily from State to State.
3. Militancy in the Niger Delta Region has depreciated and almost abated because of the Executive Presidential Intervention drive to resuscitate the Amnesty Program and also through Town Hall Meetings with the people in that region to sensitize and establish direct Federal Government negotiation instead of the veiled/selfish intervention of some elders and their spurious demands to government in a 16-Point demand credited to a disputed Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF)!
4. In the last two weeks, between 15th February and Thursday, 3rd March, 2017, Professor Osinbajo, had visited Rivers and Akwa Ibom States to interact with the people and rub minds on how militancy could be completely eradicated in the Niger Delta Region.
5. Before these recent visits, the Acting President had paid similar visits to Bayelsa and Delta States and the positive fall-outs have been noticed in the cessation of vandalization of crude oil pipe lines and an increase in oil production from 1.5million to 2.2million barrels per day! He has assured all the Niger Deltans that government would proffer solutions to all their grievances and emphasized that indigenes would henceforth be involved in the refining of crude oil through the construction of MODULAR REFINERIES that would eliminate existing illegal and crude oil refining methods that are prevalent in the region presently and by extension engage the restive militants through lawful employment.
6. The Acting President has also during this period, dissociated himself from the elephant project of a N6 billion Vice President Lodge, awarded by the prodigal administration of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and insisted he would have nothing to do with it as he was very comfortable in his present official residence, - the Aguda House. It will be recollected that the same failed administration, brazenly constructed a new Presidential Banquet Hall in 2014, in spite of mammoth public protests at a cost of N2 billion, though the existing one was under utilized!
7. The Acting President was the first to inform Nigerians and the global community that President Buhari was hale and hearty and that there was no cause for anyone to be alarmed over his health. He also revealed details of his conversation on 6th February, 2017, when some "concerned" groups protested in Abuja, in respect of the state of the nation and the elongated economic recessions and how they were assured of new measures to abate the challenge.
8. Many Bills already passed by the National Assembly (NASS), were signed into law while others were rejected, members of new boards were sworn in and the name of Justice Walter Onnoghen was forwarded to the Senate for confirmation and he is now the substantive Chief Justice of the Federation.
9. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), had released more foreign exchange bills to cater for Nigerian foreign students and those who needed "forex" to enjoy medical facilities abroad and within two days of this laudable step, the Nigerian Naira appreciated and firmed against the US dollar, British pound, Euro and the parallel market.
10. On Wednesday 1st March, 2017, all the Service Chiefs met with the Acting President to brief him on the security situation reports and to assure him of their unflinching support and allegiance to him and President Muhammadu Buhari and the people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,
11. On Thursday 2nd March, 2017, the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced that the three quarters consecutive recession of the year 2016, was on its way out with an appreciation of 1.08% increase in the GDP!
12. The Private Sector Conference on Anti-Corruption posture of the ruling Government which was initiated by the Presidency on Thursday 3rd March, 2017, brought into the fore that the war must be intensified from all fronts because some custodians of government's revenue in the Customs, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), etc, still diverted funds illegally and without authorization into private pockets, giving the impression that IT WAS BUSINESS AS USUAL!

In all of the above and more, both men as "associates", took positive decisions that have touched lives of the downtrodden and there would be no reason whatsoever for anyone to hail the Acting President as a performer in the absence of his FRIEND, in order to cause a confusion between the two of them! If the detractors were well-informed of the pedigree and antecedents of the two distinguished SONS OF THE LIVING GOD, they would have known that the men could not be fooled by anyone because they are ANOINTING CARRIERS. The Word of God says: "When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn." (Proverbs.29:2).

PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI @ 74 is an elder statesman who had virtually seen it all! Full of experience, compassion, love and tender care for the poor and downtrodden! His youth began with a career in the Nigerian Army where he distinguished himself as a diligent, hard-working, decent, honest and patriotic officer; rose to the rank of a General and a Military Head of State between December 1983 and August 1985. It was evident that he could not fulfil his desire to change the laissez-faire attitude of past administrations because he was overthrown and cast into detention. Since his release in the 90's, he continued to nurse the idea of politicking to become a civilian president. On three occasions - 2003, 2007, & 2011, - elder Buhari, took shots at the presidency during the general elections, failed, but never gave up hope until 2015, when he paired with the young, ebulient, dilligent, intelligent and patriotic 'Yemi Osinbajo with whom he eventually won through divine approval and the popular votes of the Nigerian TALAKAWAS who wanted a brand new life of CHANGE from slavery to freedom in a land that flows with great economic opportunities - "milk and honey"! President Buhari has not left anyone in doubt that he and his associate, with the full support of all patriotic Nigerians would kill CORRUPTION and remove poverty from the land and with positive initiatives, has recovered billions running into trillions of Naira and also billions of US dollars/Euros/Pound Sterling, through the WHISTLE BLOWER PROGRAMME. And in spite of his vacation, he is working assiduously with his partner to ensure that the nation's ship is on course!

ACTING PRESIDENT 'YEMI OSINBAJO @ 60; (he will clock that age of 8th March, 2017), is a young man compared to his associate but full of respect, humility, intelligence, diligence, resourcefulness, resilience and above all a God-fearing mien. He is a Nigerian to whom great responsibility was thrust upon as he grew up to adulthood. Before he assumed the position of Vice President on 29th May, 2015, he served as a university teacher, lawyer and pastor of a Pentecostal church. In spite of being an associate of the President, he never counted himself as an equal but he humbled himself in allegiance to his oath of office and always enjoyed the confidence and trust of the elder statesman, President Buhari who was never afraid to handover the reigns of leadership to him at any time he had to rest or carry out medical checks - a bond that can never be broken by charlatans, political jobbers and cabals! Amen. The Word of God says: "Two are better than one: because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth: for he hath not another to help him." (Ecclesiastes. 4:9-10).

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.

DONALD TRUMP'S XENOPHOBIC SPEECH HAS SET SOUTH AFRICA ON THE RAMPAGE!

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 185. 26th February, 2017.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

DONALD TRUMP'S XENOPHOBIC SPEECH HAS SET SOUTH AFRICA ON THE RAMPAGE!

If the America's "numero uno" had thought that his xenophobic-tainted inaugural speech would spread racism like a wild and untamed fire across the inhabited world, he would have cautioned his fiery patriotic zeal which had sent wrong signals of hatred among brethrens who are now at each other’s throat across the globe even though he contradicted himself when he eloquently quoted the Biblical Psalm 133:1, which solicited for UNITY towards the end of the 17-minute treatise! All across Africa: Libya, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan; Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic (CAR); South Africa, Lesotho, Uganda, Kenya; several parts of Latin American and Asian nations, the Far East, North/South Korea, Israel, India/Pakistan; in Europe: France, Germany, Russia, etc, dissensions, coupled with threats of deploying and engaging one another with modern military arsenals including nuclear warfare, have intensified instead of abating, since the 20th January, 2017, speech, because each nation is now more determined to assert its sovereignty in the most selfish manner, over and above others! Incitement towards escalation of hostilities between world nations had become rife since this very controversial Donald Trump’s message!  IT'S NOW EVERYBODY FOR HIMSELF - AND GOD FOR US ALL! HOW CAN ANY NATION NOW CLAIM A SELFISH NATIONAL UNITY, WHEN THE PUORPOSE OF GOD FOR HIS WORLD WAS A GLOBAL DISPERSION OF PEOPLE TO DWELL IN FREEDOM AND IN GLOBAL UNITY? In Genesis 11:1-9, the LORD broke up a clandestine and selfish unity of men in BABEL, "....scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city"; and that proves that immigration is a DIVINE POLICY - NOT AMERICANS! MODERN AMERICANS MIGRATED AS A PEOPLE FROM BABEL AND THEREFORE CANNOT CLAIM SOLE OWNERSHIP OF THE GREAT AND "MOST POWERFUL" NATION IN THE WORLD! OTHER PEOPLES OF OTHER NATIONS WHO ALSO MIGRATED FROM BABEL, HAVE A STAKE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND CANNOT THEREFORE BE DENIED LRGITIMATE RECIDENCY!

Some excerpts of inaugural address of Friday, 20th January, 2017, Washington, D.C.  "For many decades, we’ve enriched foreign industry at the expense of American industry; Subsidized the armies of other countries while allowing for the very sad depletion of our military; We've defended other nations borders while refusing to defend our own; And spent trillions of dollars overseas while America's infrastructure has fallen into disrepair and decay.......We’ve made other countries rich while the wealth, strength, and confidence of our country has disappeared over the horizon. But that is the past. And now we are looking only to the future. We assembled here today are issuing a new decree to be heard in every city, in every foreign capital, and in every hall of power....."From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land. From this moment on, it’s going to be AMERICA FIRST. Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs, will be made to benefit American workers and American families. We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making our products, stealing our companies, and destroying our jobs. The Bible tells us, “how good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity.”  To the Republican Party's faithfuls, President Donald Trump's declaration of "AMERICA FIRST", i.e., that America would be restored to the Americans, portrayed him as a patriot, but to the immigrants who now face the threat of hatred, segregation and expulsion - whether they had "green cards" or approved entry visas or not - especially the unregistered/illegal immigrants, he is Klu Klux Klan (KKK), personified, a racial bigot, a villain and an addicted xenophobe!
On the 21st February, 2017, one of such immigrants who was caught in the net of America's law enforcement agents, had in the process of being deported, jumped off a bridge while being escorted across the border into Mexico and died! However, illegal immigrants in America have the solace of not being hounded to death by members of the larger host communities as it obtained in some very hostile countries in previous years of xenophobic attacks - especially in South Africa! Though, about Six States, challenged the authoritarian attitude and unilateral decision of the new President in respect of the TRAVEL BAN, the Attorney General refusal to enforce the order through the law courts and the Appeal Court's ruling on the matter favoured the opposition groups;  he stubbornly believed that illegal immigrants had consistently short-changed Americans and deprived them of their INALIENNBLE RIGHTS/ legitimate livelihoods and MUST therefore give way for AMERICANS TO POSSESS THEIR POSSESSIONS! Instead of a blanket travel ban on those regarded as illegal immigrants, competent relevant immigration institutions/authorities of the CONFEDERATING INDEPENDENT STATES, should have been left to sort out their immigration challenges and seek the "Federal Might" assistance as they might require from time to time, ACCORDING TO THE LAW!  In spite of the fact that diplomatic/economic relations between the Republics of Nigeria and South Africa (SA), was being midwifed to erase lopsidedness in favour of the latter, South Africans in Pretoria, descended on foreigners, especially Nigerians, on 18th February, 2017, in a reign of terror which resulted in burnt-down homes, workshops and properties, worth millions of US dollars! Nigerians have been victims of xenophobic attacks in South Africa in past years but in 2016 alone 26 of them were killed! SA has more business interests in Nigeria to make them tread very softly in matters regarding immigration and allow their institutions to sort issues of illegality instead of conniving with the local miscreants to destroy legitimate businesses of innocent immigrants under any guise!

A xenophobe usually sponsors incitement through hate speeches, exhibits dislike against foreigners, their cultures, customs and religion no matter how subtly or diplomatically the phobia was insinuated, especially now that most countries are experiencing economic recession in one form or the other and the unemployment rate in most developing nations are on two digits ratio! President of Nigeria Union in SA, Ikechukwu Anyene, reported that attacks began at about 4am and that five buildings with Nigerian businesses, including a CHURCH, were looted and burned by South Africans adding that, one of the five buildings, was a Nigerian mechanic garage with 28 cars under repairs, in which other vital documents were burned during the attack.

THE STORY OF APARTHEID: BLACK South Africans must definitely have short memories! Once upon a time, THEY WERE NOT A PEOPLE and virtually had no citizenship because their WHITE TASK MASTERS burdened them with an everlasting servitude, treated them worse than second class citizens and yoked them as SLAVES in their fatherland where they had no respite and no one to rescue them but successive NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT AND ITS PATRIOTIC CITIZENS! The story of Apartheid began in 1948 when the White-supremacist government of that dispensation introduced an inhuman and detestable policy of racial separation/discrimination purposely against the majority indigenous Blacks, who actually owned the land and successfully enslaved them until 1990, (42 consecutive and uninterrupted years of man's worst kind of wickedness against his brethren), when the MADIBA, President Nelson Mandela, who had been in the forefront of the emancipation of his great fatherland from colonial domination, was released from 27 years of prison incarceration and emerged through an overwhelming popular votes to become the first-ever Black SA President! Right from independence in 1960, successive Nigerian governments and its patriotic citizens condemned APARTHEID in all its ramifications and mobililized international support for a crusade against the obnoxious and very irratitating policy in which PETS OWNED BY WHITE SOUTH AFRICANS HAD SUPERIOR RIGHTS THAN THE BLACK CITIZENS! Under the policy, Blacks were forbidden to dwell in cities and urban centres with their White counterparts; they must not ride in the same public transportation with the whites, must never share public toilet facilities, schools, churches etc, with the Whites because they were regarded as slaves and very inferior to their masters and MUST ALWAYS PRESENT OFFICIALLY-APPROVED IDENTIFICATION CARDS for employment unlike the Whites! South Africans owe Nigerians an everlasting GRATITUDE!

In the recent upheavals, South Africans claim their actions were not xenophobic in nature but that their grievances were against alien drug cartels, organized prostitution, money launderers, etc, and that they have handed a memorandum to Home Affairs Department. The anti-immigrant march organisers, the 'Mamelodi Concerned Residents'  refused to accept that the violence should be blamed on South Africans during the "Foreigner March" in Pretoria, on Friday Feb. 24th, 2017, which involved over 1.000 protesters. There had been attacks against foreigners across select sections of Johannesburg and Pretoria in recent weeks while foreigners homes and businesses, had been torched and looted in the guise of stopping alleged crimes committed by foreigners....... that they had prospered economically in SA through illicit gains while the indigenes were left high and dry however it us gratifying that no Nigerian has been killed in this fresh attacks according to the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Khadija Abba-Ibrahim. The Nigerian Commission in Pretoria is in constant touch with the Nigerian Union in SA, the Department of International Relations and Cooperation, DIRCO of SA, as well as the South African Police - all these agencies have confirmed that NO NIGERIAN LIFE WAS LOST! HAS President Jacob Zuma, really intervened? The answer is a capital NO! In spite of a short broadcast which had no bite, the SA vandals still went on a fresh rampage in Pretoria and its suburbs on the 23rd-25th February, 2017, prompting the fear that immigrants might be forced to defend themselves! But President Zuma was quick to fly to Nigeria in 2016 to plead for the reduction of a fine of $ 5.2 billion slammed on MTN for impropriety in business transactions by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC)!

IS COMPENSATION POSSIBLE? Yes, according to international best practice especially when damages were properly documented and authenticated with video footages, industrial professionals neutral reports of eye witnesses.

PROTESTS BY NANS IN NIGERIA ON FRIDAY 22ND FEBRUARY, 2017.
In spite of diplomatic efforts on the part of the Nigerian Government to the proffer solutions to the recurrent and very delicate national embarrassment, a National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), protest group, marched to SA's giant communications service providers, MTN Nigeria Headquarters, and also to  SA Embassy, both in Abuja and warned all SA's immigrants and their businesses to pack and go back to their country latest by Tuesday, 28th February, 2017, and that diplomatic ties be severed forthwith between the two major economic blocs in Black Africa! It is believed that SA has over 20 major multi-billion thriving business enterprises in Nigeria. During his lifetime, the first Black President of SA, Nelson Mandela condemned xenophobia in 1991 and declared. ..WE AFRICANS ARE ONE! ARE WE TRULY ONE GLOBALLY ACCORDING TO PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP? We advise that Nigerian citizens should refrain from any form of reprisals as canvassed from various unguarded quarters - especially NANS which had been breathing fire and brimstones - to calm down, sheath their swords and allow the Federal Government of Nigeria to allow both diplomatic/political solutions prevail on this delicate matter. The blood of any Nigerian or South African should not be spilled over ephemeral and transient things of this nature. NEVER! The Word of God states that: “If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?”(PSA: 11:3, KJV).

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.

THE BOTTOM-UP APPROCH OF GOVERNMENT BUDGETING WILL BE MOST IDEAL TO ELIMINATE PADDING!

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 184. 19th February, 2017.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

THE BOTTOM-UP APPROCH OF GOVERNMENT BUDGETING WILL BE MOST IDEAL TO ELIMINATE PADDING!

No Nigerian national budget had been fully executed, one hundred percent,  and without "padding", since the new adventure into political independence and democratic dispensation from 1999; and the reason is not far-fetched  because the "cart was always positioned before the horse - monopoly of the politicians needs over the grassroots more urgent socio-economic demands which should always be prioritized! To date, only one annual budget within the past 17 years was executed up to about 70% and was not without much frauds and flaws through paddings by virtually all greedy stakeholders among the two tiers, the Executive and the Legislature! The Legislators had promised dividends of democracy to the majority grassroot electorate and through desperation to continuously represent them in Parliament, would be willing to "rob banks" to fulfil such vows; forgetting that Contracts Awards and execution were the exclusive constitutional preserve of the Executive. And in view of such dilemma, they have resorted to what is now popularly described as "execution of CONSTITUENCY PROJECTS" through budget paddings!

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), whose statutory mandate as custodian of the nation's official statistics and co-ordinator of the national statistical system, was quick to alert Nigerians in 2014 of an impending economic recession based on economic data at their disposal in respect of the dwindling international prices of crude oil which stood out to be Nigeria's live wire mono-product, but the failed PDP Administration did not listen! Instead, they plundered the nation's coffers veraciously with much venom and the ripples effects of their dastard acts are manifest in large recoveries of looted and embezzled monies by their vicious members across board! Through its Consumer Price Index (CPI), window, NBS revealed in January 2017 the inflation trend, which was over 18%, on Transport fare, Automotive Gas Oil (Diesel), National Household Kerosene, Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Cooking Gas), Premium Motor Spirit (Petrol), which had been persistent because of the collapse of the GDP in two consecutive quarters of 2016, which it had earlier predicted! How had the NBS been able to predict accurately over the years process of development by providing data to assist and encourage informed decision through research and discussions within government and the community by leading a high quality, objective and responsible and responsive national statistical system? The answer is not far-fetched because the agency improvised A BOTTOM-UP APPROACH to collect data in respect of consumer price index from the grassroot. This method involved the skills of Economists, Statisticians, Computer Scientists, Data Collectors/Analysts etc, including 10,534 Informants engaged on monthly basis across Nigeria to regularly price 740 goods and services, for accurate and professional data compilation, according to the information on its official website.

NBS is a government agency and it has no reason to "cry wolf" where non existed, and in spite of the nonchalant attitude of past administrations to its statistical predictions, they have all come true because they are well organized. The national and state budgets must henceforth follow the same pattern of the bottom-up aproach which would ensure compulsory and sincere participation by all stakeholders from the Ward level and which would ensure the anticipated and perfect result acceptable to all Nigerians. This system will in no way conflict with the Constitutional provisions in Sections 81 (1) (2) Authorisation of expenditure from the Consolidated Revenue Fund, but will only ensure, transparency, sincerity, accountability, probity and equity by the President and the Executive Arm, since annual budgeting exercise of successive administrations in Nigeria had always been shrouded in secrecy and exclusiveness like the clandestine activities of secret cults whereas, outside of the Nigerian Constitution, the Federal Budget is the other very important document that legalizes the bond of financial association of a nation in diversity and compels government to fulfil its socio-economic contracts and obligations regularly to the citizenry.

The annual Federal Budget of the presidential system of government in Nigeria takes pre-eminence over similar documents of the federating units and any time it was delayed in any given year, for any given reason, an unprecedented shadow of economic stalemate and paralysis is cast on all businesses, contracts, constructions, manufacturing etc, of the usual hustle and bustle in the market place! At such periods, businessmen/market women hoard their wares and delay to purchase new merchandise in anticipation of the announcement of the almighty Federal Budget estimates by the President in order to take advantage of new policies on imports/exports, tariffs that would lead to advantage or disadvantage as the case might be!

Definitely, that should not be the scenario! The people, without whom there would neither have been a government nor an economic budget in the first instance, should not have been kept in the dark at any stage of the preparation by the Executive and its Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs).  The submission and scrutinization by the Legislature, who always "padded" the document to boost their financial ego before these grassroot citizens who informed the economic figures put together in the document should also have their imputes, because they are the Human Capital Resources for the budget formulation!  Whether it is Federal or State Budget the document remains the annual ritual of financial appropriation of monies into various areas of the peoples' social needs like housing, agriculture, health, education, industry infrastructures, defence/security, mining, manufacturing etc. for the purposes of establishing good governance, predicated on peace and tranquillity in the various societies. For instance the 2017 Budget submitted to the National Assembly (NASS), on 19th December, 2016,by President Muhammadu Buhari, like others before it was majorly a government document, midwife by technocrats, the civil servants in the various Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), the legislators and some stake holders who made some imputes during the Committee Meeting stages, without contributions from, "We The People of the Federal Republic of Nigeria", highlighted on the very first page of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Constitution, 1999! There are only 469 handfuls of Legislators representing the entire population of over 180 million citizens of the 774 Local Government Areas (LGAs), who were completely ostracised from the preparation and execution of such an important document that regulates their day-to-day social and financial activities!

Could This Be The Major Reason Why Past Budgets Were Never Fully Implemented?
Budgeting serves as the platform from which Man can aggregate his incomes and plan his expenditure in a manner that would ensure adequate sufficiency of funds to meet his needs regularly for specific periods of time at the family level. This method of financial discipline is by extension, what obtains also in public/private institutions and governments all over the world through formulation of annual budgets to cater for the diverse and constant needs of the masses of people. In the case of government institutions, this financial statement of estimates which include recurrent revenue in the form of people’s annual taxes, and other internally-generated revenues from income-generating MDAs, would also constitute the advance package for each year apart from revenues from the natural resources of oil, gas, minerals and mining!

Why Would The Grassroot Artisans Be Sidelined In Annual Budget Preparation?
The farmers, fishermen, miners, petroleum workers, construction workers, motor drivers, market women and traders in general, the Okada/Keke-Napep (motor-cycle/tri-cycle riders), who are domicile in both the rural and urban areas of all Local Government Areas and States of the Federation, constitute the back-bone of the workforce of the Nigerian economy and should therefore be THE STARTING POINT OF THE FORMULATION OF ANY NATIONAL BUDGET AND NOT THE PRESIDENCY OR EXECUTIVE ARM OF GOVERNMENT!

HOW NATIONAL BUDGETS SHOULD HENCEFORTH BE FOMULATED AND EXECUTED.
THE COMPILATION OF PRIOTIZED INFRASTRUCTURES LIKE HOSPITALS, SCHOOLS, PORTABLE WATER THROUGH A PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM OR BORE HOLES MOTORABLE ROADS ETC, SHOULD BEGIN FROM THE WARDS THROUGH TO LOCAL/STATE GOVERNMENTS, TO THE EXECUTIVE & THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY (NASS) . The bottom-up approach method that would ensure 100% execution since the entire project would be a collective effort of the population of Nigerians - and dividends of democracy would be distributed evenly according to NEEDS and not according to the whim and caprice of a disillusioned representative whose main pre-occupation was to shortage his/her constituency by pocketing illegal "CONSTITUENCY PROJECTS ALLOCATIONS"

URGENT STEPS TO BE TAKEN TO REVERSE THE INFLATION TREND OF THREE CONSECUTIVE QUARTERS!
The Presidential Task Force set up by the Acting President, Professor 'Yemi Osinbajo, to reverse the current food stuffs price inflationary trend has reported back to identify that high cost of transportation, multiple taxation, extortion by security personnel at check points, exorbitant cost of fertilizers etc were some of the actual causes of the trend. Outside of we believe that a major remote cause was people-induced because the only way for the grassroot majority traders to ventilate their anger for being sidelined and marginalized, was through introduction of CUT-THROAT prices of commodities and services to fellow Nigerians and as we had suggested in the past, those obstacles should be quickly addressed and the PRICE CONTROL BOARD should be swiftly put in place to alleviate the suffering of the poor masses.

Why Would Budget Implementation, Execution And Monitoring Constitute An Albatross To Government?
Past administrations did not learn that economic budgeting should begin with grassroot contributors who knew exactly their social priority needs because of the antecedent administrative/traditional structure of many centuries bequeathed to them through which they had worked in unity and taken collective decisions.  It is however gratifying that the Presidency has taken necessary action to ensure that the 2017, when it had gone through the circle of vetting, scrutiny and approval by NASS would be fully implemented to erase flaws of the past. The ball is in the court of the NASS and we strongly belief that the honourable representatives would conclude all joint Committee sittings and move the nation to higher pedestal of successful economic buoyancy through undelayed execution of all capital projects that would improve the economic conditions of the down-trodden. Amen.  For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? (1 Corithians.9:9).

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

CAN THE AFRICAN INDEPENDENT TELEVISION'S LEOPARD EVER CHANGE ITS SKIN?

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 183. 12th February, 2016.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

CAN THE AFRICAN INDEPENDENT TELEVISION'S LEOPARD EVER CHANGE ITS SKIN?

Not many people were surprised when a FACEBOOK  ACCOUNT credited to AFRICAN INDEPENDENT TELEVISION (AIT), ANNOUNCED THE RUMOURED DEATH OF PRESIDENT BUHARI in London, on the 23rd January, 2017, because that station, owned by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chieftain, Raymond Dokpesi, was notorious for "mercenary" journalism of fabrication, falsehood  and distortion of facts for illicit monetary gains! The transmission of HATE SPEECHES video documentaries on AIT and its sister radio station, RAY POWER against the incumbent President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, during the electioneering campaigns of the 2015 General Elections, as contracted to DAAR Communications Plc, the umbrella body of both stations by ex-President Jonathan's Administration and the subsequent payment of billions of naira for THE HATCHET JOB, is still fresh in the memories of all Nigerians and political development observers around the world!
Although, DAAR Communications Plc, has denied both ownership and authorship of the FACEBOOK and its content; were they convincing?  Below are excerpts of the denial: "The attention of DAAR Communications Plc, has been drawn to a FACEBOOK Account purported being operated by our Organisation.”A report was published on the FACEBOOK that the incumbent President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari, who is currently on vacation in London has passed on. "We wish to state the following facts: It is falsehood dressed up as truth that we opened such FACEBOOK ACCOUNT.  We did not publish nor know anything about the report. None of our correspondents in London filed such report.  The editorial policy of our Organisation is that any of our correspondents is mandated to file all the reports for vetting and approval before publication which can only originate from our headquarters. No correspondent could individually on his or her own decision publish or cause to be published any story. "The FACEBOOK Account is the brain child of a faceless and mischievous group whose despicable activities must be investigated by security agencies because of the unpleasant consequences.”We wish to state that the AIT runs an official on-line site for News which is not available for use by outsiders.
"We dissociate ourselves completely from anything contained in the said report which is a figment of the imagination of the authors.”We also disown the so-called FACEBOOK Account, and have officially reported to FACEBOOK Managers."

Between the date of the FACEBOOK publication and up to Friday, 10th February, 2017, - a period of 19 days, both Stations have consistently insisted that the "True State of Health" of President Buhari should be made official, to clear all doubts about his death rumour since a similar episode played out during the tenure of the late President Umaru Yar Adua, of blessed memory in 2010! They accused the President's Media Aides for inappropriate and incoherent information to Nigerians and even alleged that there was a CABAL, (which, Mrs. Aisha Buhari once claimed to have hijacked the ruling APC Government in a BBC Hausa Programme), which had threatened the acting President, Professor 'Yemi Osinbajo, to resign from office in the case of an eventual death of the President! They also supported rumours that State Governors had met in Abuja to decide the next line of action in the event that the President actually died!  Sections 143  to 146 of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Constitution of 1999 which dealt in details, procedures to be followed in the event of the indisposition of a sitting President were frequently and copiously quoted to  buttress their bad wish arguments!
At sundry times during the 19-day period, eminent legal practitioners were featured on the twin stations to confirm their convictions as they insisted that it was pertinent for the President's "handlers" to persuade him to speak to Nigerians through the internet SKYPE Communication System if were truly alive! They neither believed nor were they convinced that the PRESIDENT IS ALIVE, just like the Biblical THOMAS, who insisted that he must see and touch the RISEN CHRIST in order to believe that He was truly alive! (John.20: 24-29).

When we juxtaposed the FACEBOOK publication denial by DAAR Communications Plc, and their vehement pursuit thereafter to establish that if President Buhari was not actually dead, in spite of pictures of him and his wife released on internet at the height of the rumour, and also the acting President’s disclosure that he spoke at length with his Principal on the phone in respect of the state of the nation, specifically on the organised peaceful street protests over the lingering economic recession, by some Nigerians on Monday 6th February, 2017, - we were fully convinced that the media organisation's penchant for hate speech, hate wish and hate agenda which heated up the polity through such video documentary transmissions in exchange for illicit money, was synonymous to the peculiar state of A LEOPARD THAT CAN NEVER CHANGE ITS SKIN!
Did you remember that between the months of January and March 2015, AIT transmitted hate video documentaries against President Buhari with neither proof nor evidence; that he was a tyrant, a dictator and a religious bigot and was not fit to rule Nigeria in order to discredit and defame his character in the eyes of the Nigerian public/electorate, and that although the APC Party Hierarchy sued DAAR Communications Plc, for N50 billion naira damages, the law suit was deliberately left unpursued and was eventually struck out by Justice John Tsoho, of an Abuja High Court, who remarked that the abandonment was "against court rules?" Did you also remember that during that same period, AIT also defamed APC Leader, Bola Ahmed Tinubu through similar hate video documentary titled: "Umasking The Real Tinubu: The Lion of Bourdillon" which showcased him as owner of a vast empire of various properties and companies across Lagos State and was promptly sued for N150 billion naira damages for libel? But in a swift reaction, the organisation quickly tendered an unreserved written apology amid an ongoing investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), of an alleged illegal receipt of N2.1 billion by Raymond Dokpesi, to avoid total bankruptcy and an eventual fold-up, because it had a very, very, bad case? Tinubu was magnanimous in victory even as President Buhari, to withdraw the suit from court. The letter of apology in part reads as follows: "DAAR Communications Plc admits that in airing the said documentary, it had no intention, whatsoever to embarrass or diminish the high reputation of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, which it respects and attests to The Word of God says: ‘’He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit. There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health. The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment. Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy. There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief. Lying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are his delight. (Proverbs 12:17-22)

We need to remind DAAR Communications Plc and members of its staff that their day of reckoning is not farfetched; when they would have to give account of their stewardship! On that day everyone would receive his/her reward according to their work here on earth from the JUST JUDGE! Would these unwarranted attacks on the GOD-APPOINTED VESSEL - purposely appointed to purge Nigeria of its endemic corruption go unnoticed by the Creator of the Heaven and Earth? God will definitely punish all those who are behind the vicious rumour of the death of the Lord's anointed, Muhammadu Buhari! THEY WILL ALL DIE IN HIS PLACE AND HE (BUHARI), WILL LIVE TO DECLARE THE WORKS OF THE LORD IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING FOR SEVERAL YEARS TO COME! AMEN. Do we also need to remind them that the PDP Chieftain, Raymond Dokpesi, whose DAAR Communications Plc, wishes that the anti-corruption crusader should die is neck-deep in an allegation that he collected N2.1 billion naira of the funds meant for the purchase of arms to win the war against Boko Haram, from former National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki and he is yet to remove that mote from his own eyes in the law court?

Thus saith the LORD: " He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, He reproved kings for their sakes; Saying, Touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm!"  (Psalm. 105:14-15). NO MORTAL CAN TOUCH OR HARM PRESIDENT BUHARI AND HIS TRAIN OF CORRUPTION PURGERS BECAUSE THE BATTLE AGAINST CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA, IS OF THE LORD OF HEAVEN! THE TIME HAS COME, AND THAT TIME IS NOW - WHEN ALL THOSE MONEY LAUNDERERS WHO CLAMOURED THAT CORRUPTION SHOULD BE "BROUGHT BACK" INTO THE SYSTEM WILL SOON BE ROUNDED UP, PROSECUTED AND BE CAST INTO PRISON WHERE THEY WILL ROT AND DIE! THE LORD HATH SPOKEN! AMEN.

ADVICE FOR DAAR COMMUNICATIONS PLC'S STAFF!
AIT celebrated 20 years of television broadcasting in January 2017; reeled out all its landmark achievements since the exit of the military in its avowed mission of nation-building through the dissemination and broadcast of factual, authentic, and truthful reportage of political and socio-economic news, not only in Nigeria but throughout Black Africa and the Diaspora, but failed to highlight their terrible crimes of "mercenary journalism" of HATE SPEECHES, through the elevation of love of money above professionalism, against President Buhari and Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and which, not only dented, but destroyed the entire fabric of a distinctive journalistic trail-blazing of TWO DECADES which made them top-notch in the broadcast industry, at home and abroad!
The African adage states that it would be suicidal to "throw away the baby with the birth water", therefore we will advice the entire staff of this ignomious broadcast organisation which cared less about the sensibilities of Nigerians who adore the divinely -anointed servant, President Buhari and forgot completely that those millions of Nigerians once contributed their hard-earned N100 naira each as BAIL-OUT FUND, at the turn of this century, when it appealed for financial support to escape its immovable assets from being auctioned for failure to repay borrowed bank loans, -  to begin to search for their DAILY BREAD elsewhere, because what goes around, will definitely come around!
A WISE FLY WOULD NOT FOLLOW A CORPSE INTO THE GRAVE BECAUSE HE WHO SOWS THE WIND SHALL REAP THE WHIRLWIND!

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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

EX-CONVICT JAMES ONANEFE IBORI IS NOT WORTH DYING FOR! OGHARA YOUTHS, BEWARE!

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 182. 5th February, 2017.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

EX-CONVICT JAMES ONANEFE IBORI IS NOT WORTH DYING FOR! OGHARA YOUTHS, BEWARE!

Two-term Governor of Delta State, James Onanefe Ibori, (1999-2007), was only 48 years old when he assumed leadership position as the helmsman of the fresh democratic experiment in that enclave of one of the oil-rich states of the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria. He was youthful, energetic, ebullient, intelligent, resourceful, charismatic, debonair and sagacious! His emergence and tenure were not without litigation at the law courts, but he was ingenious to manoeuvre all of the obstacles, the most prominent of which had to do with an alleged past criminal record, which if proven, would have robbed him of the wonderful opportunity to serve his native people and by extension, his country, Nigeria, the most populous country in Black Africa, although the debacle characterized most part of his first tenure in office!
James Onanefe Ibori who was a dexterous businessman delved into politics in 1991 but chose the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), to contest the 1999 General Election, having enjoyed close association and relationship with the late and inglorious military ruler, General Sanni Abacha, won the election and took over from the Military Administrator of Delta State, retired Navy Commander Walter Feghabo, on 20th May, 1999.
His two-term tenure was characterized by several allegations of embezzlement of State funds from the various constituencies which led the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to arrest and arraigned him to court between 2007-2010, on a 170-count charge of offences ranging from fraud to money laundering both in Nigeria and overseas. Interestingly James Ibori, in spite of his dented image in leadership qualities/skills, still had a large command of followership among the Delta youths - mostly freeloaders, who had neither education nor any form of visible employment other than to serve as his thugs/bouncers/ bodyguards/errand boys etc. throughout his eight years tenure as governor and he neither encouraged them to have formal education nor engaged them in gainful vocations!
The integrity and transparency of the JUDICIARY came into question during Ibori's trials when the trial judge quashed all the 170 charges against the accused person and set him free on all counts as the allegations, according to him, "lacked merit"! This development gave him the "lee way" to abscond to London in order to avoid a re-arrest by EFCC - through the tacit connivance of his ARMED OGHARA YOUTHS, who prevented operatives from gaining entry into his residence in Oghara, Delta State!

IBORI'S SORDID BIOGRAPHY!
According to his profile on Naij.com, “James Onanefe Ibori is a former Governor of Delta State in Nigeria (29May 1999 - 29 May, 2007. He is a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). James Ibori was born on August 4, 1958, in Oghara clan, Ethiope West Local Government Area of Delta State. Ibori attended Baptist High School, Oghareki (now Oghareki Grammar School). Then he graduated from the University of Benin with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and Statistics. In the 1980s, James Ibori moved to London, England where he met and married his wife Theresa. He used to work as a cashier at Wickes DIY Store in Ruislip, Middlesex. In 1990, the couple were arrested for theft from the store, and fined £300 (N84.000). In 1991, he was convicted of handling a stolen credit card, and fined £190 (N28.000). After he returned to Nigeria, Ibori served as a consultant to the Federal Government of General Sani Abacha, in the areas of public policy formulation and implementation. On January 9, 1999, he won the governorship election and became the governor of Delta State. To hide his previous convictions in the UK, Ibori obtained a false birth certificate and then passport, medically incorrect as it was dated a month after his younger sister's birthdate. In 2003, he was re-elected as governor for another four year term. In 2007, the Metropolitan Police raided the London offices of lawyer Bhadresh Gohil where they found computer hard drives containing details of a myriad of off-shore companies run for Ibori by Gohil. In August 2007, Ibori's assets valued at about £17million (N4.7billion), were frozen in the United Kingdom.
In November 2007, his wife was arrested at Heathrow Airport in London in connection with the probe of the assets of her husband, particularly in the United Kingdom. However, she was released after being questioned. In December 2007, Ibori was arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), at the Kwara State Lodge in Asokoro, Abuja, over theft of public funds, abuse of office, and money laundering. Nuhu Ribadu who brought these charges against Ibori additionally alleged that Ibori attempted to bribe him to drop the charges with a cash gift of $15 million (N2.6billion), which Ribadu immediately lodged in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The cash remains in the CBN as an exhibit. In December 2009, a Federal High Court sitting in Asaba, Delta State discharged and acquitted Ibori of all the 170 charges of corruption brought against him by EFCC. In April 2010, after Goodluck Jonathan took over the government, Ibori's case was re-opened. A new allegation that he embezzled N40 billion ($266 million), was pressed against him. Later he fled Nigeria, prompting the EFCC to request the assistance of Interpol. He was subsequently extradited from Dubai, United Arab Emirate (UAE), where he sought refuge to London to answer to charges of money laundering. On1st and 2nd of June, 2010, UK Juries found James Ibori's sister Christine Ibie-Ibori and his associate, Udoamaka Okoronkwo, guilty on counts of money laundering and sentenced them to 5 years each in prison on 7th June, 2010. James Ibori who was also convicted in 2012, to 13 years in prison, spent only six years before his release in December 2016.
In several years of his incarceration in the London Prison, the same youths whom he used and dumped metamorphosed into the Niger Delta Avengers and several others terrorist groups who have claimed responsibility for crude oil pipe lines vandalization which ripple effects have culminated into the depletion of foreign reserves and a forced economic recession on the country!

Who or what are these youths avenging? Could it be, the massive fraud perpetrated by their own kith and kin, like James Ibori, Lucky Igbinedion, late Alamieyeseighagha and a host of other elders who are still walking free? Have they forgotten so soon that they supported the culprits, shared in their heinous crimes of diversion of public funds into private pockets and also shielded them from prosecution in Nigeria only for them to be picked up in foreign lands in respect of the same offences and summarily prosecuted and jailed?
Now that Mr. Ibori has returned to Nigeria on Saturday, 4th January, 2017 to a tumultuous welcome both at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja, and in Osubi Airport, Delta State, having served only six of his 13-year jail term in London, how does he feel about the role being played by his boys in the subtle destruction of Nigeria's economy and of the moral decadence among the people whom he, through his greed and avarice had impoverished by continuous cover up of subsequent administrations of Uduaghan and the incumbent Okowa who never probed Ibori's fraudulent tenure in office! The Delta State Government is among the indebted States that could not pay workers salaries and meet other social obligations to the people/workers till date, because of Ibori's dirty deals as pioneer governor of a new dispensation from 1999-2007!

While Nigerians celebrated the virtual defeat of Boko Haram from the precincts of the dreaded Sambisa Forest in the North East, Ibori Boys kept up the destruction of pipe lines in Delta State and immediately his release was effected in London in December 2016, those boys flooded the streets of Asaba and other major cities, drank, jubilated, felicitated and disrupted public life for hours on end without restriction by the law enforcement agents or even by the incumbent Governor Ifeanyi Okowa. The social media is awash with news and pictures of several personalities both in private and public institutions who welcomed him with candour and approval that jail term and prison life was a normal way of life! Also on hand were numerous politicians, live musical bands /performing artistes who occupied strategic locations where billboards with "WELCOME HOME" inscriptions were erected across the State. Ibori's Political Adviser, who visited him in London, following his release, and Secretary to the Delta State Government were at the head of the delegation of "honourable" members of the State House of Assembly, that waited at the airport for his arrival! Oghara fanatical youths have vowed to die for James Ibori if need be!

MORAL DECADENCE AMONG THE YOUTHS!
To every GODLESS Nigerian Youth, crime and criminality (in all ramification), is a normal way of life since the "unrighteous mammon" (the illicit wealth of the end- time world), stands out as their acceptable doctrine of prosperity. They would flock to anyone, contractor or institution that would engage them as "mercenaries", to protest against any government policy - good or bad - as long as some "dough" (money/cash), would come out of such deals. Recently in Abuja, some protesting youths were interviewed by journalists for their "bone of contention" and their reply was spontaneous, "dem hire us to protest and carry placards, we no know the kind problem de ground"! Nigerian youths should learn from Ibori's fall from grace to grass and mend their ways before it is too late. Reading through Ibori's profile, it is very glaring that he had the opportunity to repent and live a God-fearing life after returning to Nigeria after his first sets of criminal sentences in London, but instead, he saw another opportunity to get rich through military god-fatherism and grabbed it with both hands. Nigerian youths should avoid Ibori's path and pitfalls. He has brought untold shame and reproach to his family, to his kith and kin and fellow Nigerians! Ibori could still be arraigned in Nigeria to face fresh charges of embezzlement of N40 billion naira!  Ibori should repent, ask for God’s forgiveness, Nigerians forgiveness and forget about politics permanently. According to the Word of God: " There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. (Proverbs 14:12).

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.