IT'S SUICIDAL TO SEEK GREEN PASTURES OUTSIDE OF NIGERIA WITHOUT LEGAL PAPERS!

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 229. 31st December, 2017.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

{2017 NEW YEAR EDITION}

IT'S SUICIDAL TO SEEK GREEN PASTURES OUTSIDE OF NIGERIA WITHOUT LEGAL PAPERS!

Very disturbing but authentic news reached the shores of Nigeria in November 2017 that our able-bodied citizens were being sold to slave merchants for FOUR HUNDRED United States dollars (US $400; about 123.200 naira), in the North Africa country of LIBYA, where they absconded to seek "greener pastures"!
At about the same period, the raped dead bodies of 27 Nigerian women, between 14-23 years, were discovered in an abandoned ship on the Mediterranean, off the coast of Libya!
Before these very unfortunate incidents, some Nigerian drug peddlers in July, 2016, were caught in Indonesia, tried and executed, whereas Nigeria's fertile arable lands have no comparison anywhere in the world because the 36 States of the Federation, including the Federal Capital Territory (FTC), can feed and profit from agricultural produce through their commercialisation, locally and exportation to foreign countries.
Outside of agriculture, there are not less than 700 species of naturally-endowed mineral resources outside of Crude Oil - ranging from Coal to Iron Ore, Bitumen, Gold, Copper, Silver, Gypsum, including some deposits of URANIUM, (a universally-sought-after, very important, scarce, but major mineral ingredient needed for nuclear energy), buried, lying fallow and untapped, in some parts of Nigeria, but which only needed organised labour to harness and commercialise to boost the nation's economy and its coffers!

Why would the able-bodied citizens of Nigeria depart from Eldorado to the deserts of Africa and perish? Why would they abandon the GREEN VEGETATION of this green and luscious landscape to swim in the polluted  waters of the Mediterranean in a bid to cross to Europe, but only to end up in the belly of vicious and hungry sharks and whales prowling in the depths of the violent seas?

Where did we get it wrong as a people and as a nation? Is it not the norm that parents would naturally serve as guides and first teachers to their offspring before sending them forth to educational institutions to acquire further knowledge to enable them contribute their quotas in the areas of national development?
In view of this national embarrassment, who should take the blame of aggravated promiscuity in the societies, the inordinate ambition and insatiable urge/desire to get rich at all costs - especially among the youths?

Do the Nigerian parents, teachers, politicians, elders and elites present themselves as perfect role models for the teaming youths who constitute about 60% of an estimated population of 170 million people?

IS THE ECONOMIC SITUATION IN NIGERIA THAT BAD, EVEN WITH THE CHANGE OF GUARDS AND ALL STRATEGIC ECONOMIC INTERVENTION PROGRAMMES ALREADY FRUITING POSITIVELY IN THE PAST 31 MONTHS THAT SOME CITIZENS WOULD STILL PREFER TO BE WASTED IN OTHER COUNTRIES RATHER THAN JOIN HANDS TO BUILD THEIR OWN NATION?

In spite of a transient economic recession in 2016, Nigeria has bounced back as the nation with the highest GDP index in Africa and the most attractive industrial destination for European, Asian and American investors who are competing for space in the Nigerian Market Arena!
Nigeria is presently enjoying bumper food harvests - especially in agricultural produce as more State Government have diversified attention to the land for increased internally Generated Revenues (IGRs).

According to World Bank Group, the diversification from crude oil to agriculture which the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), played pivotal role and solid minerals had helped in no small measure to ameliorate and cushion the smarting effects of recession as it affected the daily bread of the resilient masses of Nigerian workers.
The Anchors Borrowers Programme of the CBN, which has produced several millionaire farmers, with other economic interventions by the apex bank has enabled Nigeria to rise 24 places on the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business rankings and earned a place for the nation on the List of Top 10 Reformers in the world!

Why would the unemployed citizens not take advantage of the golden opportunities available in Nigeria where they are accorded first class citizenship and steadily grow successfully with the new economic template than take suicidal missions to foreign lands?

OFFICIAL RECORDS OF REPATRIATED NIGERIANS FROM LIBYA IN 2017!
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), has disclosed that a total of 6,672 Nigerians (male, females and infants), who were lured to Libya by human traffickers, voluntarily returned to Nigeria between 6th January to 28th December, 2017, with the tacit co-operation of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). According to the News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN), the returnees were encouraged to join hands with the various government agencies to tackle the problem of human trafficking syndicates by identifying them with the assurance that their information would be treated with utmost confidentiality and secrecy! Those who were lucky to return claimed that they were lured with "juju" (magical charms), and oaths of secrecy by the syndicates!

FACTORS RESPONSIBLE FOR ILLEGAL MIGRATION!
We have conclusively researched that Nigerians involved in soiling the good image of the nation are negligible in number but negatively destructive in their unbridled desire to acquire money at all costs and by all means when they are demonically lured.
We have also discovered that this suicidal urge that has blinded all those who have been shamelessly involved in the desperate pursuit of transient riches and wealth also has a SPIRITUAL DIMENSION which contradicts the divine commandment against the LOVE OF MONEY, that constitutes the root of all evils!

The desperate pursuit for quick wealth abroad by illegal migrants should be traced to the antecedents of Nigerian rich citizens whose sources of acquisition of sudden riches were neither questioned nor investigated by any anybody or agency of government but who, suddenly became famous, popular and worshipped by the downtrodden in their communities as celebrities!

With the determination of the new administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to purge Nigeria of the deep-rooted cankerworm of corruption, many looters of the treasury, money launderers, drug barons, illegal crude oil bunkerers, currency racketeers, have been rounded up and tons of monies recovered - especially with the introduction of the Whistle Blower Policy - which has yielded lots of positive results!
We strongly believe that it is very wrong for youths to grow up in lawless societies where money, instead of the dignity of education, ingenuity and labour, is worshipped and advocate that all hands must now be on deck to reform and re-orientate the youths in a new direction of inculcating the habit and godly doctrine of righteousness, probity and equity, which will gradually lead to accountability, good success and clean sources of acquisition of wealth in all their chosen endeavours of life.

RESILIENT AND PATIENT NIGERIAN YOUTHS ARE IN THE MAJORITY!
Majority of courageous Nigerian youths are domicile in the country and are doing well because the Change Government is encouraging them through the N-Power Employment and Special Intervention Programmes; Agricultural Loans/Land Leases through Bank of Industry (BOI); and encourage into the political terrain through the "Not-Too-Young-To-Run Bill," which has passed through second reading in the National Assembly (NASS); Educational Scholarships; and the enforcement of the Local Content Law, on foreign investors, etc, and they are prospering by leaps and bounds.
If only those returnee migrants like the prodigal could only repent and, settle down and embrace government incentives as enumerated earlier and if those who are still contemplating to "stow away" would have a change of heart, they WILL all eat of the good of the land of Nigeria, flowing with milk, honey, fruit juice and SMUDDIES!

PARENTS' DESPICABLE LUST AND AGGRANDIZEMENT MUST STOP NOW!
Is it not ironic that parents sell landed properties and even obtain loans at exorbitant interests to sponsor their wards to foreign lands because of their lust for illicit wealth with which they intend to compete with the JONESES?
What about the human traffickers with perverse intentions of luring desperate youth into prostitution in Europe through deceits of lucrative employments or further education? The Word of God says parents should teach their wards good behaviour for them to become good citizens of the world.

THE ROLE OF NAPTIP MUST BE ENHANCED!
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), should be commended for its relentless efforts since inception on 14th July, 2003 in curbing the excesses of human trafficking and prosecution of several offenders but now need the collaboration of the WHISTLE BLOWERS to get more positive results because these traffickers are human beings and not spirits and must therefore be tracked down, subjected to face the rule of law and be punished according to the law if found culpable. All the three tiers of government must also collaborate to "ground the youths at the grassroot" where the urge for illegal migration is rife and deeply rooted due to the support of the elders/parents, until this societal evil is uprooted from Nigeria!

CAN WE BLAME UNEMPLOYMENT/UNDER-EMPLOYMENT FOR THIS NATIONAL MALAISE?
Nigeria's unemployment/under-employment rate has increased to 14.2 per cent in the Fourth Quarter of 2017, from 13.9% in the Third Quarter of 2016! According to the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS), of the nation's 85 million able-bodied workforce, 29 million are unemployed, an increase of 351,015 persons between ages of 15 to 34, which falls within the age bracket of the youth population! We have agricultural lands that are more than sufficient to cultivate by 170 million Nigerians, yet our children are on suicide missions abroad to look for jobs! WHAT A SHAME? 

There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. (Prov 16:25. KJV)
“ILLEGAL FOREIGN TRIP IS SUICIDAL! NIGERIAN YOUTHS PLEASE BEWARE AND DESIST!  We wish all our esteemed readers a happy and prosperous new year!

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I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor. 08130669886, 08098194390.  08080243066. g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.