NIGERIAN YOUTHS ARE NOW BACKED BY LAW TO CHOP "GOVERNMENT MONEY"!

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. 7. NO 237. 25th February, 2018.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

NIGERIAN YOUTHS ARE NOW BACKED BY LAW TO CHOP "GOVERNMENT MONEY"!

It might have taken like forever for the Nigerian youths to wake up from their slumber to share from the national cake, while the elders, especially the veteran political gladiators who have been in the trenches before independence and who obsessively and jealously guard the turf from newcomers - senile or young, - but they have finally debuted in grand style!

They have discarded serfdom, and have rebelled against the task-masters who compounded their disadvantageous position of inadequate education, joblessness/idleness to mould them into criminals and criminalities of political dirty jobs of thuggery and ballot box snatching during elections at all levels!
Gone were those days when they complained of marginalization, relegation or absolute abandonment in the scheme of the social contract because they have become wiser to demand for their rights to vote and be voted for!

But have they rejected the present constitutional arrangement which stipulates that youths should NOT aspire to attain the position of President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces until they clocked the age of 40 because, they believe the popular cliché' which states that, "a fool at forty, is a fool forever"; and have thus re-ordered age qualification for the highly-exalted seat to read 35 instead, while gubernatorial aspirants could clinch their position at the age of 30?

The 1999 Constitution states as follows:
Federal Executive: Age qualification for election as President: 40 years; educational: School Certificate level;
National Assembly Legislators: Age qualification for election into the Senate: 35 years; and House of Representatives: 30 years; educational: School Cert.
State Executive: Age qualification for election as Governor: 35 years;  educational: School Cert.
State Legislative Assembly: Age qualification for election as member: 30 years; educational: School cert.

NOT TOO YOUNG TO RUN BILL RE-ORDERING OF AGE QUALIFICATIONS!
(1) President: 35 years; (2) Governor: 30 years; (3) Legislators: Senator and House of Representatives member: 25 years! However, educational qualifications remain School Certificate....... haba! Why not first degree at least?

There is a general principle in pro-creation as divinely ordained, that a child would need parental guidance, care, attention, counselling and devotion, at every stage from birth to sitting position, crawling, standing upright, and walking until he/she becomes independent to RUN!
Although that ordained physical sequence has not changed, Nigerian youths have suddenly realised that the first creation that came out of the divine mould was a full-fledge human clay called ADAM, according to biblical record in the Book of Genesis 2:7 and with that thought, believed that they could RUN before crawling!
But are they not forgetting that GOD deliberately changed that giant mould that produced Adam to smaller ones because that full-fledged man became too wise and almost overthrew his creator with the succinct support of the Serpent/Satan in Genesis. 3: 1-24? And now that the divine creator has, in His infinite wisdom re-ordered pro-creation to accommodate both the young and the old to sustain the cycle in which the OLD NOW GIVES BIRTH TO THE YOUNG! "Who is he that saith and it cometh to pass when the LORD commandeth it not? (Lamentation 3: 37).

Is it not very glaring that the REAL motivation for the advocacy of legislative approval for the "NOT TOO YOUNG TO RUN BILL" currently receiving urgent attention in the National/State Assemblies is the stupendous and gagantuous unconstitutional salaries, allowances/emoluments and other undeserved perks of office of politicians since 1999, when a fresh attempt to truly democratize Nigeria brought with it this senseless acquisition of illicit wealth in the name of politics? What about the legislators who have seen nothing wrong or unusual about the STRANGE BILL which is poised to turn back the hands of the clock? Definitely, they are passionate accomplices who want their WARDS to succeed them in milking Nigeria dry!

The existing 1999 Constitution is not ambiguous about the role of the youth in governance as it has stated very clearly the adult suffrage of 18 years when a youth was eligible to vote and to be voted for to occupy political offices - from ages 30 and above to become a legislator, governor or president!
During the military interregnum of about 30 years, it was not strange for a 22-year-old soldier to become the governor of the Rivers State and for a 32-year-old to become the Head of State! Would they have qualified to hold such highly revered and powerful political offices if it were not for the crude barrels of guns?
KIM JONG-UN - THE YOUNG EXECUTIVE PRESIDENT OF NORTH KOREA IS THREATENING FIRE AND BRIMSTONES THAT COULD IGNITE A 3RD WORLD WAR BECAUSE HE POSSESSES TOO MUCH POWER AND EXPLOSIVE YOUTHFUL EXUBERANCE!
In another clime - Libya under late Muammar Gaddafi for instance - the youthful army officer quietly eased out the monarch who went on vacation with his queen outside of the desert country in 1969 at the age of 22, with a determination to improve the lot of his fellow countrymen but ended up ruling them with an iron fist for 42 agonising years before his was deposed and eventually killed! Why did he remain that long in power? Because, if he had called for an election when he turned 30, just eight years in office, he would have become redundant and irrelevant, even in the ebullience and  prime of his youth!

INTELLIGENT YOUTHS PREFER AGE STIPULATIONS IN NIGERIA'S 1999 CONSTITUTION!
With the 1999 Nigerian Constitution, a youth can aspire to become the President at the age of FORTY - which is globally acceptable as the year of maturity and the turning point to prestigious adulthood - so what do the sponsors of NOT TOO YOUNG TO RUN BILL intend to achieve by doctoring the Constitution?
Let us assume that a youth at 40 was eventually voted to become Nigeria's President (the highest political office), and was lucky to be re-elected for another term of FOUR years, totalling EIGHT! Outside of the State House after his/her tenure, what happens? Frustration, redundancy, isolation, irrelevancy which usually dominated the life of a RECLUSE!

Serious-minded Nigerian youths regard the current corrupted politicking and governance as unnecessary distractions, because they are highly-endowed with much wisdom to know that the system has been so monetised with a view to making the unambitious to abandon the innate spiritual gifts, abilities, capabilities, talents, natural/scientific prowess, and succumb to the ordinary allurement/inordinate attraction of temporary/illicit monetary gains associated with Nigerian politicians!

Highly-intelligent Nigerian youths are more interested in CLEANSING THE AUGEAN STABLE through constructive criticisms of bad governance, proffering solutions, suggesting ways out of the woods as experts in their various professions and voting out CRUDE POLITICIANS at every election instead of the ILLITERATE DOCTRINE OF " IF YOU CANNOT BEAT THEM, JOIN THEM MENTALITY"!

We believe that the sponsors and movers of this UNEDUCATED BILL have ran short of visions for a NEW NIGERIA being steadily and consciously moulded through God by this current administration's management team of both young and elderly men/women of proven track records, pedigree, integrity and antecedents - who have taken this, (once sinking nation), out of the miry clay and have in less than THREE YEARS, successfully established it on a strong economic platform in spite of the detractors antics! We have always supported youth empowerment through education, which the UNESCO CHARTER recommended should be funded with at least 26% of the annual national budget, we have encourage all tiers of government to encourage technical and vocational studies/occupation amongst those with less ability or capacity to assimilate much of the academics and the APC Government is listening because the three tiers from primary to tertiary have been receiving greater appropriation in spite of the decadence inherited in that sector from past administration which created the uneducated terrorists now identified as Boko Haram!

ARE THESE MIS-GUIDED YOUTHS AND THEIR SPONSORS ACTUALLY READY TO STEER THE SHIP OF THIS NEW NIGERIA AND ESCHEW THEMSELVES OF THE CANKERWORM OF CORRUPTION? CAN THEY EVER GOVERN ALONE WITHOUT THE ELDERS GUIDANCE AND CONSELLING? WE DOUBT IT!
WE want them to include an addendum in the BILL that THE SENATE SHOLD BE SCRAPPED AND THAT ONLY TWO REPRESENTATIVES SHOULD BE ELECTED FROM EACH STATE TO FILL THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND ALSO THAT THEIR TENURE WOULD BE ON PART-TIME ARRANGEMENT AND THAT ALL LEGISLATORS WOULD ONLY BE PAID SITTING ALLOWANCES IN ORDER TO TERMINATE MASSIVE CORRUPTION AND WASTAGES IN GOVERNANCE AS BEING WITNESSED NOW!
IF THESE YOUTHS ARE TRULY READY TO SERVE, AND ARE UNSELFISH, THEY SHOULD RE-FRAME THE CLAUSES OF THEIR BILL TO INCLUDE LOCAL CONTENTS THAT WOULD INVOLVE THE GRASSROOTS FOR CONSIDERATION BY THE DOWNTRODDEN MASSES AND NOT THE SUPER-RICH LEGISLATORS WHO WOULD BANK-ROLL THEIR ELECTIONEERING CAMPAIGN BILLS! A BOTTOM-UP APPROACH OF THE "NOT TOO YOUNG TO RUN BILL" SHOULD REPLACE THIS COVETOUS ONE NOW IN CIRCULATION! "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.’’ (Exodus 20:17)

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.

UNDER NO PRESSURE MUST GOVERMENT INCREASE PETROL PUMP PRICE!

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. 7. NO 236. 18th February, 2018.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

UNDER NO PRESSURE MUST GOVERMENT INCREASE PETROL PUMP PRICE!

The pre-election year of general elections is usually pregnant with premonitions about whether an incumbent government would be voted out or continue in office because in that year, proximity of the D-Day, would create advantage for opposition parties and rabble rousers to unearth all negativities and untruths with a view to scoring such administration very low before the Electorate!

Nigeria is not an exception to this political game of vindictiveness which had played out in cycles across thriving global democracies since the extinction of monarchical governance in most nations of the world!

The cacophony of accusations of non-performance against the ruling All Progressives Congress Party (APC), since the beginning of year 2018, by opposition parties especially the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in areas of security, and socio-economic contracts have been loudest because the year affords the antagonists the easiest opportunity to play dirty and get into political offices in desperation!

For instance the PDP, which wants to "recover power" at the centre at all cost has cashed in on the lingering artificial fuel scarcity to poison the minds of the vulnerable downtrodden Nigerians as the 2019 election year creeps in and have blamed the incumbent government for the unending daily queues at fuel stations across the nation since December 2017!
THE INDISPENSIBILITY OF PETROL IN PROCURING DAILY BREAD BY THE LARGER POPULATION - CANNOT BE OVEREMPHASIZED WHILE ITS INACCESSIBILITY WAS BOUND TO SOLICIT INSTANT/OUTRIGHT CONDEMNATION OF ANY GOVERNMENT IN POWER! Therefore, whenever irregular supply of electricity occurred, petrol (premium motor spirit) MUST be readily available in great supply to fill the huge vacuum in order to avoid uncontrollable agitations that the opposition could use to advantage!
It is not beyond the capability of the Ruling Government to quickly correct this anomaly! The antagonists should not be given any opportunity to capitalize on the recalcitrant artificial scarcity of PETROL to turn APC's loving masses against their divine government.

POSITIVE GAINS FOR THE MASSES!
In less than THREE years, the Change Administration reduced official corruption with impunity, ineptitude among political office holders and the civil servants, embezzlement of government funds by officials including organised robbery of the national treasury to the barest minimum and introduced the marvellous success stories of ECONOMIC DIVERSIFICATION FROM CRUDE OIL TO AGRICULTURE, NATURAL MINERAL RESOURCES, MANUFACTURING/INDUSTRIAL SECTORS, TOURISM/ NOLLYWOOD MOVIE INDUSTRY, INFORMATION COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (ICT), TRANSPORTATION, YOUTH EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES, PROMOTION OF SMALL/MEDIUM SCALE ENTERPRISES (SMSEs); ETC, in spite of inheriting a completely despoiled and battered economy from PDP?
Now there are over ONE THOUSAND millionaire farmers who benefitted from the CBN's Anchors Borrowers Programme, including fresh employments for millions of Graduates, in the public and private sectors of the economy; and thousands of opportunities for self-employment through the manufacturing and the SMSEs who have attained financial supports through the Bank of Industry (BOI).

THE UNENDING PETROL QUEUES ARE UNACCEPTABLE!
That the official pump price of the Premium Motor Spirit (petrol), is fixed at N145, 00, is not in doubt but, all Nigerian motorists know that the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), have continued to violate the price regime and are pressurizing the Federal Government to increase the price to between N165-170 naira, per litre for them to have some profit margin.
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), which assumed sole importation of petroleum products from early 2017, sold to IPMAN depots at N125 naira - a price which they claimed did not take into consideration their own inputs of transportation and dispensation at the fuel stations nation-wide and this stout attitude has been responsible for the unending fuel queues at the filling stations even as at the date of this publication!

Though, NNPC mega-filling stations nation-wide sold petrol at subsidized pump price of N145,00 naira in spite of the landing cost of imported PMS which rose to about N171.50 naira, and also instructed other stakeholders to do same, - in the height of artificial scarcity between December 2017 and January 2018, - IPMAN sold at between N170-200 naira in their various outlets to further compound the travail of Nigerians in their desperation to make extra gains because they had been banned from the importation of petroleum products for over a year in order to reduce payment of the controversial and fraudulent subsidies!

IS GOVERNMENT AMELIORATING THE MASSES PAIN?
Minister of State for Petroleum Resources has claimed that government-owned refineries would be quickly fixed to produce at optimal level while MODULAR REFINERIES would be speedily introduced (by government), to take care of all local consumption; but even at that, we believe that local or international private oil entrepreneurs, should be invited into partnership to ensure regular, efficient, professional and digital operations that would always complement the economy on that platform!
Government, according to the Minister, is also soliciting wholesale private sector participation in refining the crude oil to ensure adequate supply of petroleum products in the country, but we advise that it is imperative for government to create the all-enabling environment conducive for adequate profitability as an incentive commensurate to the huge investments envisaged!
Government was also able to persuade the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), from embarking on an industrial action which would have compounded the already volatile and agonising condition of the suffering masses, by ensuring that some sacked members of the association were recalled!

IS GOVERNMENT ANTICIPATING AN INCREASE IN PUMP PRICE?
Tongues are wagging in negative directions that the APC government might be toying with the idea of effecting TOTAL DEREGULATION OF THE DOWNSTREAM PETROLEUM SECTOR, which will remove the price regime and afford free-for-all opportunities for all stakeholders to purchase Crude Oil, refine  and commercialize it for profitability without constraints! If the intention materializes TWO THINGS would happen:
Petroleum products would flood Nigerian markets to nullify scarcity at filling stations; but PETROL new prices would be unaffordable to the COMMON MAN!
The alluring charismatic image of the Change Administration before the TALAKAWAS would shatter because the amiable citizens would be incensed by the opposition PDP remnant factions to hate the ruling party in order to divert their votes at the up-coming elections! And whereas PDP consecutive corrupt administrations actually created the present messy fuel challenges which root germinated through the active connivance of very rich and wealthy former Minister of Petroleum, who signed the fraudulent payment bills for SUBSIDIES to phantom importers and manipulated OIL FUNDS at will!

APC SHOULD URGENTLY GET ITS ACTS TOGETHER!
Is it not a shame that in the 32 months of APC administration the rumblings of polarisation, disaffection, dissatisfaction, rivalry, disobedience, opposition and counter opposition to government policies by legislators of the ruling party with poisonous passion, are still the order of each day? The Party is yet to hold a National Convention till date because of internal imbroglio! Has APC forgotten the adage which says, "A house that is divided against itself would fall?
Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, the Party leader has been mandated to mend fences around the feuding and rival members in,: Oyo, Kogi, Kwara, Kaduna, though he himself is part of the problem! We have faith in divine intervention for permanent solutions before the 2019 election which is just one year away, because the party belongs to GOD and NOT any individual or groups of persons!
In the interest of all aggrieved members, they should trust in providence and allow the WILL OF GOD to reign supreme by allowing internal democracy and Party Supremacy flow seamlessly, this time around. Nobody should rock the boat by antagonizing the anointed one MUHAMMADU BUHARI, who will clinch victory and run his second term till 23rd May, 2023!

BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, APC MUST NOT INCREASE PETROL PUMP PRICE ABOVE N145, 00 PER LITRE!  Some members of IPMAN should be quickly contracted and encouraged to support the inadequate importation of this scarce commodity, while the intervention measures already put into motion by government should be fast-tracked as the debut of DANGOTE PETROLEUM in 2019, is awaited with much enthusiasm!
ANY PETROL PUMP PRICE INCREASE AT THIS TIME WILL BIRTH NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES. IT IS UNACCEPTABLE TO THE TALAKAWAS! THEY ARE BUHARI’S SUPPORTERS! ’’For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, the labourer is worthy of his reward.’’(1Tim 5:18)

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.

COVETOUS NASS LEGISLATORS WILL CRASH TO GROUND ZERO AT THE 2019 ELECTIONS!

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. 7. NO 235. 11th February, 2018.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

COVETOUS NASS LEGISLATORS WILL CRASH TO GROUND ZERO AT THE 2019 ELECTIONS!

Patriotic Nigerians cannot be alarmed at the vicious gang-up by legislators of the National Assembly against the Executive because they never hid their covetous character when they forcefully seized the administration of the hallowed chambers on 8th June, 2015, in a manner reminiscent of political gangsterism!

In the past 32 months of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Administration, opportunists APC Federal Legislators have engaged the PRESIDENCY in heated muscle-flexing, ego competition and vicious political confrontations in spite of the fact that they all rode on the wings of President Muhammadu Buhari's untainted character, dignified antecedent, popular acceptability and charisma, during the 2015 general elections to clinch unmerited seats at red and green chambers respectively!

They began their rebellion by rejecting Party's Supremacy with impunity but connived with the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), legislators to swear-in principal officers of National Assembly (NASS), at the Senate and the House of Representatives Chambers respectively! From then on they remained at dagger-drawn; opposed and criticized every Executive action or Bill - including budgetary presentations, as if they were not APC card-carrying members who have majority seats in both chambers!
Presently they have vowed not to deliberate on any request for confirmation of appointees of the Executive until the Acting Chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, was replaced and have been deliberately foot-dragging on the oversight of the 2018 Budget estimates by anchoring on a flimsy excuse that the 2017 Budget was yet to be fully implemented! If they were genuine/patriotic democrats of the APC and without HIDDEN AGENDA, should they have been so confrontational and pretentious of the myriads of socio-economic challenges on ground when the Party took over the mantle of a government with an almost EMPTY TREASURY and a GLARING RECESSION even as at 29th May, 2015?

Although the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on 9th March, 2017, released a time-table for the 2019  general elections in the following order: Presidential/National Assembly (NASS), elections to come first on Saturday 16th February, 2019, while the Governorship and State Assembly/Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Council elections were to hold on Saturday 2nd March, 2019, (i.e. two weeks later), these overzealous federal legislators nullified the independent status of the electoral body by taking over their functions!
On 6th February, 2018 , they hurried amendment of Section 25 of the 2010 Electoral Act by both Chambers saw the light of the day and exposed their selfish motive aimed at SECURING THEIR OWN SEATS BEFORE PRESIDENT BUHARI, ON WHOSE POPULARITY THEY RODE INTO POLITICAL LIME LIGHT AND RECKONING IN 2015 AND HAVE NOW HATCHED A DIABOLICAL PLAN TO UNSEAT HIM BY JOINING FORCES WITH HIS MULTITUDE OF DETRACTORS!

NASS ELECTION IS NOW IN THE NUMBER ONE SLOT; to be followed by the Gubernatorial/State Assemblies and LASTLY, the Presidential, because the legislators claimed to have the "constitutional right" to re-order ELECTIONS according to Section 4, sub-section 2 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria but forgot that their legislative function was to MAKE LAWS FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE AND NOT TO MUTILATE LAWS FOR SELFISH REASONS AS IT NOW STANDS!

According to Section 76 of the 1999 Constitution which empowers INEC to fix dates and conduct elections, the Electoral body had on 9th March, 2017 announced the dates which placed the PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION FIRST, only for the House of Representatives to raise objections which led to the ILLEGALITY WHICH CONSTITUTED AN ENCROACHMENT/INFRINGEMENT ON THE INDEPENDENCE AND RIGHTS OF THE EXECUTIVE AND ITS MINISTRIES, DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES (MDAs)!

WHAT THESE 8TH NASS LEGISLATORS HAVE DONE TO INEC's TIME-TABLE IS TANTAMOUNT TO DOCUMENT- PADDING LIKE THEY HAD DONE TO PAST EXECUTIVE BUDGETS FROM 2016-2017!
There is no part of the 1999 Constitution which permits legislators to REMOVE, INSERT, RE-WRITE, RE-PHRASE, RE-INVENT, OR RE-CREATE EXECUTIVE DOCUMENTS FORWARDED TO THEM FOR OVERSIGHT FUNCTIONS IN VIEW OF THE DOCTRINE OF SEPARATION OF POWERS, BUT THEY ALWAYS OVERSTEPPED THEIR BOUNDS!
At best, they could make observations and request the AUTHOR to amend and re-forward! It was high time the Executive tested these obnoxious and attitudinal excesses of the recalcitrant legislators at the APEX COURT FOR LEGAL ADJUDICATION! If the legislators were not very selfish meddlesome interlopers, should they overheat the polity in a matter that was the exclusive preserve of INEC and even threaten to veto Mr. President if he refused assent to their obnoxious bill after 30 days of submission according to constitutional provisions?

THE POTTER'S CLAY EFFIGIES ARE ABOUT TO TAKE A SWIM!!
Let us imagine that these greedy legislators were not attracted to NIGERIAN POLITICS because of the perks of office and largess of FINANCIAL INDUCEMENT of this Presidential system which has turned pauperish politicians into multi-millionaires and billionaires within few months of EMPOLYMENT, while those they pretend to represent wallow in abject poverty.......
Let us also imagine that they did not allocate to themselves outrageous annual sums of extra-budgetary salaries, wardrobe, vehicle and sitting allowances, including gratuities/pensions, etc; of between N120-150 billion, to be paid to them and those who would not be re-elected at the end of every FOUR-YEAR-TERM; would there have been any need, for that aggressive struggle to remain a legislator at all cost?

Before Nigerian politicians, especially the current legislators decided to DIE IN OFFICE because of outrageous financial inducement deliberately created through the COPY-CAT MENTALITY of mimicking United States Presidential System of Government, let the ELECTORATE make up their minds to VOTE THEM OUT IN THE 2019 GENERAL ELECTIONS, NOW THAT THE CHARLATANS HAVE ENVIABLY AND SURREPTITIOUSLY TAKEN OVER THE "FIRST POSITION" IN THE ORDER OF ELECTION PRIORITY!

DO YOU KNOW THAT A NIGERIAN LEGISLATOR EARNS HIGHER SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES THAN HIS COUNTERPART IN THE UNITED STATES AND EVEN THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT?
In view of this ugly development, we advocate that all CIVIL SOCIETY/NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANISATIONS, should lay emphasis on civil and voter education through all available media outlets especially - THE SOCIAL MEDIA - which is accessible to the poor masses who have been short-changed for too long so that they would exercise their electoral franchise with their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs), in the right direction!
Urgent steps should also be taken by the EXECUTIVE to enforce the CONSTITUTIONAL SALARY STRUCTURE FOR THE LEGISLATURE AS CONTAINED IN THE REVENUE MOBILISATION ALLOCATION AND FISCAL COMMISSION (RMAFC), REMUNERATION applicable to political office holders because these legislators are being intoxicated by TOO MUCH MONEY!

SOME FAILED POLITICIANS ARE SEARCHING FOR DIGITAL YOUTH LEADERS IN NIGERIA!
Do they have to search very far? Digital youth leaders have been ruling Nigeria since 15th, January 1966! All the military coup leaders, Head of States, Governors and Administrators who ruled Nigeria with IRON FIST, for about THIRTY YEARS were all in their twenties and early thirties and they were VERY DIGITAL!

In 1999 when they eventually relinquished power, they handed over to digital civilian governors, most of whom were in their early thirties and the elected President, Olusegun Obasanjo, who was just about 52 years old! These digital generations are still very much around and are still trying very hard to build prominence around themselves by claiming to have solution to all political/socio economic problems! DO YOU BELIEVE THEM? WE DON'T!

Let us rise up as a nation of GOOD PEOPLE, with to support PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI, THE AFRICAN CHAMPION IN THE WAR AGAINST CORRUPTION AND TOGETHER, BUILD DIGITAL/VIABLE INSTITUTIONS RATHER THAN CORRUPT/GREEDY PERSONALITIES!
"Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivereth him out of them all." (Psalm. 34:19).

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.

YOU CAN NOW KEEP THE MONIES FROM YOUR CRUDE OIL AND YOUR MINERAL RESOURCES!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

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

[VOL. 7. NO 234. 4th February, 2018.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

YOU CAN NOW KEEP THE MONIES FROM YOUR CRUDE OIL AND YOUR MINERAL RESOURCES!

President Muhamadu Buhari remains an unbeaten trail-blazer of all times, not only in Nigerian but in African/Global political and socio-economic affairs! It's crystal clear that GOD did not make a mistake in choosing him as Nigeria's President at a time such as this!

When he was the Military Head of State between December 1983 to August, 1985, Buhari was the only Army General who placed public interest above MARTIAL LAWS and took his seat beside the downtrodden masses, attended to their woes, healed their sored souls/economic wounds and poured succour for their diverse needs!

President Buhari does not only possess a CLEAR CONSCIENCE  as he blurted it out innocently to a group of friends who had always supported his political ideas and ambitions, BUT A DAMNED GOOD ONE FOR THAT MATTER FOR A NATURAL MAN IN AN EARTHLY TABERNACLE!
It was no wonder that he was kicked out by "Maradona", the self-styled Military President, Ibrahim Babangida, who ruled with the cunniness of a fox and manipulated everybody into submission and timid servility throughout his long tenure, unlike Buhari, his predecessor in office!

This time around in a democratic process, President Buhari and his Party APC, having fully analysed the economic scenario and the cacophony of agitations for the RESTRUCTURING of Nigeria, have concluded that all the 36 STATES SHOULD NOW POSSESS THEIR POSSESSIONS as contained in a detailed report on TRUE FEDERALISM, recently submitted to the party hierarchy.

But there is a problem with the current illiteracy population which is finding it very confusing and difficult to understand or comprehend between the good intentions of the APC Government and the evil machinations of other mercenary political parties, associations and coalitions which were frienzily formed to attack every positive executive action to revamp the economy, ensure peaceful co-existence and win the intense war against Boko Haram!

The internet, social/print/electronic media, newspapers, magazines, etc, are awash daily with vicious attacks through hate and inciting speeches against the ruling government and especially, the person of President Buhari by those set of uneducated citizens who are bent on overheating the already volatile polity which witnessed an unenvisaged senseless killings between herders/farmers in the Middle Belt, at the beginning of the new year, 2018!

We want to believe that this True Federalism 10-Point Recommendations, if embraced by all and sundry, irrespective of political, social or tribal inclinations, will douse the insecurity tension coupled with petroleum products (especially PMS), artificial scarcity, which took the shine off Christmas 2017/ 2018 New Year festivities and we will be very close to TRUTH and REALITY!

But there is this vexatious cliché which states that, "If you want to confuse an average Nigerian, put your thoughts in a book and give it to him to read. The book will definitely gather dust because he will never open it!" Reading culture is anathema to many Nigerians who are illiterates or half-educated BUT would not admit it, and because of that deficit in articulation, find it very difficult to read articles/books, assimilate or dissect the thoughts of a writer or flow analytically with his message, as in the case of the True Federalism recommendations by the APC!

When the APC Government took over in 2015, SIXTY-FIVE (65), million Nigerians were ILLITERATES according to the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), research/survey index, but the figure has drastically reduced through the aggressive measures of taking off the streets millions of school-age children by giving them free and compulsory education (including text books/one daily meal), quality teachers, modern libraries coupled with internet facilities, because government was very alarmed and concerned! 
Fresh opportunity to read and write was also given to the adults (about 35 million), through the very famous ADULT LITERACY PROGRAMMES across the nation, to give a second chance of reading and writing to those who were denied or so unfortunate, when they were much younger!

Government believes that the statistic was very alarming for a number of reasons because of its adverse impacts on both the individual and the society at large since the illiterates are the most likely to be socially-vulnerable to face a life-time of poverty, poor health, social exclusion/disorders etc. It worried that illiteracy had affected the economy in workplace productivity and by extension the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and that it was a matter of national urgency that the literacy crisis be confronted head on!

ILLITERACY IS THE WORST DISEASE THAT COULD AFFLICT THE HUMAN PERSON!
It alienates its victims from all benefits of goodly-living through deprivation of the basic necessities of life - good food, potable water and shelter!
An illiterate remains an alien to his environment - like a FISH OUT OF WATER! An illiterate is dangerous specie to his society and nation by extension, a Frankenstein Monster, ready to main, kill and destroy through a confused memory imbalance! The BOKO HARAM insurgency began through a confused religious ideology and has been difficult to tame (in these NINE years), because their protagonists/sponsors have cashed in on the illiteracy deficit of the dangerous religious sect

THESE RECOMMENDATIONS OF TRUE FEDERALISM SHOULD USHER GREATER BOND OF UNITY!
In the few years of independence before the military interregnum, true federalism was successfully practiced among the three major regions in a parliamentary system of government, because the founding fathers were conscious of the positive gains of UNITY IN DIVERSITY and now in the 21st Century, the ideology has been recommended through the APC Think Tank Committee of September 2017,which has captured all agitations for the RESTRUCTURING OF NIGERIA. Its submission to its Chairman for further scrutiny by the National Working Committee (NWC), for the eventual onward process through the presidency to the Legislators for necessary constitutional amendments to become legally-binding is therefore the right step in the right direction!

APC has never hidden its penchant for the defence of the poor masses of the 774 Local Government Areas of the Nigerian federation, who were at the receiving end of negative fall-outs of bad governance between 1999-2015, and is bent to fulfil its 8-POINT MANIFESTO which consists of the following promises: AGGRESSIVE ANTI-CORRUPTION CRUSADE, NATIONAL SECURITY, FOOD SECURITY, regular POWER supply, integrated TRANSPORT network, FREE EDUCATION, to bring about DEVOLUTION OF POWER, ensure accelerated ECONOMIC GROWTH as well as AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE!

WE MAKE BOLD TO STATE THAT APC CANNOT BE FAULTED IN ITS SINCERITY OF PURPOSE BECAUSE IT HAD PURSUED AND ACCOMPLISHED THE PROMISES AS CONTAINED IN ITS MANIFESTO LIKE NO OTHER PARTY OR GOVERNMENT SINCE INDEPENDENCE IN 1960 THROUGH A FORTHRIGHT AND RIGHTEOUS MANAGEMENT TEAM UNDER THE DILLIGENT LEADERSHIP OF PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI!

But trust the illiterate and half-educated within the polity; they do not believe in the sincerity of the government which has spent only 32 of the 48 months of its FIRST TENURE, just because 2018 is the pre-election year to the 2019 general elections! This attitude is no doubt the exhibition of warped knowledge or understanding of how the political game of economic spread and sufficiency for all STAKEHOLDERS in a commonwealth should be tactically worked out!

LAUDABLE BENEFITS OF TRUE FEDERALISM AS CONTAINED IN APC's GOLDEN DOCUMENT!
The Governor El Rufai-led Committee on True Federalism, submitted its very detailed report on Thursday 25th January, 2018, on the following planks:
(1) Devolution of powers to the States through Resource Control.
(2) State Police and State Prisons to be run by all States of the Federation in respect of certain crimes.
(3) Independent candidacy which can only be enjoyed if such candidate was not a member of any political party, six months prior to any election.
(4) There should exist constitutional autonomy for the 774 Local Governments, which should be free to legislate freely and create any number of councils as they so desired.
(5) Food, Drugs and poison to be moved to the Concurrent List so that States could constitutionally legislate on those items, while narcotics/psychotropic substances should remain on the Exclusive List. 
(6) Labour issues, trade unions, industrial relations, conditions, safety/welfare, disputes/minimum wages/ industrial arbitration, should be handled by both States/Federal Governments who should enjoy independent legislation.
(7) Mines and minerals, oil fields and mining, geological surveys and natural gas that are ONSHORE will be vested in all States of the Federation, while all OFF-SHORE OIL shall remain vested in the government of the federation.
(8) Registration of Business Names should be on the Concurrent List for companies to choose their areas of operations; State or nationwide.
(9) Collection of Stamp Duties was also recommended to be moved to the Concurrent List, for the States to collect duties from individual and small businesses while Federal Government collects duties from Limited Liabilities Companies.
(10) Issue of Citizenship, Local Government or State of Origin, which had hitherto been discriminatory, "should be replaced with State of Residence", through a proposed amendment to the Federal Character Commission Act to allow people domicile in a place to be considered as INDEGENES of such place.

ALL NIGERIANS ESPECIALLY THE GRASSROOT CITIZENS SHOULD EMBRACE THESE LOFTY RECOMMENDATIONS WHICH WERE DIVINELY INSPIRED BECAUSE DETRACTORS OF PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCE HAD VOWED THAT PRESIDENT BUHARI WOULD NEVER ASSENT TO RESTRUCTURING OF NIGERIA, BECAUSE THEY ARE IGNORANT OF HIS STERLING VIRTUES!

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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.