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)

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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.