NOW THAT DAPCHI GIRLS ARE BACK: THE SAFE SCHOOL INITIATIVE [SSI], SHOULD BE PRIOTIZED!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

(Looking at Nigeria's Political System from Godly Perspective).

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 7. NO 241. 25th March, 2018.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

NOW THAT DAPCHI GIRLS ARE BACK: THE SAFE SCHOOL INITIATIVE [SSI], SHOULD BE PRIOTIZED!

That  "the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much", according to the scripture, manifested in favour of the 104 little innocent Dapchi girls who though were in the DEN OF BOKO HARAM INSURGENTS FOR 31 DAYS, were protected by the Living God of Creation  and released on Wednesday 21st March, 2018, to yet enjoy the inalienable fresh air of freedom. The news of their release was comical and almost unbelievable, but it was very TRUE!

Or else, how else could one explain this exemplary divine intervention which compelled the same abductors to repent and return the abductees (except for the FIVE that allegedly died, and one that refused to be converted to Islam), to their parents, families and loved ones "without demanding, neither for ransom nor swapping the girls with detained insurgents?"

Nigerians from all walks of life cannot be faulted for lamenting that Boko Haram's incursion into Dapchi Girls Science Technical Secondary School, could have been avoided if adequate security measures were in place, especially when a similar abduction took place at Chibok, Bornu State, almost FOUR years ago, (14th April, 2014), and 112 girls of that abduction were yet to be released by their captors!

However we believe that it was high time that all our security agencies would turn around 360 degrees and embrace modern methods of crime detection and prevention to further prevent the kind of unpleasant embarrassment, sprung without any form of resistance in Dapchi on 19th February, 2019!
Is it too much for both the Federal Government  and all 36 State Governments to install CCTV CAMERAS and other security gadgets in all public and educational institutions, for the purpose of monitoring movements of peoples and services across the length, breath and BORDERS of Nigeria?
Nigerians should no longer be hoodwinked by these crop of LEGISLATORS of the 8th NASS (who have been exposed as the worst representatitives of the downtrodden), due to their lack of penchant when it comes to socio-economic benefits of the masses!
In the last quarter of 2017, President Buhari requested for just USD $1BILLION DOLLARS, to further prosecute the war against the Boko Haram, which had been terribly decimated and degraded at that time; but those ENEMIES OF STATE blocked the passage of the appropriation till date because it would deplete their ILLEGAL RUNNING COSTS, AND ILLICIT CONSTITUENCY APPROPRIATIONS!
Are the LEGISLATORS now happy that the insurgents have regained some grounds through their denial of funds for the NIGERIAN MILITARY, even though APC has majority seats in the National Assembly, (NASS), where an opposition PDP Senator Abaribe (who bailed the absconded "Biafra" agitator, Nnamdi Kanu, now on the run from justice), and his cohorts could vituperate all manner insults against President Buhari, for wanting to keep Nigeria safe?

AMERICA would not boast of being a super power nation of both 20th and 21st Centuries if its legislators did not support approval of regular funds to build its defence and security institutions from one administration to another! Nigerian legislators are quick to quote replication of the American system of government when its suits their whims and caprices but would refrain to follow to the letter when government attention was most needed to succour or favour the populace!

In our 66th edition of 16th November, 2014, we reminded the PDP Government of that period of the need to beef up security in all schools in North East Nigeria, following incessant insurgency attacks on the facilities, under the following  topic: "THE SAFE SCHOOL INITIATIVE [SSI]: DESERVES MAXIMUM SECURITY!
We espoused as follows:
That the rate at which Nigerian school children were being eliminated by Boko Haram bombs should be of great concern to all genuine citizens, who believed in the divine law of succession which emphasizes that the young would grow to succeed their forebears because God saved Noah’s THREE children, Shem Ham and Japheth from drowning in the flood and their generations, according to their lines of descent, are products of our modern world as it obtains today! [Genesis.10:18-11:32].
That children are providentially endowed as divine gifts and must therefore be meticulously nurtured, guarded and preserved for posterity according to God's plan but some political apologist posited that social vices like corruption, election or examination malpractices, official deception, poverty and insecurity, were SYSTEMIC and inherited problems which were responsible for crimes and criminalities and should therefore not be blamed on any incumbent administration!
That fundamental obligations of any government to its citizens included faithful execution of political, economic, social, educational, foreign policy, press freedom, environmental objectives, the judicious entrenchment of all fundamental rights and most importantly, the RULE OF LAW! The right to life and the dignity of the human person should always take priority of place with every serious administration as no government could function optimally without its HUMAN CAPITAL which originates from the youths!
But when, the schooling population of any nation is deliberately targeted for pogrom by some bestial maniacs, who claim that Western education was evil as we now witness in Nigeria, desperate measures MUST be employed by government to save these future leaders at all cost! Chapter IV, Section 33(1) of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution states that every person has a right to life, and no one shall be deprived intentionally of his life, save in the execution of the sentence of a court in respect of a criminal offence of which he has been found guilty in Nigeria.
Nigerian school children are being murdered in cold blood at random by savages and government seemed to be incapacitated! We must bring this fact to bear that, there is sufficient funds from all economic resources of this nation to cater for the needs of all citizens’ fundamental rights, if RIGHTEOUS politicians are in the saddle of management, but sadly, massive corruption has been the bane of this nation, especially in the past 15 years (1999-2014), of the Peoples Democratic Party’s [PDP], government of continuity!

NIGERIAN GOVERNMENTS HAVE FINANCIAL CAPACITY TO SECURE ALL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS!
Working with a maximum figure of 100 schools, an initial expenditure of N50 million naira (fifty) each, totalling N5 billion, should take care of fencing, gates, a mixture of uniformed and plain-clothed security personnel  equipped with communication gadgets, metal detectors small arms and SNIFFER DOGS, for each institution, would ensure the required positive results! Had these security measures been in place on 10th November 2014, at the Government Comprehensive Senior Science Secondary School, Potiskum, Yobe State, only the suicide bomber would have died instead of the FORTY-SEVEN who died with 79 others critically injured! Also in Yobe State on February 25, 2014, FIFTY-NINE boys were killed at the Federal Government College of Buni Yadi at night while they slept in their boarding apartments and the 24 buildings of the institution were all burnt down!

CAN BOKO HARAM TRULY STOP WESTERN EDUCATION IN NORTHERN NIGERIA?
When the Dapchi School girls were released to their parents, the insurgents warned them against sending their wards to school again! Federal and State Governments should be blamed for insufficient and dedicated commitment, to save these endangered species of our POSTERITY from extinction! It is very important to note that the Potiskum attack (mentioned above), occurred just after the Federal Government announced that 2,400 students would be enrolled in the country's SAFE SCHOOL INITIATIVE (SSI).  Eight hundred students each, from the three North Eastern States hardest hit by Boko Haram’s terrorists activities, were already pencilled down for admission into other unity schools across the country with the consent of their parents, just over six months after the insurgents kidnapped more than 200 school girls from Chibok, Bornu State.
THE SAFE SCHOOL INITIATIVE was launched in 2014 at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Nigeria, by Nigerian business leaders, working with the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education, Mr Gordon Brown, the Global Business Coalition and a World at School. An initial $10million US dollars was collected at the launch in response to the growing number of attacks on the right to education in the North East States and in solidarity, the Federal government agreed to match the amount with an additional $10million, in a meeting between President Jonathan and the UN Special Envoy for Global Education. One hundred ($100million US dollars), was the set target for the SSI to which more funds would be raised according to the Envoy who promised his assistance. This joint effort on the protection of the right to learn in Nigeria is based on best practices from global standards which emphasizes that Safe Schools must be prioritized for continuity in education, even in HIGH RISK AREAS!

DID THE APC GOVERNMENT INHERIT USD $20 MILLION DOLLARS OF SSI DONATIONS?
Reports available to us indicate that the APC Change Administration inherited a virtually empty treasury because all available funds, including funds earmarked to prosecute the insurgency were all deployed to fund ex-President Jonathan's inordinate third-term ambition to rule Nigeria! However, with all security revelations in respect of the recent Dapchi Girls School abduction and President Buhari's stern warning to his government's detractors who connive with criminals to destabilize the polity and by extension, the buoyant economic agenda, we believe that a new course for adequate peace and tranquillity would be charted through patriotic collaborations by all arms of governments and security agencies to adequately protect all schools!
We believe that the insurgents would embrace the fresh window of AMNESTY opportunity that has been made available by the Federal Government, to lay down their arms and be de-radicalized, pardoned and re-absorbed into the society, because it has been divinely declared that, " ....this evil time shall pass away.... these recalcitrant insecurity challenges, will fizzle out and an everlasting peace shall envelope the nation of Nigeria, with or without the co-operation of the terrorists!" May the gentle soul of the five lost girls rest in perfect peace with the LORD. Amen.

Please look forward to more divine revelation in the next edition of Zion B-BC Newsletter as you share this with friends and remain blessed in the Lord. [For weekly access, to this newsletter, log on to:  facebook.com/zionfaithbible.believingchurch or http://www.zfbbc1.blogspot.com, https://www.google.com/+zionfaithbiblebelievingchurch.

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.

NIGERIA NEEDS A PARLIAMENT OF 74 FEDERAL LEGISLATORS ON PART-TIME!

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 240. 18th March, 2018.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

NIGERIA NEEDS A PARLIAMENT OF 74 FEDERAL LEGISLATORS ON PART-TIME!

Between 1998 and 1999, when political storms gathered on the Nigerian atmospheric terrain, frenzied political parties hardly realised that they all utilized the services of the same FIRM OF A VERY DISTINGUISHED AND INTELLIGENT SENIOR ADVOCATE OF NIGERIA (SAN), to procure their well-crafted look-alike MANIFESTOES, which promised the ELECTORATE a lot of goodies which included all social amenities, crime-free societies, qualitative education, employment opportunities, an economy laced with bread and butter, milk and honey and paid stipulated professional fees accordingly!

Why should it now cost Nigerians an incredible annual sum of N150 billion naira to maintain 469 legislators and their retinue of staff who were neither interested in legislative duties nor proficient in oversight functions as stipulated in the 1999  Federal Republic of Nigeria Constitution, while millions of peasant citizens are either jobless or are not paid their legitimate wages?

Nigeria's population was last put at 180 million although census experts say there are over 200 million people in the 36 States and the Federal Capital Territory (FTC)! At the Federal level, apart from the Executive arm of government, the other prominent representatives of the people are the legislators of the National Assembly (NASS), who are only 469 in number. In the States, depending on the number of their Local Government Councils, legislators were hardly more than 30 legislators and 20 Commissioners, per State! As for the Civil Servants, both at the Federal and State levels, the entire statistics of the management team of civil servants, technocrats, administrators, experts, advisers, etc, should not be more than 4 million personnel under the payroll of the three tiers of government at the top echelon of the Civil Service, nation-wide!

IT WAS HIGH TIME NIGERIAN POLITICIANS WERE CUT TO SIZE! 
Why would Nigerian politicians incessantly frustrate and provoke its downtrodden masses either with unpalatable revelations in respect of their "ingenuity" in siphoning the COMMOM WEALTH through annual Budget padding/illegal collection of humongous monthly salaries and allowances and through deliberate blockage of few benefits of the social contract like free education, health facilities through Nigerian Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), employment opportunities for youths and able-bodied citizens through the passage of Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), and civil participation in an open administration through the Freedom of Information Bill (FOIB), etc.
There was public outcry over the outlandish lifestyle of politicians, administrators and civil servants during the 16 years of Peoples Democratic Party's most-corrupt administrations but nothing seemed to have changed in the last three years of APC's Government in spite of concerted efforts by President Muhammadu Buhari and his very transparent management team to push and keep economic recession completely out of sight, through agricultural revolution, diversification into commercialization of our natural mineral resources, financial incentives into manufacturing and industrial sectors!

Though it took divine intervention for Honourable Jibrin Abdulmmumini, of APC to spew the beans in 2016 on how he and his colleagues of ALI BABA'S GANG, usually padded annual budgets to make room for stupendous riches for themselves, and also how distinguished Senator Shehu Sanni, also of All Progressives Congress (APC), revealed that he and his conniving colleagues, had received monthly allowances of N13.5million, designated as RUNNING COSTS, outside of their official salaries of N700.000! Hon. Jibrin was suspended for 180 legislative sittings for opening his mouth too wide, while Senator Sanni was lucky to retain his seat because his "distinguished" friends owned up and declared that the payment was very normal! An  whereas, the poor masses are denied of their meagre wages of N18.000, per month and their families are dying daily through infant/maternal mortality cases, preventable diseases like (Malnutrition, Kwashioko, Malaria, Typhoid, Lassa/Denge fever, etc; multiple road accidents, etc,), because of lack of basic social amenities - like clinics, hospitals, potable water, inter-state motorable roads, etc.
There is mass illiteracy among the children and adolescents and joblessness among the able-bodied up to 60% of the population of 180 million people!  For those who are engaged in Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMSEs), which is supposed to be the backbone of industrial growth/economic development, regular supply of electricity is nightmare!

DIVIDENDS OF WAR AGAINST CORRUPTION!
The kind of strategies employed to win the war against corruption by the Buhari Administration have never been witnessed in any past administration and the results have been both tremendous and astounding! Ibrahim Magu, acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), during the 2017/2018 Budget defence at the House of Representatives Committee on Financial Crimes, confirmed the recovery of N 473,065 195,977.50;  N867 billion, USD $66.258 million; USD 98. 258, 124, 97 million; and €13.847 corruption proceeds in 2017 financial year. Other funds recovered according to him, include: GBP 294,851.82; Dirha 443400 and 70,500 South African Rand within the same period!
The following recoveries and forfeitures were also made: N32 billion and $5 million was recovered from Diezani Allison-Madueke, former Minister of Petroleum Resources; N449 million at Legico Plaza in Victoria Island, Lagos; and over USD $ 43 million, discovered in Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos!  Others include: Recovery of N 329 billion, from Petroleum Marketers by EFCC's Kano Office; Withholding Tax Recovery of over N 27.7billion from banks; From Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), €6.6 Euros; On behalf of AMCON, N1.1 billion; and Recovery of Subsidy fraud funds of over N 4 billion!

THE WHISTLE BLOWERS SUCCESS!
We must not lose sight of the WHISTLE-BLOWERS POLICY also under the purview of EFCC, which had been very successful in most of the recoveries and forfeitures because the Federal Government has been faithful in fulfilling the promised monetary rewards as at when due; and that gesture has encouraged more patriotic Nigerians to actively participate in the national assignment! But EFCC is financially stiffled and frustrated when it comes to efficient operations and the required annual financial appropriation for the outfit to enhance better performances! Apart from Senate's twice rejection of the confirmation of Magu's position and Chairman, there is deliberate delay in the release of funds for the discharge of the Commission’s activities of investigation and prosecution especially at the Zones. According to Magu, " Out of the total sum of N 17,202,253,360 appropriated in 2017, only N11, 737, 492, 342, 07 (68%), was released as at 5th February, 2018!!!

TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL was aware of the gargantuan efforts of the present administration to completely destroy the endemic nature and attitude of corruption amongst  fraudulent public office holders; the body is also aware of the establishment and maintenance of the TREASURY SINGLE ACCOUNT (TSA), BUT NOT UNMINDFUL OF TICK BITES OF THE PARASITE MIXED MULTITUDE WHO ARE THE PDP NAIRA SUCKERS IN APC TOGA AT ALL LEVELS OF THE PRESENT ADMINISTRATION!

IN ALL OF THESE, THE TALAKAWAS KEPT DATE WITH AVOIDABLE SUFFERINGS!
THE NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE SCHEME (NHIS), designed to enhance health facilities of the REAL WORKFORCE OF THE HUMAN CAPITAL SECTOR, has been restricted to the insignificant FOUR MILLION, who received regular monthly incomes and all manner of illicit allowances, to the detriment of the supposed benefactors, who continue to die, unheard, unsung, and unrecognized, on daily basis! GRAPEVINE revealed that the Scheme's Contribution Fund was recently depleted by a whooping sum of N10 billion naira but due to the quick intervention of the House of Representatives, the said amount was quickly refunded to avoid national embarrassment! CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT TEN BILLION COULD DO TO SOLVE HEALTH-THREATENING ISSUES IN IDP's CAMPS, AND INDIVIDUAL SURGERY NEEDS THAT DEMANDED URGENT ATTENTIONS AT HOME AND ABROAD?
THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY BILL, which is now being passed in "phases", according to NASS has proved to be a dummy document which has served no useful purpose considering the PETROL SHORTAGES at critical period of festivities from 2017, and which lingered into the first quarter of 2018, to interrupt, the self-employed meagre incomes and completely sealed any form of employment opportunities, which legislators claimed its passage would provide!
THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION BILL, which should provide opportunities for the masses to expose acts of corruption of POLITICIANS/ADMINISTRATORS, has remained dormant because of the many deliberate HURDLES, purposely placed by the legislators to slow down the process and where efforts were made by some very determined NGO's like SERAP, the affected officials would disobey even court orders with impunity! SERAP, through the FOI Bill got a court judgement in 2015, that NASS should make public, their monthly and annual emoluments, including CONSTITUENCY ILLEGAL APPROPRIATIONS, but have bluntly refused to comply until, recently when Senator Shehu Sanni, Kaduna Central, burst a BUBBLE!

UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENT IS THE SOLUTION!
We will continue to advocate for A UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENT! The time is now ripe to send all these PRODIGALS IN GOVERNMENT packing because they would continue not only to support the wastages caused by their INSATIABLE desire for accumulation of illicit wealth but would also vehemently oppose all moves by patriotic Nigerians to expose them through distortion and manipulation of FACTS AND FIGURES! Were we surprised that SENATOR OLUREMI TINUBU, was bold to defend illegal monthly salary of N13.8 million and categorically said on camera that said amount could not be described as a JUMBO PAY, because, it was scarcely sufficient to take care of RUNNING COSTS ON CAR, HOUSE, RENT, SALARIES FOR OFFICE AND DOMESTIC STAFF etc,! We were not surprised because at least, she owned up and is even EYEING A THIRD TERM as Nigeria looks forward to general elections in 2019!

WHAT TO DO? GO FORWARD! GET YOUR PERMANENT VOTERS CARDS (PVC's) AND DRIVE ALL INCOMPETENT DO-GOODERS OUT WITH YOUR VOTES IN 2019!
"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." (Galatians. 6:7-8).

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.

A BLACK MONDAY IN DAPCHI, YOBE STATE!

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 239. 11th March, 2018.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

A BLACK MONDAY IN DAPCHI, YOBE STATE!

Dereliction of constitutionally assigned duties amongst rival security agencies have been identified as the major cause of an avoidable abduction of 110 Science/Technical Secondary School Girls, Dapchi, Yobe State, (aged between 11-16), who have now become pawns and human shields in the hands of insurgents who are very desperate to prove that they were undefeated! This is the second time in FOUR years that insurgents would abduct the endangered species from their school premises en-mass, uninterrupted and undetected and disappeared into thin air as it were! The first time was the abduction of over 270 girls from Chibok Girls Secondary School, Borno State on 14th April, 2014, to register their disdain for WESTERN EDUCATION! As at the time of this publication, almost 100 of the Chibok girls have been rescued while attempts are in motion to bring back the others; including the DAPCHI girls, with combined efforts of all the security forces that have converged on Yobe, the adjoining States and neighbouring countries.

On the day of this fresh abduction, 19th February, 2018, the camouflaged gunmen had free entry and exit into the school premises; because all they needed do was to fire some warning shots to create pandemonium, harass, intimidate and order as many panicking children into their trucks and drove away without hindrance because the nearby Army unit personnel that would have forestalled the invasion, was withdrawn some two weeks earlier as a back-up force to fight Boko Haram insurgents at the Niger border area!  Were there no official procedures in respect of postings, replacements, etc, especially in such sudden exigency of troops movement from one location to another? Should there be a vacuum of security logistics/ apparatuses in a soft target such as the Dapchi Girls School, especially when mass abduction of innocent children had taken place in neighbouring Bornu State, previously? Of course not! The Army Unit Commander claimed that he handed over the security location to the Commissioner of the Nigerian Police, Yobe, who promptly denied the claim! Since the first unfortunate military intervention in Nigerian politics on 15th January,1966, soldiers have been accustomed to playing civilian roles because they remained for too long (almost 30 years), in quasi-politicking engagements that they almost forgot all professional ethics until they were divinely booted out on 29th May, 1999! Constitutional duties of the Armed Forces of the Federation, which consist of an Army, a Navy, an Air Force, are spelt out in Section 217 - (1) (2) (a-d) & (3), Part III, Supplemental, of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, to include; defending Nigeria from external aggression, maintaining its territorial integrity, securing its borders from violation on land, sea or air; suppressing insurrection and acting in aid of civil authorities to restore order when called upon to do so by the President, but subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by an Act of the National Assembly.The Nigerian Police Force on the other hand is saddled with internal maintenance of law and order prosecution of offenders etc, and such order duties as may be prescribed to them by the National Assembly.

If the Army was not involved in Internal Security (IS), duty at the Dapchi Girls School, would the Commissioner of Police have left the soft target open and defenceless in spite of his avowed constitutional duty? Should there not have been Police plain clothes security surveillance to complement the Army even when they were on ground? Would passing of buck between the two security agencies which is though, very regrettable, ascertain the safety or the immediate release of the innocent tender-aged teenagers? There is no doubt on our minds that this particular abduction was targeted by detractors to indict and embarrass the APC administration which has been struggling to surmount the myriads of security challenges, economic/social decay of strategic infrastructure, which it inherited from past PDP administrations! The PDP, which created and nurtured the insurgents known as Boko Haram, and which did nothing to rescue the Chibok Girls, throughout ex-President Jonathan's woeful tenure, is now quick to blame the incumbent of lacking in security management - what an irony of fate?

Though, PDP's vituperation was contrary to the reality on ground, it is incumbent on all patriotic Nigerians to rise in unity an seek divine intervention for the urgent rescue of these innocent children, because the master-minds of this fresh national catastrophe are within the rank and file of those who are very desperate to SEIZE POWER AT ALL COST, EVEN THROUGH THE BARRELS OF THE GUNS AS IKE EKEREMADU, THE CONTROVERSIAL SENATE DEPUTY PRESIDENT IS NOW SUGGESTING! Having formed some COALITIONS targeted to wrestle power at the centre without any success but condemnation from the masses, they resorted to succinct blackmail of President Muhammadu Buhari by alleging his insensibility towards the plight of States that were devastated with wanton human killings and for not visiting them at the appropriate times! And to score cheap political point the chiefest among them, ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, who ordered his soldiers to kill, destroy and burn down ZAKI BIAM, VASSE, AGBAYIN, GBEJI, SANKARA, AND SEVERAL OTHER COMMUNITIES IN BENUE STATE, in 2001, visited Makurdi on Thursday, 8th March, 2018, (either to commiserate or to gloat), over the graves of the unfortunate dead of January 1st 2018! Were the people of Benue - especially Governor Samuel Ortom fooled? Could Obasanjo re-write the history of events as they unfolded to suit his whims and caprices?

The year 2018 began on the sad note of the killings of innocent peasant farmers and members of their families in Benue, Plateau, Nasarawa, Kaduna, Taraba etc by alleged NORMADIC HERDERS and even into the third month, these murderous incursions has spread to virtually all the SIX GEO-POLITICAL ZONES OF THE FEDERATION! Can the perpetrators of these heinous crimes against humanity escape divine judgement even though they always struck at soft targets and then hide? Surely they would be exposed when they least expected and punished through the long arm of the law because their plan to turn Nigeria into a PARIAH NATION would not work! Patriotic Nigerians have been counselled not to neither retaliate through MILITIA GROUPS nor take up illegal arms to defend themselves but to trust GOD and the APC Government which would provide adequate security and bring to justice, all culpable elements in the imbroglio!

ABDUCTION OF DAPCHI GIRLS IS A NATIONAL TRAGEDY!
That patriotic citizens of Nigeria, except the psychopaths, are greatly traumatized over this ugly development would tantamount to an understatement; because, the mental and spiritual torture being experienced especially by the parents and families of the abductees as they trooped to Abuja, wept profusely and appealed to the President for a quick intervention in the rescue operations that are already in progress was an avalanche! Unlike  2014, when former President Jonathan, declared that the alleged abduction of Chibok Girls was a HOAX, even two weeks after the dastard act, this government has acted very fast and appropriately for early and positive rescue results to be expected! President Buhari did not waste time to deploy all security chiefs and personnel to YOBE STATE immediately he got the report and even though it has been about three weeks as at the time of this publication, tremendous success about the exact location and reasons behind the abduction have been established for possible negotiations for the release of the victims. It had been very difficult to apply any form of force by air or land because the innocent children who are to be rescued would be endangered as they were purposely positioned by their abductors as HUMAN SHIELDS!

THE ROLES OF SSS AND ICRC IN PAST RESCUE OPERATIONS:
In July, 2017, a team of THREE University lecturers of Geology Department of the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID), who were prospecting for crude oil in the Lake Chad Basin was ambushed while TEN women who were in the convoy of a dead police personnel being conveyed to his hometown for burial, were abducted by insurgents in Borno State and it took the grace of God for both the State Security Service (SSS), and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), officials to negotiate their freedom which was finally concluded on Saturday 10th February, 2018! SICRC, revealed in a statement released by its deputy regional director for Africa that it was contacted to play the role of negotiator just like a similar action it carried out in October 2016 and May 2017, when two batches of Chibok girls were released to the Federal Government following successful negotiations. He concluded that his outfit, “remains ready to provide similar humanitarian services in the future when asked by relevant parties to the conflict."

SHOULD GOVERNMENT CONTINUE TO NEGOTIATE WITH INSURGENTS?
Although negotiations with rebels is akin to an invitation to continuous and repeated BLACKMAIL, which would elongate the process of crisis as we are now witnessing, but it is very expedient for now in the present circumstances to choose this path - in order to counter the insurgents doctrine of "Boko Haram" (meaning that western education is bad)! It is also very imperative to save lives of innocent abductees who were in no way responsible nor involved in the CONFLICT(S) currently in contention, through these negotiations, no matter how unpalatable for now! We should also be united in prayer for GOD to touch the insurgents to have a change of heart and embrace dialogue and eventual surrender for PEACE to reign again in our country that is "flowing with milk and honey" and positively save our POSTERITY!

IMMEDIATE, MEDIUM AND LONG-TERM SOLUTIONS!
Blame game must give way to inter-services collaboration. Police should intensify, Community /Neighbourhood policing by recruiting informants from every hamlet, village and remote settlements, for security information and intelligence gatherings by all willing patriotic citizens. Civilian JTF, and other para-military bodies, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, (NSCDC), Nigerian Customs Service, the Nigerian Immigration Service, at the border posts of entry and exit points. Nigerian workers under the umbrella of Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC), and Civil Society Groups (CSOs), must be involved in a more COMPREHENSIVE intelligence gathering through sophisticated and well-co-ordinated information network at the highest level of government, in order to NIP IN THE BUD any form of CRIME OR CRIMINALITY BEFORE THEY COULD BE PERPETRATED! More and more recruitments into the POLICE, ARMY, IMMIGRATION, CUSTOMS etc. must be urgently pursued and placed on the PRIORITY LISTS OF THE THREE TIERS OF GOVERNMENT! "A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE!"

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.

KWARA STATE ASSEMBLY IS FIRST TO STOP EX-GOVERNORS FROM TREASURY LOOTING!

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 238. 4th March, 2018.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

KWARA STATE ASSEMBLY IS FIRST TO STOP EX-GOVERNORS FROM TREASURY LOOTING!

According to extant appropriation laws in the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the emoluments of all civil servants including political appointees, are determined and legislated by the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), and is sacrosanct accordingly!

But former State Governors and their deputies, through the succinct support of their legislators enjoy illicit pensions/gratuities that are unknown to the Constitution while the National Assembly (NASS), principal officers with the connivance of their Civil Service Staff, have circumvented all known financial principles to appropriate unto themselves incredible salaries, all manner of spurious allowances, including illegal CONSTITUENCY ALLOCATIONS in billions of naira, since 1999, when  "politicians" took over governance from the Military!

RMAFC, is guided to provide 300% SEVERANCE for the governors as stated in the provisions under "Certain Political Office Holders and Judicial Officers Remuneration Act." Within the confines of that Act, ex-governors and legislators are entitled to 300% of their basic salary of N2,223,705; totalling N6,671,115, as a once-and-for-all-severance pay!
A former Chairman of the RMAFC has said that if the Pension Laws enacted by the States contravened or was inconsistent with the Federal law as prescribed for the Commission, they would be deemed ILLEGAL whereas some State Legislatures have even granted ex-governors PENSION EMOLUMENTS FOR LIFE!

According to undisputed statistics collated by the Vanguard, TWENTY-ONE STATES, as at the year 2017, spent a whooping sum of N37.4 billion for 47 ex-Governors on illegal monetized pension emoluments that are not recognized by the Nigerian Constitution! These expenditures have exerted much pressure on the coffers of such States which failed to fulfil regular contractual salary payment obligations to workers but instead, diverted such funds to pay their ex-Governors and their deputies!

So, where did all other illegal provisions for outlandish cash benefits, running into billions, vehicles (renewable every three to four years), accommodations in their State capitals and Federal Capital, Abuja; overseas holiday/free medics for them and family etc, being collected by ex Governors of BAUCHI, RIVERS, AKWA IBOM, LAGOS, YOBE, GOMBE, KANO, KWARA,, SOKOTO, BAYELSA, DELTA, EBONYI, ZAMFARA and others, emanate from?
Bauchi, according to the revelation, topped pension payouts to ex-governors. Payment of pension to former governors over a four-year circle are highest in Bauchi, Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Lagos States with former governors drawing N23.18billion, N2.795 billion, N2.043 billion and N1.606 billion respectively while Gombe was reported to be the FIRST to pay out an humongous benefit of N900 million to two ex-governors whom the State Pension Law provided a sum of N300 million, per term of four years! The Sokoto State Pension Law provides for N200 million every four years for former governors, and with three former governors it’s stable, "the State has to cough out N600 billion every four years for these governors"! Another tranche of N180 million each is respectively set aside for their deputies within the same period of time.

IT IS HOWEVER GRATIFYING TO KNOW THAT EX- GOVERNORS RAJI FASOLA AND KAYODE FAYEMI OF LAGOS AND EKITI STATES RESPECTIVELY DECLINED AND REFUSED TO COLLECT ANY SEVERANCE PACKAGE ON THEIR DISENGAGEMENT FROM GUBERNATORIALOFFICES!
The offending States believe they could cover their tracks under the "State Pension Law", which is inferior, contrary and null and void according to the 1999 Constitution, which expressly and unequivocally states in Part II, Powers of the Federal Republic Of Nigeria, Section 4 (5), which states as follows: "If any Law enacted by the House of Assembly of a State is inconsistent with any law validly made by the National Assembly, the law made by the National Assembly shall prevail and that other Law shall to the extent of the inconsistency be void."

HAVE THESE EX-GOVERNORS RETIRED INTO PRIVATE LIFE?
NO! They are still the same greedy politicians who retired as governors and are enjoying pension benefits but now freshly voted as politician and still paid by the same Federal Government as Senators or as Ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and COLLECTING DOUBLE SALARIES, ALLOWANCIES, PENSIONS, GRATUITIES ETC, FOR EVERY FOUR-YEAR TERM IN POLITICAL OFFICE!
IS IT NOT VERY GLARING THAT THESE "NAIRA SUCKERS" AMONG WHOM ARE 21 EX-GOVERNORS SERVING AS SENATORS OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ARE THE REAL ENEMIES OF THE TALAKAWAS? WOULD THE ELECTORATE JUST MOPE SHEEPISHLY WHILE THESE INSENSITIVE FELLOW NIGERIANS BLED THE ECONOMY TO DEATH IN A COUNTRY WHERE SOCIAL JUSTICE SYSTEM THRIVES?

KWARA STATE LEGISLATORS ABBROGATE GOVERNORS PENSION LAW!
Kwara State's version of State Pension Law which came into effect in 2010 states that an ex-governor would be entitled TWO LUXURY CARS PLUS ONE ARMOURED OR SECURITY CAR - replaceable every three years, A WELL-FURNISHED 5-BED-ROOM DUPLEX, FURNITURE ALLOWANCE OF 300% OF HIS SALARY; FIVE PERSONAL STAFF, THREE DSS OPERATIVES, FREE MEDICAL CARE FOR THE GOVERNOR AND THE DEPUTY, 30% OF SALARY FOR VEHICLE MAINTEMANCE, 20% FOR UTILITY, 10% FOR ENTERTAINMENT, 10% FOR HOUSE MAINTENANCE!

Controversial Senate President 'Bukola Saraki, is one of these ex-governors who collected double salaries, allowances, pensions and all manner of spurious emoluments from the Nigerian treasury! He was two-term Governor of Kwara State, (2003-2011), one-time Senator representing  Kwara Central District (2011-2015), of Kwara State, and presently "Senate President" (2015-date), in spite of the impoverished economic situation of his state!
But now, that the legislators have become wiser and have turned the table against him and his ilk, he is now advocating that other States should follow KWARA EXAMPLE! That is not enough! SARAKI SHOULD VOLUNTARILY REFUND ALL ILLEGAL EMOLUMENTS HE HAD COLLECTED FROM 2011 TO DATE OR BE FORCED TO DO SO!

SERAP'S LEGAL CONFRONTATION AGAINST ILLICITLY RICH EX-GOVERNORS!
We have on record that the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), in December 2017 filed a suit challenging the legality of 21 former state governors and their deputies now serving as Senators and Ministers, and drawing two salaries/emoluments from former and present employers at a Federal High Court and got a favourable judgment in January 2018. The court ruled that SERAP has "sufficient interest to bring its suit to stop former governors and now serving senator and ministers from receiving double pay and life pensions and to seek recovery of over N40billion of public funds unduly received by these public officers." The Judge granted leave in the suit by SERAP to compel the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice "to challenge the legality of the State Laws that allow those former politicians to draw double payments, identify those involved and seek full recovery of the funds involved."

HEARTLESS EX-GOVERNORS MUST PAY BACK ALL ILLEGAL EMOLUMENTS!
In 2016, a young street boy's angry vituperation that all Nigerian politicians should be BURIED ALIVE was nationally condemned - we still condemn jungle justice BUT these set of politically armed robbers - governors, legislators et all,  MUST be made to face the law quickly and sent to jail where they belong! And they MUST PAY BACK ALL MONIES AND RETURN ALL PROPERTIES THEY HAVE ILLEGALLY ACQUIRED THROUGH THEIR DUBIOUS AND CRIMINALLY-DOGGED LIFE STYLE! Is it not an irony of fate that these leaders who possess no iota of moral discipline when it comes to acquisition of illicit wealth legislate at all levels of government over the academia, professional, technocrats able-bodied unemployed youths and adults and craft and oversight budgets which determine the economic lives of the poor citizens whom they have drained and left high and dry without A KOBO to their names?

Civil servant Workers (serving and retired), in about 35 out of 36 States of the Federation, according to the Trade Union Congress (TUC), President, Mr. Bobboi Kaigama, are owed salaries, allowances, gratuities/pensions up to 19 months in some cases; despite billions of PARIS CLUB REFUNDS, while these heartless set of opportunists smile to the banks with billions of the naira made through the blood and sweat of the very unfortunate workers!
Outside of the REFUNDS, two initial FG financial bail-outs were loaned to salary payment defaulting STATES, and were expected to take care of all outstanding workers emoluments, had taken wings to satisfy the pecuniary lust of most of the governors and the helpless workers are still languishing in abject poverty!

All Nigerians MUST UNITE to bring these set of thieving "representatives" to quick justice through collective legal actions and through the BALLOT BOXES as the nation goes to the polls within 12 calendar months from now! THEY MUST ALL BE VOTED OUT IN 2019, STRIPPED OF ALL STOLEN MONIES FROM THE TREASURY, PROSECUTED IN THE LAW COURTS AND SENT TO PRISON IF CULPABLE!
It is the only way to stop all category of persons who believe that Nigerian Political Landscape is a GOLDMINE for small minds which believe only in the ephemeral things of life as money!

21 EX-GOVERNORS ARE BLEEDING NIGERIA TO DEATH!
Kwara State has taken the lead; what are the other 20 States waiting for in view of the recent court judgement mentioned earlier? Citizens who are in bondage under these heartless ex-governors MUST SPEAK OUT IN UNISON NOW TO TOTALY CONDEMN THE WICKED ACT AND PURSUE THE MATTER IN THE COURTS OF LAW IF THEY REFUSE TO FOLLOW KWARA LEAD!
Those States that indulged in the squandermania of public funds did so for their own gains BUT AT THE UNFORTUNATE EXPENSE OF THE TALAKAWAS WHOSE MONIES ARE MERCILESSLY AND WICKEDLY FRITTERED AWAY THROUGH THIS CRIMINAL ACT OF CONNIVANCE!
We have always been in the vanguard of advocacy for ONE NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE HOUSE TO BE RUN ON PART TIME BASIS AS PRACTICED IN OTHER CLIMES AND THE TOTAL DEREGULATION OF MONETARY INCENTIVE IN THAT SECTOR OF THE COLLECTIVE LEGISLATION OVER THE GIAGANTIC ECONOMY OF NIGERIA!
"Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people." (Proverbs 14:34).

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.