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.

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