CONSTITUTIONAL IMMUNITY IS NOT FOR SENATOR DINO MELAYE & CO!

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. 8. NO 282. 6th January, 2018.] “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

CONSTITUTIONAL IMMUNITY IS NOT FOR SENATOR DINO MELAYE & CO!

Legal Drafters and Crafters of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, envisaged that the IMMUNITY CLAUSE could be abused at any point in time if it were an all-comers entitlement and so, professionally restricted the revered privilege upstream, to Mr. President and his Vice and also the Governor and his Deputy in Section 308!

Legislators and other political office holders were deliberately cut off in order to avoid the kind of shameful/disgraceful scenarios that have been continuously displayed by unruly lawmakers of the 8th National Assembly, from inception on 9th August, 2015, till date within their green and red cubicles, where their utterances were immunized from prosecution! And because some of them had no reputable pedigree, they had displayed recklessness in speech/utterances against well-established institutions of government and respectable individuals and not sparing the exalted personality of the President and Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria! And that is why no legislator was charged to any court of law in spite of the lawlessness exhibited to the whole world during the joint session of National Assembly, which the President addressed at the 2019 Budget presentation!

The Nigerian Senate tried in futility to sponsor a bill to grant legislators with the same immunity being enjoyed by topmost officers of the Executive without success! The deputy senate president, Ike Ekeremadu, who spearheaded the move pegged his reasons on the diversionary tendencies of court litigations against law-makers in the legitimate discharges of law-making and oversight duties!

HOW NOT TO BE A NIGERIAN LAW-MAKER!
Dino Daniel Melaye, is our case study of "How Not To Be a Nigerian Senator! Not much of a political career of Dino manifested until he surfaced at the House of Representatives in 2011, as the choice of KOGI WEST Constituency and exhibited some traits of a confused "rights activist", during a rowdy/combative session in which his cloth was reduced to shreds and in addition was suspended for his role as a ring leader of those whom condemned the government of ex-president Ebele Jonathan as the most corrupt in Nigeria!
Though found guilty by the House Committee on Ethics and Privileges, Dino (now 45 years old), played the victim to solicit for sympathy votes which took him to the red chambers ahead of Senator Smart Adeyemi who was a preferred choice to the charign of political watchers! During his period at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, from year 2000, he was said to have been seriously involved in students unionism activities which delayed his academic pursuit longer than usual.  Having acquired the Kogi West Senatorial District seat on a platter of gold, Dino as one of the arrow heads of the NASS Coup of 9th December, 2015, idolized 'Bukola Saraki, whose nomination he seconded   as candidate for the office of Senate President, and which was acquired by hook and crook on 9th June, 2015!
He led a team of 80 Senators in solidarity to attend Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), when his principal was charge for assets declaration/falsification! Before then, he also led some "distinguished senators" to keep vigil with Saraki's wife during her interrogation at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in 2015!

Dino Melaye stands out as the most controversial senator since the fresh attempt to establish a new democratic dispensation:
Though he rode to victory on the platform of the APC, having dumped his former party, PDP, which he alleged treated him very badly at the lower chambers, he did not waste time  to become a leader of the Opposition within the ruling Party!
From the onset Dino serially condemned virtually all Executive activities, especially Bills and Presidential nominees for confirmation with the succinct support of his master, 'Bukola Saraki, who always gave him ample opportunities to desecrate the hallowed chambers with his despicable character, uncouth and foul languages not befitting such gathering of eminent personalities!
He recklessly uttered libelous vituperations in the chambers without being called to order by Saraki! During a debate he disrespected Senator (Mrs.) 'Remi Tinubu, whom he boasted he would beat up and impregnate on the floor of the house and got away with that statement because of "chambers immunity"!
He accused Adams Oshiomole during his tenure as Governor of Edo State, for importing his wife instead of marrying a Nigerian woman!
He was alleged to be operating a foreign bank account contrary to constitutional provisions and which he constantly denied, but it is believed that the EFCC is already investigating the allegations!
He is involved in certificate scandals as both Harvard University and London School of Economics and Political Science; but both institutions have denied his claims to have studied on their campuses!
Dino Melaye has also been on collision course with his State Governor, Yahaya Bello, whom he accused of spending over N1 billion naira over unproductive ventures instead of paying salaries and pensions to workers and described the attitude as "a wicked act"!
This controversial senator jumped out of a moving Police vehicle which was conveying to Kogi State to answer to some criminal charges, injured himself and eventually ended up in the hospital!
A RECALL process was made against Dino Melaye in June 2017, but the attempt was foiled by both Saraki and his deputy, who boasted that the move would fail and ensured that it did not wail through!
Melaye jumped ship with 13 other APC Senators back to PDP, with the aim of destabilizing the polity and give the opposition a majority edge over the ruling Party and create more grandstanding in the Parliament! Senator Saraki later joined the bandwagon of the traitors and shamelessly held on to the position of Senate President, even as the minority party in the equation!
The ubiquitous senator always shouted at the top of his voice that he was "a transparently honest Nigerian" and to prove that point, he published in May 2016, an anti-corruption book titled, "ANTIDOTES FOR CORRUPTION: THE NIGERIAN STORY" (instead of using the preposition "to"), to read Antidotes To Corruption, which was launched by SARAKI and purchased for 469 legislators for N23, 450,000 @ N50.000 per hard cover! Dame Patience Jonathan, former first lady also graced the occasion which received back lashes from the social media!

IS SENATOR DINO MELAYE ABOVE THE LAW?
He alleged that the Police IG wanted to arrest him and inject him to death and that his life was not safe in the custody of the organization whereas, Dino and his group were accused of shooting at a police officer Sgt.Danjuma Saliu, attached to Kogi Police Command, while on duty on Aiyetoro Gbede, Mopa Road, Kogi, in July 2018, during a stop and search exercise!

He was summoned to report to the Kogi Police Command to answer to the allegation of culpable homicide but refused to show up until his Abuja resident was seiged from the 29th December 2018, in order to effect his arrest with a court warrant!

Dino was accused of escaping from the scene and had refused to honour Police invitation of the Kogi Police Command to answer to the charges, in spite of the letter written to the Clerk of the National Assembly!
The Police siege on Dino, who holed up himself in his Abuja residence for seven days: 29th December, 2018 - 4th January, 2019, to avoid arrest, ended on Friday when the Police confirmed that Melaye who lied to the world in a tweet that he was out of Abuja, eventually opened the door of his Abuja residence, came out and fell down on in front of the waiting personnel of the Force he surrendered on 4th January, 2019, after a 7-day siege by the Police! The Senator had been transferred to the Police Hospital for medical treatment in order to be very fit for his impending trial in Kogi State

Senator Melaye is a misnomer in high level politics, a very opposite of the distinguished, decent, prestigious and articulate senators of other climes! He had always given Nigerian Government detractors plausible reasons for deriding the nation as the worst as in every comparative analysis of economic, political or social issues!
All bad politicians MUST be voted out of office from 16th February - 2nd March, 2019!
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. (Prov 14:12).

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.

ONCE A LOSER, ALWAYS A LOSER - PDP WILL FALL AGAIN AT THE 2019 POLLS!

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 281. 30th December, 2018.] “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

ONCE A LOSER, ALWAYS A LOSER - PDP WILL FALL AGAIN AT THE 2019 POLLS!
[2019 NEW YEAR EDITION]

If the General Abubakar Salami-led Committee on Abuja Peace Accord (APA), signed on 12th December, 2018, had the slightest indication that their good intention would turn out to be an effort in futility, they would not have embarked on the "national assignment" in the first instance!
The working document, crafted by experts to guide all the 91 Political parties to stick to the rules of the game by ensuring a level playing field of issue/objective-based campaigns, avoidance of character assassination, hate speech/publications, campaigns of calumny etc, was dead on arrival because, candidate of the major opposition party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, failed to show up on the august day to append his signature side by side with President Muhammadu Buhari of the ruling party!

Although, he reluctantly signed the paperwork on the following day, it was manifest to the whole world few days after the whole exercise was a ruse when his party and their cohorts exhibited their penchant for always reneging on covenants during the 2019 BUDGET PRESENTATION by the President to Nigerians and by extension to the whole world!

The Opposition Legislators led by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), proved political analysts right on that fateful Wednesday, 19th December, 2018, during the presentation of the 2019 Appropriation Estimates to a joint session of the National Assembly, Abuja, when they revealed their true identity by employing derogatory languages (just like the negative daily internet invectives upon the person of President Muhammadu Buhari), and continuously punctuated his speech with boos, jeers, insults, synonymous with their on-line languages of the social network - twitter, instagram, facebook etc!
We have it on good authority that the SHOW OF SHAME was an organized, orchestrated and hatched plan championed by PDP legislators whose Presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar, signed the toothless Abuja Peace Accord, which had NO BACKING OF THE LAW, and who neither listened nor understood the entire content of the 2019 Budget Document!

From that time to date Atiku's campaign team had consistently and persistently heated the polity with various unsubstantiated allegations of corruption against the incumbent President, members of his cabinet and close associates in order to gain relevance at all costs because of Atiku's "dented" social integrity and unmarketable political image!
Atiku's handlers have totally forgotten that neither their dissemination of false/hate news on the social media, nor vicious libellous vituperations on the print/electronic media, could change the hand of the clock that is ticking towards victory for the ANOINTED CANDIDATE, Muhammadu Buhari, come 16th February, 2019!
In spite of 16 years of consecutive woeful administrations by PDP and their advantageous power of incumbency up to the general elections of 2015, they fell YAKATA! They will fall again and again because they have not made full RESTITUTION for all the political, social, economic and security breaches committed through incompetence and corruption with impunity against innocent Nigerians in several years of violence and bloodshed!

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 2019 N8.83 TRILION BUDGET ESTIMATES!
The budget proposal is based  on the following assumptions: (1) Oil price bench mark of USD $60 dollars per barrel; (2) Crude Oil production estimate of 2.3 million barrels per day, including  condensates; (3) Exchange rate of N305 to USD$1.00 dollar; (4) Real GDP growth of 3.01% and Inflation rate of 9.98%.
Total projected revenue is projected at N6.97 trillion (which is 3% lower than the 2018 estimate of N 7.17trillion), consisting of Oil revenue projected at N3.73 trillion while non-oil revenue is estimated at N 1.39 trillion.  A total expenditure of N 8.83 trillion which included grants and donor funds of N209.92 billion is estimated for 2019.
This provision is less than the 2018 appropriated expenditure of N9.12 trillion. However, it is higher than the N8.6 trillion originally proposed by the Executive WHICH WAS PADDED BY THE LEGISLSTORS OF NASS in 2018!

This proposed N8.83 trillion of 2019 Aggregate Expenditure comprise the following: (1) Recurrent Costs, 4.04 trillion; (2) Debt Servicing of N2.14 trillion; (3) Statutory Transfers of about N492.36 billion; (4) Sinking Fund of N120 billion which will be used to retire maturing bonds to local contractors; (5) Recurrent Expenditure was N4.04 trillion or 50.31% and N2.03 trillion representing 22.98% earmarked for Capital Projects; (6) Debt Servicing, N2.14 trillion; (7) Most of Recurrent Expenditure will be disbursed as Sectoral Allocation for salaries/overheads of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA's)/Personnel Costs, etc, etc, as expatiated in the breakdown by the Minister for Budget and National Planning who believed that Budget circle of January to December could still be actualized by the end of the coming year.

The President disclosed that 53% of the current fiscal year of 2018 had been executed; out of a total appropriation of N 9.12 trillion, N4.59 trillion had been spent as at 30th September, 2018, against the prorated expenditure target of N6.84 trillion which represents 67% performance with Capital Projects gulping N820.57 billon as at 14th December, 2018, and that government intended to roll over the balance to blend with the 2019 Budget which has made provisions for the NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE, for comprehensive execution!

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS OF THE APC GOVERNMENT IN THREE-AND-HALF-YEARS: MAY 2015- NOVEMBER 2018:
In spite of the economic challenging scenarios (local/foreign), on prices of both oil and non-oil commodities, the unpredictable trends in security, trade, politics etc, Nigeria, according to the President's account of stewardship, was able to wade through recession, unstable oil production bench marks, devastating floods, and still marching into the future with optimism and great faith.
Other achievements are listed as follows: (1) Strenuous and successful efforts to overcome the insurgency in the North East and to resolve inter-communal misunderstandings elsewhere; (2) Collaboration between Federal Government and National Economic Council to amicably resolve the incessant rift between nomadic pastoralists and sedentary farmers; (3) Sustenance of efforts to fight grand corruption in order to improve public financial management through the implementation of the Treasury Single Account (TSA), Government Integrated Financial Management Information System (GIFMIS), and the (4) Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS);etc, etc.

Oil and Gas/Crude Oil production, including diversification to Agriculture received mention and it is refreshing to note that up to early 2015, Nigeria spent USD $5 million dollars per day on rice importation while in 2018, imports have virtually stopped as the nation progresses toward achieving food security in major staple foods in the not too distant future. In areas of infrastructure development, the completion of abandoned critical projects took the front burner instead of the introduction of new ones, according to president's account. One hundred and sixteen (116), abandoned or uncompleted irrigation, dams, drainage and water supply across the six geo-political zones were identified by the Change government and were fixed during the period under review, while abandoned Power supply, Railway and Road constructions projects were not left out in the on-going intervention. In 2018 an additional 1,531 km of roads have been constructed while 1,008 km, have been rehabilitated. Construction work on the Second Niger Bridge is ongoing while Federal Government's major road infrastructure is also ongoing in every State of the federation through the Presidential Infrastructure Development Fund and that Nigeria gained 24 places in the World Bank Ease of Doing Business rankings was clear indication that the economy was moving in the right direction!

OPPOSITION LEGISLATORS HAVE BETRAYED NIGERIANS! 
Knowing full well that they were unfit, unprepared/unequipped educationally for the onerous legislative duties of making laws that would proffer positive impact on the security/social/economic lives of the masses, they opted to cover up for their lapses through constant confrontations with the Executive!
In respect of the ongoing Academic Staff Union of Universities/Polytechnics Lecturers Strike (ASUU/ASUP STRIKE), the current NASS legislators have played the ostrich to the agitations by lecturers of the tertiary institutions (universities/polytechnics), who have severally complained about decaying teaching and learning infrastructures through neglect of past administrations simply because their children were either studying abroad or in Nigerian private universities! Although the United Nations recommendation that 26% of the annual national budget of each country be appropriated to the Education Sector, had been reduced to a mere meddlesome counsel and nothing more because it was in the interest of the legislators if more money would accrue to them through less appropriation and as such would look the other way if the executive allotted an insignificant pittance of about 6% to the sector annually!

LABOUR UNIONS MUST NOT RESUME NATION-WIDE STRIKE ON 2ND JAN. 2019!
Legislators with fat bank accounts would care less whether the Executive presented a Bill for quick passage into law to support the N30, 000 national minimum wage concluded through a tripartite agreement for the least-worker in November 2018, because they seemed to have forgotten that without the sweat and labour of the diligent workers, they would not have been able to occupy their transient positions in the first instance! But, do they have any choice now than to co-operate and fast-track the minimum wage bill as soon as it was delivered to them by the Executive to avert any disruption of the up-coming 2019 electoral process? We also expect President Buhari to urgently forward the National Minimum Wage Bill to the legislators as he promised during the 2019 Budget presentation without the slightest delay and to also recall

THE PEACE CORPS OF NIGERIA BILL FOR ASSENT!
It is in the interest of boosting the security network through increase in workforce/strength and better assurance for protecting lives and properties of the TALKAWAS whom he had vouched to succour!
Results of the 2019 General Elections would surely separate the WHEAT from the CHAFF! " A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.’’ (Prove 18:16)

We wish all our esteemed readers a very happy and a prosperous new year!

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.

WHY IS THE OPPOSITION JITTERY OVER THE 2018 ELECTORAL ACT (AMENDMENT) BIIL?

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 279. 16th December, 2018.] “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

WHY IS THE OPPOSITION JITTERY OVER THE 2018 ELECTORAL ACT (AMENDMENT) BIIL?

The controversy that has been generated by the Opposition over the non-assent by President Muhammadu Buhari to the Electoral Act,  2018 (Amendment), Bill, should be addressed objectively in order to identify in true perspectives of what actually went amiss instead of casting aspersions and questionable blames over the entire process!

The process of the said amendment began with NASS legislators who initiated a hidden agenda based on selfishness avarice and greed by reversing the sequence of elections to begin with theirs instead of the Presidential as published by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in January 2017!

The move was not only rebuffed but rejected by the President and INEC which is constitutionally saddled with all electoral matters but was tested in the law court where the learned judge upheld the electoral body's petition! And not satisfied, the law makers made three other attempts and in all, produced imperfect documents, which contained several grammatical and typographical errors!

Is it not very evident to all Nigerian democrats - at home and the Diaspora - that majority of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Legislators who took over as principal officers at the inauguration of the 8th National Assembly (NASS), on 9th June, 2015, by force, were charlatans who were unprepared for national assignments but only desperate to remain in political power at all costs?

Having tried unsuccessfully to destabilize the Change Agenda through nefarious anti-party activities these law makers who defected from the PDP in 2014 to APC, jumped ship to their former party in May 2018, in discontent but adamantly refused to relinquish their positions in order to further heat up the polity!

From the onset, the ruling government was quick to introduce the Treasury Single Account (TSA), in order to check 16 years of looting by successive PDP Administrations and that action did not go down well with the dishonourable politicians who chose the exit door but kept on castigating the President for refusing assent to the fourth presentation of the amendments to the Electoral Act, 2014, which was presented  late October, 2018 - very close to the 2019 Elections!

Prominent among the traitors were two NASS arrowheads, Senator 'Bukola Saraki and Honourable Yakubu Dogara, who threw integrity/caution/mien to the winds but coveted and held tightly to the lucrative principal positions for pecuniary gains while the very important legislative portfolio that should benefit the masses of the people in their districts and constituencies now suffer because of inordinate ambition and greed!

And is it not also very glaring now that these law makers and their cohorts in NASS were mere political jobbers, who were neither prepared nor bred to formulate or legislate, in view of the shenanigans now brewing over the 2018 Electoral Act (Amendment), Bill, which should have been assented to by the President as far back as January, 2017, if they had conscientiously carried out their constitutional duties?

There was an amended Electoral Act that was signed into law in 2015, and which is still in force as the extant legislation that should suffice for the coming elections as no vacuum was envisaged by the present administration in the lawful/constitutional execution of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), duties as the Opposition Parties now want Nigerians and the World to believe!

The moment President Muhammadu Buhari declined assent to the Bill for the fourth time, major opposition parties led by the Peoples Democratic Nigeria (PDP), cried foul as if the 2019 General Elections would be grounded without the EPILEPTIC AMENDMENTS which had taken them over TWO YEARS from KINDERGATEN through ELEMENTARY and only managed to reach JUNIOR SECONDARY STAGE (JSS I), at NASS before it crashed again to ground zero! WHO IS TO BLAME, BUHARI OR NASS?

PRESIDENTIAL DECLINE TO ASSENT 2018 ELECTORAL BILL - RIGHT OR WRONG?
The very covetous legislators in their FIRST submission reversed the Electoral time-table sequence submitted by INEC, one year before their alterations which placed NASS/Governorship/ State Legislative elections ahead of the Presidential, which was in the number one slot! The President declined assent, INEC went to court and won the case against the greedy NASS legislators! The FIRST presentation died a natural death on that note!
The SECOND and the THIRD were full of “mumbo jumbo" languages that would confuse judges in the event of election litigations!
PMB'S REASONS FOR WITHOLDING ASSENT FOR THE 4TH TIME ON 6TH DECEMBER 2018!
Submission too close to elections,
Errors in tenses and expressions,
Fresh amendments can only be assented after 2019 General Elections to take effect from the next general Elections in 2023!
How can anyone complain that the non-assent of the bill would prevent the conduct of free, fair and credible election in 2019? This gimmick can best be described as pre-meditated sabotage against the ELECTORATE whom the law makers were bent on to confuse and deceive!

CAN THE COVETOUS NASS LEGISLATORS OVERRIDE THE PRESIDENT? CAN THEY MUSTER THE 2/3 MAJORITY VOTE AGAINST HIS DECLINE?
HIGHLIGHTS:
ONLY CARD READERS MUST BE USED FOR ACCREDITATION AND VOTING?
INTRODUCTION OF ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION OF RESULTS FROM THE 120, 000 POLLING BOOTHS TO THE COLLATION CENTRES IN 2019 - LIKE IT TRANSPIRES IN THE USA AND SOME HIGHLY DEVELOPED NATIONS OF THE WORLD - AND,
TOTAL CANCELLATION OF INCIDENCE FORMS IN THE CASE OF FAULTY CARD READERS! And the opportunist law makers expected those REFORMS to be implemented immediately in spite of all their ineptitudes/incompetence! They surely have nerves! The Electorate should arm themselves with their Permanent Voters Cards (PVC), and vote out these CONFUSIONISTS!

The 2015 Electoral Act provided the platform through which that year's General Elections was fought and won without rancour. It is still in place for 2019! Nigerian Youths should not agree to be deployed as THUGS! They should instead support candidates vying for elective positions in the "Not Too Young To Rule" Party! A WORD IS ENOUGH FOR THE WISE!

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

UNITED NATIONS GANG-UP AGAINST NIGERIA CANNOT STOP BUHARI FROM A LANDSLIDE VICTORY IN 2019!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 7. NO 278. 9th December, 2018.] “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

UNITED NATIONS GANG-UP AGAINST NIGERIA CANNOT STOP BUHARI FROM A LANDSLIDE VICTORY IN 2019!

Some years before the 2015 General Elections that brought the All Progressive Congress and President Muhammadu Buhari to power, the United States represented the arrow head of some detractors who predicted that Nigeria would break up into smittens in that year and would be erased from the World Map! President Donald Trump's Government took off where Obama stopped and decided have his pound of flesh through stiff immigration policies and less security supports but plays the ostrich in relation to fictitious/negative global ratings about Nigeria and the gang-up by the United Nations and its agencies!

The intricate/diverse and cultural sentiments of about 250 identified tribes and over 500 tongues/dialects of topographical Nigeria would always play out and only those who are genuinely concerned about the challenges of uniting such multitude of 200 million people, would appreciate the enormous but gradual process of the transformation mantra of the new dispensation which is already taking effect in spite of the failed 2015 AMERICAN PROPHECY OF DOOM!
"Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the LORD commandeth it not’’(Lam 3:37).
How could any alien group of people in their right frames of mind annually condemn Nigeria as the country with the poorest citizens, with the most mal-nourished children, the worst in child/maternal mortality rate, most educationally backward, most corrupt, a country with the worst security outfit of soldiers/Police, the worst in human rights violation index, the worst in climate and environmental degradation record, etc? WHO MADE THEM JUDGE OVER NIGERIA AND WHY WOULD DISCREDITED POLITICIANS BELIEVE, HOOK, LINE AND SINKER THE ANNUAL HOGWASH INDEXING WHICH HAS NOW PLACED THE NATION AS THE 3RD MOST TERRORIZED NATION IN THE WORLD BELOW AMERICA, SYRIA, AFGHANISTAN, EGYPT, LIBYA, CONGO, SOMALIA ETC? THIS BLATANT LIE! IS UNACCEPTABLE!

AMERICA IS THE MOST TERRORIZED NATION IN THE WORLD!
America, where there are more guns that the population, stands out as the most terrorized nation of the world but has a massive diplomatic portfolio to cleverly hide its dirty laundries in the closets!
America takes penchant in poke-nosing, interfering and meddling in the internal affairs of other nations to prove its self-acclaimed position as a "super power" but we have it on record that USA could not succeed to put down VIETNAM, MYAMAR, NORTH KOREA etc, militarily and in international diplomatic assaults/provocations through their annual NOTORIOUS/RACIAL INDEXING!

It is not a hidden fact that all of America's major and remote cities harbour the worst criminals - murderers, assassins, killer gunmen, suicide bombers, hard drug/narcotic dealers, gun-runners, mafia drug lords, the hideous, deadly and racist "klu klux klan", psychopaths, paedophiles etc, who operate on per-second basis - with New York, Chicago, etc, leading the pack but government would posit that crime was on the decline!

UNREPENTANT PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PDP) WROTE FALSE/HATE LETTERS TO UN AND USA!
The SIXTEEN YEARS of negative PDP successive governments of massive corruption with impunity no doubt gave those international bodies the latitude to gaffe, but they MUST now have the moral burden to admit that all of the negative, uninvestigated/exaggerated and presumptuous social/political/economic anomalies INDEXED AGAINST NIGERIA ALSO EXIST IN THEIR BLOODY COUNTRIES WHERE AGGRAVATED POVERTY IS VERY GLARING!

Is not also very glaring to all Nigerian democrats that when all vindictive campaigns of calumny against the person and government of President Muhammadu Buhari - Nigeria's divinely-chosen Chief Crusader against CORRUPTION in all facets of the nation's public and private sectors of governance by the opposition woefully failed, that they resorted to series of pseudo letter-writing tactics to attract negative international assessments from the United Nations, European Union (EU) and other prominent world bodies?

BUT BUHARI HAS THE PEDIGREE TO TAKE NIGERIA TO THE PROMISED LAND!
"Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them!" This classic quote came from the bowels of the sage, William Shakespeare whose unequalled literary prowess of colossus dimension had traversed several generations but yet, still desired to be relished with gluttony by global scholars from all genres of academic disciplines!

President Muhammadu Buhari falls within the category of some whom greatness was THRUST upon and his antecedent speaks volumes in that direction! Here was a man whose main ambition from adolescence was to serve his nation with much passion, even at the peril of his youthful existence, when he decided to enrol in the Nigerian Army (NA)! As a commissioned officer, he fought on the side of the Federal Troops, throughout the 30-month-old Biafra Civil War and served the various military governments thereafter in the course of nation-building until he was appointed Head of State between December 1983-November 1985!
His administration was short but very purposeful because his focus was socialist and welfarist in nature which left no one in doubt that he was people-oriented! He was quick to instil the culture of discipline among the citizens through his pet programme code-named War Against Indiscipline (WAI), the inculcation of QUEUEING to access services at all public utilities and social infrastructures and most importantly WAR AGAINST CORRUPTION!
He tenaciously went after those who were accused of corruption and made them to defend all allegations through judicial processes!
Patriotic Nigerians thought he was making progress in the crusade for a better country but Ibrahim Babangida and his collaborators thought otherwise as so in yet another military coup, he was ousted and detained for over three years in the then Mid-West, now Edo State! But his dream to make Nigeria a better nation could not be killed and in his retirement days, he got himself prepared to rule Nigeria as a DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT and actualize that dream with THREE FAILED ATTEMPTS from 2003-2011, until he eventually won in 2015, through DIVINE INTERVENTION!

WITH SPECIAL INTERVENTION PROGRAMMES (SIPs), NIGERIA IS WORKING!
Within the short period of less than four years and in spite of the self-induced RECESSION by previous PDP administration and the orchestrated negative international reports, Nigeria is definitely marching on in the right, social, political, and economic directions, because the over FOUR decades of Buhari's welfarist ideologies after retirement, have now metamorphosed into Special Intervention Programmes which include but not limited to 
Road/Rail constructions,
Meaningful diversification to agriculture through the Central Bank of Nigeria's Farmers Anchors Borrowers Programme,
Graduate Employments through the N-POWER Programme,
Market Women Financial Support Scheme, through Bank of Industry and the African Development Bank,
Traders Money Scheme, for small scale traders across the 774 LGAs,
Rehabilitation and resettlement of over 35,000 citizens from IDP Camps in the NorthEast, and of
Thousands of Returnees from Libya,
Regular Funding of the Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMSEs),
School Feeding Programme, being executed in 26 States of the federation, (19) Monthly Five thousand naira stipend to identified poorest of the poor in Nigeria etc.
CHINA AND INDIA EXPERIENCED DEVELOPMENTAL CRISIS AND SURVIVED - NIGERIA WILL ALSO SURVIVE!

MUST BUHARI GO?
Atiku Abubakar's campaign slogan that "Buhari Must Go”, is now sounding like a broken record! Is history not repeating itself? In 2003, Atiku desired that, his former boss, Olusegun Obasanjo should vacate the presidency for him, but he failed and in later years begged for forgiveness, but Obasanjo bluntly refused until now when he reversed himself! In 2011, Atiku opposed the candidature of Late President Musa Yar 'Adua and failed; in 2007 he opposed Buhari at the APC primaries, but came a distance 3RD! He has begun a fresh campaign, without proffering ideas nor issues other than shouting, "Buhari must go", at rallies at Sokoto, Ilorin and Ibadan!
CAN ATIKU MAKE IT TO ASO VILLA IN 2019 OR IN HIS LIFE TIME even with the endorsement of Aremu Obasanjo and Coalition of 35 Political parties?
What is the population of all of them put together? Could he ever become Nigeria's president having spent 8 years as a "SECUNDUS" from 1999-2007?
Can he bribe his way through the 2019 polls with his popular AMERICAN DOLLARS?
THOSE MIXED MULTITUDE MUST NOT REACH PROMISED LAND! Nigerians should rise with one voice through their Permanent Voters Cards (PVCS), in 2019, and send all money-monger politicians now defecting round about for selfish interests, back to the labour market!

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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.

WILL NNPC TURN OUT TO BE AN ECONOMIC SABOTEUR UNDER BUHARI'S WATCH?

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 277. 2nd December, 2018.] “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

WILL NNPC TURN OUT TO BE AN ECONOMIC SABOTEUR UNDER BUHARI'S WATCH?

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), a strategic industrial government infrastructure is no push over because it's crude oil and by-products comprising; premium motor spirit (petrol), kerosene, diesel, lubricants, (engine oil, grease, etc,), dictated Nigeria's economic growth in view of their high and constant demands at home and abroad for over five decades until the advent of the Change mantra!

Crude Oil gained prominence as Nigeria's major foreign exchange earner over the groundnut/millets pyramids of the North, cocoa beans and other farm produce of the South shortly after Nigeria's 30-month-old Civil War when the black gold gushed out of the Niger Delta pipelines in large commercial quantity from the early seventies!

Between then and now, (a period of about forty-eight years), controversies had trailed proceeds which accrued from the mono product because of a deliberate policy of non-accountability process - during the military juntas and now in the fresh attempt at true democracy from 1999!
To date, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), had neither successfully declared its crude oil daily output nor produced a scorecard of a credible forensic audit since its incorporation in 1977! 

In Nigeria, oil exploration is governed by the Petroleum Act, and the right to grant licences is the exclusive preserve of the Minister of Petroleum who co-ordinates all petroleum-related affairs and administers all relevant laws/regulations through the Ministry of Petroleum Resources. This Ministry under his portfolio also supervises activities of all executive organs of the public sector of the oil industry, government interests and investments with other relevant ministries in an advisory capacity.
However the NNPC which supervision falls directly under the purview of the Minister of Petroleum, had always feigned a kind of independence from accountability to either its parent body, the Ministry of Petroleum Resources or the Federal Ministry of Finance in respect of its operational activities, incomes, expenditures, remittances, taxes, and certain financial percentage lawfully granted to the body as running costs! At different times NNPC had been accused of either holding back huge sums un-remitted funds to the Federation Account or non-disclosure of its accounts which are shrouded in secrecy!

When His Royal Highness Sanusi Lamido Sanusi was Governor of Central Bank, he alleged that a sum of USD $49.8 billion dollars was unremitted but after series of investigations, ex-president Jonathan's government agreed that missing fund was $ 20 billion dollars! During that same period in February 2014, it was also alleged that NNPC regularly paid USD $700 million dollars to oil marketers as KEROSINE SUBSIDY on daily basis as against presidential directive!
In view of all of the above discrepancies, NNPC has been severally described as the citadel of outrageous corruption that had defied all genuine efforts to redeem its bad image because covetous politicians of consecutive governments since 1999 had converted the organisation to their Automated Teller Machine (ATM)! They have become super rich and are using illicit funds to destabilize the economy through the Illicit Financial Flow syndrome which has grown to between 70-75% in Nigeria, money-laundering, illegal oil bunkering, oil subsidy scam etc.
NNPC has become an albatross around the nation's neck, because it has not fulfilled its mandate as a major foreign exchange earner for Nigeria as the SIXTH global producer of crude oil and as a result, the Change Government has been under high pressure to faithfully deliver its promises of the dividends of democracy!

CAN THE LOW CAPACITY PERFORMANCES OF THE FOUR REFINERIES UNDER NNPC'S WATCH BE JUSTIFIED? AND HOW COME JUNIOR PETROLEUM MINISTER IBE KACHUKWU NOW RENEGES ON HIS PROMISE TO END FUEL IMPORTATION BY 2019 IN ORDER TO ERASE THE FUEL SUBSIDY SCAM ONCE AND FOR ALL? Will Kachukwu take "a walk" or "take a bow"; now that he could not fulfil his promise?

And now, "OIL MARKETERS" are demanding a whooping sum of N 800 billion naira SUBSIDY ARREARS for fuel products importation which government MUST pay since similar importations would continue into 2019, to avoid ARTIFICIAL FUEL SCARCITY from now into the year of the general elections! And it is common knowledge that some fake oil marketers have been jailed for collecting billions of naira for unimported fuel products with false documents and connivance of some NNPC officials and insiders! NNPC IS NO DOUBT A FERTILE GROUND FOR INSTITUTIONAL CORRUPTION WITH IMPUNITY WHICH MIGHT BECOME INCURABLE WITHOUT SERIOUS URGENT FORENSIC SURGERY!

AND NOW ALHAJI ATIKU ABUBAKAR, PDP'S PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE HOPES TO "PRIVATIZE" NNPC IF HE COULD OCCUPY ASO ROCK VILLA IN 2019! Can Nigerians forget so easily when he and ex- president Olusegun Obasanjo privatized most strategic economic institutions and critical government's movable and immovable assets to themselves and their cronies between 1999-2007 and also freely disbursed mandatory funds which accrued to the Petroleum Trust Development Fund (PTDF), from NNPC, during the same period in question?

IS NNPC MAKING ILLEGAL WITHDRAWALS FROM THE LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS (NLG)?
NNPC has been accused by the SENATE Committee on GAS of making 22 withdrawals from Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG), Dividend Account to the tune of USD $ 3.1 billion between May 2015 and 2018, and requests it to urgently produce its authorization with back-up documents from both NNPC and Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)!  If it is true, did NNPC possess such right or authority to withdraw such an amount and what did it use the withdrawal to offset? Does it intend to pay the petroleum marketers SUBSIDIES which are being subtly demanded as the president prepares for elections? However, NNPC requests Senate to extend the probe to 1999!

MALABU OIL & GAS COMPANY SCANDAL RE-SURFACES!
The Malabu Oil and Gas Company Scandal took a new dimension when the report from a foreign organisation, Global Witness, and broadcast on BBC, allegedly fingered former President Ebele Jonathan and a former Petroleum Minister, Dan Etete, (owner of Malabu Oil and Gas since 1998), in an illegal oil deal involving two multi-national companies, SHELL and ENI, which allegedly defrauded Nigeria of about USD$ 6 billion dollars in profit in the year 2011!  Others include former MI6 Officers, former senior executives at Shell and Eni Oil Companies who are waiting for an Italian Court  judgement on whether the USD $1.1 billion dollars paid in the controversial Malabu oil deal in Nigeria was used as a bribe to win the licence for the oil block!

Dan Etete, who was Petroleum Minister under late General Sanni Abacha, is standing trial in a French Court for awarding ownership of the lucrative Oil Prospecting Licence, OPL 245, estimated to contain NINE billion barrels of crude oil, to a company he secretly controlled and for using illegal proceeds from the deal to purchase a Speed Boat and Chateau! A court in Milan, is also weighing evidence of how the minister bribed ex-president Ebele Jonathan to cover the fraud! He was alleged to have paid only USD $2 million of the $ 20 million legally required by the State and thereby abused his office as Petroleum Minister!

The report revealed that Shell knew that the deal was illegal but still went ahead to be part of it even though a number of Nigerian officials raised concerns about the scandalous deal! Both companies denied any wrongdoing but maintained that they "acted correctly the purchase of the OPL 245"! Patriotic Nigerians and Global Witness want President Buhari to terminate the oil deal contract described as “sheer act of corruption and betrayal of trust"

It has also been reported that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has begun moves to extradite ex-Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Mohammed Adoke and eight others believed to be principal actors involved in the scandal to face trial in Nigeria. Nine persons had been charged at the Federal High Court, Abuja since 2001, while a Nigerian and an Italian were sentenced to FOUR years in prison by an Italian Court, for their roles as middlemen! The trial which has spanned almost 20 years is ongoing!

PMB SHOULD ASSERT HIS RIGHTS AS PETROLEUM MINISTER!
President Muhammadu Buhari who is the substantive Minister of Petroleum Resources should take positive steps to counter the fears of his junior minister by ensuring that any decision in respect of continuous importation of FUEL PRODUCTS MUST favour the downtrodden, the TALAKAWAS whose interest he had sworn to protect at all times! NO AVERAGE NIGERIAN IS READY TO PAY ABOVE N145.00 FOR PETROL NEITHER SHOULD HE ALLOW OPPOSITION THUGS AND MISCREANTS TO HI-JACK THE ELECTORAL PROCESS THROUGH SMEAR CAMPAIGN AS THE 2019 GENERAL ELECTIONS GET UNDERWAY!

The President should build on the successes recorded in the ECONOMIC DIVERSIFICATION TO AGRICULTURE, NATURAL SOLID MINERAL RESOURCES, ENTERTAINMENT, TOURISM, FILM INDUSTRY ETC!
Presently, international crude oil price has dropped to below $60 dollars, - but Saudi Arabia, a major global player and OPEC STALWART in the oil and gas industry which recently cut its daily  production with ONE MILLION barrels per day (bpd), believes in a consensus to balance the market. This move would be considered on 6th December, 2018 in Vienna as Nigeria's 2019 Budget estimates, assumptions and projections, including its Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), definitely needs the economic boost! The President should DECLARE A STATE OF EMERGENCY ON NNPC AND THE OIL SECTOR OF THE ECONOMY and get it to conform with its constitutional duties in diligent operations and regular accountability in line with international best practice at all times! A thorough FORENSIC AUDITING OF NNPC ACCOUNTS should be carried out quickly to purge it of all impurities and dross in its system in order to give it a brand new life in tandem with the CHANGE AGENDA of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Government and ensure that MODULAR REFINERIES come on board in 2019!
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.

WHO WOULD HAVE SHED HIS BLOOD FOR JONATHAN'S AMBITION?

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 276. 25th November, 2018.] “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

WHO WOULD HAVE SHED HIS BLOOD FOR JONATHAN'S AMBITION?

The erstwhile Nigerian President, Dr. Ebele Jonatahan should not have documented any book to justify his action or inaction while in office or during his "Transition Hours", but should have let posterity judge him because no amount of propaganda would erase the TRUTH in respect of his stewardship! He should have allowed the "sleeping dog lie!"

Beginning with his kinsmen, of the very small Bayelsa State of the South-South Geo-Political Zone whose Governor Seriake Dickson, once told Jonathan face to face that his tenure as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria neither rubbed off nor benefitted his native land in any way in spite of his unusual/providential opportunity of rising from nothingness to power, prestige, honour and affluence!

If Dr. Ebele Jonathan did not "CONCEDE DEFEAT" to the incumbent President to whom he lost at the close of elections in 2015, with over 2.5 million votes, heavens would not have fallen and the failed candidate's sing-song as an AFRICAN HERO would not be gaining currency as some People’s Democratic Party (PDP), apologists and political jobbers want the world to hypocritically continue to believe!

With his lack-lustre five-year abysmal performance in office as Nigeria's providential President, political pundits/analysts/critics did not placate his ego at all, but also told him bluntly that he was "a clueless guy" in those opportuned years in office!
However on Wednesday 22nd November, 2018, the man in the centre of the storm claimed that his adversaries/protagonists were  economic with the truth and that his tenure heralded  phenomenon economic growth, the most prominent of which was the 2013 declaration of Nigeria as the largest economy in Africa; Election of Nigeria into the Security Council of the United Nations TWICE and also that a Nigerian, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, his former Minister of Agriculture, became the President of the African Development Bank (ADB), for the first time!

"MY TRANSITION HOURS" IS AN EXPOSE' OF HALF TRUTHS!
EBELE JONATHAN was no doubt inordinately ambitious because he reneged on his campaign promise not to contest in 2015 in order not to break the ZONING FORMULA of the North/South divide - having constitutionally taken over the mantle of office shortly after the unexpected demise of President Musa Yar' Ardua, of blessed memory in 2010, and also not to exceed ONE TERM IN OFFICE!

On 31st January, 2011, in answer to an electoral franchise request by Diaspora Nigerians in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, during the African Union (AU), Summit, the ex-president said:  "I would have loved that Nigerians in Diaspora vote this year. But to be frank with you, that is going to be difficult now. "Nigerians in the Diaspora will not vote, but I will work towards it by 2015, even though I WILL NOT BE RUNNING FOR ELECTION!" But he denied making such pact with neither his Party nor the Nigerian Electorate!

CORRUPTION INDEX DURING JONATHAN'S TENURE!
In March 2018, Federal Government released a short list (described as a tip of the iceberg), of TREASURY LOOTERS during the 16 sordid years of PDP consecutive administrations from 1999-2015: Top on the list was current Chairman of the inglorious and unrepentant party, Uche Secondus, who on 19th February, 2015, took N 200 million only from the office of the then NSA!
Others who also took money from the Office of the National Security Adviser (NSA), are: Then Financial Secretary on 24th October, 2014, took N 600 million only; then National Publicity Secretary, Olisah Metuh, on trial for collecting N 1.4 billion; Dr. Raymond Dokpesi, Chairman of DAAR Communications, on trial for taking N 2.1 billion; former SSA to President Jonathan, Dudafa Waripamo-Owei, on trial over N 830 million kept in accounts of four different companies; former President Jonathan's Cousin Robert Azibaola, whom a Federal High Court has ruled has a case to answer for collecting $ 40 million from the Office of the NSA.
The official release further states that many of the cases were in court while some of the people are seeking plea bargain adding that "...... Nigeria was looted blind under the watch of the PDP,  and the starting point in tendering an apology is for them to return the loot...... but PDP is a hypocrite.....They brought Nigeria to this sorry pass. We are now looking for loans to build infrastructure and they ask us not to talk about it. We will talk about it." Uche Secondus and Raymond Dokpesi challenged their accusation in court but returned with disgrace as the ruling favoured the Federal Government which described them as LOOTERS!
During Jonathan's tenure, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Abuja Headquarters was stuck with a public appellation as FOUR TOWERS OF CORRUPTION and prove Nigerians right, the then Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Deziani Allison Madueke, was fingered in several dirty financial deals including the hiring of private jets for an outrageous and deafening sum of N 10 billion naira in ONE MONTH and which she justified with a wave of hand just as the then National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd), has claimed that he disbursed the sum of US $ 2.1billion dollars to the LOOTERS on the instructions of the ex-president who is yet to deny the allegation! He was the President who was quoted as saying that, "STEALING WAS NOT CORRUPTION"! 

Already, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has begun the extradition procedure with the British Government to bring back the former minister who escaped to London since the advent of the APC Change Administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, to Nigeria to face criminal charges! Though Jonathan was cautioned by Northern members of PDP and the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), of failure at the 2015 polls, he turned a deaf ear because of the POWER OF INCUBENCY, only to turn around after his defeat to publish a BOOK OF LAMENTATION, titled, "MY TRANSITION HOURS", launched at an elaborate occasion to celebrate his 61st birthday in Abuja on Tuesday 20th November, 2018, with past Nigerian and West African Presidents and Heads of Government, in attendance!

JONATHAN'S ACCUSATIONS AND PUBLIC COMMENTS ON HIS BOOK!
Jonathan in the 194-page book accused so many people, including, party members, the main opposition party All Progressives Congress (APC), of collusion in the plot that eventually culminated in his woeful defeat in 2015, EXCEPT HIMSELF! In the book, he exonerated the then Federal Government for its inability to rescue the abducted 257 CHIBOK GIRLS because  APC was in control of BORNO STATE, accused former United States President, Barak OBAMA and his Secretary of State, John Kerry, of failing to support rescue operations launched by his security forces to rescue the girls; and restated that his resolve that his ambition was not worth the "BLOOD OF ANY NIGERIAN", culminated in his decision to throw in the towel even before the counting of ballots was over to concede defeat! And whereas, while in office the ex-president, said that he did not believe that any girl was abducted and that the allegation was a smoke screen by the opposition to discredit his administration!

Other lamentations included, "mass defection of some governors of his party to the opposition for personal ambitions and Northern leaders socio-political groups which sabotaged his ambition and clamoured for the presidency to be returned to their region! He denied all corruption allegations especially the missing USD $ 49.8 billion and was categorical that the accusation existed as a figment of the imagination of his accusers adding that the matter died a natural death!

KASHIM SHETTIMA'S COMMENTS!
In a swift re-action on Wednesday 21st November, 2018, Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima, described the book as “elementary in content, full of tales, containing fictions" and also described the former President as a LIAR who tried unsuccessfully to hide facts/truths in respect of the abducted Chibok Girls under the carpet!
He also alleged that Jonathan deliberately omitted details of the after-thought "fact-finding committee" belatedly constituted by him to investigate immediate or remote causes which led to the ugly incident adding that Jonathan's government mishandled the issue of the very embarrassing abduction! Shettima said he was very disappointed that the book fell short of the courage expected of a person of Jonathan's calibre to even publish findings of a panel set up by his government!

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S COMMENTS ON JONATHAN'S BOOK!
Although, out of sheer diplomatic courtesy, the Federal Government was represented at the Jonathan's Book launch by the Secretary to Government, Presidential Spokesperson Garba Shehu, later commented that the ex-president LIED by claiming that his administration's corruption global index and by extension, of PDP's 16 inglorious years of mindless looting of the common patrimony, was far better than the impunity now being witnessed in the nation!

ORIGINAL AND FAKE JONATHAN'S BOOK OF 194 AND 254 PAGES RESPECTIVELY!
Original author of "My Transition Hours", ex-President Jonathan has cried foul against the fake version of his new book describing it as the work of "a mischievous person with ulterior agenda" and expatriated that his book had 194 pages while the fake one was extended to 254! He condemned the release and circulation ONLINE of soft copies of the fake document which he said contained inaccurate information and solicited for interested buyers to get the original directly from him!
DID JONATHAN HAVE TO WRITE TALES BY MOONLIGHT? CAN A FAILED CONTESTANT CONCEDE DEFEAT OR CONCEDE VICTORY? DID HE MAKE COMMONSENSE OR UNCOMMON SENSE? EX-PRESIDENT OLUSEGUN OBASANJO WHO CHAIRED THE BOOK LAUNCH SHOULD BE BLAMED FOR DRAGGING HIS UNPREPARED GOD-SON OUT OF HIS NATIVE BAYELSA IN 2007 INTO THE MURKY WATERS OF THE PRESIDENCY POLITICS WHICH DROWNED HIM!  Does Jonathan really need proceeds from this book strategically launched close to the 2019 general elections? "Thou shalt know the TRUTH and the TRUTH shall set you free! (John. 8:32).

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.

GALE OF LEGISLATIVE IMPEACHMENTS WITHOUT DUE PROCESS!

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 275. 18th November, 2018.] “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

GALE OF LEGISLATIVE IMPEACHMENTS WITHOUT DUE PROCESS!

Nigerian politicians are not gender-friendly when it comes to fighting dirty for positions of authority! The attitude of male chauvinism played out recently at the Anambra  State House of Assembly when  the female Speaker was almost edged out through a subtle but failed "coup attempt" by some disorganised honourables!

From all indications, the coupists were ignorant of the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995 which produced the Beijing Affirmative Action Document which recommended 35% allocation of female representation in political positions in governments of all countries, to which Nigeria was a signatory, and so were bent on pursuing their ignominious assignment to a logical conclusion, even without forming a quorum! Hon. Rita Maduagwu, Speaker of the Anambra State Assembly, is believed to be the latest causality of the impeachment trend which has engulfed the entire political landscape of Nigeria since 2015!
Members, who according to reports could not secure tickets in the very disorganised and highly criticized Primaries of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), were the arrow heads of the purported impeachment!

She was alleged to have been impeached by 20 of the 30-member House on Tuesday, 13th November, 2018 while three other members of the House were also allegedly suspended!
Rita was accused of financial impropriety, gross misconduct, high-handedness and sundry allegations which were not served on her for defence!  Hon. Ikem Uzozie, member representing Aguata II Constituency, who moved the motion for impeachment was said to have been subsequently substituted as the new Speaker!
According to trending news, there ensued a confusion as the Mace (symbol of authority), was hurriedly removed by the Clerk, who refused to swear in the purported new Speaker because, according to him, "due process was not followed and the recognized plenary was that conducted by Rita Maduagwu with twelve members"!
During an urgent intervention by the State Governor, Secretary to Government and the Chief of Staff, Speaker Maduagwu said that the foiled exercise was null and void, in futility and un-called for, as there was no crisis in APGA adding that two members among the purported 20, who claimed to form the quorum for her impeachment were absent from the Chambers!
The Anambra State Government and APGA leaders condemned the unlawful action of the legislators to ensure that status quo and peace was maintained though unconfirmed reports claimed at the weekend that Hon. Uzozie manoeuvred his way with 25 members to hold plenary while the female Speaker was inside her office within  the State Assembly Complex!

While we advocate for an amicable solution to the disagreement, we will insist that the 35% Women representation in the next APC Government from 2019-2023, (which is less than FIVE per cent presently), MUST be fully actualized in the spirit and letter of the Beijing agreement! We also encourage the women and youths in general to participate with greater commitments in the coming elections to ensure that the looters of the consecutive governments of 1999-2015, were shamed out of the elections for the Nigerian Women dreams to materialize!

HAS UNLAWFUL IMPEACHMENTS BY LAWMAKERS BECOME THE NORM IN NIGERIA?
IMO STATE- Nineteen of twenty- seven lawmakers of the Imo State House of Assembly impeached Imo State Deputy Governor, Eze Madumere, over alleged misconduct and replaced him with the Head of Service, Callistus Ekenze, in the run towards the political primaries in defiance to a ruling by the State High Court which restrained them and the Chief Judge, from proceeding with the exercise!

BENUE - Eight members out of the 30 All Progressives Congress (APC), lawmakers who were on recess in July 2018, served impeachment notice on Benue Governor Samuel Ortom, because of an alleged misappropriation of N54 billion and also for defecting to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), but he rejected it as an act of illegality, because it did not follow due process! The eight members, which did not form a quorum, also purportedly suspended the majority twenty-members!

KANO - In July 2018, the Kano State of Assembly, impeached its Speaker, Alhaji Abdulahi Ata along with two principal officers and re-elected the immediate past Speaker, Alhaji Kabiru Rurum, who was earlier impeached over allegations of corruption!

EKITI: There was also a move by Ekiti lawmakers to impeach Governor Ayodele Fayose in July 2018, but it did not pull through because the election which brought in a new governor, Kayode Fayemi, overtook the plan!
EDO and ONDO STATES were not left out of the impeachment saga between July and October 2018, as speakers and their deputies were kicked out at random!

IMPEACHMENT MOVES AGAINST SARAKI AND DOGARA!
Federal Legislators could not execute plans to impeach the two National Assembly (NASS) Principal Officers, 'Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara, to avoid heating up the polity in view of the need for collective co-operation in the preparations by all arm of government for the approaching 2019 General Elections, but a cat and mouse game is playing out as the "majority" lawmakers are still looking for means to catch the duo unaware!

WHAT ARE THE CONSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR IMPEACHMENT OF A SITTING PRESIDENT?
The impeachment processes/procedures for removing a sitting President or his Vice, according to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, is tedious, intricate, cumbersome and almost impossible, that past efforts of the past in that direction ended in futility! For instance, about two attempts were made by legislators of the National Assembly (NASS), during his eight-year tenure to no avail! The 8th NASS also failed to embark on an impeachment move against President Muhammadu Buhari because he purchased some TUCANO Aircrafts "without legislative approval" in 2018!

To impeach a Nigerian President, several steps as enumerated in Section 143 (1) - (11) have to be taken, followed and religiously executed to conform with all the provisions that must ensure fundamental rights of the accused! In the following sequence, a notice of any allegation in WRITING and signed by not less than ONE THRID of the members of the NASS must be  presented to Senate President but very explicit of the alleged wrong doings for the President to be SERVED within SEVEN days for comments and to all 469 members to be notified.
Within 14 days NASS should be able to determine whether the accusations should be investigated through the votes of not less than TWO THIRDS majority of each house and within SEVEN DAYS, the Chief Justice of Nigeria would be approached to constitute a PANEL OF SEVEN PROVEN CITIZENS who would invite the accused to DEFEND himself personally or through a lawyer if his own choice.
Within THREE MONTHS, the Panel must submit its report to each house of NASS either in favour or an indictment of the accused. If in favour, the matter dies a natural death and if proved, WITHIN 14 DAYS, NASS would consider it and if TWO THIRDS OF EACH HOUSE adopted, then, THE HOLDER OF THE OFFICE SHALL STAND REMOVED FROM OFFICE FROM THE DATE OF ADOPTION OF THE REPORT!
The end of all of the above according to the Constitution in Section143 (10), is that both decisions by the Panel and NASS or any matter relation thereto "shall be entertained or questioned in any court"! HE WHO COMES TO EQUITY MUST COME WITH CLEAN HANDS!

The same impeachment procedures also apply to Governors and their Deputies, but for Speakers and their Deputies, it is a different ball game. From all available reports, Speakers were often caught off-guard! Surreptitious signatures of their "assailants"' were clandestinely gathered without prior notices of complaints/accusations against their persons only for the coupists to spring surprises of immediate, ridiculous and unconstitutional impeachment at plenary without the due process of LAW!!

According to the flawed 1999 Constitution, both principal officers could be removed from office by a resolution of the House of Assembly by the votes of not less than TWO THIRDS majority of the members of the members of the House [ Section 92 - (2) (c) ], or by a SIMPLE MAJORITY [Section 98 (2) ]!

These gimmicks have always played out since 1999 to the "advantage" of unscrupulous political jobbers whose pastime lie in all manner of confusion and wranglings through which they could manipulate affected parties for pecuniary gains!

Gender inequality should be regarded as a national liability to Nigeria as a developing nation. It will amount to stark illiteracy and ignorance for any Nigerian male to relegate the position of women to the background when our Liberian West African neighbour could produce Mrs. Johnson Sirleaf, who ruled for 12 years as the first African woman to join the league of about 22 Women Presidents/ Head of Governments, across the globe between 2004-2016!
There are many brilliant, decent, well-educated, articulate, very honest, diligent and highly-conscientious Nigerian women who have held enviable positions in the public, private and global positions of authority who would match or even perform better than their male counterparts and who should be encouraged to come on board and prove their mettle! Women population which is believed to be over 98,326,118 or 49.4% should be an advantage in the 2019 General Elections!
‘’He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.’’ (Prove 11-27).

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.

ILLICIT EARNINGS OF LEGISLATORS AND GOVERNORS MUST BE STOPPED TO PAY N30, 000 MINIMUM WAGE!

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 274. 11th November, 2018.] “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

ILLICIT EARNINGS OF LEGISLATORS AND GOVERNORS MUST BE STOPPED TO PAY N30, 000 MINIMUM WAGE!

That the Nigerian Legislators are the richest politicians globally is an understatement! A Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria earns far more than the President of the United States of America! It is on record that at least FIVE PER CENT (5%), of every national annual budget goes for salaries, working/wardrobe/housing/vehicle/annual leave/domestic/ retirement benefits allowances and the few Civil Service Staff of those very selfish opportunists in government!

In the years before 29th May, 2015, when the most unexpected change of guards occurred, the National Assembly (NASS), legislators boasted of an annual deductions of N150 billion naira, outside of allegations of  ridiculous, outrageous and illegitimate, constituency allowances/budget paddings, from which they have been unable to extricate themselves to date! Rowdy sessions over very trivial issues were always the order of the day at most plenary especially in the 8th Assembly, because the Treasury Single Account (TSA) had blocked all forms of malfeasance!

These desperate set of politicians have developed very thick skin to public outcry and all forms of accusations in respect of financial impropriety committed through their constitutional oversight functions and there seemed to be no reprieve in spite of the WAR AGAINST ALL MANNER OF CORRUPTION by the Muhammadu Buhari All Progressives Congress (APC), Administration! At one time, the late Chairman of the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Mr. Hamman Tukur, published the constitutionally approved emoluments of the law makers which was in line with the CIVIL SERVICE EMOLUMENTS, but government had no political will to go for their jugular!

Secondly, a former Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Financial Matters, Jibril Abdulmumini, exposed the internal mechanisms of Budget Padding, among legislators but he was maligned castigated and eventually suspended for ONE LEGISLATIVE YEAR by YAKUBU DOGARA and his cohorts for impetuosity!
He challenged the matter in court and won the suit against his illegal suspension with costs and has been paid all of his salaries and allowances for that period in spite of the desperation of law makers to SILENCE THE TRUTH!

Must these present crop of legislators constitute themselves into a Secret Cult, whose condemnable deeds must remain secret especially in a new democratic dispensation that has vowed to destroy corruption in all forms and  ramifications, no matter whose ox is gored?

Thirdly, sometime in 2017, a serving Senator, Shehu Sanni, representing Kaduna State Central District, confessed to Nigerians and by extension to the whole universe that each lawmaker's MONTHLY WORKING ALLOWANCE alone, was N13.5 MILLION, outside of the earlier mentioned inconsiderate/humongous and unconstitutional allowances! How and why did they arrive at that figure and who is their paymaster? Is there an arm of the Ministry of Finance in the National Assembly?
In spite of an Abuja High Court judgement of 2015 which compelled the NASS Clerk to release to The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), the monthly/annual take-home payments of salaries, allowances and other emoluments of the law makers, the Clerk did not only disobey, he appealed the order and the outcome is yet to be made public!

NINETY-FIVE PER CENT OF STATES CANNOT PAY N30.000?
The Ebonyi State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Governor David Umahi, on Wednesday, 7th November, 2018, made a sweeping statement on behalf of Nigerian Governors in respect of the recommended minimum wage of N30, 000.
According to a report credited to him, the opposition State Governor said: "The Federal Government collects 52% of the revenue from the Federation Account and when I tried to put the N30.000 figure to Local Government Areas (LGA), it means they will borrow N1 billion to add to their allocation in paying salaries." He also added that the proposed amount would cause inflation and would not solve civil servants basic needs adding that “leaders and labour are putting water in a basket and expecting the N30, 000, to hold it".
Umahi's argument also extended to the fact that a lot of money being paid as Petroleum Subsidy could be saved by the Federal Government but he failed to advocate for increase in States INTERNALLY GENERATED REVENUE (IGR), through the abundant God-given solid mineral, agricultural, entertainment, tourism, film industries/information/communication technology resources etc, instead of the monthly journeys to ABUJA for "Feeding Bottle" allowances! Governor Umahi may have succeeded in collecting USD $150 million dollars from the African Development Bank (ADB), to embark on the construction of a RING ROAD instead of building the State's IGR! Who will pay the loan when he departs office; the same Workforce which do not deserve N30, 000, per month?
Governor Umahi has displayed lack of leadership qualities through his unguarded statement and should just resign honourably! If all the FIVE South-East Geo-Political States (among the 95%), are not economically/financially viable to cater for their citizens and by extension - their WORKERS - would it make COMMONSENSE TO AGITATE FOR AN ADDITIONAL STATE FOR THE ZONE? How did Umahi become Chairman of the South East Governors Forum "self"? One-eyed man in the community of the blind?

NON-PAYMENT OF WORKERS SALARIES BEFORE 29TH MAY, 2015!
When President Muhammadu Buhari assumed office in 2015, he was inundated with large scale complaints of non-payment of arrears of salaries and pension allowances (some, for up to 12 months), by not less than 23 out of 36 States of the federation and out the very scarce resources left by the failed administration, he released tranches of BAIL-OUT FUNDS (twice), to all the affected States to succour the workers plight but it was alleged that some governors diverted the said funds to their personal projects other than the workers emoluments!

The PARIS CLUB REFUND also came the way of the States as another reprieve but till date many States have not met their financial obligations of the monthly pittance of N18,000 to the workers and Governor Umahi, being in the  bandwagon could speak with such authority! (Please read our 189th Edition of 29th March, 2017, titled: "Governors Who Fail To Offset Outstanding Workers Salaries/Pensions With The Paris Club Refund Must Be Impeached", for greater details of what happened before and after 29th May, 2015).

GOVERNORS FINANCIAL PACKAGE!
Just like the LEGISLATORS, Governors salaries and allowances are shrouded in secrecy - especially, the SECURITY VOTE BULK PAYMENT - which expenditure was never accounted for by the recipients!
Grape Vine has it on record that the least paid governor received a whooping sum of N3 BILLION from the national coffers and retirement remunerations from their States as follows:
(1) Two magnificent fully-furnished mansions - one in the State Capital and the other in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
(2) Annual severance salary of between N250-370 million naira for life.
(3) Full-paid overseas annual vacation for them and members of their families for life!
(4) Two state-of-art-vehicles - a Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV), and a Saloon car. (5) Numerous house servant and assistants who must also be remunerated by their STATES though these greedy so-called leaders never missed any entitlements while in office - whether there was INFLATION OR RECESSION!

SIGNING INTO LAW OF THE PEACE CORPS OF NIGERIA BILL AND ESTABLISHMENT OF STATE POLICE MUST BE PRIOTIZED BY PRESIDENT BUHARI NOW!
In spite of the perennial state of insecurity across the nation, due to the shortage of manpower in the nation's Security architecture, the All Progressives Congress (APC), Government under the watch of retired General Muhammadu Buhari as the Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces, still finds it difficult to believe that current security challenges would fizzle out through an urgent political will of the President's signature on the Peace Corps of Nigeria Bill and also the implementation of the Governor El Rufai's Committee On Restructuring of Nigeria, which suggested among other crucial issues: Resource Control and State Police!

WITHOUT ADEQUATE SECURITY (THROUGH PROFESSIONAL INTELLIGENCE-GATHERING), NIGERIA'S LOFTY DREAM OF ATTAINING GLOBAL RANKING AMONG 20 ECONOMICALLY-VIABLE COUNTRIES BY THE YEAR 2020, WILL REMAIN AN ILLUSION! President Buhari should fast-track action on these very CRITICAL AND STRATEGIC ISSUES OF SECURITY in order to forestall the plans of his detractors, who are bent on destroying our nascent democracy and threatened economy!

LET'S NAIL THE NIGERIAN WORKERS ENEMIES TOGETHER AT THE 2019 ELECTIONS!
Nigerian Citizens and Workers can be rest assured that President Muhammadu Buhari would forward to the National Assembly the recommended N30,000 national monthly minimum wage for its backing by the law, because the all-round success of his government's Social Intervention Programmes (SIPs), speak glowingly for him, to put all those who opposed the laudable exercise to absolute shame! THIS STIPEND WILL NEITHER CAUSE INFLATION NOR RECESSION AS UMAHI WANTS THE WORLD TO BELIEVE! OUR ECONOMY IS FLUID BECAUSE THE SPECIAL INTERVENTION PROGRAMME IS WORKING!! There is also a move to stop all illegal earnings by legislators/governors and a total stoppage to GOVERNMENT WASTAGES AT THE EXECUTIVE LEVEL, to create surplus funds to meet the workers demands without hassles!

Let us get our PVCs in place to nail the coffins of the enemies of Nigerian workers to the graves in the up-coming 2019 General Elections by sending them back to the labour market! "Once beaten, twice shy!" NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER!

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.

BLOOD-LETTING IN NIGERIA SHOULD NOT BE A LIFE SENTENCE!

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 273. 4th November, 2018.] “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

BLOOD-LETTING IN NIGERIA SHOULD NOT BE A LIFE SENTENCE!

Nigeria is heavily militarized by the Armed Forces and the Police! Though a democracy, the United Nations statistics has revealed that, of about 750 million small arms being proliferated in the West Africa Sub-Region, over half of this figure have illegally found their ways into the underground den of criminal elements of the Nigerian communities, from the creeks to the hinterlands, on the streets and in the ghettos!
The Military have every reason to occupy the six geo-political zones in pursuance of their constitutionally duties to ensure internal security in a country that has been so brutalized with so much insecurity challenges,  the latest being the herdsmen/farmers clashes which has taken the same evil dimension of the Boko Haram terrorism of NINE YEARS and recently, of the SHI'ITE Islamic Religious Group (known as the Islamic Movement In Nigeria), which for three days between Saturday, 27th and Monday, October, 2018, stormed Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), in their thousands, from both the KUBWA and NYANYAN satellite settlements of the city in "protest" with lethal weapons, stones and petrol bombs, against the continued detention of their leader, El Zakzaky and his wife since 2nd December 2016!
The Shiite Islamic Cell has its root in Zaria, Kaduna State where in the last decade had been allowed to fester because of the doctrine of religious tolerance and the constitutional freedom of worship and association, but what will a peaceful religious group be doing with a lorry-load of cutlasses and machetes that were discovered by the Army, about two years when the Sect clashed with the Chief of Army Staff convoy and recently with PETROL BOMBS within the FCT Municipality? Is there not a correlation in the formation, propagation and dissemination of contrary Islamic doctrines by this sect and that of the Boko Haram in 2009?
Should the Federal Government fold its arms and watch another monster let loose in the name of religious tolerance? During the afore-mentioned clashes, human blood was shed as both adherents, and innocent passers-by were hit by soldiers stray bullets!
The second and trending security challenge to the Buhari Administration is the urgent need to recover and flush out all illegal weapons in the wrong hands that are being used by murderers, assassins, kidnappers, highway robbers etc, to shed human blood, as the nation looks forward to the 2019 General Elections that is just about THREE MONTHS away!

THE FIRST DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC!
Going down the memory lane, historical records state that Nigeria was once a very peaceful nation because its Independence was won on a platter of gold without the shed of blood until 15th January 1966, when some adventurous Nigerian Army Majors, led by Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogu, decided to truncate both PEACE AND DEMOCRACY with guns and bullets that were alien to the citizenry!
Extra-judicial killings of prominent politicians spread like wild fire across the land! Shock and disbelief struck the hearts of patriotic Nigerians from all walks of life - from the ivory tower, the academia, the bureaucracy, to the civil servants, economic sector managers, the artisans, the common man on the streets;etc.
A counter-coup took place on 30th July, 1966, by soldiers (mostly), of the Northern extraction who were opposed to the previous coup which they perceived as selective and one-sided!
Their onslaught was bloodier, because it was done with the hind-sight of ethnic coloration! And since 1966, RIVERS OF BLOOD have not ceased to flow in Nigeria, from Lagos to Kano, Bornu to Rivers, Oyo to Taraba, Sokoto to Abuja etc. - blood-letting had become the order of the day in Nigeria because of that very unfortunate military coup of 1966! Nigerians are now sheltered in fear, whether in the cities or the remote hamlet/village dwellings, on the streets or the motorable highways, waterways, inter/intra States journeys, because deadly marauders, human kidnappers, armed robbers, hired assassins/killers, Boko Haram suicide bombers/gunmen, including herdsmen killers/militia groups are on the rampage and seemingly unstoppable! ARE WE SENTENCED TO BLOOD-LETTING FOR LIFE? NO! NO! NO!

THE HARBINGER TO INSURGENCY AND TERRORISM IN NIGERIA!
It is instructive to dwell on the divisive posture of the 1966 coupists along ethnic lines which became the bane of the current trend of NORTH-SOUTH dichotomy and of subsequent Nigerian Governments posture - MILITARY AND CIVILLIAN, and which birthed the regular source of incessant quarrels, disagreements and disputes over land ownership, land boundaries, farmlands, famers/nomadic pastoralists incessant clashes and most recently, the subtle exhibition of religious intolerance and bigotry through agitations by the SHIITE MUSLIMS, whose leader has never hidden his allegiance to IRAN, which is the global Shiite Religion Headquarters! Nobody can give an accurate statistics of deaths of innocent Nigerians from 1966-2018, because the spate of killings year-on-year at most times, was always spontaneous, mostly unreported, undocumented and always cast into the oblivion of forgetfulness! The 30-month-old BIAFRA WAR (6th July, 1967-15th January, 1970) - an offspring of the senseless coups - further deepened the hatred and lack-lustre attitude between northerners and southerners (especially of the Ndigbo extraction), in spite of the conventional creation of SIX GEO-POLITICAL ZONES, aimed at erasing the old tradition of REGIONALISM AND SEPARATISM! 
Officially, the Biafra War cost the then Military Government, billions of Naira to execute while over THREE MILLION people may have died in the conflict mostly from starvation and diseases on both sides (including vulnerable women and innocent children), not excluding strategic government infrastructures worth billions of naira which also went down the drain!
As if the preceding travails were insufficient for a third world developing nation, the mis-use of a fresh democratic mandate and mis-governance through an unprecedented corruption with impunity by the only civilian administration, (PDP), which was in power from 1999-2015, paved the way for the incursion of Boko Haram into the fragile security network which crumbled effortlessly in the North East Nigeria with the fraternity and support of an ignorant population! The initially motley Islamic group of few adherents which was opposed to the moderate Islamic practice in Nigeria also expressed resentment against the need for Western education which it claimed contradicted their religious culture and traditional values and vehemently rejected the sovereignty of the Nigerian Government over the North East while the Senator Ali Modu Sherrif, the civilian Governor of Bornu State, looked the other way! Out of school children in their hundreds who begged on the streets became easy preys for indoctrination by the Islamic sect! Today, Ali Modu Sheriff and all those who perpetrated the current travails feel secured while death bells kept ringing in the North East and across the nation on daily basis! That PDP Federal Government of that period treated the very volatile religious issue with kid gloves and from 2009 to date we had paid with the sweat/blood of thousands of innocent Nigerians and almost ran the economy aground would have been an understatement if the APC Change Administration which took up the gauntlet and turned the nation's fortune around for the better had not stepped in 2015!

LEARNING FROM AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR EXPERIENCE!
The United States of America (USA), went through a Civil War of Independence which formally ended in 1863 and has since moved on to become not only the most economically-viable but also the "numero uno" Super Nuclear/Atomic Power nation of the universe! What did the US do differently?
They did not allow ethnicity, tribalism, nepotism, religious bigotry, settlers/indigeneship sentiments to dichotomize the citizens! Uneducated thoughts about superiority of one community above another was cast aside to pave way for the advocacy of one nation, one people, one goal, one destiny in achieving the AMERICAN DREAM!
Today, Nigerians in their thousands still shamelessly flood the AMERICAN BORDERS in spite of Donald Trump’s racial vituperations against the BLACK, because they have shunned all entreaties to stay back and support the BUHARI CHANGE ADMINISTRATION to re-build the nation from its ashes!

OUR ECONOMY WILL GROW TREMENDOUSLY WITH THE STOPAGE OF BLOOD-LETTING!
This is another wake-up call to all persons who are directly or remotely involved in this ugly trend of DAILY BLOOD-LETTING IN NIGERIA, to please sheath their swords, and REPENT!  In spite of Nigeria's Gross Domestic Product (GDP), as the highest in Black Africa, the nation has gone through great economic stress which led into recession for three consecutive quarters between 2016-2017, for reasons that bordered on maladministration/mis-governance of the past coupled with INSECURITY! If the SPONSORS of these crimes against humanity, who happen to be our fellow Nigerians (especially, politicians with inordinate ambitions), understand that the POWER OF LIFE AND DEATH resides only in the Almighty God - who is the ULTIMATE JUDGE OF MAN, they should heed our passionate call to REPENTANCE  AND RESTITUTION and maybe He could still forgive them! They should remember that it is appointed for man to die ONCE, after that, JUDGEMENT! There is an ETERNITY after death - either with our CREATOR IN HEAVEN, or with the DEVIL in HELL FIRE!
Nigeria needs to move forward with the great and laudable nation-building strategies contained in the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP), without further distraction of insecurity which has turned out to be the albatross to the humongous and lofty packages of the various SOCIAL INTERVENTION PROGRAMMES (SIP's), already being enjoyed by the MASSES!
NO MAN HAS THE RIGHT TO TAKE ANOTHER MAN'S LIFE EXCEPT THOUGH LEGITIMATE JUDICIAL PRONOUNCEMENTS! THESE KILLINGS MUST END TODAY IN THE NAME OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST! 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.

IN NIGERIA UNBORN BABIES WILL ASPIRE TO BECOME POLITICIANS!

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 272. 28th October, 2018.] “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

IN NIGERIA UNBORN BABIES WILL ASPIRE TO BECOME POLITICIANS!

When the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), announced that a total of NINETY-ONE (91), Political Parties had been registered and would be eligible to field candidates in the up- coming 2019 General Elections, many Nigerians were jostled not only by the sheer ludicrous figure but that an extant law was in place to back up the absurdity that the electoral umpire should maintain a template for associations to metamorphose into political parties without hassles!
Political jobbers whose livelihood depended solely on the game of politics were quick to rejoice and chorus: "The more, the merrier," Ninety- one political parties would create job opportunities for thousands in the labour market, from the grassroot 774 Local Governments - where Councillors and Chairmen would emerge; 36 State Assemblies that would produce scores of legislators; 36 State Governors and their Deputies, with a retinue of commissioners, special advisers/assistants and compliments of office staff; the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Minister and Minister of State, and their cabinet, which enjoys the status of a State Government; the National Assembly (NASS), of 109 Senators and 360 Members of the House of Representatives (comprising the federal legislators), with staff in their Districts and Constituencies across the six geo-political zones of the nation; and finally, the Presidency, which is the apex/executive arm of government at the Federal level, which represents the engine room of the entire political architecture of the nation!
The women are vigorously encouraging their wards to go for politics since football has lost its flavour!

According to INEC's Chairman during a press conference on update of the body's implementation of activities for the 2019 polls, in Abuja on Friday, 26th October, 2018, he disclosed that the forms and the particulars of the political parties nominated candidates had been published at its offices across the nation, for members of the public to raise their claims and objections and make informed decisions during elections.
The list included personal particulars of candidates that emerged from party primaries for presidential and National Assembly elections from 10th to 18th October, 2018.
INEC Chairman also said' "Any person with reasonable ground to believe that any information on Form CFOO1, submitted by a candidate contains incorrect or false claims is at liberty to file an action against such candidate. This can be filed at the Federal High Court or the High Court of a State or the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)."
For the Presidency of ONLY ONE CANDIDATE: 79 Political Parties have submitted names of their candidates, prominent among them are the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari of the ruling All Progressive Party (APC), and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)!
The NASS of 109  Senators has attracted 1,856 nominations and;
House Representatives will grapple with 4,496 nominations for the 360 seats, totalling 6352, all together!
The current exercise, according to INEC, is limited to candidates for Presidential and NASS elections while that of personal particulars of those contesting in Governorship and State Assembly elections will be similarly published on 9th November, 2018, one week after submission of nominations by political parties, while the  Register of Voters for each polling unit would be displayed at the units nationwide for one week from 6th to 12th November, 2018, for claims and objections, identification of ineligible or deceased persons, and correction of misspellings of personal details such as names, age, and gender.

THE 8TH NASS LEGISLATORS WILL ACCOUNT TO POSTERITY!
The hurriedly-amended 2010 Electoral Act has failed again to restrict the registration of political parties to a manageable proportion in view of the cumbersome process faced by the Electorate at the polls to identify Party Names and Logos, even when they were less than 30, and cancellation of ballot papers became INEC'S pastime as thousands of voters were disenfranchised!
No one is left in doubt that these present crop of legislators lacked attributes of patriotism and selflessness in the discharge of their constitutional duties because all they had achieved in almost FOUR YEARS of oversight functions was to take undue advantage of their undeserved positions to acquire illegal wealth at the expense of the poor masses whom they claimed to represent!
When their plan to change the sequence of the 2019 Elections to favour them failed, they resorted to massive defections to heat up the polity and destabilize the ruling party.
It is very glaring that they never had any plan to serve the people but to loot the treasury which is under lock and key inside the stronghold of the TREASURY SINGLE ACCOUNT (TSA), introduced by the Buhari Administration from inception on 29th May, 2015!
And since they could not STEAL as they had planned, they decided for a SHOWDOWN to cause commotion and confusion in the system! As at the time of this publication on Sunday 28th October, 2018, both the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, who had defected to the opposition PDP, but still held firmly to their top positions and have dared any move of impeachment against them by claiming that the 1999 Constitution did not stipulate that minority opposition principal officers could not head the Parliament of a ruling party with majority members in both chambers!

PDP MEMBERS ARE NOT SORRY AT ALL!
Ahead of the 2019 General Elections, PDP National Chairman, Uche Secondus on Monday 26th March, 2018, "apologized" to Nigerians and requested them to overlook its party's past mistakes and also "begged" for another chance to rule the nation at the Federal level! The public apology was tendered during a public discourse on "Contemporary Politics and Governance in Nigeria", organized to re-brand the drowning party. Secondus, said as follows: "We are sorry, we have made several mistakes which will not happen again. In the past, there were impunity and imposition, we are not the spirit, we have to be humble to apologize for imposition, impunity and other wrongdoings while in government, THERE WAS NO NEPOTISM, BUT TODAY NEPOTISM HAS BEEN TAKEN TO THE HIGHEST LEVEL BY THIS GOVERNMENT OF APC. We have to stand before the people and apologize. We made mistakes. UNLIKE APC THAT WILL LIE AND USE ANOTHER LIE TO COVER IT, we will apologize for our past mistakes. We are human that are bound to make mistakes. etc.
IT IS ON MARBLE THAT EX-PRESIDENT EBELE JONATHAN ONCE SAID THAT STEALING WAS NOT TANTAMOUNT TO CORRUPTION!
PDP can no longer stand alone as a party except in alliance and coalition with other mushroom parties and also solicit the support of ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo, the "KING MAKER" who foisted Atiku Abubakar on them as Presidential candidate!
PDP has never stopped to peddle lies that it bequeathed a buoyant economy to the APC  in 2015, though the nation went into recession through their mismanagement but recovered as soon as APC's Economic Management Team of experts took over and charted a new course with purposeful expertise.
Festus Keyamo (SAN), the Director of Buhari Campaign Organisation, recently said on Channels Television that Nigeria has the best-performing economy in Nigeria.

PETROLEUM PRODUCTS SUBSIDY SCAM!
On Monday, 15th October, 2018, Keyamo accused PDP bigwigs of SUBSIDY SCAM and said: "I need to remind Nigerians about the GDP growth. Of the 11 countries that went into recession around the world, Nigeria has exceeded all of them in terms of GDP growth. None of them crossed 1.4 to 1.5%; Nigeria is doing close to 2% GDP growth right now. Let us get one thing clear, FORBES AFRICA has rated Nigeria as the best-performing economy in Africa under the APC Change Administration!
He denied claims that PMB-led Administration was not paying subsidy like PDP did, but admitted that FG was only paying "PREMIUM". "What happened under PDP Government was that they were paying for products that did not land at all. That was the scam that was happening, it was fraud, the greatest stealing in the history of this country happened under them. All the PDP big wigs were all involved in this subsidy scam, then you saw that many of them refunded money. Like I said, they were paying for product that did not land at all, they will tell you they have brought product and you have to pay subsidy on those products. The NNPC officials knew, everybody knew that the products did not come at all."

PDP IS UNREPENTANT AS IT SUPPORTS SARAKI AND DOGARA TO DESTABILIZE THE POLITY!
Nigeria's National Assembly (NASS), embarked on another TWO-WEEK recess on Friday 19th October, 2018, barely two-weeks of resumption from about TWO-AND-A-HALF-MONTHS of imposed holidays to avoid the risk of impeachment of the two topmost principal officers, 'Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara respectively for  defecting to the main opposition party Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), without vacating their exalted positions which they surreptitiously acquired through the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), ruling party in 2015!
Before resumption of the last plenary on Tuesday 9th October, 2018, the Senate Majority Leader and well-meaning Nigerians counselled the two PDP rebels to gracefully relinquish their positions like Senator Godswill Akpabio who resigned his post as Minority Leader did, when he defected to the APC, but it was to no avail since they had lost all political clout because of their bad antecedent as "coupists" against APC's Party supremacy during NASS inauguration of 9th June, 2015! Are they not fully supported by the PDP which no longer enjoyed patronage from any public quarters except among unfettered looters of the treasury who were yet to make RESTITUTION?
The hand of the LAW is very long and the determined APC Administration would not be intimidated until all criminal politicians are brought to book according to the LAW!
".............. Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams."(1 Sam 15:22).

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