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.

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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.