ALMAJIRI CHILDREN MUST NOT GO THE BOKO HARAM WAY!

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 291. 10th March, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

ALMAJIRI CHILDREN MUST NOT GO THE BOKO HARAM WAY!

TERRORISM was alien to Nigeria until a motley religious group in August 2009, introduced an unpopular/unacceptable/inciting Islamic doctrine, to the citizens of Maiduguri, Bornu State, nurtured and groomed little orphan and street beggar children whom they brainwashed through Almajiri Qu’ranic Schools over the years and introduced religious insurgency to the State Capital! Alhaji Ali Modu Sheriff, the first democratic and two-term Governor of Borno State, did not help matters because he was totally nonchalant to their plight!

Throughout his tenure, he neither encouraged the disadvantaged/helpless nomadic children to pursue educational nor vocational interests that would give them the opportunity to assess employment or to become employers of labour through soft/loans grants - instead, he doled out mint 5 naira notes to them on his way to the mosque on Fridays in the comfort and opulence of his air-conditioned open-roof Special Utility Vehicles (SUVs), and on other days dished out regular "tuwo shinkafa" (rice meal), for food to satiate their hunger around the premises of the State House, Maiduguri!

From 2009 till date the whole nation has been paying great price of Ali modu Sherrif's mal-administration because those neglected children have metamorphosed in the beastly Boko Haram terrorists which had virtually hurt all tribes and tongues across the length and breadth of our demographic entity!

ON-GOING INFLUX OF ALMAJIRI CHILDREN TO THE FCT AND NORTH CENTRAL STATES!
Nigerians are witnessing large influx of Almajiri children who should either be attending Arabic Qu'ranic Schools or the specially-designated institutions carved out for them during ex-President Ebele Jonathan's administration, into the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), in an unprecedented and embarrassing manner! Though, they seem harmless as they moved from one location to another with food plates soliciting for both food and cash, we should not lose sight of the fact that this trend has been with us for almost 20 years of this fresh attempt at Nigeria's nascent democracy!

POINTS TO NOTE:
These street children have PARENTS but are counted among the over 13 million out-of- school urchins that are roaming the streets of Nigeria;
Most of them have become JOBLESS ADULTS in the last 20 years and are willing tools for political thuggery, insurgency/terrorism, kidnappings, civil disobedience, etc,;
They could be easily recruited to foment trouble anywhere, and at anytime with the right supply of drugs, money, and dangerous weapons because they have no positive ambition in life!

REHABILITATION OF ALMAJIRI CHILREN IS A FOREMOST PRIORITY OF THE NEXT LEVEL!
The President and his management team MUST prioritize the urgent task of taking off the streets, the over 13 million out-of-school children - most-especially the ALMAJIRIS - who could turn out to be A TIME BOMB in limbo! While the government looks forward to the Legislators approval of the 2019 Budget estimates, a SPECIAL TASK FORCE  should be set up to round up these children from the streets, provide temporary homes for them and introduce them to positive vocations side-by-side with Qu'ranic/Formal Education which orientation will take their minds off crimes and criminalities.
Government should also without further delay provide employment opportunities for those who have attained constitutional age status, give them responsibilities to focus on national interests and nation building ideologies. Fifth columnist and enemies of the Nigerian State must be closely monitored and taken out of the system before they could feed wrong indoctrinations to the vulnerable children! It is most gratifying that Boko Haram has been technically/structurally degraded; therefore all hands must be on deck to ensure a total mop-up of the rag-tag remnants who are on the verge of extinction if they refused to surrender voluntarily!

FALUIRES OF THE POLITICAL CLASS STEMMED FROM MILITARY COUPS!
Until the Military made incursion into the political terrain on 15th January, 1966, the political class were still in the learning process of grappling with their new status of post-independence administrators through the process of trial and error! If perhaps the new leaders were left alone to democratize and practicalize the Constitution like in order climes that now boast of several years of uninterrupted administrative process/flawless elections, this 59-year-old Nigeria would have attained better "ratings" than the self-inflicted negative global indexes on our socio-economic and political life as being chorused by both our local and foreign neighbours!

Nigerian treasonable coupists were the first to label democratically elected politicians as VERY CORRUPT, INEPT, NEPOTIC, TRIBALISTS, BUNCH OF INCOMPETENT FOOLS, etc, but the 30 years of military aberration left the stable worse that they found it! Soldiers squandered the wealth of the nation, looted the treasury with treasonable greed from one coup to another, shared the common patrimony - foreign exchange earnings from CRUDE OIL - with their FRIENDS and rendered the masses worse off than they found them in 1966!

WHAT IS THE ECONOMIC WORTH OF AN AVERAGE NIGERIAN CITIZEN IN 2019, COMPARED TO WHAT IT WAS IN 1966 - 52 YEARS AGO!
In spite of the negative things which the military said, did or failed to do, post independent Nigeria before 1966 was far better economically because the THREE REGIONS and MID-WEST were buoyant in agricultural products which procured for them foreign exchange earnings through regular exportation. The fulfilment of social contracts with the citizens in the areas of employment, education, health, industries, manufacturing, exploration of natural mineral resources, like coal, zinc, tin and lead supported available funds which were channelled to meet local needs.

HAVE SOME THINGS CHANGED?
Luckily, Nigeria has for the very first time enjoyed 20 years of uninterrupted democratic governance - 1999 - 2019; and it is worth celebrating, especially when a RIGHTEOUS GOVERNMENT IS NOW IN PLACE! (Proverbs. 14:34).
Nigerians must agree with us that ALL RATINGS of the nation (economic, political, education, health, security, etc,), should now be determined by NIGERIAN COMPATRIOTS who believe in international best standards and erase once and for all, the unfounded military connotation - which labelled the country’s democratic administrators as “very corrupt” at inception, to prove their unrighteous assertion!

2019 GENERAL ELECTIONS - ROUND TWO!
Nigerians again trooped out on Saturday 9th March,2019 to vote in about 120,000 polling units in 29 States for Governors/Deputies, House of Assembly Members and Chairmen/Councillors in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), who would be expected to discharge diligent socio-economic/political duties to the citizens for a period of four and three years respectively.
From available statistics, the ruling APC Government has been able to keep its head high in spite of the many traitors and back-stabbers who infiltrated its rank and file through unholy primaries premised on selfishness, egotism, pride, haughtiness, insubordination, resistance to Party supremacy, etc,
In the 20 years of the new democratic order, the All Progressives Congress (APC), has been the only party that has faithfully endeared itself to the down-trodden as truly nationalistic, caring and determined to always put the interest of the people FIRST - through absolute transparency in government!
No wonder the people have their support for CONTINUITY and with the impressive results in the just-concluded elections, all hands must be on deck to build a new, prosperous, egalitarian and an economically-viable Nigeria of our collective dreams from now into 2020 and beyond!

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