ATIKU HAS SOLD NNPC TO HIS FRIENDS IN HIS DREAMS!

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 284. 20th January, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

ATIKU HAS SOLD NNPC TO HIS FRIENDS IN HIS DREAMS!

For the umpteenth time, the Presidential flag- bearer of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has told everyone who cared to listen that if he won the 2019 presidential election, he would not only sell the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), to satisfy his whim and caprice, but would also use the deal to ENRICH HIS FRIENDS, since his obsessive ideology is that, "government has no business in doing business"!

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar was and still a businessman who before 1999, had made tons of money from the system through many sources, including government contracts etc, and on assumption of political office and by virtue of his position, automatically became Chairman of the National Economic Council (NEC), and also Chairman of the Privatization Committee on the sales of government Infrastructures set up by his principal, ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, which virtually sold almost all critical assets of the nation to themselves and their cronies! Atiku and an Italian businessman, Gabriel Volpi, are co-owners of an outfit called, Integrated Logistics Services, (INTELS), which was strategically, positioned at the Lagos/Onne Sea Ports, since the year 1982, to collect revenues for Federal Government! Although Intels is supervised by the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), this oil and gas company also collects revenue on behalf of the nation in the South-South Rivers State.

Onne Port which accounts for about 70% of cargo export through Nigeria's waterways, is the melting pot for oil and gas free zone where Intels had for 17 years made billions of dollars for Atiku and his foreign partner in violation to Sections 80(1) and 162(1) and 10 of the Nigerian Constitution!

It is on record that in spite of the fact that he took advantage of his position as a Customs Officer in 1982, to covetously build a wealthy empire through Nigeria's common patrimony around himself and his cronies  and true to character, HE IS NOW BOASTING THAT HE WOULD SELL  NNPC IF HE BECAME PRESIDENT IN HIS WIDEST IMAGINATION! Federal Government is demanding unpaid revenue collections into the Treasury Single Accounts to the tune of USD $48million from Intels!

Atiku believes he could blaze the trail of American billionaire, Donald Trump who bulldozed his way into the WHITE HOUSE but he has forgotten one very important detail that the BLOOD OF THE NIGER DELTA INDEGENES WHO PERISHED IN THE CREEKS IN A BID TO ASSERT THEIR FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS, WOULD HUNT HIM TO HIS GRAVE - UNLESS HE FIRST SOLD ALL HIS SHARES AND THAT OF HIS FOREIGN PARTNER TO THE RIGHTFUL OWNERS!

It is widely speculated that Atiku's major source of stupendous wealth accrued from Intels which he code named his "side hustle", while in paid government service. The company is into shipping and logistics services in several ports in the country and expanded to several African countries! Atiku claims that his company has been involved in several corporate social responsibility initiatives which included scholarships for technical studies and training of young Nigerian footballers and sponsoring local football leagues!

CAN A LEOPARD CHANGE ITS SPOTS?
Atiku Abubakar, has not hidden his intention to sell NNPC - the Nigerian GOOSE THAT LAYS THE GOLDEN EGGS - if he became president to ENRICH HIS FRIENDS! Those were his exact words on national television in the second week of January, 2019, before he travelled to the United States - the first in 12 years since the bribery allegations which involved him and Congressman Jefferson in 2006, to prove that he was not a fugitive and to consult with other foreign partners!  The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation [NNPC], was established on April 1, 1977, as a merger of the Nigerian National Oil Corporation [NNOC] and Federal Ministry of Mines & Steel and by legislation NNPC, manages the joint venture between, the Federal Government of Nigeria and a number of foreign multi-national corporations which include, Royal Dutch Shell, AGIP, EXXON MOBIL, CHEVRON and TEXACO (now merged with CHEVRON).
Through collaboration with these foreign concerns, NNPC, conducts petroleum exploration and production as the department saddled with the sole responsibility for the upstream and downstream developments, regulation and supervision of the Oil and Gas Industry on behalf of the Nigerian Government.
This Sole Administrator status since 1988, when the Corporation, was commercialized into 11 strategic business units, covering the whole spectrum of operations, exploration and production, gas development, refining and distribution, petrochemicals, engineering and commercial investments, metamorphosed NNPC, into a massively petro dollar rich organisation.  Without the NNPC petro dollar money, the Federal Government cannot prepare annual national budgets of appropriation to cater for the economic welfare of all Nigerians!
Atiku, who was touted by PDP to participate in the much-publicized National Presidential Debate, organized by the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON), failed to show up to the shame of his propaganda handlers who later gave some spurious and untenable excuses for his inglorious absence!

The D-DAY - February 16th, 2019, is just around the bend and the Electorate would decide with their votes who should govern them as President - whether the business prodigal or the Crusader against CORRUPTION, who is determined to salvage the common patrimony and cater for the WELFARE of the generality of the downtrodden masses of the Nigerian nation! But one thing is certain in all of these matters - DIVINE FACTOR WILL BE SACROSANCT!

STEPPING DOWN 2019 BUDGET LEGISLATIVE DEBATE IS UNPROGRESSIVE!
At a time when the Nigerian Federal Executive worked feverishly not to be distracted by the up-coming General Elections through its concentration on completion of on-going CAPITAL PROJECTS and to increase the performance percentage of last year's budget from 54 to at least 80%, legislators of the lower house stepped down debate on the 2019 Budget Bill from Second Reading for one week to enable the honourables to study and digest the document in view of "late distribution" to members, who had the opportunity of vacation to have thoroughly digested the document!!
These legislators who had been on recess since the presentation of the Budget Estimate of N8.83 trillion, for the 2019 fiscal year by the President on 19th December, 2018, resumed second plenary on Wednesday 16th January, 2019, only to disrupt work on the very sensitive document on the following day for very untenable excuses! History will remember the 8th NASS as the most unprepared, unruly, insensitive and aggrandized group of lawmakers that ever sat to corruptly occupy to desecrate Nigeria's hallowed chambers for filthy lucre of office - with very few exceptions!

The lapses being witnessed now was the fall-out of their failure to listen with rapt attention to that well-articulated budget presentation but instead, washed their dirty laundry globally through primitive jeering, booing, colloquial castigations and outright condemnation of salient facts and figures reeled out from the document!
Since the life of the current 8th National Assembly (NASS), will expire before the 29th May, 2019, SWEARING-IN OF PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI FOR HIS SECOND TERM IN OFFICE, which is less than four months away, and that passage of the new Budget was imperative, would it not tantamount to gross dereliction of constitutional duty for out-going legislators to handle the process with such levity? To these law makers, the only thing that matters is how they would ensure that their illegal, stupendous salaries, allowances and SEVERANCE GRATUITIES/PENSIONS, were packaged and paid before they disengaged!

Whereas, urgent attention/intervention was expected by the legislators on national issues in respect of the minimum wage, the over two months old industrial action by Universities/Polytechnic Lecturers, deliberate synergy with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to ensure free, fair, peaceful and credible 2019, General Elections - especially in respect of ease of distribution of Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs), to ensure no eligible electorate was disenfranchised, since they were the constitutional representatives of the citizens of Nigeria in government!

NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW, BUT MUST WE NOT SHOW SOME RESPECT?
Give honour to whom honour is due! Accord respect to rulers, dignitaries, elites, the honourables, distinguished people in position of authority - elected or appointed - on whose broad shoulders lay the burden of administration of the polity in order to ensure the smooth execution civil/criminal justice and  by extension, establish global peaceful societies! Although most Nigerian politicians, legal practitioners and members of the BENCH (the judges), of the 6th Republic do not deserve any form of respect from any citizen because of their disgraceful penchant for ephemeral things of life at the expense of the lives of those they claimed to represent, whereas some of them, like CHIEF JUSTICE WALTER ONOGHEN, Head of the Legislature, Third Arm of Government, deserved quality respect, no matter, the allegations levelled against them!

Fast-tracked arraignment/prosecution by Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB)/Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), request through COURT, via the Attorney-General /Minister of Justice, for Onoghen's accounts to be FROZEN were very unnecessary, considering his lofty position as number FIVE citizen and his pedigree as an eminent jurist of the Apex Supreme Court of the Federal Republic of Nigeria! Are we not towing the line of the opposition thoughts? But let us suppose that the President got wind of the move against his Chief Judge and intervened to stop the hasty trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, what would have been PDP's reaction? Did the Chief Judge really forget to UPDATE his assets declaration documents? It is not impossible!  We remain convinced that his travail would pass away sooner than Nigerians could comprehend!
"Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.” (Psalm. 34:19).

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