NIGERIAN FEDERAL TROOPS MUST RISE IN THE STRENGTH OF THE EAGLES

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 283. 13th January, 2019.] “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

NIGERIAN FEDERAL TROOPS MUST RISE IN THE STRENGTH OF THE EAGLES!
[IN COMMEMORATION OF THE ARMED FORCES REMEMBRANCE DAY - 15TH JANUARY, 2019]

The Nigerian Air force military gunship helicopter which recorded FIVE causalities as it crashed in Bornu State on the second day of the new year 2019, has brought to the fore the transient nature of human life of "here today, and gone tomorrow"! Those unfortunate officers and men who looked forward to celebrate the Armed Forces Remembrance Day of fallen heroes, as they did in past years hardly thought they could fall from the skies like meteors and vanish into oblivion in the twinkling of an eye!
Those gallant combatants had hardly been laid to rest when TWELVE Nigerian Army soldiers who were mowed down through Boko Haram attacks, were also buried in a military tradition at the Commonwealth Military Cemetery, Kaduna, on Friday 10th January, 2019!  Ten of tens before them had been committed into the belly of the Earth without much fanfare since the advent of insurgency in 2009, as they paid the SUPREME PRICE of death for the survival of their beloved nation!
Outside of these unfortunate scenarios, there was a deliberate onslaught towards the end of  2018, by the terrorists against military targets and installations to steal arms and ammunitions in order to prolong the war which had completely decimated and routed their remnant rag-tag renegades and they almost succeeded to embarrass the Nigerian Government in an unprecedented attack on the troops with the connivance of some fifth columnists within government strategic security architecture at the Lake Chad Border, during which not less than fifty soldiers lost their precious lives!

BUT THE BLOOD OF THESE FALLEN HEROES MUST NOT BE SHED IN VAIN! WE AS A PEOPLE MUST UNITE IN PRAYERS FOR DIVINE VENGEANCE AGAINST THOSE WHO WERE CULPABLE IN THEIR DEATHS!
There was another orchestrated distortion of information by the same group through the publication of fake news that the security forces, soldiers/mobile policemen were abandoning trenches at war fronts in the North East because they were not adequately motivated in both welfare emoluments/logistics and as such were completely demoralized and they almost succeeded to force fear into the minds the larger population which believed in the capability of the officers and men of the Armed Forces and the Police to protect their territorial integrity, internally and externally at all times!
But the ruling government had dispelled the fake news as the figments of the imagination of enemies of the State because budget appropriation for security forces are on first line charge of the Change Administration and that their regular equipments/hardwares, salaries and allowances were always given topmost priority, because the past administration, through its NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki, allegedly diverted security funds (USD $2.1 billion dollars), meant for the purchase of military equipments to ex-President Ebele Jonathan’s CAMPAIGN FUNDS!

The year 2018 which also witnessed the diabolical escalation of terrorism aided and sponsored by local and foreign detractors/collaborators against the Nigerian nation, its Armed Forces and the Police did not help matters either because the upsurge in pastoral/farmers clashes was viciously targeted to increase the sense of insecurity in the minds of the law- abiding population of innocent citizens and force them to succumb to the well-orchestrated evil machinations, deliberately planned to discredit the incumbent APC administration!
In that year, Benue State in North Central was the first in an attack which spiraled sporadically to Taraba Plateau, Zamfara and even Sokoto, the Caliphate State was not spared! However, the good news is that calm has gradually returned to all affected States as the 2019 General Elections, slated for 16th February, 2019, for Presidential/National Assembly, and 2nd March, 2019, for the Gubernatorial/State Assemblies, are fast-approaching!

AS NIGERIANS GATHER AT MILITARY CENOTAPHS ACROSS THE 36 STATES!
We must collectively continue to remember that but for the special grace of God and the blood and sweat of these exemplary officers and men, who have remained in the battle TRENCHES of the North East States of Bornu, Yobe, Adamawa, and other volatile areas of the North Western/ North Central and have prevailed against these enemies of the State in over NINE YEARS of the battle of survival, we would have been swallowed up as a nation! We must also mourn other fallen heroes, members of the Armed Forces (Navy, Air Force, the Nigeria Police Mobile Force, the CIVILIAN JTF, other uniformed personnel and the AFICAN UNION (AU) MULTI-NATIONAL MILITARY TASK FORCE, for diligence, courage, determination and steadfastness in the committed prosecution of the war to its logical and victorious conclusion!
WE SHOULD AS A NATION IMMORTALIZE OUR SOLDIERS TO ENSURE THAT THEIR SACRIFICES WERE NOT IN VAIN?
Because military life is a thoroughly disciplined life where the chain of command from the topmost hierarchy is not only obeyed with alacrity but orders are carried out with spiritual and dedicated commitment;
Because soldiers have been upgraded and elevated, spiritually and mentally, through various deliberate and well-calculated military indoctrination that believes that no task or challenge in the course of duty was insurmountable or unachievable;
Because combatants are toughened and hardened through deliberate engagements in series of arduous tasks which take them to the zenith of strength and ability and where death may become inevitable and for them to face such situations without blinking an eye lid like the United States Navy Seals;
Because patriotic zeal and total commitment to defend the fatherland is the motto of every soldier who is sufficiently knowledgeable never to compromise this ideology; and
Because no soldier who is worth his calling ever betrays his country secrets of war blueprints, even as a prisoner of war (POW)!

CRITICISIMS AGAINST MILITARY OPERATION PYTHON  DANCE NATION-WIDE - 2019, IS UNTENABLE!
Internal Security Operations (IS) Ops and other responsibilities of the Nigerian Army include the following: First: to protect Nigeria’s borders and her territorial integrity in times of internal or external aggression, crisis, environmental disasters and the overall protection of the Nigerian citizens. Second: to promote Nigeria’s global interest in peace-keeping mission, operations/initiatives, and to supply humanitarian aids to such regions in need.
The domestic responsibilities of soldiers include but not limited to the following:
Aid civilian population during environmental disasters of storms, floods, earthquakes, landslides etc.
Construct local bridges, make-shift shelters in war-torn conflict areas; assist in restoration of vital services like electricity, portable water, clearing of blocked roads, search and rescue of hostages etc.
When riots or other forms of civil unrest threaten national security which could not be contained by the Police Force, the Army was always approached for necessary support to restore and maintain law and order.
It is on record that Nigerian soldiers had always performed creditably, both at domestic and international levels since independence and even in all of the road block assignments, had proved to be friendlier than other security operatives. Therefore, meticulous and adequate attention MUST be paid to both the next of kins of fallen soldiers and the Legion of MILITARY PENSIONERS who survived the war in respect of all financial entitlements while THOSE WHO ARE STILL IN THE TRENCHES MUST NOT ONLY BE WELL-MOTIVATED AND REMUNERATED AS AT WHEN DUE, BUT MUST ALSO BE WELL-KITTED AND EQUIPPED WITH THE LATEST AND MODERN STATE-OF -THE- EARTH MILITARY HARDWARE!

THE 2019 GENERAL ELECTIONS CONCERNS THE MILITARY, NO ONE CAN WISH THAT AWAY!
Nigerian democrats, the Electorate and the general populace should discountenance AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL'S one-sided and sinister report aimed at destabilizing the remaining fabric of UNITY that holds the nation together through its desperate effort to introduce bitterness, rancor, hatred, malice, animosity and sectionalism amongst the 250 tribes and over 500 tongues of the Nigeria nation BUT keep faith together to ensure that the evil machinations of foreign and local detractors would not prevail! We implore all well-meaning citizens to go out on the appointed days and vote for credible candidates of their choice on ISSUE-BASED manifestoes, projections, capital projects including past and current achievements, that were people-oriented and were beneficial to the down-trodden of the 200 million Nigerians! This is the only country we can call our own - we must collectively save it from destruction by performing our civic duties at that appropriate time! "When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.” (Proverbs. 29:2)

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