NIGERIAN SENATORS MALICIOUS FALSEHOOD WILL TERMINATE BEFORE MAY 2023!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.   

(Looking at Nigeria and the World's Political System From a Godly Perspective).

NIGERIAN SENATORS MALICIOUS FALSEHOOD WILL TERMINATE BEFORE MAY 2023!

It is very glaring that Nigerian legislators have deliberately misinterpreted oversight functions as license to appropriate humongous salaries, allowances, constituency votes that are alien to the constitution to augment legitimate monthly salaries of NGN1.5m and NGN1.3m naira respectively! 

They clandestinely re-wrote, re-invented, amended, or padded annual budgets submitted by the executive at their whims and caprices for the sole purpose of aggrandizement! Although in the 21 years (1999-2021), of the fresh attempt to practice transparent democracy, the National Assembly (NASS), salary structure has remained very controversial and very secretive, the 469 Legislators’ flamboyant, expensive and stupendous lifestyle in the midst of over 190million poverty-stricken Nigerians had always exposed them as the proverbial ostrich which buries its head in the sand for safety! 

With legislative impunity unbefitting of the 

CITIZENS’ REPRESENTATIVES, the lawmakers completely sidelined the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), the constitutional agency which fixes salaries of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), set up a parallel NASS Finance Section to allot and disburse their salaries and allowances which was always between NGN115-150 billion naira of annual budgets!

EVERY LIE HAS A TERMINAL DATE!

At a public event in Abuja on Monday 13th December, 2021, veteran politician (1999-2021) and Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, disclosed that Senators/Representatives collect NGN52m and NGN32m, respectively as annual running allowances. According to him, the monthly salary of a Senator was NGN1.5m and that of a Representative was NGN1.3m! He told participants in a paper he presented at the First Distinguished Parliamentarians Lecture Series that the alleged NGN13m that dominated public domain some years back was a Senator’s quarterly office running allowance while that of the Representative was NGN8m, which according to him were the lowest in any presidential democracy in the world! 

At that amount, each Senator collected NGN3.25m monthly while his House of Representative counterpart collected NGN2m!  In 2016, Senator Shehu Sanni, (then of the All Progressives Congress, APC) unveiled the secrecy behind Senators’ running allowance which was then NGN3.5million and whereas Senator Mrs. ‘Remi Tinubu claimed she got NGN3.8m - monies being paid from BORROWED FOREIGN LOANS! These narratives are completely opposite to Senator Lawan’s claims!

HAS THE EXECUTIVE EVER COMPLAINED OF NASS EXCESSES?

The Executive and the 9th NASS Legislators work hand in gloves! Although Senator Lawan was quick to state in a recent paper that the Red Chamber legislators were not a “rubber stamp” appendage of the Chief Executive Officer, 

President Buhari, but the citizens are too wise to believe such brazen lies! Every demand from both side of the divide was always treated with express dispatch to avoid confrontation and allow for smooth running of government according to inside sources unlike what obtained under the Saraki/Dogara debacle of the 8th NASS! 

According to Senator Lawan the legislative allowances were to cover running costs which included but not limited to medical services; professional consulting; vehicles/office equipment, consisting of computers, printers, photo copying machines, television sets, etc, maintenance; books, magazines, newspapers; local/international travels, etc, BUT failed to mention that: 

The legislators got presidential approval of NGN55billion naira to purchase exotic FOREIGN CARS/ JEEPS; and, 

Collected N37BILLION TO RENOVATE THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY COMPLEX, AND IN  RECIPROCITY, the Senators were also quick to approve a foreign loan of USD$ 22.7 dollars for the president to execute fresh critical infrastructures across Nigeria 

in May 2020, and subsequent loans in 2021!

Another N850 billion loan which was a conversion of a planned external loan to domestic borrowing (in a “rub my back …I rub your back” gesture), in spite of the negative fallout of the Coronavirus pandemic on the economy! ** * **BUT the nation’s DEBT PROFILE SINCE 2015, which is very close to NGN9TRILLION NAIRA AND STILL RISING MUST BE CONTINUALLY SERVICED ACCORDING TO CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENT IF NOT RE-NEGOTIATED!!

ALL LOANS (from 2015-2021), according to the President were (a) To finance the  Budget deficits, (b) Financing of critical projects and (c) Supporting some States of the Federation! [The same old STORY and with no concrete INFRASTRUCTURES TO MATCH ALMOST NGN9TRILLION DEBT ON HAND!]

Please find below some excerpts of our 2017 Christmas 288th Edition dated 24th December, 2017, in respect of abuse of constitutional provisions by legislators!

THE IMMENSE CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS OF NIGERIAN LEGISLATORS!

“In Section 4 (1) - (9) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, legislators are empowered (in a nutshell), (a) to make laws for the peace, order and good government of the Federation or any part thereof with respect to any matter included in the Exclusive Legislative List set out in Part I of the Second Schedule to the Constitution, to the exclusion of the State Houses of Assembly; and (b) matters in the Concurrent Legislative List and any other matter with respect to which it is empowered to make laws in accordance with the provisions of the 1999 Federal Constitution.“They are also backed by law to carry out legislative oversight functions on both the Private and Public Institutions, especially the Ministries Departments and Agencies, (MDAs), for the purposes of CHECKS AND BALANCES, to ensure probity, equity in appropriation and execution in budgetary transactions of government at the Federal platforms.“Under Sections 88 (1) (2)-89 (1) (2), legislators have powers to conduct investigations into any matter or thing with respect  to which it has power to make laws; and the conduct of affairs of any person, authority, Ministry or government charged, or intended to be charged with the duty of or responsibility for executing or administering laws enacted by NASS and disbursing or administering moneys appropriated or to be appropriated by NASS; EXPOSE CORRUPTION, INEFFICIENCY OR WASTE IN THE EXECUTION OR ADMINISTRATION OF LAWS WITHIN ITS LEGISLATIVE COMPETENCE AND IN THE DISBURSEMENT OR ADMINISTRATION OF FUNDS APPROVED BY IT ........ETC! 

WHO OVERSIGHTS THE CORRUPT LEGISLATORS STILL WALKING FREE?

But outside of these spheres, the legislators have become busy-bodies and meddlesome interlopers as they struggle very unsuccessfully, to take over executive functions and power from President Muhammadu Buhari at every opportunity, through spurious interpretation of their oversight functions, when constitutional INTERPRETATION OF LAWS is the sole function of the JUDICIARY and PROSECUTION OF OFFENDERS, REST WITH THE EXECUTIVE! Should Nigerians wonder why Ibrahim Magu's confirmation was rejected twice and why Senator Ali Ndume was suspended for SIX LEGISLATIVE MONTHS OF 181 DAYS because he contradicted his colleagues? Legislators that are claiming relevance through the Constitution have messy antecedents:      *Not less than 15 Senators are under EFCC investigations for corrupt enrichment; * Saraki has been ordered for re-trial at the CCT, for fraudulent declaration of assets between 2003-2011, when he served as Governor of Kwara State; * Corrupt ex-governors are members of the "hallowed chambers"; and * Some of them conspired to forge the Senate Rules to get into office by hook or crook!

TIME TO EXPOSE THESE ENEMIES OF THE MASSES IS NOW!

We advocate that the WHISTLE BLOWERS in conjunction with the NGOs, CSOs, Citizens Advocacy for Social and Economic Rights (CASER), Stand Up For Nigeria (SUN), SERAP    and all downtrodden Nigerians whose sweat and blood constitute the common wealth being looted by these reckless and heartless politicians, should dig out the legislators' SKELETONS and expose the OSTRICHS, whose heads are buried in the sand! 

LET'S NAME, SHAME THE CROOKED LEGISLATION WHO ARE HIDING BEHIND OVERSIGHT FUNCTIONS TO CAUSE HAVOC AND KILL THE OBNOXIOUS AND ANTI-CITIZENS NGO AND CIVIL SOCIETY COMMITTEE OF NIGERIA BILLS, PENDING AT THE NASS, NOW! 

"Righteousness exalts a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people” (Proverbs. 14:34). 

TO SHUT DOWN THE SENATE IN 2022 THROUGH POPULAR REFERENDUM IS A TASK THAT MUST BE DONE! [The following  piece was first published in our Edition 414th of 18 July, 2021; please copy and circulate on the Social Media to garner support for an URGENT REFERENDUM that will usher permanent peace to the nation!]

“BUT WITH THE REFERENDUM’S SIMPLE “YES” OR “NO”, TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ALL CRIMINALS  WILL DROP THEIR WEAPONS AND NIGERIA WILL EMBRACE EVERLASTING PEACE AGAIN!

Should the Nigeria SENATE be disbanded and shut down? YES!

Should a UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT with 74 or less members be established to replace the DOLLAR-GULPING PRESIDENTIAL REGIME? YES!

DEVOLUTION OF POWERS to the States through Resource Control/Self Governance SO THAT STATES SHOULD PAY NEGOTIATED PERCENTAGE TO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT? YES! 

STATE POLICE AND STATE PRISONS to be run by all States of the Federation in respect of ALL crimes? YES! 

INDEPENDENT CANDIDACY should be enjoyed if such candidate was not a member of any political party, six months prior to any election? YES! 

Should the 774 Local Government Areas (LGAs), enjoy constitutional autonomy and be free to legislate and create any number of councils as they so desired? YES! 

Food, Drugs and poison to be moved to the Concurrent List so that States could constitutionally legislate on those items, while narcotics/psychotropic substances should remain on the Exclusive List? Yes!  

Labor issues, trade unions, industrial relations, conditions, safety/welfare, disputes/minimum wages/ industrial arbitration, should be handled by both States/Federal Governments who should enjoy independent legislation? YES! 

Mines and minerals, oil fields and mining, geological surveys and natural gas that are ONSHORE will be vested in all States of the Federation, while all OFF-SHORE OIL shall be vested in the government of the federation? YES! 

Registration of Business Names should be on the Concurrent List for companies to choose their areas of operations; State or nationwide? YES! 

Collection of Stamp Duties should be moved to the Concurrent List, for the States to collect duties from individual and small businesses while Federal Government collects Stamp Duties from Limited Liabilities Companies? YES! 

Issue of Citizenship, Local Government or State of Origin, which had hitherto been discriminatory, "should be replaced with State of Residence", through a proposed amendment to the Federal Character Commission Act to allow people domicile in a place to be considered as INDIGENES of such place? YES!”

LET US UNITE AND SAVE NIGERIA ONCE AND FOR ALL FROM 21ST CENTURY NEO-COLONIALISTS! (Psalm.133:1-3).

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, 

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, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

CURRENT NIGERIAN POLITICIANS DESERVE OMICRON BAN BY ALL COUNTRIES!

ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER.

(Looking at Nigeria and the World's Political System From a Godly Perspective).

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria {Vol. 10.NO 435. 12th December, 2021.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32). PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

CURRENT NIGERIAN POLITICIANS DESERVE OMICRON BAN BY ALL COUNTRIES!

It is very unethical for President Buharis’ handlers to lament and protest over Nigeria’s inclusion in the Red List travel ban to the United Kingdom in view of glaring presence of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 in the country!

Although Nigeria is also included on the Canadian red list, the temporary ban by UK has hit the nation’s money bags/launderers harder because British Isles is a second home to them and their families! Great Britain, England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales are countries suitable for Western education, medical tourism, holiday resorts shopping destinations and safe havens for dispensing illicit financial flows!

The cacophony of local /international propagandists which were very quick and loud in condemnation of the UK’s decision to protect its public health from suspected Omicron carriers from Nigeria were in error because they were ignorant of the TRUTH that consecutive Nigerian leaders woefully failed to develop strong and formidable institutions in all sectors of the economy/security and must therefore rush to Britain at the slightest opportunity to enjoy the FRUITS OF OTHER PEOPLES’ LABOR!

QUESTIONS:

(1).Are the Christmas and New Year festivities not in the around the corner?

(2). Have the Nigerian health, security, power or economic sectors gotten any better especially in the last SIX YEARS under President Buhari’s watch?

(3). Did Nigerian post-colonial administrators learn any TRADE from Britain, its former colonial master?

(4).What stopped Nigerian leaders from copying the BLUEPRINTS of Industrial Revolution Institutions – the British hallmark of investments in institutional and human development that have entrenched their centuries of democracy and strong economy that has outlived all their great and very outstanding political leaders?

POST-COLONIAL ERA PRODUCED COVETOUS LEADERSHIP!

New Nigerian political leaders shortly after Independence betrayed the citizens by focusing on quick dollars which accrued from Crude Oil instead of entrenchment of the peoples’ security and welfare!

Export agricultural groundnut pyramids, abundant cocoa seeds, rubber raw materials and the excess natural underground pearls of mineral resources that could have addressed human development infrastructures and established very strong institutions were exchanged for imports of refined and finished products from UK and other European countries!

QUESTION: What is the meaning of TRAVEL APARTHEID? The British High Commissioner in Nigeria had said that travel ban measures were “SCIENTIFICALLY BASED” for the protection of its citizens!

NIGERIA TOOK THE WRONG STEPS AND EXPECTS THE RIGHT RESULTS – WELCOME RAMAPHOSA!

First, Nigeria was aware that the deadliest Variant was discovered in Botswana, South Africa in (just as the very first Covid Variant was discovered in Wuyan, China, in December 2019) and that it had debuted on its soil through two travelers who migrated from that country to Nigeria on 26th November, 2021.

As at Tuesday 7th December, 2021, six more Omicron Variant were detected and confirmed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), to further alarm an already frenzied population which is polarized in the respect of the presence of Covid-19 pandemic in Nigeria for the last two years!

The travel ban which would affect Visitor Visa applications and all international arrivals to the UK from all red list countries, including Nigeria and took effect from Monday 6th December, 2021, require pre-departure Covid-19 tests by travelers from all affected countries to protect public health and avoid further spread in the UK!

The commotion generated by Nigeria’s apologetics was very unnecessary and uncalled for because it is not a total travel ban on citizens from the affected countries; as Nigerian/UK Citizens and residents will be able to enter the country, but will have to pay while in quarantine for 10 days!

In addition, the British High Commission in Nigeria in a statement says that compelling and compassionate circumstances will enjoy positive attention from red list countries while travel restrictions remain in place!

Second, without due attention to tracking of the South African migrants to ascertain all people they had contacted during/after flight at the airport, President Buhari opened its borders and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on 1st December, 2021, to ratify some economic/investment MOUs, with the camaraderie of African brotherhood at the expense of massive infection to the Nigerian Citizens!

Virologists predicted at the weekend that Nigeria could slip into a FOURTH WAVE, “in days to come” due to change in weather!

Third, the President’s advisers who had convinced him in the affirmative that the new Variant posed no serious danger in spite of travel bans to all South African travelers to virtually all countries of the world totally forgot that Nigeria was not an island in the global village!

OMICRON HAS SPREAD TO 57 COUNTRIES! AND STILL COUNTING

The latest epidemiological report by the World Health Organization (WHO), said the Omicron Variant which has spread rapidly in SA has been reported in at least 57 countries across the world!

*In the UK early figures were estimated at over 386 and has since risen to about 1,000 according to statistics released by Minister for Health on 8th December, 20, but the increase is on such deep trajectory that cases were doubling every two to three days and the country braces for 1 million cases by the end of the month!

WHY IS NIGERIA SO MAD WITH THE UK???

Nigeria attained the prestigious status of sovereignty as a Republic on 1st October, 1963; politically discarded all vestiges of British colonialism and imperialism, replaced the Queen of England with an indigene as of Head of State and adopted a quasi parliamentary/presidential system of government.

However they failed to establish concrete economic foundation for industry, manufacturing, SMSEs etc, that would provide gainful employment for all able-bodied and school leavers at all levels as necessary foundation for human development and an enduring platform for foreign exchange earnings through massive exports of finished/refined products!

The founding fathers were probably taught by their colonial masters that the art of BORROWING to actualize set developmental goals was a universal norm which no nation could afford to shun and also an indispensible tool for “sound economic development and growth” – a doctrine which dominated consecutive administrations from Sir. Tafawa Balewa to the current President Muhammadu Buhari who is the most obsessive BORROWER of them all!

The colonial masters must have also told them that the richest country in the world [the United States of America], also borrows from the World Bank Group and advised that borrowed money must be invested in CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT!

THE BUHARI CHANGE ERA!

President Buhari’s desperate bid to occupy the number one seat paid off in 2015; but in his SIX years of governance as at June 2021, Nigeria - through his mastery in DEBT NEGOTIATION - is indebted to almost all developed countries, the United States, China, Canada, UAE, Britain, Japan, France, India, Germany, Saudi Arabia; not excluding top international financial institutions, - the World Bank Group, Islamic Development Bank, Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa, African Development Bank (AfDB), Exim Bank of China, etc, to the tune of USD$ 17billion dollars and Nigerians are still counting because of the avowed passion of the President to continue to borrow more funds for infrastructure until he departs office!

BUHARI AND NOT NIGERIANS IS THE SHAMELESS BEGGAR!

President Buhari had hardly assumed office in 2015 when he embarked on a trip to China to learn from President Xi Jinping (so Nigerians believed), how to take the most-populated African country out of POVERTY once and for all like China did to become the SECOND LARGEST ECONOMY AFTER THE UNITED STATES, but they were all wrong!

The man went cap in hand to BEG for money and between 2015 and 2021, had borrowed USD$ 3.40billion dollars or NGN1.3trillion naira from the most-populous country of more than 1.4 billion people in the world according to Nigeria’s Debt Management Office! (DMO).

Although China’s concessional (20-year-tenor) loans with 2.5% interest and 7-year moratorium (grace period), are tied to some 11 projects- majorly in the Nigerian Railway, the South East Second Niger Bridge and rehabilitation/upgrading of some road projects in the North Central, most part is diverted to payment of salaries/allowances/excesses of the executive, legislative, judiciary and the MDAs – who are less than 2 million of Nigeria’s population!

In addition to the economic quagmire, NOT ONE DOLLAR of accumulated loans has been paid back but regularly SERVICED, while more loans were sought to increase debt profile! According to the Federal Minister of Finance, the sum of NGN2.89 trillion, 74% of Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), was spent between January and August 2021, a tradition common to all annual budgets!

IS THIS NOT A NEW WAVE OF AFRICA’S ECONOMIC COLONIZATION?

The countries that kept lending huge funds to support phantom “infrastructural development” in the Nigeria do so for very favorable reasons which are contained in the CONTRACTS which allow LENDER NATIONS to take over contractual asset of the DEBTOR until all borrowed funds and interests were completely paid!

PROPHECY: Nigeria will NEVER BE RE-COLONIZED because all current corrupt leadership who are RICHER THAN NIGERIA [through institutional manipulation of THE OIL WEALTH in favor of a few], are going to be STRIPPED OF ALL THE ILL-GOTTEN MONIES starched in PANAMA, PANDORA HAVENS IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2022!

***THE PROCESS OF SHUTTING DOWN THE 9TH AND LAST NIGERIAN SENATE WILL COMMENCE IN EARNEST EARLY IN THE YEAR AND PRESIDENT BUHARI WILL HAVE NO OPTION THAN TO SUCCUMB TO A POPULAR REFERENDUM THAT WILL ALSO TAKE CARE OF OTHER RESTRUCTURING AGITATIONS BEGINNING WITH DEVOLUTION OF POWER FROM THE FEDERAL TO THE FEDERATING STATE AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF STATE POLICE!

***Nigeria will be salvaged by DIVINELY APPOINTED MANAGERS from among the RIGHTEOUS MASSES who will boldly step out to CHANGE THE NEGATIVE DESTINY OF POVERTY TO AFFLUENCE!

*** FURTHER BORROWING WILL SEIZE FROM THE YEAR 2022 DUE TO PRESSURE BY NEW LEADERS ON INTERNATIONAL BODIES TO BLACKLIST NIGERIA!

***LEGAL PROSECUTION OF MANY LOOTERS OF THE NIGERIA TREASURY WILL BE FAST-TRACKED BY LAW-ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES WHO WILL SECURE POSITIVE JUDGMENTS THAT WILL SEND THE CULPRITS TO JAIL!

***FEAR WILL GRIP ALL PILFERERS IN THE MDAs, WHO HAVE BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR ANNUAL BUDGET PADDING AS A SPIRIT OF ANTAGONISM WILL FORCE THEM TO EXPOSE THEM AND THEIR CRIMES!

Nigeria will rise again from the ASHES before the 2023 General Elections!

God will bring down the PROUD OLIGARCHY and raise a RIGHTEOUS GENERATION UNTO HIMSELF! ‘’Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people’’. (Prov. 14:34).

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,

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, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

CAN EFCC HARASS THE ICPC WHISTLE BLOWER!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.   

(Looking at Nigeria and the World's Political System From a Godly Perspective).

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria {Vol. 10.NO 434. 5th December, 2021.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).  PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

CAN EFCC HARASS THE ICPC WHISTLE BLOWER!

The Whistle Blower Policy introduced in 2016 by the Federal Ministry of Finance to encourage a confidential culture through which corruption in the public sector could be easily detected, exposed, addressed and punished, died on arrival because the interest of majority of Nigerians was the mouth-watering monetary reward aspect which promised whistle blowers 2.5 - 5% of illicit funds or of recovered concealed assets!

The Policy which was not an Act of Parliament heightened the craze for quick money which confidants of treasury looters seized to expose their malfeasant principals in order to acquire their shares of the fraud and simultaneously opened floodgates to unscrupulous law enforcers who recovered the funds to covet large portions of every successful raid!

EFCC, WHISTLE BLOWERS AND DEFENCE LAWYERS QUARREL OVER NGN 850 BILLION REWARD!

In November 2017, Whistle Blowers, defence lawyers and some unscrupulous officials of the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), fought dirty over the N850million naira reward for the recovery of USD$43.4million, NGN23.3milliom and 27,800 Euros, concealed in one apartment of the Osborne Towers situated in Ikoyi, Lagos Island on 22nd April, 2017!

Defence Lawyer to three friends who disclosed the hidden Ikoyi loot to EFCC threatened to take legal action before the matter was resolved and a sum of NGN421million was paid to one on 13th December 2017, to Stephen Sunday, the lead whistle blower by the Federal Ministry of Finance, and it was reported that he flew out of the country for safety! 

Whereas, amounts paid to the other two friends of Stephen could not be ascertained! 

Alleged malfeasant EFCC operatives tried fruitlessly to outsmart the three bona-fide squealers who exposed the Osborne loot linked to DG National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Mr. Ayo Oke, whose where about remains a mystery till date!

 There was a controversy over the authentic whistle blower in respect of the cache of monies recovered from the flat at Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos State in April 2017, and the last Nigerians heard about the whistle blower reward was in December of the same year when the much-traumatised authentic principal whistle blower Stephen Sunday got certain amount of money not up to 2.5% of the recovered sum because of insincerity on the part of covetous EFCC operatives and Federal Ministry of Finance!

Stephen’s lawyer who had earlier threatened court litigation against the anti-graft agency, claimed that EFCC officials subjected his client to emotional trauma through the administration of psychotic drugs at the Yaba Psychiatric Hospital, Lagos, which they claimed cost NGN 250,000 naira “to cure him of an assumed madness” believed to have been caused by the sudden windfall of tremendous riches!

Apart from Stephen’s lawyer, another legal firm which also claimed to represent Stephen and his two co-whistle blowers, Abdulmumin Musa and Bala Usman with whom he informed EFCC about the discovery, also petitioned the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, to compel EFCC to pay the reward to the THREE MEN!

It is very pertinent for the new EFCC Administration under Abdulrasheed Bawa to re-open the OSBORNE CASE and fish out culpable officers who would likely damage his reputation if urgent measures were delayed!

WHISTLE BLOWER POLICY WAS BUHARI’S BABY!

Although the Whistle Blowers and Witness Protection Policy was President Buhari’s innovation,  his ambitious manifesto to crush corruption from its very root in the polity, his six-year occupation of Aso Rock Villa has debuted the worst kind of the infectious disease in two decades of the nation’s new democratic dispensation!

However the 9th Senate reintroduced the old Policy as one of 11 Bills read for the first time at plenary in November 2019, to seek protection for whistle blowers and witnesses with provision for financial rewards to encourage citizens who expose corruption and protection against victimisation or loss of jobs!

The reason for NASS reintroduction could not be far-fetched because President Buhari’s determination’s to stamp out the evil crime of corruption backfired and festered the malaise beyond imaginable proportion instead of reducing it!

ICPC CHAIRMAN IS NEW WHISTLE BLOWER WHO CANNOT BE GAGGED!

The Independent Corrupt Practices and related Offences Commission (ICPC), Chairman Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, has confirmed that there was gross abuse of personnel budget as duplication of projects by some Federal Ministries Department and Agencies (MDAs),  amounting to NGN20,138 billion!

He disclosed that a review by his anti-graft agency revealed that duplication and padding occurred in the implementation of the 2021 Budget which involved about 257 projects adding that ICPC was investigating Ministry of Labour for corrupt employment/ issuance of fake letters of employment and fraudulently enrolling them on the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) and posting them to unsuspecting MDAs to work! Also on the ICPC searchlight are the University College Hospital, Ibadan and corrupt staff members of MDAs suspected of massive illegal recruitment!

In his privileged position as an academic and head of such an anti-corruption government institution, Professor Owasanoye’s claims which include but not limited to; massive budgetary scams, unilateral increase in wages, indiscriminate travels resulting in high inflation of personnel budget among other financial improprieties reflecting huge wage bills up to about 70% of annual budget can neither be faulted, wished away nor dismissed!

He also disclosed that ICPC was prosecuting one of the leaders of the syndicate from whose custody several fake letters of recommendation purportedly signed by the Chief of Staff to the President, Honourable Ministers, Federal Civil Service Commission and other high-ranking Nigerians!

ICPC RECOVERS 300 HOUSES FROM TWO CIVIL SERVANTS IN ABUJA!

In the October, 2021, the ICPC Chairman disclosed at a Public Hearing on Real Estate, organised by the HOR Ad Hoc Committee on Investigation of Operations of Real Estate Developers in the FCT, that the anti-graft agency recovered over 300 Houses from two civil servants in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FTC)!

He expressed dismay that public officers were using real estate developers as conduits for illicit financial flows! 

It is therefore gratifying that the House of Representatives (HOR), has already moved to confirm all recent findings of the ICPC boss which were contained in his welcome address at the 3rd National Summit on Diminishing Corrupting in the Public Service and Presentation of Public Service Integrity Award held at the State House Conference Hall, Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Tuesday 30th November 2021.

 OFFICIAL PROTECTION FOR WHISTLE BLOWERS!

Although the Whistle Blowers and Protection of Witness Act sought to (1) Encourage, (2) Facilitate disclosure of malfeasance by public officers/bodies and (3) Protect such disclosures under the law, two major Clauses: 34 and 45 of the were categorical on gains and stringent punishment of not less than five years or a fine of NGN10 million for false alarms by whistle blowers!

Whistle Blowers are protected from defamation, civil and criminal liability. They also enjoy preclusion/immunity from contractual or other remedies that could be enforced against a whistle blower while monetary incentive of 2.5% of the recovered monies (after all tax deduction), is provided in the Act by Federal Government as reward for genuine disclosures that lead to successful raids! 

FEDERAL HIGH COURT SAYS EX-NNPC GMD HAS CASE TO ANSWER!   

Another exposed illicit money by a whistle blower also led to the arrest and prosecution of a an ex-Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), Mr. Andrew Yakubu who served between 2012-2014, by the EFCC in February 2017, for allegedly concealing foreign currencies in the sums of USD$9.7 million and 74,000 British Pounds sterling in his Kaduna State Guest House!

As at the time of his arrest the Federal Government law against non-declaration of assets and money laundering/Whistle Blower and Witness Protection Act of December 2016, was in operation!

INSTITUTIONAL LOOTING MUST END WITH ABDULRESHEED BAWA!

Gone are those days when unscrupulous operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), could intimidate, harass, brow-beat and fleece patriotic whistle blowers of their legitimate rewards and get away with such dastard institutional crimes without bating an eye lid! 

Young, ebullient, diligent, resilient and resourceful Bawa MUST CLEANSE THE AUGEAN STABLE AND GIVE EFCC A BRAND NEW/IMPECCABLE NAME AND IMAGE! “To whom much is given, much is expected”! 

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, 

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, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

NIGERIANS WILL NOT PAY N340 FOR PMS - LOCAL DEREGULATION IS THE ANSWER!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.   

(Looking at Nigeria and the World's Political System From a Godly Perspective).

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria {Vol. 10.NO 433. 28th Nov, 2021.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).  PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

NIGERIANS WILL NOT PAY N340 FOR PMS - LOCAL DEREGULATION IS THE ANSWER!

Nigerians especially the Niger Delta indigenes deserve a better deal than the clueless economic solutions proffered by the Buhari Administration to solve the 63-year-old all-comers massive robbery in the Petroleum Sector!

They all applauded the President’s victory in 2015 as a civilian leader because of the assumption that he had vast experience to re-order, re-direct, re-invent, re-organize and harness the great potentials of the Oil Industry of the endemic institutional corruption which has been its acclaimed trademark!

He was Military Chairman from 1977-1978 when the Nigerian National Petroleum was created and later Federal Commissioner for Petroleum and Natural Resources when government invested in pipelines and petroleum storage infrastructures and as two term-President (2015-2021), he has jealously kept the Petroleum portfolio under his armpit for closer scrutiny! But in spite of the citizens’ assumptions, the petroleum regime has witnessed its worst hiccups through blatant disregard for accountability and had exposed a brazen penchant for retention of a blank cheque ie, an unspecified percentage of total IGR before remission to the TSA! 

But with the planned incorporation of the NNPC, should Nigerians hope for sanity in the up, middle, and down streams now that the PIA is now assented by Mr. President or the document is another “paper tiger”? 

During Ibe Kachikwu’s tenure as Minister of State for Petroleum the NNPC GMD whose loyalty was to the President allegedly by-passed Kachikwu to award dubious contracts in spite Kachikwu’s seniority as Chairman of the NNPC Board!

Ibe Kachikwu’s bold petition directly to President Buhari at the Aso Villa was discarded because “some animals are more equal than others!”  

WHEN “FUEL SUBSIDY” IS REMOVED, WILL OFFICIAL PRICE OF N165 PER LITRE OF PMS JUMP TO N340 (over 200%), BY JUNE 2022 IN ORDER TO ATTRACT MORE INVESTMENTS TO THE SECTOR ACCORDING TO OLD NNPC GROUP MANAGING DIRECTOR, MELE KYARI? WILL FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PAY N5, 000 AS PALLIATIVES TO 40 MILLION POOREST NIGERIANS TO CUSHION EFFECT OF THE PURPOSED INCREASE TO FULFIL THE NEWLY SIGNED PIA? ANSWER: NONE OF THE ABOVE WILL HAPPEN BECAUSE SUCH MONEY WAS NOT APPROPRIATED IN THE 2022 BUDGET! Is foreign exchange not N560 to one US Dollar – due to the devaluation of the Naira?

WHAT IS LOCAL DEREGULATION OF THE PETROLEUM SECTOR?

1) No downstream deregulation could take place when SUBSIDY of the PMS never existed in the first place! It is a monumental fraud against the poor masses!

2) Nigeria is the third largest producer of crude oil in Africa and yet opted for IMPORTING REFINED FUEL instead of building new Refineries!

3) Presently, there exist in the Niger Delta Region (THE GOOSE that lays the GOLDEN EGG), tens of tens of indigenous MODULAR REFINERIES churning out refined PMS, DIESEL, and other lubricants which SUPPLY all petroleum needs for the people; and they hardly experience any form of SCARCITY!

4) Government is aware of this “illegal” strategic thriving industry which embraces civilians, members of the armed forces, and the police was always patronized just like the official Depots located across the nation but has turned BLIND EYE!

RECOMMENDATIONS:

***Since the implementation of the newly signed PIA document has been put on hold because of policy somersaults, Federal Government should give approval to INGENIOUS LOCAL MODULAR REFINERIES and encourage other INVESTORS to build more!

QUESTION: When will the FOUR COMATOSE NIGERIAN REFINERIES PRODUCE PMS ETC,? HOW MUCH IS BEING PAID FOR REDUNDANT WORKERS WHOM MR. TIMIPRE SYLVA SAYS CANNOT BE SACKED EVEN IF TAKES FOREVER BEFORE THE OFFICIAL REFINERIES TO RESURRECT?

*** Mr. President directed that swearing-in of new NNPC BOARD MEMBERS scheduled for 26th November, 2021, be put on hold because it was a wrong step as we had pointed out in one of our past publications that no board could be in place and be collecting FREE SALARIES when their institution had not become a LEGAL ENTITY!

MUST NIGERIA BECOME THE LAPDOG OF OPEC, IMF OR WORLD BANK AND DANCE TO THEIR DICTATES?

The President and his cohorts may be BEGGARS, all patriotic Nigerians are not and will never be cowed into submission to THE FRAUD CALLED FUEL SUBSIDY! 

 MEMBERSHIP TO AFFECT LOCAL DEREGULATION POLICY? NO!

Out of the belly of Oloibiri, a small community of farmers and fishermen in Ogbia LGA, Bayelsa State, eastern Niger Delta region of Nigeria flowed out the first thousand litres of crude oil “liquid black gold” which was destined to prosper and destroy Nigeria simultaneously! 

Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), in 1956 at this ancient town after half a century efforts of exploration discovered crude oil and in 1958, the country registered as an oil producer and its first oil field delivered 5,100 barrels per day (bpd).

Also in 1958, petroleum was discovered in Ogoni, Rivers South East Niger Delta, with 96 wells which brought nine fields on stream and before oil production ceased in early ‘90s, due to devastating and uncontrollable oil spillages; over two million barrels in 2,976 separate spills polluted the area between 1976 and 1991!

During the last seven years of military occupation of the Nigerian State; 1992-1999, pressure groups agitated for special attention from Federal Government in respect of the upkeep of the region – especially in the areas of CLEAN – UP of polluted lands and prevention of future spillages but some who believed in application of force introduced militancy which forced authorities to pay more attention to the region!

Billions of US dollars have been paid militant groups which took up arms and continuously vandalized oil/gas pipelines to compound the already chaotic insecurity for them to lay down their arms for peace to reign! 

According to the Minister of Environment between a period of four years, 2015 to March 2021, Nigeria recorded 4,919 oil spills and lost 4.5 trillion barrels of oil theft!

And scars of the environmental wounds inflicted on the once aquaculture/agriculturally-friendly Ogoniland in the forms of abandoned/discarded Shell-BP pipelines, are scattered and traverse the condemned, uninhabitable/contaminated land, creeks and waterways!

According to a May 2019 Report by Friends of the Earth International, “over two decades after Shell first was called out for its destruction of the Niger Delta, oil still contaminates the land, compensation is owed and Shell continues to obstruct justice.”

THE BRUTAL MURDER OF KEN SARO-WIWA AND CO!

Twenty-five years ago, late Social Activist and president of the MOVEMENT for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP),  Ken Saro Wiwa was executed along with eight associates (globally acclaimed as the Ogoni Nine), by the government of maximum military head of state, General Sani Abacha, for standing up to Shell’s destructive exploitative operations in their communities and not until Four Nigerian Farmers in conjunction with “Friends of The Earth, Netherlands”, instituted a court case against Shell at the Hague, to hold the Shell Petroleum Development Company culpable for its destruction of the Niger Delta!

SHELL AGREES TO PAY OGONI COMMUNITY N45.9BILLION FOR OIL SPILLAGE AS ORDERED BY THE SUPREME COURT!

It took a period of almost 32 years, but on 11th August, 2021, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), finally agreed to pay the Supreme Court order of N45.9billion compensation to an Ogoni Community, Ejama-Ebubu in Tai Eleme LGA of Rivers State, which sought damages against Shell for an oil spillage incident after a long-drawn legal tussle which began at the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt which awarded damages in 2010 in favour of the litigants and through to the Appeal Court and finally – the apex court!  

Also on 8th June, 2009, Shell settled out-of-court with the Saro Wiwa family for USD $15.5 million having admitted complicity in military and human rights abuses which untimely terminated Ken and the Ogoni Nine in November, 1995

OGONI CLEAN UP SHOULD NOT BE DELAYED ANY FURTHER!

United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), has called on the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Oil and Gas Industry and Communities to begin a comprehensive clean-up of the region and take co-ordinated action to end to all forms of illegal oil bunkering, crude theft and artisanal refining of stolen crude causing oil contamination in Ogoniland! 

 

Although the military junta alleged that Ken Saro-Wiwa and his members incited the murder of five prominent chiefs of the land, the late activist’s agitation for a clean and unpolluted environment of his birth place, Ogoniland did not die with him but miraculously resurrected through President Muhammadu Buhari, who eventually flagged off the clean-up exercise at Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State on Thursday, 2nd June, 2016!

NIGER DELTA REGION DESERVES A BETTER DEAL AS THE FOREX FOOD BASKET OF NIGERIA!

They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever. (Psa 125:1)

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, 

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, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

TARABA INVASION PORTRAYS HIGHEST SECURITY DEFICIT IN NIGERIA!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.   

(Looking at Nigeria and the World's Political System From a Godly Perspective).

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria {Vol. 10.NO 432. 21st Nov, 2021.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).  PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

TARABA INVASION PORTRAYS HIGHEST SECURITY DEFICIT IN NIGERIA!

The Republic of Nigeria is called the “giant of Africa” only because of its population of over 200 million people; not because of exemplary leadership devoted to principles of democracy and social justice based on security and welfare of its people as a core responsibility!

Nigerian politicians since 1999 neither humbled themselves nor sought the face of God for the forgiveness of national sins and healing of the land soaked with tons of blood of innocent citizens who paid the supreme price during 30years of military aberration of the polity!

They were very desperate to have their portion of the “national cake” that they failed to scrutinize the “land mine” 1999 Military Constitution placed into the hands of a soldier-president to execute for Eight years following the “victory” of his party at the general elections supervised by his comrade-in-arms and were therefore alienated from his divine benevolence!

Beginning with institutional corruption which gave birth to insurgency, insurrection, civil disobedience, brigandage, banditry, kidnappings, 12-year-Boko Haram terrorism, farmers/pastoralists armed conflicts, brazen attacks on critical institutional infrastructures – including attempts to overrun some Governors’ Lodges – are the score cards of all consecutive political administrations of ONE PARTY SYSTEM till date!

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was hurriedly formed in 1998 after the demise of military maximum ruler/treasury looter with the aim of CONTINUITY because all pseudo political parties flowed into the MEGA PDP and the partying continued for 16 years when those who felt sidelined in the looting arrangement broke out to also hurriedly formed the All Progressives Congress (APC), which professed a CHANGE AGENDA – and they have all flowed into it to balance the equation!

The minority political leadership cared less about all negative international condemnation of Nigeria as the MOST CORRUPT/ POVERTY CAPITAL OF THE WORLD; THE DIRTIEST COUNTRY, THE MOST INSECURE COUNTRY TO DOMICILE ETC, ETC, but were only interested in accumulating their own share of the BLOOD MONEY at the expense of the vast majority of the poor masses whom the pretend to represent in government at all levels from Federal to States and the Local Government Areas (LGAs)!

IN PRESENT DAY NIGERIA, YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN!

The Minister of Defence and some Governors in the Federation have advised citizens to defend themselves in any case of attack by the criminal elements within the system because the security and welfare of the people was neither their concern nor primary objective and no wonder Nigeria’s ambitious neighbours - Cameroon Ambazonian renegades seeking to carve out a new settlement last week attacked unarmed and defenceless Nigerians in Taraba!   

On Tuesday, 16th November 2021, suspected separatist Ambazonian group from Cameroon, invaded Nigeria’s North-East Taraba State, killed not less than five people, including the Chief of Manga border Village in the Takum Local Government and escaped without any form of confrontation or resistance BUT a ranking member of the National Assembly (NASS), Senate Ali Ndume described the horrendous attack as mere “communal clashes” between communities along the common border of both countries and also claimed that the incident should not be regarded as an external aggression against territorial integrity of Nigeria!

His vituperation was not unexpected because this Senator Ndume representing Bornu South Senatorial District was once alleged to have been one of the sponsors of the Islamist Boko Haram Terrorist in government – an accusation which he vehemently denied when interrogated by the State Security Service (SSS), in November 2011! He is now Chairman, Senate Committee on Army.

However, Chairman of Takum LGA, Taraba State, confirmed the armed invasion as an affront against the sovereignty of Nigeria and said several residents who fled were still missing following the deadly unprovoked attack! He emphasized that several people fell into the rivers while others climbed mountains for safety and added that casualty figure was uncertain and speculative at about nine or eleven!

According to other reports, this attack was not the first! In 2018, many of the Ambazonian separatists who crossed Nigeria borders to inflict mayhem on the defenceless and unarmed rural dwellers were accosted, arrested and detained by law enforcement agents in Nigeria, but were eventually released through diplomatic channels to the Cameroon Government for necessary disciplinary measures!

COULD THIS FRESH ATTACK BE REGARDED AS A REPRISAL AGAINST NIGERIA?

Nigeria covered an area of 923,769 square kilometres (or 356,669 square miles), before “Bakassi Peninsula” which lies between the Cross River estuary, close to the city of Calabar was ceded to neighbouring francophone Cameroon (bordering Nigeria on the east), by the International Court of Justice in August 2008, on the strength of a “Green Tree Agreement” between the two countries!

Several other encroachments had been recorded by Niger (northern border), Chad (north east), and Benin (western border); because the “helpless and corruption-drugged giant” has porous borders of over 450 un-manned all-comers entry points through which criminals and insurgents like the Ambazonians always had field days!

AMBAZONIA SEPARATIST LEADER SAYS ATTACK WAS MASTER-MINDED BY CAMEROON GOVERNMENT!

The separatist leader, Dr Cho Ayaba has claimed that his group was not involved in the attack which he claimed was masterminded by the Cameroonian Government which planned to portray the Ambazonians as Nigeria’s external enemies!

An Armed Forces Military base is believed to be stationed in Takum which always handled communal clashes and regularly deployed to flash points in the area which has no known delineation of land marks or walls/fencing demarcation possibly because of common historical antecedents between communities on both sides of the two countries - Cameroon and Nigeria!

Chief of Defence Staff, Lieutenant General Lucky Irabor, in a reaction to the Taraba invasion said the Nigerian Army was engaged across the nation and would definitely execute professionalism in all areas of assignment in spite commitments in 34 States of the Federation!

ANGLOPHONE SEPARATISTS DEMAND FOR AN INDEPENDENT STATE FROM CAMEROON!

Two Cameroons’ (North and South), existed up to 11th February, 1961, when the Muslim-majority North in a plebiscite opted for a union with Nigeria and its South counterpart voted to join French-speaking Republic of Cameroon with a population of 26.55 million on the Gulf of Guinea, according to a World Bank 2020 figure.  

Octogenarian President Paul Biya (84), Africa’s oldest President, who is unconstitutionally having a third term in office has ruled Cameroon for 39 years (6th November, 1982 to date), and has lost all affection among the citizens except the Armed Forces, Gendarmes/Political jobbers who are supportive and very loyal to him!

Though Cameroon is a very small country in geographical size and economic status when compared to Nigeria but the disputed Bakassi Peninsular aggravated all areas of diplomatic relationship between the two countries because of the claim that the peninsular was endowed with large deposits of oil and natural mineral resources!

In those days before the International Court of Justice 2008 verdict in respect of Bakassi ownership went in their favour, the gendarmes were very aggressive against Nigerian rural dwellers of the peninsular whom they militarily attacked, illegally taxed and looted at random and went scot-free because they has official support!

Border incidents which worsened in the 1980s into the 1990s almost caused a full-scale war between the two countries until the Cameroonian Government filed litigation against Nigeria in 1994 at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), and in spite of the fact that the judgment favoured them those gendarmes were always quick to attack Nigerian border communities at the slightest opportunity up to the year 2017 when the Ambazonians intensified their insurgency against Paul Biya’s Government!

WILL THE NIGERIAN EXECUTIVE UNDER THE WATCH OF PRESIDENT BUHARI MOPE WHILE CAMEROONIAN REBELS MURDER ITS CITIZENS IN COLD BLOOD?

Apart from Taraba State Governor and some Senators who have vehemently condemned the Takum invasion, the Federal Government’s reaction has not been made public but Mr. President’s body language through immediate deployment of large members of the armed forces to the affected areas had spoken loudest and from all indications those culprits would soon be fished out and punished right here in Nigeria!

Governor Darius Ishaku has disclosed that he would discuss details of the unfortunate incident with the President as  soon as he had more facts adding that he had never kept quiet nor idle in respect of past incidents but had taken effective actions as the  Chief Security Officer of the State!

NIGERIAN SOCIO-ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIP WITH CAMEROON!

Bilateral trade relations between Nigeria and Cameroun in the past 24 year had been cordial in spite of the Bakassi dispute. Exports of Nigeria to Cameroon increased annually at 29.7% from USD$1.7million in 1995 to USD$889 million in 2019, the year when it exported USD$10.3 million worth of commodity into Nigeria!

Cameroon imports mineral fuels, oils, distillation products, tobacco, iron and steel, beverages, spirits, vinegar, fertilizers, plastics, vehicles, soaps, lubricants, electrical/electronic equipments etc, annually in millions of dollars and on regular bases. In 2018, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade, Cameroon imports from Nigeria was USD$342.2 million dollars.

THE GIANT AND THE SOLDIER ANT MUST CO-OPERATE TO ENSURE AFRICA REMAINED THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC DESTINATION OF THE 21ST CENTURY!

Was it not high time Presidents Buhari and Biya mend security fences through all diplomatic channels and nip in the bud all incursions from Cameroonian Gendarmes, Ambazonians into Nigeria once and for all! They MUST be called order without further delay!

The Nigerian Armed Forces are internationally acclaimed as an elite outfit that participate in peace-keeping operations and NEVER invasion of the territorial integrity of other nations therefore must not be dragged into unnecessary diplomatic row with Cameroon!

As for Nigeria’s very selfish and conceited political leaders, there could be no better time than now for them to REPENT and seek the face of God afresh through RESTITUTION ie, by voluntarily returning all aggrandized illicit monies including movable and immovable properties that have been illegally acquired to the TREASURY SINGLE ACCOUNT and to the Federal and State Governments in order to avoid the impending divine judgment upon all INIQUITIES OF MAN in the Earth which will be very devastating!

And for all Faithful Nigerians, be consoled with the Word of God Romans. 8: 18-25; that your present suffering and bondage will give way to freedom and eternal glory sooner that your expectation! 

      

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, 

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, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

CAN PRESIDENT BUHARI BE CORRUPTED WITH ESTACODES!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.   

(Looking at Nigeria and the World's Political System From a Godly Perspective).

CAN PRESIDENT BUHARI BE CORRUPTED WITH ESTACODES!

As Nigerians kept wondering why Major General Muhammadu Buhari, President and Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, increased his speed in junketing across the world, in spite of our debt portfolio which has hit a record high of USD$34billion, the Grapevine just quipped, “Maybe because of a very cogent reason that Estacode is the only Forex earner among his 18 Jumbo Official Allowances”!

The President and his Vice are entitled to the following allowances according to Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFA), which is empowered by Section 32(d) of  Part I, Third Schedule of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria!

Apart of monthly salaries of NGN1, 171,568.00, and NGN1, 010,524.17, respectively, both men are also entitled to monthly: Hardship, Consistency allowances which run into thousands of Naira! Others are; Personal Assistant, Constituency, Vehicle fuelling/maintenance, Domestic staff, Entertainment, Recess, Newspaper/periodicals, Utilities, House maintenance, Security, Special assistance, Furniture, Wardrobe, Duty tour (per night), Accommodation, ESTACODE, and Medical Allowances, which are not published in the public domain! 

Similar jumbo allowances are also paid to other political office holders of the National Assembly (NASS), State Governors, and perhaps some staff of the Judiciary, and MDAs Staff of less than 2 MILLION in population, who take the LION SHARE of the common patrimony while the WORK FORCE is abandoned to take their share through BRUTAL FORCE as it has unfolded in unbridled INSECURITY being perpetrated through terrorists, kidnappers,  bandits,  murderers, assassins gunmen, suicide bombers etc,  under President Buhari’s watch!

AND in spite of the fact that Nigeria is in dire strait with this worst type of complicated insecurity and in spite of the truth that the President has just 18 months to retire from Aso Rock Villa, he had in his second term travelled SIX times – the latest being from 25th October-11th November, 2021, a  period of about 15 days traversed North Africa’s Riyadh/Medina and Mecca, for an Investment Summit;  to Glasgow, Scotland, for a Climate Change Summit,  and  in two days of his return, headed straight to France apart of earlier London journey for MEDICAL TOURISM (30th March, 2021 – 15TH April 2021), which kept him in Britain for 16 days! In 2021 alone he has travelled SIX TIMES outside of Nigeria and at least 52 TIMES SINCE 2015 to 2021 and had expended approximately NGN 4billion in the junketing having visited 30 countries cutting across Four Continents – including Africa!

THE FOREX VALUE OF ESTACODE ISVERY ENTICING!

Early in his first term between May 2015- January 2016, the President spent millions of the very scarce Naira in globe-trotting to Chad, Germany, France, Ghana, India, Iran, United States (twice); many of which should have been designated to his Vice, Ministers, Permanent Secretaries or even Political Aides and squandered the meagre resources left by the malfeasant PDP consecutive Administrations of 16 years!

OR were the foreign trips planned to generate a mass of estacode allowances in such hard times and possibly make up for the 50% Salary Cut which he ordered from his salary and that of his Vice?

BUT President Buhari once told an audience of the Oxford University that his frequent foreign trips were targeted at restoring NIGERIA’S BAD IMAGE caused through brutal military regimes just as Ex-President Aremu Obasanjo, who had a record of 97 foreign trips journey to his credit during his two terms (1999-2007), in office! 

Estacode, a nomenclature for monetary travel allowance in Nigeria is a colonial heritage still in practice among Federal/State civil servants, politicians, diplomatic staff etc, on foreign official assignments! 

Under the British Colonial masters, estacode was officially scrutinized by relevant agencies of government before formal payment was initiated and there was virtually no loophole for malpractices or manipulations but in 61 years of independence the process of implementation has been corrupted that it stinks to high heavens!

According to International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR), estacodes released to Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), under President Buhari’s watch from 2015-2021 stand at over NGN3.77billion! 

This information was corroborated through the Currency  Operations Department of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBNs), annual report of 2020, (released Thursday 4th November, 2021), which stated that a total amount USD$3.95 billion was procured in 2019 alone to fund estacode and personal travel allowances to MDAs and also to fund Bureaux De Change operations! 

Allegations of gross abuses in the forms of over-bloated, forged, improvised, non-existent but faked journeys for purpose of fraudulently collecting Estacode Allowances during foreign travels in both the public/civil service had become house-hold gist in Nigeria but because no civil servant nor politician had been brought to justice the racket continued unabated while the Federal Government has approved a comprehensive review of the Financial Regulations in respect of the various allowances being enjoyed by personnel of the MDAs – including the estacode!

Presently, a Committee has been set up by the Accountant General of the Federation (AGF), to consider, review and recommend appropriate Duty Tour, Estacode, Repatriation and Overtime allowances and also consider, review and recommend appropriate imprest amount for relevant public servants and political office holders.

Other allowances enjoyed by MDAs according to Rule 130102 include but not limited to: kilometre, disengagement, hotel accommodation, duty tour books, projects and overtime BUT without admitting glaring infractions of the estacode allowances, the Committee was also charged to recommend additional sanctions against infringements against financial regulations and extant laws! 

QUESTION: What foreign socio-economic assistance have the poor masses of Nigerians gained from Buhari’s Government in SIX-AND-A-HALF-YEARS of his foreign jamboree of hand shaking/speech making other than increase in INSECURITY through the nation’s very porous borders!

UNITED ARAB EMIRATE arrested sponsors of terrorism in DUBAI but Mr. Buhari has not been able to arrest ONE single sponsor in his cabinet! TURKEY’S President came visiting the other day and asserted that some members of the Islamic terrorists who attempted to overthrow him on 15th July, 2016 were resident in Nigeria unknown to Buhari and his security outfits! 

******Below are some excerpts of one of our past Editions: VOL. 5. NO. 130, dated 7th February, 2016. 

PRESIDENT BUHARI SHOULD APPLY THE BRAKES ON FOREIGN SPACE SHUTTLES!

“The fact that President Muhammadu Buhari, had an impeccable antecedent, a humble and distinctive character, a charismatic personality and had always displayed a frugal and Spartan kind of life, in spite of being a soldier for an appreciable period of time could not be faulted by his antagonists, before, during and after the 2015 General Elections in Nigeria! In fact, PMB was and still is an acceptable and likeable global leader who had endeared to himself to the rich and the poor alike. 

“Within the last eight months, President Muhammadu Buhari  (PMB), had made spirited efforts to bolster a new image as the Change crusader for the Nigerian Republic by attracting international attention for support in the areas of security, economy, the industry and general social welfare packages for the majority populace which had been suffocated with corruption as a way of life and could have drowned in the miry clay of national degradation without divine intervention at the last 2015 General Elections!

“The President had met with all of the world powers Presidents, Heads of States and Governments from all the continents throughout the globe and had solicited for all-round co-operation for the revival of the drowning “giant of Africa”

“But tongues are wagging on all sides of the political, social and economic divide, among the opposition and the social media of the TALAKAWAS who now wonder why it should take so many space-shuttles to get the country back on track – especially when ONE SPACE JOURNEY COSTS A WHOOPING US$350.000 – 500.000 million, all expenses paid - ESTACODES and sundry allowances of an enlarged 80-member presidential entourage at such an austere time according to “Black Market” foreign exchange auditors;

ANY GAINS FROM THE GLOBE-TROTTING?

“We did not criticize PMB’s 8-month international trips for the very plausible reasons that they were desirable for the much-needed co-operation mentioned in previous paragraphs and we were very correct in that Nigeria had become the beehive of foreign commercial investments by business entrepreneurs from all countries visited by the President.

.“In the meantime, Mr. President should delegate his overseas trips to his Vice and other diligent subordinates who will perform creditably and make him proud! 

The President’s last journey to France was fraught with danger as it was reported that his aircraft landed amidst very bad weather but we thank God that his detractors did not have the luxury to rejoice over his demise because he is the LORD’S anointed President and deliverer for the nation of Nigeria for eight consecutive years of two terms (2015-2023)!”

BUHARI SHOULD STOP ALL FOREIGN TRIPS, AND TOUR THE 36 STATES OF NIGERIA INSTEAD! 

CONCLUSION OF THE WHOLE MATTER IS THAT THE ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIME COMMISSION (EFCC), SHOULD BE ORDERED BY MR. PRESIDENT TO SEIZE ALL ESTACODE ALLOWANCES FOUND IN THE BANK ACCOUNTS OF ALL PRIVILEGED (1) MDA  OFFICIALS; (2) THE ENTIRE EXECUTIVE BEGINNING FROM MR. PRESIDENT AND HIS CABINET; (3) NASS LEGISLATORS  (4) ALL STATE GOVERNORS  AND THEIR CABINET MEMBERS; (5) ALL LOCAL GOVERNMENT  CHAIRMEN AND THEIR COUNCILLORS; AND REPATRIATE SUCH INTO THE FEDERATION ACCOUNT TO PAY OFF SOME OF THE MONIES BORROWED FROM THE FOREIGN COUNTRIES IN ORDER TO LEAVE A GOOD LEGACY BEHIND!

NO OFFICER IS EXPECTED TO SAVE UNUSED ESTACODES IN THEIR BANK ACCOUNTS BUT MUST DECLARE THE SURPLUS TO THE ACCOUNTING OFFICERS WHO IN TURN MUST REPATRIATE THEM ACCORDINGLY!  The Eighth Commandment in Exodus. 20:15 says, “Thou shalt not steal”! We shall all give account of our stewardship to GOD at the appointed time!.

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:  Zion faith Bible Believing church or http://www.zfbbc1.blogspot.com, 

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, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

GLASGOW CLIMATE CHANGE SUMMIT - AN EFFORT IN FUTILITY!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.   

(Looking at Nigeria and the World's Political System From a Godly Perspective).

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria {Vol. 10.NO 430. 7th Nov, 2021.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).  PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

GLASGOW CLIMATE CHANGE SUMMIT - AN EFFORT IN FUTILITY!

While world leaders converged in Glasgow, Scotland at a Climate Change Summit tagged COP26, from 31st October 2021, on a two-week brain-storming to find solutions to incessant self-inflicted atmospheric pollution, a new wave of Covid-19 pandemic re-threat of the Delta variant according to WHO, has spread across Europe and inflicting its venom on all age brackets and could pose serious danger to children (ages 5-15), who are encouraged to be vaccinated even in the United States of America!

Scientists and health officials tracking the new mutation of the corona virus labelled AY.4.2 believe it could be more transmissible than the original strain as the World Health Organisation in its weekly epidemiological update confirmed its presence in 42 countries but that vast majority of cases were reported in the United Kingdom which recorded 93% of the sub-variant AY.4.2! India, Israel, the United States and Russia are also among the list infected nations and there are still other lineages of Delta strain like “Lambda strain” being closely monitored by scientists!

Apart from Israel, African countries where public response/compliance to health issues and pandemic protocols had been blatantly ignored were not identified as being threatened by the Delta strain but that is not to assume that the continent is free, because of the deliberate disobedience of the World’s unvaccinated which refuse to admit that Covid-19 is REAL! 

Before 2019, some parts of the world had  experienced life-threatening corona viruses like, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV), SARS CoV2 (which spread rapidly between 2002-2003), Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Para-influenza 1-4, Malaria, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS),  (HIV Aids), etc, which were prevalent across Europe, Asia, the Far East and several countries of Africa. 

Scientists declared the new strain Covid-19, as a pandemic not only because it is universal (prevalent in 202 countries), but because of its severe symptoms of trouble breathing due to breakdown of the immune system through person-to person contact!

FUTILITY AND STUPIDITY OF THE HOMO SAPIENS!

Recent scientific researches reveal that although Covid-19 deaths and lockdowns have become less frequent in certain parts of the world, the corona virus still looms large over HUMANITY!

According to a former director of the Centre for Disease Control (CDC), the various variants are still ravaging rich and poor countries, disrupting the supply of everything from “ magnets to cars and altering societies in countless ways...... it seems like the disease will not just go away”!

AND THIS IS CONFIRMATION of our 354th Edition of 24th May 2020, titled “ONLY STUBBORN PEOPLE WILL HENCEFORTH DIE AS CORONAVIRUS RECEDES”, in which the divine prophesy was spiritually revealed!

Imagine if all citizens are sanitation compliant, definitely the pandemic will be reduced to the barest minimum!

BUT the diseases will not go away because they are universally incubated and nurtured through DAILY DEFORESTATION, OPEN DEFECATION, GAS FLARING and all forms of environmental degradation and ECOLOGICAL ABUSE! 

In Nigeria, all OIL-PRODUCING STATES – especially OGONILAND - which attracted United Nations intervention because of the emission of deadly poisonous gases that had become the death of thousands of dwellers in the oil-rich region!

DIVERSION OF  N93.7 BILLION  ECOLOGICAL FUNDS UNDER PRESIDENTS JONATHAN AND  BUHARI’S WATCH!

According to Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI’s) verifiable audit report, the Federal Government (2012-2016), under the watch of Jonathan/Buhari diverted N93.7billion meant for the Derivation and Ecology Fund and frustrated all efforts of NEITI investigators from nailing the rogues!

According to the Report, Federal Government claimed that the said amount was LOAN which is yet to be paid back in spite of the Auditor’s General’s comment that all budgets from 2017-2021 contained no appropriation for repayment! 

However Nigerians should be consoled that at least one Peoples Democratic Party (PDP’s), former Plateau Governor, Joshua Dariye, was jailed for 10 years for stealing N2billon Ecological Fund! What about others? Sooner than later, they will all be exposed!

 

BRAZIL’S  PRESIDENT IS GUILTY OF COVID-19 SANITATION PROTOCOL OFFENCES!

It is no longer news that over 600,000 people have died in the corona virus pandemic in the South American country of Brazil, because incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro, officially dismissed the virus as “a small flu” and encouraged disobedience of sanitation protocols of social distancing, avoidance of body contacts, wearing of facial masks, washing of hands, and application of sanitizers when people come in contact with objects as they carry out daily chores!

He gave permission for people to open bars, restaurants, salons, schools, private and government offices in spite of lockdown by other countries worldwide! 

Brazil is second to the United States in Covid-19 death casualties and after six months of the Brazilian Senate Investigative Committee, President Bolsonaro has been recommended to be indicted for NINE CRIMES related to his handling of the corona virus pandemic! The President could be impeached or even jailed according to the level of culpability whenever the process was concluded!

POTENT VIRUSES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN WITH CITIZENS OF THE WORLD!

From the European era of Dark Ages, to the Renaissance, Early Middle Ages, High Middle Ages, Later Middle Ages and to the Industrial Revolution,  and the scientific Modern Day Information and Communication Technology (ICT), era, Man has always polluted his environment and by extension the Climate System through poisonous emissions into (1) the Air (atmosphere), (2)Water  (hydrosphere), (3) Ice and permafrost (cryosphere), (4) Earth’s upper rocky layer (lithosphere) and (5) Living things (biosphere); which catastrophic damages are totally irreversible!

Greenhouses gases emission from factories, automobiles and deforestation; the use of the by-products of fell trees (firewood/charcoal), which discharge carbon dioxide/monoxide into the atmosphere also contribute immensely to atmospheric pollution AND in Glasgow, 100 Countries  have pledged to end DEFORESTATION by 2030 with the exception of Nigeria which pledged the year 2060! 

Deforestation can neither mitigate nor reverse Earth’s self extinction!

METHANE POLLUTION MOST PREVALENT IN NIGERIA IS ANOTHER MAJOR ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER WAITING TO HAPPEN!!!

Another major environmental pollutant is “methane pollution” which emanates from Oil and Gas and which world governments have globally failed to mitigate through any form of legislation.

In Nigeria, atmospheric gas pollution through “gas flaring” since the discovery of crude oil in commercial quantity in the 1970s has been consistent and unabated! 

Gas leakage/hydro carbon emission in the Niger-Delta Geo-Political Zone has also become a regular occurrence through oil exploration and exploitation and Cancer - a major health hazard and product of gas inhalation has also become commonplace among the riverine dwellers! Negativity in climate reaction always occurred through Human nonchalant disrespect and deliberate pollution of the immediate atmosphere through burning of fossil fuels and also through external acts of nature controlled by the SUN (variations in solar intensity), like accumulation of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, volcanic eruptions, violent storms and disastrous floods which spread diseases of pandemic proportions in its trail across the globe like wild and uncontrollable fires!

The atmosphere which envelopes the Earth and extends hundreds of kilometres from the surface upwards consists mostly of natural but combustible gases like Nitrogen, Oxygen, Carbon dioxide. There also exists an Ozone layer which serves as a buffer that blocks the very destructive greenhouse gases/infra-red radiation from the earth to protect it (earth), from burning out!

Earth’s liquid water and ocean also play vital roles in global warming. The ocean covers 71% of Earth’s surface to an average depth of 4 kilometres or 2.5 miles and can hold substantially more heat than the atmosphere which when at boiling point rise in form of marine storms, tornadoes, and tsunamis at ferocious speeds to destroy earth’s infrastructures, vegetations, human and animal population devastatingly!

Clean Air Task Force [CATF], has advocated at Glasgow Summit that governments should reduce methane pollution to below the 1.5C warming target! 

WHAT STUBBORN WORLD CITIZENS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT COVID-19 BEFORE IT KILLS THEM ALL!

Covid-19 Pandemic, the trending very deadly body-contact acute respiratory viral disease which has plagued the world definitely went through a process of uninhibited incubation, possibly in bats and pangolins under the universal unpredictable climate before its first transmission to humans in Wuhan, China, in December, 2019!

CLIMATE is very unpredictable because it is a divine mystery which only GOD, the Creator of the Heaven and Earth can unravel! The challenge of climatic changes is beyond human comprehension or science!

According to biblical records of the account of CREATION, in the Book of Genesis Chapter 1: 1-30, the omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient, transcendental and sovereign God created the Heaven and the Earth out of nothing that was in existence and He pronounced that ALL CREATION WAS VERY GOOD! God is in total control of Himself and all of His creation!    

Before 2019, some parts of the world had experienced life-threatening corona viruses like, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV), SARS CoV2 (which spread rapidly between 2002-2003), Ebola , Parainfluenza 1-4, Malaria, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS),  (HIV Aids), etc, which were prevalent across Europe, Asia, the Far East and several countries of Africa.

BUT scientists have declared that the new strain Covid-19, as a pandemic not only because it is universal (prevalent in 202 countries), but because of its severe symptom of trouble breathing due to breakdown of the immune system through person-to person contact!

HUMAN-DRIVEN FACTORS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR GLOBAL WARMING THAT IS ABOUT TO CONSUME CREATION! MAN CANNOT HAVE HIS CAKE AND EAT IT!           

“Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.” (Galatians 6:7. NIV).   

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, 

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, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM IS ANTIDOTE TO CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.   

(Looking at Nigeria and the World's Political System From a Godly Perspective).

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria {Vol. 10.NO 429. 31st Oct, 2021.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).  PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM IS ANTIDOTE TO CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA!

The choice of military presidential system of government in Nigeria since 1999, - a deliberate plan to keep the Electorate in perpetual bondage and slavery succeeded through the bequeathed capitalist, money-laundering Constitution which addicted corrupt politicians found convenient to always attempt to “amend” rather than opt for a brand new unicameral parliamentary document to eliminate systemic prodigality!

Nigeria should have no business with POVERTY if all divinely and richly-endowed solid mineral resources (over 100 types – ranging from industrial metal,  to various precious stones such as gold, lead, zinc, limestone, salt, gypsium, topaz, ruby, sapphire, coal, kaolin, marble, tantalite, etc,), available in all 36 States of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), apart from Oil/Gas, (presently the major foreign exchange earner), were harnessed/exploited for the benefit of the entire population!

HOWEVER institutional corruption which has deprived the masses of their fundamental/socio-economic rights through the practice of oligarchy, nepotism, tribalism favoritism, sectionalism, etc, by successive political administrations at the highest level of governments is responsible for the large scale unemployment of able-bodied men, women and youths who would have been gainfully employed to boost the nation’s IGRs and by extension, the GDP!

DEVOLUTION OF POWERS TO STATES IS IMPERATIVE NOW!

Apologists of All Progressive Congress (APC), oligarchy government who gain from illicit proceeds from the defective 1999 Military Constitution will argue that federating states could explore their solid mineral deposits by obtaining licenses from the Federal Government which has exclusive rights over all mining activities in the country according to the Exclusive Legislative List – a very retrogressive process in s modern democracy!

**IMAGINE if all the 36 States of Nigeria are self-governing and can generate their revenues, remit and agreeable percentage to the Centre under a new arrangement of a UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION;

**Imagine if the instrument of REFERENDUM could be applied without further delay to all current States agitations for RESTRUCTURING, Self-Governance will seamlessly materialize and all forms of INSECURITY across the nation would fritter away!

SELF GOVERNANCE WAS PRACTICED BEFORE INDEPENDENCE AND DURING THE FIRST REPUBLIC - 1957-1966! 

Before Independence the establishment of full regional self government for the East, West and Northern Nigeria between 1957 and 1959 was mooted at a London Conference before the 1st October 1960 independence celebrations with a proposal that a Prime Minister  to be appointed by the Governor General, should be at the helm of affairs, while a bicameral legislature should be established at the Federal level to absorb diverse representation of 305 members in the House of Representatives and 44 members of the Senate distributed according to the population of each area of the country. 

Also in September of 1957, the out-going Colonial Governor General, appointed Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, from the North as the first Prime Minister. 

At independence in 1960, Nigeria as a sovereign State enjoyed a cost-effective and virtually transparent bicameral system of government which was enacted by the British Order-in-Council so as to come into force immediately at Independence while the very First Constitution of Nigeria retained Queen Elizabeth II, as ceremonial head of State/Queen of Nigeria and represented by Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe (from the East), as Governor General.

THE 1963 CONSTITUTION USHERED THE FIRST REPUBLIC. 

This second constitution based on the Westminster system established the country as a federal republic with Dr. Azikiwe as the first President with effect from 1st October 1963 and the political arrangement which was embraced by the founding fathers also produced three Regional Premiers for the North, East and West respectively while the bicameral parliament worked smoothly UNTIL military adventurist Major Chukwuma Nzeogwu intervened in the peaceful scenario of democracy!

He and his misguided accomplices on 15th January, 1966 forcefully took over the democratic government in an unprecedented bloody coup-de-tat (first-in-Africa), with the barrels of the gun that terminated the lives of Northern and Western political leaders to the exclusion of those from the East and Nigeria has never known peace till date!

COUP LEADERS ACCUSED POLITICIANS OF INSTITUTIONAL CORRUPTION AMONG OTHER “CRIMES!”

Is it not an irony of fate or reversal of the coup makers’ LIE that after almost 30 years of usurpation of political power, the soldiers handed over the country to civilians, worse than when they took it by force – seething and completely devastated with incurable, endemic corruption that almost turned Nigeria into a most-stigmatized nation in the world!

From 1999, a diarchy headed by ex-military head of state Aremu Obasanjo, continued the massive robbery of the TREASURY through a political party called Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and Nigeria became universally acclaimed as the most-corrupt nation in the world! And in a shocking press interview the PDP President, Ebele Jonathan, who concluded the 16th year of the party’s woeful consecutive administrations in 2015, categorically defended institutional corruption and queried whether “stealing was corruption”?

CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA HAS BECOME A CONSTANT PHENOMENON SINCE MILITARY INTERREGNUM!

From independence to ex-president Jonathan’s tenure in 2012, Nigeria was estimated to have lost over USD$400 billion to corruption and in 2018, three years into President Muhammadu Buhari’s first term, Nigeria ranked 144th in the 180 countries listed in Transparency International’s Corruption Index (with Somalia at 180th, being the most corrupt, and DENMARK, the least).

Corruption is a sociological malaise which manifest (1) dishonesty, (2) falsification, (3) fraudulence, (4) alteration (5) criminal act, (6) abuse of power for personal gain, (7) acquisition of illicit benefits, etc, is usually be perpetrated by a person or persons in position of authority or an organisation which is entrusted with the management of resources to acquire illicit benefits and abuse such position for personal gain.

Political Corruption may involve many activities which include parochialism, nepotism, patronage, graft, lobbying, stealing, bribery, embezzlement, gratification or looting of government treasury held in trust for personal aggrandizement while holding public office!

Causes of corruption include but not limited to the following social disorders: lack of pedigree through bad parentage/upbringing, moral latitude, acquired kleptomania tendencies due to uneven distribution of social amenities, uncertain political and economic environment, the criminal desire for pecuniary gains etc.

CORRUPTION WILL BE ELIMINATED IF THE FOLLOWING STEPS ARE RELIGIOUSLY IMPLEMENTED THROUGH REFERENDUM!

For the umpteenth time we call for the invocation of REFERENDUM to settle all agitations for POLITICAL RESTRUCTURING of Nigeria once and for all along the following popular DEMANDS:

 Legislative processes must commence NOW to establish: (a) STATE POLICE authorities in all 36 States of the Federation according to one of the 13 recommendations of the 23-Member El Rufai Restructuring Committee of January 2018, which is now THREE YEARS OLD! (b) Derivation Principles. (c) Fiscal federalism and revenue allocation. (d) Devolution of powers. (e) Resource control (exploitation and revenue sharing of resources from oil /minerals) through constitutional amendments. (f) Local Government Autonomy. (g)REFERENDUM: SERIOUS National or State issues should be decided by a referendum (currently absent in the constitution), but which insertion can be quickly done through URGENT Amendment. (h) Independent Candidacy which precluded citizens from being forced to join any political party – this recommendation also needs amendment. All of the above recommendations MUST be implemented without further delay to drastically reduce the tension of insecurity and restore confidence in the people.

NIGERIAN SENATE MUST BE SCRAPPED BEFORE 29TH MAY, 2023!

There can be no better time for national introspection for Nigerians to achieve political emancipation, than NOW and break the yoke of mercenaries in government, off their necks through a collective decision to sack them from office! We still maintain our advocacy that the National Assembly (NASS), is the MAJOR DRAIN PIPE OF THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY and has outlived its “usefulness”! In this age of technology the HOR requires only 74 members ie: Two Reps. from each State of the Federation and the FCT, on part time basis – and with civil servants attached to their Secretariat for quick delivery and efficiency!

****With SENATE scrapped and all other wastages blocked in the THREE TIERS, a conservative estimate of saved funds could amount to over ONE TRILLION NAIRA which can be ploughed in AGRICULTURE for every interested Nigerian to engage in modern farming, become gainfully employed and feed the nation!

NO POLITICAL OR MILITARY ADMINISTRATION EVER CARED FOR THE POOR MASSES! THE ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS (APC) EL-RUFAI  COMMITTEE ON RESTRUCTURING OF NIGERIA IN JANUARY 2018, HAD RECOMMENDED THAT URGENT NATIONAL ISSUES WHICH SHOULD NOT BE DELAYED THROUGH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY (NASS) PROTOCOL OF UNENDING DEBATES SHOULD BE QUICKLY RESOLVED THROUGH A REFERENDUM, PUBLIC VOTE, POPULAR VOTE OR PLEBISCITE!

QUESTION: What is Referendum?  A general vote by the electorate on a single political decision which has been referred to them for a direct decision.

How does it work? Voting in a Referendum is similar to casting a vote in the Federal election – the key difference is what voters are required to write on their Referendum ballot paper. In a Referendum, voters are required to write either “Yes” or “No” in the box opposite each question on the ballot paper.

Why is Referendum important? It allows citizens, through the petition process to refer acts of the Legislature to the ballot before they become law. The Referendum also permits the Legislature itself to refer proposed legislation to the electorate for approval or rejection.

What makes a Referendum successful? An overwhelming support by all stakeholders as a united front in ensuring succour for the masses and for popular opinion to hold sway!  

Is a Referendum legally binding? Referendums are not legally binding, so legally the Government can ignore their results: for example, even if the result of a pre-legislative referendum were a majority of “No” for a proposed law, Parliament could pass it anyway, because Parliament in some democracies is sovereign.

BUT in Nigeria, SOVEREIGNTY BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE, and as such Referendum would DEFINITELY SAIL THROUGH WHEN PUT TO TEST! 

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, 

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, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.