CONFERENCE OF SPEAKERS SHOULD DEMAND FOR REFERENDUM NOT FRESH BILLS!

ZION B-BC

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Looking at Nigeria's Political System from a Godly Perspective.

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria {Vol. 11.NO 480. 23rd October 2022.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).  PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

 

CONFERENCE OF SPEAKERS SHOULD DEMAND FOR REFERENDUM NOT FRESH BILLS!

Efforts at constitutional amendments in Nigeria always failed because the spirit and letters of the sacred document were consistently mortgaged by selfish, ambitious and very greedy legislators whose manipulative tendencies are at variance with democratic norms!

Political principles by which states or organisations are governed especially in relation to the rights and privileges of the people as set out in statutory constitutions are usually fallible, incompetent or imperfect. 

For these reasons they are regularly open to amendments from time to time in order to ensure fiscal discipline, financial prudence and human rights compliance!

But Nigeria's case is different! For instance in July 2017, both Chambers of the National Assembly (NASS), voted on 33 major bills to amend the bogus Military 1999 Constitution, but the votes turned out to be OPPOSED TO THE YEARNINGS, ASPIRATIONS AND SENSIBILITIES OF THE CITIZENS who were  agitating for TRUE  FEDERALISM as follows:

*DEVOLUTION of powers from Federal to Federating States; NO! *IMMUNITY for legislators during Plenary and Committee Sittings; YES!

*EX-SENATE PRESIDENTS AND EX-HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SPEAKERS be absorbed as members of the COUNCIL OF  STATES in order to have equal ranking with Presidents, Vice Presidents and Governors; YES!

*To override PRESIDENTIAL VETO IN CONSTITUTIONAL ALTERATION; YES!

*Removal of LAW-MAKING POWER from the Executive Arm (in respect of National Security Agencies Act, National Complaints Commission, Land Use Act and National Youth Service Corps.) YES!

*35% AFFIRMATIVE INCLUSION OF WOMEN AS MINISTERS; NO!

*APPROVAL FOR 35 YEARS AS MINIMUM AGE FOR QUALIFICATION AS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES; NO!

*Approval for INDEPENDENT CANDIDACY AT ALL ELECTIONS; NO!

At the end of their jamboree ex-President Goodluck Jonathan in a letter dated 13th April 2015 to NASS rejected the Federal Republic of Nigeria Constitution Alteration Bill 2015 because he perceived deliberate attempt by federal lawmakers to whittle down presidential powers!

On the whole he gave 10 reasons for vetoing the entire exercise and all the ONE BILLION NAIRA appropriated for the exercise went into the pockets of the greedy legislators without any query to date!

LAWMAKERS VOTED 44 CONSTITUTION AMENDMENTS IN 2022!

Like its 2017 counterpart the current amendments to the 1999 Military Constitution of Nigeria took off on wrong footing and has hit the rocks!

The Amendments which were gender-unfriendly rejected FIVE GENDER BILLS; voted against provision for special seats for women in the National Assembly and State Houses of Assembly -208 members of the House of Representatives voted against it!

Both Chambers also voted against Affirmation Action for Women in political party administration while the Senate voted against the Bill on reserved QUOTA for Women and virtually dashed into pieces all provisions that were crafted to enhance greater activities for the Nigerian women in politics and administration!

The 44 voted bills which had been forwarded to all the 36 States to fulfill constitutional requirements that two thirds of STATE ASSEMBLIES must ratify them before they are passed to the President for assent into law since March 2022, were so far approved by only ELEVEN STATES!

QUESTION: How much did NASS appropriate for the wild goose chase – especially at this austere time of HYPER-INFLATION? In 2017, it was a whooping ₦ 1 BILLION NAIRA! It’s now FIVE YEARS ON …perhaps they managed ₦ 5 BILLION!

25 STATES HAVE DEMANDED THAT NEW BILLS MUST BE INCLUDED THE BEFORE THEIR APPROVAL!

State Assemblies working under the aegis of the CONFERENCE OF SPEAKERS TO THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY JOINT  COMMITTEE ON CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW HAVE PRESENTED THE FOUR BILLS AS FOLLOWS : 

1) Establish STATE POLICE; 

2) Establish STATE JUDICIAL COUNCIL; 

3) Streamline the procedure for removing Presiding Officers of State Houses of Assembly and;

4) Institutionalize Legislative Bureaucracy in the Constitution.

COMMENTS:

It is heartwarming that STATE GOVERNORS have supported their Legislative Assemblies to demand for the FOUR additional BILLS so that the entire AMENDMENTS EXERCISE WOULD SEE THE LIGHT OF THE DAY!

 

The flaws and loopholes of the 1999 Military Constitution were very glaringly to all LEGISLATORS AT ALL LEVELS FROM THE ONSET, but because of their greedy agenda an lifestyle for illicit gains from the SYSTEM preferred to persistently amend the unamendable instead of opting for the better PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT which is very cost-effective!

LEGISLATORS MUST NOT BE DEMANDING FOR BILLS TO PASS THROUGH BUREAUCRACY AT THIS AGE AND TIME ANYMORE!

THE BEST OPTION OPEN TO THEM IS THE CONVOCATION OF A REFERENDUM ESPECIALLY NOW THAT THEY ARE IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE GOVERNORS!

Referendum will sort out all grey and contentious issues in respect of TRUE FEDERALISM and will produce INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES, (through a brand new UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION) one of whom will emerge as PRIME MINISTER in the 2023 GENERAL ELECTIONS from among hundreds of hundreds of Members of Parliament from the Wards.

These States and their Governors must NOT miss this one opportunity to turn Nigeria around for the best and destroy once and for all the MONSTER CALLED INSECURITY! Failed Presidency MUST give way to Parliamentary Democracy!

“A stitch in time saves nine.”

 [WATCH OUT FOR A NIGERIAN PRIME MINISTER – NOT A PRESIDENT IN 2023!]

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LET NNAMDI KANU GO, RETHINK AND REPENT FROM SECESSION!

ZION B-BC

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Looking at Nigeria's Political System from a Godly Perspective.

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria {Vol. 11.NO 479. 16th October 2022.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).  PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

 

LET NNAMDI KANU GO, RETHINK AND REPENT FROM SECESSION!

Apart from the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), separatist groups on the Eastern flank of Nigeria, there are over 30 rival groups in the region that have escalated  insurgency, brutal killings and a decapitation of innocent citizens, violent attacks on law-enforcement agents and destruction of government strategic infrastructures according to Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe (Abia South/PDP)!

But to Kanu's discredit, Nigerians at home and the Diaspora hold him responsible for every heinous crime that have been committed in that Region from 2012 to date!

Nnamdi Kanu who holds dual citizenship of both Nigeria and Britain was arrested on charges of treasonable felony in 2015 and while his trial was ongoing, jumped bail late 2017, was re-arrested in June 2021 in Kenya, but in spite of his physical absence from Nigeria, his strict orders to disrupt weekly economic activities of Eastern Nigeria on Mondays and Tuesdays, subsisted!

IPOB severally denied its involvement in the seat-at-home order and advised traders to continue their legitimate businesses without fear, let or hindrance. However, those who hearkened to IPOB did not live to tell their stories! 

Everyone caught on those forbidden days on the highways, in open stores or even in farms were beheaded, decapitated or gruesomely murdered to serve as deterrent to those who would dare defile the draconian order!

Nnamdi Kanu cannot be exonerated from the persistent insecurity of lives and property in the Eastern Region because he fanned the embers of secession from Nigeria in the first instance by claiming that a BIAFRA still existed even when the 30-month- old Civil war scars were still visible in Nigeria!

APPEAL COURT’S JUDGEMENT ON KANU’S FORCEFUL EXTRADITION TO NIGERIA!

On Thursday 13th October, 2022, the Appeal Court in Abuja discharged Kanu on charges of terrorism preferred against him by the Federal Government.

The Court also declared as unlawful his abduction from Kenya and forceful rendition to Nigeria as a breach against all local and international laws and thereby “making the terrorism charge against him incompetent and unlawful”!

The lead judgement declared as illegal and unlawful Kanu's abduction from Kenya to Nigeria and subsequently quashed the remaining seven counts in the 15-count-charge filed before the Federal High Court by the Federal Government!

Basing its it’s judgement on the breach of Kanu’s fundamental rights, the panel of three judges confirmed that a clear violation by the Federal Government of International Treaties, Conventions as well as the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights was established and therefore lost the legal right to “put him on trial”!

WAS KANU DISCHARGED AND ACQUITTED OF ALL CHARGES OF TERRORISM?

YES & NO! 

YES: 

1) The Appeal Court noted that the issue of jurisdiction raised by the appellant in the first instance was critical to the case and should have been resolved at the lower Court.

2) The trial court which should have pronounced properly on all issues presented before it decided to turn a blind eye.

3) The trial Court ought to have made findings on the issue raised regarding the extradition. 

4) The three man panel also believed that the trial Court lacked the JURISDICTION to try appellant on the retained counts of the charges adding that no court can try him going by the circumstances of the extraordinary rendition. 

5) Finally the court resolved the issue in favour of Kanu which dealt with JURISDICTION. 

6) The appeal succeeded the order of Lower Court Justice which ordered appellant to answer to count 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 15. It was set aside, terminated and dismissed!

7) And appellant was accordingly discharged?

AND NO:

1) The entire trial at the Appeal Court centred on the improper extradition of Kanu from Kenya to Nigeria which the learned judges believed violated International Conventions, Treaties and Laws.

2) The initial thrust of the prosecution to hunt down a fugitive who jumped bail during his trial in respect of treasonable felony and terrorism against his country Nigeria was unattended!

3) The learned judges did not take into consideration that as a Sovereign State, Kenyan Government was aware of International Laws but its Security Agencies cooperated with the Nigerian operatives to track down the fugitive to bring him down to Nigeria for justice.

4) Going by the decision of the Appeal Court, it is conclusive that Federal Government operatives did not violate any known law otherwise Kenya authorities would have resisted Kanu's arrest and extradition!

5)We can respectfully conclude that the learned judges were conscious of the above facts and were very careful not to ACQUIT the appellant!

WILL THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PURSUE NNAMDI KANU'S CASE TO THE SUPREME COURT?

The spokesman of the National Security Council (NSC), meeting held at the weekend Friday 14th October 2022, Minister of Police Affairs said that the Federal Government was considering the appropriate action to be taken on the release of Nnamdi Kanu leader of the indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). 

The National Security Council meeting was summoned following the Appeal Court judgement which discharged Nnamdi Kanu. Government believes that Nnamdi Kanu was discharged but not acquitted and will take appropriate and necessary actions in the coming days as it deems fit.

 He also said that the Federal Government would explore other legal instruments to pursue the matter. 

On his part the Minister of Justice and attorney General of the Federation also said that Kanu’s release was not equivalent to an acquittal. At the National Security Council meeting chaired by Major General Muhammadu Buhari at the Aso Rock State House was also attended by the Vice President, Minister of Interior and Service Chiefs.

OHANEZE N’DIGBO PLEADS KANU’S FREEDOM THROUGH POLITICAL SOLUTION!

Igbo leaders and several other well-meaning Nigerians are pleading with the Federal Government to tender Justice with mercy in respect of Nnamdi Kanu who instill kept in custody pending an official move to finalize his trial which began since 2017. However we believe that his lawyers are not helping matters.

They are insisting that their client had been DISCHARGED and ACQUITED and should therefore be released immediately without delay.

Although the Nigerian 1999 Constitution, states that a suspect is presumed innocent until he's proven guilty; therefore in the face of the law Nnamdi kanu is still innocent. 

BUT we will not advise that the government should pursue the matter any further for the following reasons:

1) The security situation in Eastern Nigeria is appalling and could be likened to the Boko Haram atrocities in the  Northern States with a spillover to other geopolitical zones of the country: therefore consideration should be given to his releasen without much ado in other to douse the  tension and uncertainty of peace in the region.

2) The Civil war should not be allowed to be repeated in Nigeria because it is a bad dream. South east Nigeria citizens are passionate business people and they have been contributing to the economy immensely and positively through IGR growth of the 36 States including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

 

There’s virtually no hamlet, village or city Igbo business people are not found all over Nigeria. By nature Igbo people are friendly and very accommodating but the re-enactment of the unpleasant story of the Civil war (July 1967-January 1970) IS IN BAD TASTE! Nnamdi Kanu’s urge for FRESH SECESSION is trying to change the narrative!

KANU SHOULD BE MADE TO RENOUNCE SECESSION THROUGH THE INSTRUMENT OF LAW AND BE SET FREE TO GO HOME AND SIN NO MORE!

In the 21st Century United States of Nigeria there is “No Victor No Vanquished! In Unity we shall remain upstanding! All N’DIGBO should embrace the call for REFERENDUM to convoke a brand new UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION that will produce a PRIME MINISTER for Nigeria in the year 2023!

Consecutive PRESIDENCY (1999-2022), of the MONEY BAGS have woefully failed! A stitch in time saves nine. IGBO KWENU!

 [WATCH OUT FOR A NIGERIAN PRIME MINISTER – NOT A PRESIDENT IN 2023!]

 

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I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor. 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

NIGERIA’S 2023 TRANSITION BUDGET IS A CASTRATED ORPHAN!

ZION B-BC

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Looking at Nigeria's Political System from a Godly Perspective.

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria {Vol. 11.NO 478. 9th October 2022.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).  PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

 

NIGERIA’S 2023 TRANSITION BUDGET IS A CASTRATED ORPHAN!

The highest, outrageous and colossal 2023 Appropriation Bill of NGN20.51 trillion dropped by the out-going Major General Muhammadu Buhari before a joint company of National Assembly Legislators on Friday 7th October, 2022, is a CASTRATED ORPHAN!

It has neither father, mother nor relatives because all its ancestors between 1999-2022 were consumed by ceaseless swarm of human fiscal predators which left behind a totally empty treasury as testament!

CORRUPTION PERCEPTIONS INDEX!

The annual Transparency International (TI), Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), in which Nigeria was always ranked very low among world countries was always denied by the leadership of the military presidential government in Nigeria.

*For instance Nigeria scored between 26-27 points out of 100 on the 1996-2019 Corruption Perceptions Index as reported by TI while the ratings were between 144 and 146 out of 180 countries!

*In 2020 Nigeria scored 25 points which was less the 26 of the previous year and ranked 149th position out of 180 countries. The 2020 CPI had revealed that even the top 25 countries had their share of corruption challenges and the covid-19 pandemic year had again shown that no country was immune from corruption but data showed that those top countries tackled corruption effectively.

*Nigeria shamelessly told the world in May 2022, that 91% of Nigeria's crude oil (the major foreign exchange earner product), was stolen by unknown people who will be investigated and brought to Justice.

* According to news media reports in the first quarter January - March 2022, statistics presented at a meeting in Abuja between the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), All Producers Trade Section and Independent Petroleum Producers Group (IPPG), revealed that USD$3.2 billion dollars or ₦1.36 trillion naira worth of crude oil was stolen from Nigeria between January 2021 and February 2022!

*Nigeria's four refineries, two in Port Harcourt and one each in Kaduna and Warri with a combined capacity of producing 45,000 barrels of crude oil per day have been moribund since the ascension as President Major General Muhammadu Buhari who is the substantive Minister of Petroleum Resources.

*Yet the government workers of the FOUR redundant REFINERIES were retained and were paid monthly salaries for indolence! 

* The illegal Federal Executive Council weekly gathering always presided over by Mr. President Major General Muhammadu Buhari, in May 2022, yet approved another USD$1.5 billion dollars for another round of refurbishing the 32 year-old Port Harcourt refinery!

*An NNPC audit report in 2020 revealed that three of the four refineries recorded ₦1.64 trillion naira cumulative losses between 2014 and 2018. It further stated that the combined losses from the Port Harcourt Refinery and Kaduna Refinery were ₦208.6 billion naira in 2014; ₦252.8 billion naira in 2015; 290.6 billion naira in 2016; ₦412 billion naira 2017 and ₦475 billion in 2018!

*NNPC exports Nigerian crude oil overseas for refining at great losses to the Nigerian government which has been deceiving the poor masses in respect of  PHANTOM OIL SUBSIDIES which have amounted into trillions of Naira annually but with no visible dividends for the Citizens other than increased hardship to procure the divinely-endowed natural resource through corruption-induced/persistent artificial scarcity!

*Early September 2022, NNPCL disclosed that it lost 470,000 barrels of crude oil per day which amounted to USD$700 million monthly in addition to security challenges that hinder oil production in some terminals and claimed that crude oil theft had taken severe toll on its performance!

*Between 2015-2020, USD$ 5.5 billion dollars was spent on subsidy; in 2021 alone it went up to USD$3.8 billion dollars and USD$ 6.2 billion dollars in just the first quarter of 2022.

*The huge subsidy payments would account for more than half of the ₦11 trillion naira budget deficit which the Federal Government projected for 2023.

*In 2021 all the 36 States spent the equivalent of USD$ 9 .8 billion US dollars nearly half of what the entire country would spend in 2022 to cover the petrol subsidy payments.

*Federal Government recently put the current DAILY EXPENSES on maintaining the petrol subsidy at ₦18.4 billion for 2022!

WILL NIGERIA SEEK RELIEF FROM THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND?

Nigeria  very notorious for borrowing and so it will be very difficult if not impossible for the country under the Watch of President Major General Muhammadu Buhari the ubiquitous borrower from World Bank, Japan, Britain, the United States etc, to approach any other country of the world due to extreme shame – having been classified as the most corrupt country in the entire UNIVERSE!

However the Director-General of the Budget Office of the Federation in an interview had said that Nigeria might seek relief from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), if it was unable to address it fiscal challenges!

His words: “Essentially, there are two ways countries end up with the IMF. One is voluntary when they ask IMF for help or when things get to the grind, where they simply have no other option.

“I don't see Nigeria going to the IMF voluntarily. It’s a hot issue here in Nigeria. But the honest truth is that if we don't address our fiscal challenges in a sensible and sustainable manner we may end up unwillingly with IMF.”

His solution: Nigeria should stop to fund REGRESSIVE DEFICITS; but be EFFICIENT IN SPENDING!

2023 CASTRATED ORPHAN BUDGET!

Parameters for execution of the 2023 budget as follows: $70 per barrel oil benchmark daily oil production estimates of 1.69 million barrels inclusive of condensates of between 300,000 to 400,000 barrels per day and an exchange rate of ₦435.57 Naira $1 per 1 US dollar.

Statutory transfers: ₦ 744 .11 billion; non-debt recurrent costs, ₦8.27 trillion; personnel costs, ₦4.99 trillion; pensions, gratuities and retirees benefits, ₦854.8 billion; overheads ₦1.11 trillion; capital expenditure, ₦5.35 trillion, including the capital component of statutory transfers; debt-service ₦6.31 trillion; and sinking fund of ₦247.73 billion to retire certain maturing bonds.

 

EXPENDITURE PROGRESSION!

 

In his presentation of the ₦20.51 trillion budget the President said and we quote: “We expect total fiscal operations all the Federal Government to result in a deficit of ₦10.78 trillion in naira. This represent 4.78% of the estimated GDP, above the 3% threshold set by the physical responsibility Act 2007. 

“As envisaged by the law we need to exceed the threshold considering the need to continue to tackle the existential security challenges facing the country.

“We plan to finance the deficit mainly by new borrowings totalling ₦8.80 trillion: ₦206.18 billion naira from privatisation proceeds and ₦1.77 trillion naira draw-downs on bilateral/ multilateral loans secured for specific development projects/ programs”

IS THE WORLD HEADING FOR RECESSION IN 2023? 

The world will not go into recession but Nigeria may - if serious and urgent steps were not taken to stop the vultures that are now gathered to feast on whatsoever remains of the castrated orphan document called the 2023 Appropriation Bill!

 World Bank in June decided to cut its estimate for global growth to 2.9% from April's 3.2% forecast. Some reasons adduced included soaring energy and food prices amid global inflation. 

Others were disruptions in grains supply due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, lockdowns in China and the drive by Central Banks to increase INTEREST RATES – according to Bloomberg!

BUHARI WARNS NATIONAL ASSEMBLY LEGISLATORS TO DESIST FROM PADDING THE ORPHAN BUDGET PROPOSAL!

Budget padding, re-writing, re-packaging, re-inventing etc, under the guise of OVERSIGHTS, from 1999 to date had been a pastime of Nigerian legislators especially at the federal level

 They have all become billionaires through this dastard/abominable act and are working the streets free. Law enforcement agents had never thought it wise to ever arrest any of them for malfeasance and malpractice which is detrimental to any developing economy.

 There is a Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin who told the whole world how the House of Representatives padded and collected billions of Naira during budget oversight in 2016. 

He gave detailed analysis of how the money was shared and stated the amount he collected but to date neither the EFCC, ICPC, DSS NOR THE NIGERIAN POLICE SECURITY OPERATIVES had interrogated, investigated nor prosecuted him or his accomplices  to ensure justice!

 But the poor masses continue to suffer in abject poverty under the Watch of Mr Integrity Muhammadu Buhari who would soon pack his bag and baggage for Daura!

Must we go on like this as a DEMOCRATIC INDEPENDENT NATION? Patriotic Nigerians must arise, demand for a UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION, to take back their country from these vultures who are never tired of feasting on every annual budget!

Nigeria needs credible leaders (A PRIME MINISTER AND A RETINUE OF PARLIAMENTARIANS), at the helm of affairs at this time of our history more than ever.

“Those who sow the wind will surely reap the WHIRLWIND! Whatever a man soweth that he shall reap!”

[WATCH OUT FOR A NIGERIAN PRIME MINISTER – NOT A PRESIDENT IN 2023!]

 

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.

WHERE IS THE POWER? BUHARI MUST ANSWER TO NIGERIANS BEFORE DEPARTURE!

#CAMPAIGN FOR REFERENDUM AND NOT VIOLENT AGITATIONS! [NO.39]. –DR. DAVID OLUFON.  2nd October, 2022.

WHERE IS THE POWER? BUHARI MUST ANSWER TO NIGERIANS BEFORE DEPARTURE!

Like other social amenities of the Nigerian economy, ELECTRICITY is an evasive luxury not designed as democratic dividend for the poor masses!

In March 2019, shortly after his victory at General Elections, President Buhari in exasperation blamed past administrations for his failure to fix the energy sector in his first term because Nigerians paid for darkness instead of light because of services not rendered by his administration. 

It is no longer debatable that the power sector had become a total failure in spite of Buhari’s manifesto promises to fix it.

And he said that Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), should be held responsible for persistent darkness being experienced on daily basis by the citizens!

He disclosed that PDP claimed to have spent USD$ 16 billion dollars in the power sector between 1999-2015 but there was no power to show to Nigerians!

“There are no roads, no rail, no power but where is the power,” he queried?

He promised to deliver on his three-prong manifesto to ensure security, boost the economy and the fight against corruption!”

CONSTANT NATIONAL GRID COLLAPSE!

National grid collapse has become a monthly occurrence in Nigeria electricity sector. In the year 2020 alone National grid had collapsed nine times! (A grid is a system of special wires that take electricity from power stations (i.e., places where electricity is made), to all parts of a country.

The transmission system in Nigeria comprises of 330kv and 132kv circuits and sub-stations.

Thermal generation is located in the south of the country generally near the sources of gas while the Hydro generation is located further North at Jebba, Kainji and Shiroro.

The country has 23 power generating plants connected to the National grid with the capacity to generate 11,165 .4 MW of electricity.

IN SPITE OF THE HUE AND CRY BY THE PRESIDENT, HE MADE NO MENTION OF THE ENDEMIC CORRUPTION IN THE ENERGY SECTOR DURING HIS 2022 INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY SPEECH!

President Buhari claimed that he had made significant progress in the eradication of deeply rooted corruption in all areas of national development. 

He claimed to be seeking international support for the repatriation of illicit monies which had been corruptly taken out of the country and added that the increasing number of prosecutions and convictions by law enforcement agencies including the refunds of large sums of money from such interventions are still ongoing. 

But he did not mention any probe in respect of the USD$ 16 billion US dollars that was completely scammed during the 16 years of PDP administration!

 

QUESTIONS:

1) HOW MUCH HAS BUHARI ADMINISTRATION SPENT ON THE ENERGY/POWER SECTOR WITHIN THE LAST 8 YEARS?

2) WHAT PROGRESS HAS HIS ADMINISTRATION MADE CONCERNING REGULAR SUPPLY OF ELECTRICITY TO POWER MANUFACTURING AND PRODUCTION SECTORS THROUGHOUT HIS EIGHT YEARS OF TWO TERMS?

In the month of June 2022, BLOOMBERG NEWS posed the following question to President Buhari:

Bloomberg: Nigeria continues to confront electricity shortages and your government has faced calls to modernize the grid or make the sector economical four stakeholders up and down the chain. Do you think you have done enough to address the nation's energy shortfall? What else needs to be done?

Buhari:

“On grid modernization, there are hundreds of ongoing projects and initiatives attracting funding from investors. Take my Presidential Power Initiative (PPI), a government-to-government initiative between the Governments of Nigeria and Germany which Siemens AG, to upgrade the electricity grid with a USD$ 2billion dollars investment. 

“Once signed into law the Constitutional Amendment Bill -  recently voted through Parliament- will allow state governments to generate and transmit their own electricity further facilitating investor participation in our market and enabling States and local businesses to transmit excess supply to the grid.”

“We are also decentralizing the National grid through renewable driven mini-grids. The USD$ 550 million dollars Nigeria Electrification Project has deployed more than 20,000 Stand-alone Solar Systems (SHS), as well as Solar Hybrid mini-grids in over 250 locations.”

All of the above statements by the old General are mere rhetoric’s! As usual, he has paid lip service to the POWER SECTOR - just as he has done to SECURITY, INTERNALLY GENERATED REVENUES, AGRICULTURE PRODUCTION, MANUFACTURING, EDUCATION, HEALTH FACILITIES etc.! 

The Presidential System in Nigeria is a SHAM run by LYING AND SHAMELESS LEADERS!

This is the time for all Nigerians to rise in unison and demand for a PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT which will faithfully cater for the needs of all Nigerians irrespective of tribe,  class, caste etc, and produce a PRIME MINISTER IN 2023 GENERAL ELECTIONS!

WHERE IS THE POWER BUHARI?  

Please share with your friends on internet and all social media platforms for wider coverage!

I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, 08130669886, 08080243066. G-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

NO MILITARY COUP WAS PLANNED TO SACK BUHARI, TINUBU AND ATIKU ON INDEPENDENCE DAY!

ZION B-BC

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A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria {Vol. 11.NO 477. 2nd October 2022.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).  PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

 

NO MILITARY COUP WAS PLANNED TO SACK BUHARI, TINUBU AND ATIKU ON INDEPENDENCE DAY!

(Nigeria’s 62nd Independence Anniversary Edition.)

A coup d’état took place in Burkina Faso on 30th September 2022, removing the interim President Lt.Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba who was only eight months in office over his inability to deal with an Islamist insurgency!

But on 1st October, 2022, retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari, who in eight years had been unable to dislodge Boko Haram Islamic terrorists from Nigeria, gave glowing tributes of his administration’s security achievements in a broadcast to mark his country’s 62nd Independence Anniversary Celebration.

A new self- acclaimed leader, one Captain Ibrahim Traore who has now taken over as Interim Head of Burkina Faso has accused domicile French Troops in Ouagadougou (the State Capital), of complicity in the disappearance of Damiba now believed to be planning a counter offensive.

Although France (Burkina Faso Colonial Master) has denied any involvement, protesters were reported to have started some fire outside the French Embassy on the day of the coup!

In January 2022 Lt.Col. Damiba ousted President Kabore claiming that he had failed to deal with growing militant Islamic violence.

The Islamic insurgency debuted in Burkina Faso since 2015 and has forced over two million people out of their homes as refugees while thousands have been declared dead!

Like Nigeria, Burkina Faso has experienced several successful military coups since independence in 1960. 

WHY WAS THERE NO MILITARY COUP IN NIGERIA ON 1ST OCTOBER, 2022?

The answer to this question is very simple. It would have been a very cheap exit for Buhari who had said to all and sundry that he was already tired and ready to go to his hometown Daura, Katsina to Roost!

For Ahmed Tinubu, who is at war in respect of his candidacy which was alleged to have been purchased with billions of naira, the false certificate saga and also the issue of his illicit wealth including the alleged brush with narcotic drugs while domicile in the United States!

Tinubu is over-burdened so much to ensure any victory in 2023 just as he was unsure of his candidacy which was allegedly bought with money and which a former All Progressives (APC), a former Minister of State for Education is now challenging at the courts!

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar who is leading the pack of PDP candidates for next year’s elections is also battling with personality identity and is agitated because WE have prophesied that he should just forget everything about Nigeria's presidency even before the 2019 elections!

He is very uncertain and agitated although he has invested so much funds into the process as a gamble even though tongues are wagging concerning the root of his humongous wealth in spite of the “Triumvirate Books” that were launched on 28th September 2022 to boost his ego!

It is important that these set of people be made to face God's judgement which is closer than anybody thinks. All of them i.e., all the politicians in Nigeria knew the solution to the Boko Haram Islamic terrorism which has been with the country for over 13 years  is an all-inclusive UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT TO BE HEADED BY A PRIME MINISTER and also the solution to Nigeria’s INSECURITY CHALLENGES;  BUT they would rather opt for illicit LUCRE of office and Cared Less whether the whole population of Nigeria's poor citizens perished or survived!

Military coup de tat – even GHANA'S JERRY RAWLINGS type would have been too cheap for people like Buhari, Tinubu and Atiku and the rest of the presidential aspirants including other politicians who have been recycling themselves in Nigeria since 1960;

BECAUSE:

To be chased out by barrels of the gun when they needed to be charged by their creator who will ask them to give account of their stewardship, would tantamount to killing an ANT WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER!

 The MILITARY has claimed that they were always invited by aggrieved POLITICIANS to stage coups to keep themselves in POWER! 

 NIGERIAN PRESIDENT BUHARI'S QUESTION AND ANSWER BLOOMBERG NEWS: TRANSCRIPT. JUNE 21 2022 IN LATEST NEWS STATEHOUSE GOV.NG/NEWS 

Q1. You campaigned for office with a pledge to fight corruption secure the country and fix the economy how will you rate your performance in fulfilling those pledges during your eight years in office? Why has insecurity been so hard to tackle? Are you making headway?

A: We leave Nigeria in a far better place than we found it. Corruption is less hidden for Nigerians feel empowered to report it without fear, while money is returned, terrorist no longer hold any territory in Nigeria, and their leaders are ////deseased; and vast infrastructure development sets the country on course for sustainable and equitable growth.

Security.

In 2015 boko Haram held territory the size of Belgium within the borders of Nigeria. Today they are close to extinct as a military Force. The leader of ISWAP was eliminated by a Nigerian air Force airstrike in March.

 The jets acquired from the US and intelligence shared by British were not provided to previous administrations and stand as testament to renewed trust rebuilt between Nigeria and our traditional Western allies under my government.

We urge those same international partners to take additional steps costing them nothing by prescribing another group IPOB as a terrorist organisation. Their leadership enjoys safe haven in the West, broadcasting hate speech into Nigeria from London. spending millions lobbying members of the US Congress, and are freely using international financial networks to arm agitators on the ground. This must stop.

Economy.

We have spent are two terms investing heavily in national road, rail and transport infrastructure set to unleash growth, connect communities and lessen inequality. 

This is structural transformation, it may not show on standard economic metrics in now, but results will be apparent in good time.

Corruption.

Starting with a whistleblowing policy enacted in my first year in office hundreds of millions in stolen funds have been returned within Nigeria.

 Working with our international partners hundreds of millions of various currencies have been returned from abroad  - primarily from the UK, US and Switzerland and used as social and welfare funds distributed directly to the poorest during the Covid 19 pandemic and the provision of long-delayed infrastructure – roads, bridges, rail and power.

WE WILL PUBLISH BUHARI’S ANSWERS TO OTHERS QUESTIONS FURTHER ON CORRUPTION, FOOD INFLATION, BORROWINGS, IMF, WORLD, FOREIGN RESERVES, DEBT SERVICING/REPAYMENT ETC, IN OUR SUBSEQUENT EDITIONS FOR NIGERIANS TO SEPARATE THE CHAFF FROM THE GRAINS!

APC and Buhari's LIES have a terminal date!

In the 62 years of Nigeria's independence BUHARI’S government had deceived and lied so terribly to hurt the Citizens psyche and sensibilities. I

It's a shame that a government of eight years could descend so low as to falsify figures, concoct and distort all economic indices with brazen impunity and still claim DISTINCTION!

This ATTITUDE can be aptly described as a most damnable aberration to TRUTH!

 President Buhari’s Government has been the worst in recent times but God will judge them all! None of them will escape HIS PUNISHMENT!

“Righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a reproach to all people.” (Proverbs. 14:34.)

[WATCH OUT FOR A NIGERIAN PRIME MINISTER – NOT A PRESIDENT IN 2023!]

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If you have not accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour, don’t miss this great opportunity as you pray  this prayer: Lord Jesus; I confess that I am a sinner who needs to be saved through the grace of the New Testament of your Blood, shed on the Cross at Calvary; I renounce every sin in my life and accept you as my Lord and Saviour. Please forgive me and write my name in the Book of Life. Amen. If you prayed this prayer, you have been admitted into the family of sons and daughters of God, who are born-again. Congratulations.  

I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor. 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.