INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS PRIOTIZE EDUCATION TO KILL BOKO HARAM DOCTRINE !

ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER. A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 4. NO 110. 20 September, 2015.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).

INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS PRIORTIZE EDUCATION TO KILL BOKO HARAM DOCTRINE!

The prolonged onslaught of Boko Haram terrorists on the Nigerian nation though had devastated the economy and had caused great damage to the social welfare psyche of the population, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), have, through much pain and challenges, come to realize that Western education was more profitable than illiteracy! Adult IDPs from the North East States theatre of war, numbering more than 1.5 million, and scattered in several camps across the nation, in the period of over five years of atrocities (2009-2015), have, with the assistance of their host governments, organised basic education of pre-primary and primary, including secondary schooling attachments in already existing institutions for their young ones whom they have envisaged would only fit into an emerging “Change” Nigerian nation of the 21 Century Nigeria with sound education instead of the false doctrine of Boko Haram which abhor Western education! If at a tender age, a child lost the parental obligation to be instructed to comprehend the benefits of good morals and also uneducated to appreciate the necessity for human societies and institutions to develop, progress and dwell in unity, peace and harmony, that child is deemed to have been robbed of the basic foundation of godly living.

The divine instruction is for parents to train or dedicate children to proper and acceptable societal norms, so that when they mature in age, would not turn from such vital basic education.[ Read, Proverbs. 22: 6].

In addition, it is also mandatory for good governments, to provide at least free, qualitative and compulsory primary and secondary education for the up-coming generation of youths in order to avoid restiveness and ensure stability and success in administration.

The World Day for Social Injustice is marked annually in February, to remind leaders and all people in position of authority of the urgent need to ensure social justice in all facets of life a doctrine that is embraced and acknowledged by Civil Society Groups,[CSG], Non Governmental Organisations[NGO] and governments of the federation in view of the escalating brutality of the Boko Haram insurgency, which has taken a very frightening dimension in the incessant cold blooded murder of innocent school children in the North Eastern Geo-Political Zone.

This terrorist group, embarked on a new strategy of killing school children in June 2013 and have persisted as a way of saying, “….if we hadn’t the opportunity of education, they should not!” Twice in June 2013, these insurgents invaded boarding schools in Bornu State, murdered several school children in their sleep and on Tuesday 25 February 2014, besieged, yet, another boarding school in Yobe State and killed about 50 innocent secondary school students…. in all, over 100 souls have met untimely deaths apart from the over 250 kidnapped Chibok Secondary school girls whose fate remain unknown!

We must agree that social injustices like, lack of the basic necessities of life, food, clothing, shelter, good basic education, the unacceptable situations of poverty, human degradation in all forms, tribalism, nepotism, marginalisation, exploitation and insecurity are all MAN- MADE!

The emerging Northern Nigeria politicians until the “Change” All Progressives Congress (APC), Government emerged in May 2015, did not help matters in that instead of massively educating their youths, they capitalised on religious antecedents to lure them into employment as body guards to perpetrate political crimes of ballot box snatching, thuggery and all manner of intimidation of opponents, during political campaigns and elections only to dump them when they were no longer useful!

Between 1999 and 2007, a period of eight years, the two-term Governor of Bornu State, despoiled the youths in this manner and thus birthed the nucleus of the hydra-headed insurgency that is presently troubling not only that region, but the entire nation

When an amnesty channel for dialogue with the Boko Haram was initiated by the Federal Government between 2012- 2013, the insurgents bluntly refused financial inducements as bases for cessation of atrocities unlike the case with the Niger Delta militants, which was initiated by the Late President, Umaru Yar’Adua in 2008.

If they disagreed then what makes President Buhari think they would negotiate now if not only to by time and regroup for more onslaughts? Never will Nigeria negotiate amnesty, peace or clemency with monstrous felons who mindlessly killed, slaughtered, decapitated and maimed almost ONE MILLION innocent Nigerians in cold blood in this long-drawn and unwarranted war of attrition because this is the divinely appointed time to tighten the noose around their neck and exterminate once and for all violence from our nation! It is instructive to note that the year 2015 is the globally designated year by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNICEF), for every child in Sub-Saharan Africa, where only one of every five children have advantage of early education, to be enrolled in school. According to UNICEF data, some 57 million children of primary school age around the world do not attend school, more than half of these live in sub-Saharan Africa, with 20% domiciled in South and West Africa. It is also on record that 54% of out of school children in this region are girls.In the year 2000, at the World Education Forum, in Dakar, the International Community adopted the Education for All Global Action Plan 2015 was set as target date for achieving the goals, the same date as for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), launched in the same year. One decade after, in 2010, sixty-nine million young people of secondary school age (10-16 years), did not attend secondary school while some 774 million young people (over 15 years of age) and adults –mostly women – could not read and write! Socially disadvantaged groups and people domiciled in conflict regions who were severely hampered found access to education highly difficult and mostly impossible! In spite of the 2015 deadline, not a single goal could be identified globally between years 2000 - 2014 despite all advances and efforts by donor countries/governments because domestic funds were not generously appropriated to primary education while more attention was given to tertiary in sub-Saharan Africa! Is it not very clear from the foregoing analysis that the illiterate youths and school drop-outs are the global militants/terrorists of various categories found among the rank and file of Boko Haram, Al Qaeda, Al Shabab and ISIS of the 21 Century? In Nigeria, it is believed that about 10million children of primary school age – mostly girls – are not in school due to several factors ranging from diverse cultures, ethnic considerations and religion – most especially in the Northern parts. How much did the last administration appropriate for Education in the 2015 Budget if not the usual paltry 4-5% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), in spite of millions of monies from foreign donor countries? Was it not in Nigeria that Education appropriations were diverted to road construction projects at the detriment of school pupils and students while the Federal Minister involved in the aberration was not even queried? We thank God that IDPs and the affected governments of the North East States, have now placed greater emphasis on the education of their youths having come to grips with the bitter truth that the Boko Harams of today were the uneducated, uncouth and illiterate street children of yesterday! *We support the Safe School Initiative which was launched at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Nigeria in November 2014, by Nigerian business leaders, working with the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education, Mr Gordon Brown, the Global Business Coalition and a World at School.

The Initiative was launched with an initial $10million US dollars in response to the growing number of attacks on the right to education in the North East States and in solidarity, the Federal government agreed to match the amount with an additional $10million, in a meeting between former President Jonathan and the UN Special Envoy for Global Education.

One hundred ($100million US dollars), is set target for the SSI to which more funds would be raised according to the Envoy who promised his assistance.

This joint effort on the protection of the right to learn in Nigeria is based on best practices from global standards which emphasizes that Safe Schools must be prioritized for continuity in education, even in HIGH RISK AREAS!

*We appreciate the fact that sufficient funds have been made available according to the Finance Minister, who expressed the hope that SSI will re-kindle the needed motivation for parents and children whose sense of safety had been shattered by the violence.

Students under the voluntary programme would enjoy full scholarships covering books and boarding from Junior Secondary School I, to Senior Secondary 3, at the 32 Federal Unity Schools across the country. Funds will also be made to parents who would visit their wards occasionally.

The SSI is a very laudable project which deserves necessary precautionary security measures since the entire North East schools could not re-locate to other parts of Nigeria. President Buhari should as a matter of urgent necessity instruct the Minister of Education to be appointed to give priority attention to SSI as our brethren return to their homeland in a short while! WE MUST BE OUR BROTHERS KEEPERS! 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, https://www.google.com/+zionfaithbiblebelievingchurch .

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, 08098194390.g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

LAWAL MUSA DAURA MUST SPEAK OUT NOW ON AKWA IBOM STATE GOVERNMENT HOUSE INVASION !

ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER. A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 4. NO 109. 13 September, 2015.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32). LAWAL MUSA DAURA MUST SPEAK OUT NOW ON AKWA IBOM STATE GOVERNMENT HOUSE INVASION! All allegations of impunity, recklessness, harassment, intimidation and high-handedness against the Department of State Security (DSS), since the reported invasion of the Akwa Ibom Government House had reverberated negatively in the public domain and re-kindled reminiscences of the “Gestapo” regime of former military dictators of the past and a collective condemnation against the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Federal Government of President Muhammadu Buhari! That single act of disrespect and embarrassment to a sitting governor, (the constitutional Chief Security Officer of the State), which was yet to be confirmed or denied by DSS, was predicated, according to rumour mills, on an “intelligence report of an imaginary cache of firearms, believed to have been stock-piled in the Akwa Ibom Government House, Uyo! According to several reports in both print and electronic media since the incident, the “invasion” was master-minded and carried out by a band of DSS classified operatives from the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja without prior knowledge of their Akwa Ibom counterparts who were taken unawares just like all law-abiding Nigerian citizens. The present crop of DSS Operatives germinated as off-shoots of the secret service “E” Department of the Nigeria Police Force and National Security Organization (NSO), which were then responsible for domestic security issues including threats or acts of subversion, including monitoring and control of expatriates bio-data from Independence to June 1986 when General Ibrahim Babangida decreed the State Security Service (SSS also known as DSS), into existence! The baton of operation as the 10 Director General was handed over to Mr. Lawal Musa Daura after the “resignation” of Ita Ekpeyong in July, 2015. We have it on good authority that part of the Hand-Over Notes included the following wordings, “......repressing political activities of opposition parties with a view to always intimidating them to submission!” During the tenure of Ita Ekpeyong, all opposition political parties and masses of the poor citizens all tasted the bitter pills of the toughness and power of DSS Operatives who invaded both the private and public lives of the masses with much intimidation and harassments – even during the staggered governorship elections which took place in the South-West geo-political zone in 2014 under the watchful eyes of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which terminated of 29 May, 2015! Ekpeyong introduced MASKED AND HOODED DSS Operatives into an otherwise peaceful scenario of the Nigerian political landscape and we protested in our 53 publication of Zion B-BC Newsletter of 17 August, 2014 under the following topic: “BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE! REMOVE THE INTIMIDATING MASKED MEN FROM OUR STREETS!

Hooded Aliens!

Hooded Aliens from outer space have landed… An Unidentified Flying Object (UFO), is on our shore;

In the market place, the other day,

The Masked Goons were sighted;

Some were at an elite august occasion,

Closely protecting one particular ‘First Lady’;

Others took over from the Road Safety Corps;

Peering at passenger vehicles in broad daylight,

Sending cold shivers into human spines;

Our Traditional Masquerades (“from the spirit world”),

Are known to be very friendly;

Even, LAGBAJA, (internationally-acclaimed musician), “is a cool guy;”

These Masked Ones are different - Very intimidating, very unfriendly! They are definitely not our KITHS AND KINS; But, the last time we checked, they were the UMPIRES….. AT THE JUST CONCLUDED OSUN STATE GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION!

Hooded Security Agents in other climes are usually deployed for covert (secret) operations which demanded hidden identities for their protection, especially in cases that involved ‘war’ against drug barons, oil thieves and money launderers, who would stop at nothing to maintain ‘status quo’, in their nefarious and heinous businesses!

Although the spokesperson of Nigeria’s DSS, Maryln Ogah, admitted that the outfit was being run with the tax payer funds, she still asserted that, “…nobody can dictate to us how our operatives dress when they go on operations!”

We disagree with this unguarded and reckless statement for the following reasons:

From time immemorial, Nigerians have associated HOODS AND MASKS to armed robbers, assassins, murderers, arsonists and the criminally-minded; not to law-enforcement agents!

Government security agents who had to wear hoods in the past were very discreet, because they never paraded themselves in the public glare with masks!

Why would DSS hide the identities of its men on electioneering duties, if there was no ulterior motive – especially when Mr. President, who DSS spokesperson described as “very lenient”, publicly announced that OSUN STATE would witness the FEDERAL MIGHT on August 9, 2014?

Over 73.000 combined Security Agents were deployed to OSUN STATE, but only DSS operatives were hooded to execute very special operations different from maintaining law and order at the elections!

It is on record that the HOODED ONES actually arrested, detained and harassed some electorates with guns, (purchased with tax payer monies), before, during and after the elections!

If deaths were recorded at OSUN on August 9, 2014, who would have been held responsible?

When confronted with the possibility that the criminal-minded could impersonate the masked DSS operatives, the spokesperson categorically debunked the idea by saying that the “T-SHIRTS were designed with special marks!”

If the Boko Haram insurgents could disguise in Nigerian Army camouflage to abduct over 250 Chibok School girls, can’t they or other miscreants don the “specially-designed T-SHIRTS”, now that there is an official approval for masking DSS operatives?

It is not international best practice for security operatives to appear in public, especially in broad daylight, hooded!

With this development it is now very clear that the root-cause of our national malaise of under-development, socio-economic contract failure, deep-rooted corruption and insecurity, in the last 54 years of independence, is due to MASQUERADE LEADERS BEHIND THE MASKS!”

We thank God that following the above publication which was forwarded to the Jonathan Administration, all DSS Operative that were posted to subsequent elections and security duties were not hooded – even during the 2015 General Elections! We will also remember Mr. Ita Ekpeyong for invading APC’s Information Communications Centre in Lagos on two different occasions with DSS Operatives supervised by Maryln Ogah, under the pretext that the then Opposition Party hacked into INEC Data base and also produced fake Voters Cards for the 2015 General Elections! Now that the DSS has been inherited by the APC Government and Lawal Daura is the anointed Director General, why was the leopard in that organization finding it difficult to change its skin? The DSS target at Uyo Government House according to reliable sources was the former Governor, Godswill Akpabio, who still occupied the Presidential wing of the edifice but presently overseas for medical check up! Can the raid of DSS Operatives of former governor now Senator Akpabio’s apartment be regarded as a reprisal for the raids on APC’s Secretariat in Lagos before the 2015 elections because we learnt that they destroyed properties, harassed and intimidated government house staff and visitors into the building for several hours without finding a SINGLE WEAPON OR STACKS OF CASH; though they were neither Hooded nor Hoodwinked, they had an unrestrained and uninhibited field day! Some school of thought said the DSS mission was to distabilize the administration of the incumbent Governor through accusations of being privy to firearms compilation and money laundering crimes insided the government house by his predecessor as part of APC’s grand design to acquire by force the PDP controlled States of Akwa Ibom, Abia, Delta, Rivers, and Taraba! According to this thought, tons of firearms cache and about USD $500million dollars were recovered and carted away to Abuja as exhibits even though both Emmanuel Idom and his guest Godswill Akpabio were absent during the alleged raid and search by DSS Operatives! As at the time of this publication, the new DSS Director General has not given any official statement over that breach of protocol at the Government House, Akwa Ibom, in spite of public outcry over the several allegations against his Operatives! The constitutional duties of the DSS as presently constituted include the following: To defend and protect the Federal Republic of Nigeria against domestic threats. To uphold and enforce the criminal laws of Nigeria and to provide leadership and criminal justice services to both the Federal and State law enforcement organs. Protection of the President and his Vice, Senate President, Speaker of the House of Representatives, State Governors and their immediate families, other high-ranking government officials, past presidents and their spouses, certain candidates for the offices of President, Vice President and visiting Heads of State and Governments. State Security Service (SSS), or Department of State Services (DSS), was restructured and two distinct entities, the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), handling external intelligence and counter intelligence and the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), saddled with military – related intelligence within or outside of Nigeria, were created for adequate national security under the overall control of the National Security Adviser (NSA), within the Presidency in 1986. Being the security agency in charge of domestic issues, the DSS has been the most prominent and the most notorious due to various political influences and the partisanship to which it had been exposed to over the years especially since 1999 when the new attempt at democracy debuted and that is the more reason why controversial Lawal Musa Daura cannot afford to keep quiet! The time to speak out is NOW because tomorrow may be too late, the Nigerian taxpayers who pay his salaries demand to know what truly happened at the Akwa Ibom Government House on 4 September, 2015! We can assure Daura that Mr. President would not hesitate to remove him from office if found culpable even if he were his first cousin! A word in enough for the wise in the acclaimed righteous government of this dispensation where hooded or masquerade leaders have no place! BEWARE: FIRE HAS NO RESPECT FOR THE ONE WHO KINDLED IT! 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, https://www.google.com/+zionfaithbiblebelievingchurch .

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, 08098194390.g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

POLICE MUST PROSECUTE SENATE RULES FORGERS !

ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER.

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 4. NO 108. 6 September, 2015.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).

POLICE MUST PROSECUTE SENATE RULES FORGERS!

Forgery is a criminal offence of felony under Section 465 of the Criminal Code; but for five distinguished Senators of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to have “inadvertently” filed an alleged forgery of the Senate Standing Orders document in the form of a civil suit at an Abuja Federal High Court in order to contest its legality and later to withdraw same within two months of clueless litigation, suggest two legal opinions: one, that the legislators were novices in legal matters or, two, had pretended faked loyalty to the ruling party, being members of the self-acclaimed, “Senate Unity Forum! In the run to the appointments of principal officers of the upper legislative body, the 2015 Senate Standing Orders or Rules document was alleged to have been purportedly and deliberately forged to favour the incumbent occupiers of the two highest offices, President and Deputy President, in the persons of the duo of Abubakar ‘Bukola Saraki of the All Progressives Party (APC), and Ike Ekweremadu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), a marriage of convenience to some party dissidents. On 31 August, 2015, the alleged forgery case was struck out and terminated by the High Court Judge according to the prayers of the litigants who gave no cogent reason for the withdrawal! The judge also ruled against further case (civil) hearing on the matter! The first thought that should be addressed is whether a criminal case or matter should be entertained as civil litigation in court without falling foul of being regarded as an abuse of court process as in the case of the “Unity Forum Senators” and the second thought is, now that the case has been struck out and terminated, should it die a natural legal death? The most reasonable opinion and legal answer is NO, for the reasons that an offence of forgery had been established through the Police Investigation Report which had indicted the two principal officers and some administrative staff of the National Assembly (NASS), especially the Clerk, Salisu Mai Kasuwa of culpability, and had recommended prosecution of the suspects, while a copy of the report had been forwarded to the President who was yet to comment or decide on the matter in view of his avowed stand of non-interference in legislative internal affairs! According to the Police Report, the alleged forged rules had been used in the controversial election of the Senate President and his deputy on 9 June 2015 to inaugurate the 8 NASS. Police investigators who acted on a petition by a patriotic Senator Sulaiman Hunkuyi (APC), Kaduna State, interrogated Senator Ekweremadu, the NASS Clerk (custodian of the forged document), and other ranking officers over the alleged forgery in which some parts of the 2015 Senate Orders were discovered to be different from the one ratified by the 6 Senate in 2010 and which was used by the 7 Senate as Standing Orders 2011. According to the Section 465 of the Criminal Code, a person who makes a false document or writing knowing it to be false, and with intent that it may in any way be used or acted upon as genuine, in Nigeria or elsewhere, to the prejudice of any person, or with intent that any person may in the believe that it is genuine, be induced to do or refrain from doing any act, whether in Nigeria or elsewhere is said to forge the document or writing and is guilty of a criminal offence of Felony which attracts a penalty of three years jail term, a fine or both! Points to prove include the following: That the accused made a false document or writing. That the accused knew that the document or writing he made was false. That the accused had the intention that the false document or writing may be used or acted upon as genuine. That the accused intended that whoever acted upon the document in the belief that the document is genuine would be induced to do or refrain from doing any act. According to the Police detailed report, the controversial 2015 Senate Standing Orders, Rule 3, as contained on page 4 of the document which has to do with the election of presiding officers, had shown that it was different from the 2011 Senate Order because Rule 3(e)(i) and(ii) have been included in the 2015 edition to accommodate electronic voting and secret ballot and ballot papers, which were not specifically mentioned in the 2011 Standing Orders. Whereas the Senate Order 3(e)(ii) of the 2011 document states: “ That voting shall be conducted by the Clerks-at-the-Table, using the Division List of Senate with the Tellers in attendance, (ii) the Clerk of the Senate shall submit the result of the division to the Clerk of the National Assembly and (iii) that the Clerk shall then declare the Senator-elect who has received the greater numbers of votes elected as President of the Senate; the same Section in the 2015 Senate Order reads: “Voting by secret ballot which shall be conducted by the Clerk-at- Table using the list of Senators-elect of the Senate shall each be given a ballot paper to cast his vote with the proposers and the seconder as Teller and the Clerk of the Senate shall submit the result of the voting to the Clerk of the National Assembly who shall then declare Senator-elect who has received the highest number of votes as Senate President elect.” The Police Report concluded that apart from the “alteration” to the procedure for election, Order 95 of the 2011 rule on the chairmanship and membership of committees is also different in the 2015 version. Where the former (2011) states that (i) membership of all committees shall not be less than 11 and not more than 13 Senators; (ii) no Senator shall serve in more than three committees and (3) no Committee Chairman shall serve in more than one other committee, the latter (2015 version) states that the appointment of Senators as Chairmen and members of committees shall be carried in such a manner as to reflect the six geo-political zones of the country and there shall be no predominance of Senators from a few geo-political zone! Police has recommended immediate prosecution of all suspects in the forgery according to the extant laws of the land because all Senators of the 8 Assembly avowed that they were not aware of any amendments to the 2011 Senate Standing Orders! We have no doubt on our mind that a prima facie case has been established and it was high time that charity began at home with the new All Progressives Congress government which must crush the inordinate ambitions of its greedy politicians of this end time! According to Police sources, a copy of the report has also been forwarded to the office of Attorney General of the Federation for legal advice for prosecution and with all steps taken so far, we believe that this matter would not be swept under any carpet! Everyone in this new regime must be forced to face the consequences of his/her actions or inaction in office! Abubakar ‘Bukola Saraki and all his accomplices in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), during the Senate Presidency election saga, should be made to face the music! There should be no SACRED COWS since it is no longer business as usual! Mr. President, the ball is in your court!

ONE HUNDRED DAYS OF BUHARI IN OFFICE!

During an interview at Chatham House, London, March, 2015 as a Presidential aspirant, President Buhari put paid to the jinx surrounding “100 DAYS IN OFFICE”, by telling the world that much as he would try very diligently to meet the yearnings and aspirations of the citizens if elected, he would not play the magician but promised to tackle insurgency, delete corruption, nullify issues of infrastructural decay of government institutions and agencies, entrench the dignity of the rule of law, ensure all revenue generating arms of government led by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), pay into a single account while anti-corruption agencies would operate without government interference and all monies would be paid into the Federation account as specified in the 1999 Nigerian Constitution! During this very short period, PMB plugged excessive leakages in government expenses and all loopholes for siphoning monies through dubious claims and Nigeria’s foreign reserve earnings increased from USD $29billion to USD $31billion! What a feat! We are witnesses to the truth that PMB is working assiduously on all fronts of promises to Nigerians and on 3 September, 2015, he and his Vice, Professor ‘Yemi Oshibajo declared their assets publicly so that others could follow their good leadership examples and qualities. Already, a serving APC Senator, Shehu Sani, from Kaduna State has followed the footsteps of these new exemplary leaders by also declaring his assets publicly! THIS IS CHANGE PER EXECELLENCE. In this new dispensation STEALING IS CORRUPTION and we all stand to be dammed as a nation if all public officers refuse to follow the sterling qualities of the new leaders because PMB gives a damn about righteousness in government!. It is written that we brought nothing into this world and we shall surely take nothing away! Naked we came, naked we shall depart! Amen.

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, https://www.google.com/+zionfaithbiblebelievingchurch .

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, 08098194390.g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

GRUMBLERS HAVE ONLY TWO CHOICES: BEND OR BREAK FOR CHANGE !

ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER.

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 4. NO 107. 30 August, 2015.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32). GRUMBLERS HAVE ONLY TWO CHOICES: BEND OR BREAK FOR C-H-A-N-G-E! Only the selfish, greedy, covetous, proud, boaster and blasphemer would be blind to decipher the bold “handwriting on the wall” that the incumbent Nigerian administration was divinely planned, packaged and being mobilized to favour the down-trodden, nobodies, undistinguished and commonplace people in the Nigerian society! Which of the emergent post 2015 General Elections arm-chair critics and fire brigade commentators even believed that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), had the slightest chance of winning the elections thought to be a done-deal for the failed government which party monopolized the political scenario for 16 consecutive years? The first priorities of the new government were majorly two-pronged: to provide an enabling atmosphere for economic security and the people’s welfare by crushing the elongated Boko Haram terrorism headlong and also to confront and wipe out the cancerous plague of corruption from the polity and the society at large through the recovery of all looted or embezzled government funds and the prosecution of all culprits to deter others from such financial crimes. President Buhari left no one in doubt concerning his government’s socialist policy direction which emphasized the geographical spread of all dividends of democracy to ensure alleviation of poverty in all its forms, shades and ramifications through aggressive economic industrialization of the nation from the grassroots, intensification of Agriculture and massive youth self- employment orientation programmes as spelt out in APC’s manifesto. And while laying a solid foundation for actualising his Party’s avowed programmes through local and international consultations and treaties, the contracted critics described President Buhari’s actions as too slow for meaningful progress whereas this President on assumption of office, aside of Boko Haram’s escalation of terror, was also confronted and dazzled by the flood of illicit financial flow in the financial portfolio of a country whose citizens were forced into abject poverty and had to checkmate the money launderers, strip them of all illegal earnings in order to refill the near empty treasury which he inherited from his predecessor! Since the new millennium especially between the year 2000 and 2008, according to the United Nations, Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) statistics, Africa lost in excess of USD $50billion dollars annually to illicit financial flows which level exceeded the official foreign development assistance of USD $46.1billion dollars in the year 2012! On its part, Nigeria in that same year 2012, lost USD $7.92 billion dollars to corruption through illicit financial flows, according to a United States-based non-profit research and advisory organization, Global Financial Integrity (GFI). The above financial reports which were released in December 2014 provided the templates for the economic blue prints on which President Buhari and his economic team are cautiously treading to sort out the “wheat from the chaff” of inherited financial recklessness of past administrations before plunging into fresh financial commitments! It is very pertinent for emphasis to remind our readers that President Muhammadu Buhari is not an ACCIDENTAL STATESMAN IN OFFICE, having made three spirited efforts (2003, 2007, 2011), to actualize his aborted dream of 1984-1985 as a Military General to reverse Nigeria’s inglorious global appellation and image of a corrupt nation, to that of an economically viable country run by righteous and patriotic men and women in government. In the three months (29 May – 29 August 2015), of the new administration, the biased critics have seen nothing worthy of praise or commendation with the well-calculated CHANGE programmes aimed to rescue the TALAKAWAS OF NIGERIA from the influences of the former fraudulent politicians whose illicit financial outflows which have now been rejected by Nigerian Banks have heightened economic trends of hyper inflation on all commodities, goods and services in which loose monies are chasing insufficient commodities! The Back seat drivers, like “Samballats and Tobiahses”, have permanently constituted themselves into stumbling blocks of offense and cogs in the wheel of progress of a righteous government which is acceptable to all Nigerians except those who believed that through antagonisms they would escape the searchlight of the anti-corruption train already in motion to bulldoze all those who have stolen from the coffers of the nation and recover same for continuous economic development” President Buhari promised Nigerians to pick the best of the best of capable hands of like passion to work closely with him to achieve set objectives of the transparent government in the shortest time frame possible and because of the 30 appointments made, only seven were from the Southern parts of the country, his detractors have condemned him to Northern agenda policy in spite of all plausible explanations that at the close of the exercise, a balanced equation would eventually emerge! We need to remind our readers again at this juncture of the “doctrine of equal share” that was posited by the President during his United States tour as follows: “By the Constitution, no State can be excluded from government. “If I come clear and show and MARGINALIZE a certain group because they didn’t vote for me, then I have already contradicted myself. And I am sure people will be quick to pick that.” We are convinced that because Mr. President is not alien to all of Nigeria’s political, social, and economic woes because he had served his country as a Military Head of State, and also because he succeeded to become a civilian President on his fourth attempt, bestowed on him the requisite wisdom and knowledge to keep the nation’s boat afloat and sail it to the safe land of our collective and desired goals of economic buoyancy and political recognition! President Buhari is on track because he is being divinely guided to pick trusted Nigerians with impeccable antecedents who will work assiduously and run with the vision of transforming a nation, which by past predictions would by now have become a “banana republic” to an Eldorado! Are these spoilers really concerned about the so-called loop-sided appointments or about selfish interests of financial benefits that should accrue to them through preferred candidates? Did it ever occur to them that the persistent insurgency has created enormous socio-economic challenges of refugees and internally displaced persons who had to be rehabilitated, re-orientated, nurtured and succoured by the new APC government which must put round pegs in round holes, that is ,persons with positive attitudes who would deliver the dividends of democracy in the form of all inalienable amenities of good and healthy life, qualitative education and employment opportunities, to actualize the desired goals of true democracy? Were they really concerned about federal character in the spread of appointments and portfolios or about the “business as usual” posture of who grabs what for the benefit of a very few percentage of the populace and do they care about the doctrine of good governance, equity and fair play by qualified, dedicated and righteous persons in government? Gone are the days of constructive and articulate criticisms from patriots and God-fearing persons who believe in the overall benefits of the entire population through right leadership that should be guided and encouraged to continue in the right direction! How many Nigerians were aware that because of the endemic corruption of past administrations of 29th May, 1999 -29 May, 2015, the nation was denied membership of the prestigious OPEN GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP/PARLIAMENT (OGP), an influential, global anti-corruption initiative backed by major developed nations to ensure governments’ commitment to promote transparency and empower citizens, fight corruption and use new technologies to strengthen governance. In 2012, Democracy Index, Nigeria was ranked the 7 most terrorized country in the world! Nigeria showed interest in 2013 but could not meet the mark because of its corruption index rating coupled with official refusal to declare assets publicly!President Buhari is set to reverse all of these past anomalies and chart a new course for Nigeria through a political culture of absolute transparency and righteousness in governance. He is ready to fulfil all necessary admission requirements for admission into the Open Government Partnership: Ensure audit reports of public accounts particularly by the Auditor General of the Federation and proactively disclose and make available to members of the public. That incomes of all categories of public officers are proactively disclosed as required by the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, Section 2 (3) (d) (VI) and other applicable laws. That Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), should bring itself into compliance with the FOI Act by acceding to requests from members of the public for it to disclose Assets Declarations in its custody submitted by elected and senior government officials, which constitute information maintained by it as a PUBLIC INSTITUTION within the meaning of the Act. Ensure improved citizens participation and civic engagement in policy making and in all aspects of governance including Nigeria’s membership of the Open Government Partnership (OGP). Grumblers who are stumbling blocks in this crusade against insecurity and massive corruption which demanded very serious and critical surgery to remove all cancerous viruses and save Nigeria nation from self-imposed destruction, needed to be informed now that if they refused to bend or break, they should proceed on self-exile for the EIGHT YEARS (2015-2023) OF BUHARI’S TWO TERMS IN ASO VILLA! President Buhari is the divine vessel in the Hand of GOD for the re-orientation, renovation, reconstruction and rehabilitation of Nigeria’s dented image through the painful scars or Boko Haram terrorism and of the deliberate massive looting of the treasury. For promotion comes neither from the east, nor from the west nor from the south. But God is the judge: He puts down one, and sets up another. Will the grumblers challenge or contend with the CREATOR OF NIGERIA? 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, https://www.google.com/+zionfaithbiblebelievingchurch .

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, 08098194390.g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com

THE NATIONAL ECONOMIC COUNCIL (NEC) IS NOT A HAVEN FOR POLITICAL WITCH-HUNTING!

ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER. A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. { VOL. 4. NO 106. 23 august, 2015.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).

THE NATIONAL ECONOMIC COUNCIL (NEC), IS NOT A HAVEN FOR POLITICAL WITCH-HUNTING!

The prestigious and eminent body of the 39-member National Economic Council of Nigeria is majorly saddled with the responsibility of advising the President on the economic affairs of the Federation and not in the investigations of financial crimes.

President Muhammadu Buhari was very categorical that the task of growing the economy from its present stage of near comatose was enormous but promised that the CHANGE government of the All Progressives Congress (APC), would ensure transparency, integrity and accountability in beefing and nurturing it to fruition. The National Economic Council (NEC), which was established by the provisions of Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution as amended, Third Schedule (Part I) Federal Executive Bodies, Section 153: Sub section (18 &19), is composed of the Vice President as Chairman, the 36 State Governors of the Federation, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), and the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), shall also, in particular, advise Mr, President on measures necessary for the co-ordination of the economic planning efforts or economic programmes of the various Governments of the Federation.

In his inaugural speech to the new NEC, the President promised to create an enabling and conducive atmosphere for rapid economic growth by tackling insecurity, corruption and other social vices, sustaining youth unemployment through the revival of Agriculture, Solid Minerals mining as well as Small and Medium Scale (SMEs), businesses.

In addition, he said his administration would ensure regular supply of petroleum products, increase power supply, encourage public service reforms and also ensure the need for all States to exercise constitutional responsibilities for a sustainable visionary initiatives and programmes that would restructure and transform national economy and support economic policies and planning.

As the economic think-tank of the Federal Government, NEC is also expected to motivate an enhanced blue-print for States to actualize more of Internally Generated Revenues (IGRs) to supplement their shares of the monthly Federation Account allocations.

Comrade Governor, Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State who had attracted the print and electronic media headlines over several allegations of missing funds from the Excess Crude Account (ECA), was appointed Chairman of a Committee of Five State Governors set up by the Vice President to oversight the Revenue Generating Agencies such as Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA), Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Nigeria Maritime Administration & Safety Agency (NIMASA) and Liquefied Natural Gas (NLG) amongst others and confirm how their revenues were channelled and remitted to the Federation Account in line with Sections 80 &162 of the 1999 Constitution.

Two reputable international audit firms have been appointed by the Committee to examine the books of these agencies and carry out a thorough forensic investigation of compliance with stipulated Financial Regulations and Administrative Instructions in their remittance into the Consolidated Revenue Fund and which outcome would decide the next line of action by the Federal Government. It is very instructive to note that the auditors were not given time frame within which to complete the task but were instructed to work fast and be thorough without compromising standards. In particular the Governor accused the immediate past Co-ordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, of spending a sum of USD$ 2.1 billion dollars from the ECA with neither authorisation nor approval for such withdrawal by NEC to sponsor the immediate past president’s bid for continuity at the last general elections!

There had been denials, counter- accusations and name callings from both sides of the divide since the month of June 2015, when the first salvo was fired against Ngozi by Adams who is still insisting that his allegations were based on factual statistics which cannot be faulted by any economist! The insistence of Adams Oshiomhole over the yet to be substantiated allegations, even after contracting reliable international audit firms to check all relevant revenue accrual books of all the Agencies mentioned above, points to one direction of personal vendetta against Ngozi Iweala though he kept denying it!

We totally disapprove of Oshiomhole’s attitude in the entire saga of an allegation of such magnitude which was yet to be corroborated by other State Governors who are NEC members and we hereby advise Governor Oshiomole to wait patiently for the outcome of the international auditors who do not need such distractions in the discharge of the onerous national contract! Adams Oshiomole is serving out his second term and must definitely bow out in 2016 whether he likes it or not! But we have not heard that President Buhari appointed him as one of his trusted anti-corruption campaigners because the vent and venom that had been discharged into the financial misappropriation allegations against the former Minister of Finance were more than sufficient to convict Ngozi without trial!

We must thank God that we now have in place a government that believes in the constitutional application of the Rule of Law in every issue of allegation or litigation! If Adams believes that after serving for 8years as a governor, he was clueless of how to manoeuvre himself to the Senate Red Chambers like his comrades, we must advise that his present pre-occupation of discrediting Ngozi will earn him nothing but reproach from all and sundry and several litigations of defamation of character after his immunity had expired and as for any Federal Government appointment after 2016, he should just forget it! However we need to remind the comrade Governor that the National Economic Council is different from the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which is mandated to investigate and prosecute all manner of financial crimes and money laundering matters, and that if he had sufficient evidence against Ngozi, he would do well to pass such to the Commission instead of indulging in cheap media publicity. Majority of Nigerians have kicked against the second tranche of USD $75m out of USD $225m dollars World Bank loan for Edo State’s Development Policy Operation (DPO), which the Comrade Governor desperately canvassed to acquire before he exited; to further carry out other imperative masses-oriented programmes in his last year of the second term in office which recorded poor performances when compared to his first advent! We advise that the NEC of which he is a member will engage international auditors to also examine his books as he expends this large sum of the green notes on “populist projects!”

Ngozi Iweala’s stubbornness for remaining in the FINANCE OFFICE long after we warned her of the definite consequences and fall outs to expect from the pervasive corruption which was the hallmark of the immediate past administration of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was what has placed a dent in her impeccable character and sterling qualities as a distinguished AMAZON! We told her that she did not belong to that heinous gang that was bent on running Nigeria aground and that she should resign, but she refused like the dog that rebuffed the whistle of the hunter and became a prey of predators in the jungle! We pray that she could still retrieve whatever was left of her antecedent and pedigree by taking legal actions against her detractors at the appropriate time while we of this Editorial Board will support her with divine intercessions!

Nigeria recorded several positive pre- independence historical economic score cards which flowed into the early years of freedom before the tragedy of military intervention in July 1966 because up to that point the nation’s three regions were sustainable and self sufficient in both the Industrial and the Agricultural sectors. Imagine if past Nigerian governments had not depended solely on the mono-natural, but unsustainable product called Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), or Petrol, for over four decades for foreign reserve earnings, but have diversified to export of cash crops, the prevailing quagmire of brokerage would not have debuted!

At the beginning of 2014, global economic trends in respect of the black gold revealed a downward trend as prices snow-dived to an initial USD $70 dollars per barrel and presently below USD $48dollars! Nigeria’s crude oil bench mark for the 2015 Budget in spite of all superior economic arguments by all stakeholders was stubbornly predicated at USD $75 dollars by the immediate past Minister of Finance and the ripple effects of that defiant attitude resulted in unpaid workers salaries and a resort to further external borrowings which further complicated the country’s pecuniary situation.

Before the discovery of crude oil, Nigeria’s foreign earnings depended on several natural economic export products which included but not limited to the following: Groundnut, Palm oil, palm kennel, Cocoa, Cotton, Rubber etc, which were produced in excess proportion sufficient also to supply raw materials for the local industries which manufactured red oil from the palm oil seeds; groundnut and palm kennel oils respectively from the relevant seeds while rubber, cotton and cocoa were also supplied to indigenous companies for the production of shoes, textile materials and confectioneries which made the nation self-sufficient and not dependent on foreign finished products for consumption!

With President Buhari in the saddles, we can now go back to the basics and re-organise our economic priorities as a truly developing nation. All the moribund gigantic power projects of the AJAOKUTA STEEL INDUSTRY which are scattered across some political zones of the South West and the North Central should be quickly resurrected and kept in operation while the ongoing auditing of all the revenue generating agencies be fast forwarded to fall in line with the posture of the present administration that is determined to revamp the battered economy within the shortest time frame in the government’s calendar!

We all have roles to play to keep this transparent and righteous government on track by paying our taxes regularly as at when due to keep government social, political and economic machineries working at full throttle because serious governments are run with sundry taxes and not Petrol and trust the Almighty God to direct our technocrats, technicians, technologists artisans, and engineers in faithfulness, probity and honesty to serve this brand new UNITED STATES OF NIGERIA (USN), with determined strength and unfeigned love. Amen

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, https://www.google.com/+zionfaithbiblebelievingchurch .

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, 08098194390.g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com

NIGERIAN LEGISLATORS HAVE NO RIGHT TO DICTATE THIER SALARIES!

ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER. [A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria.] {VOL 4. NO 105.16th august, 2015.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32). NIGERIAN LEGISLATORS HAVE NO RIGHT TO DICTATE THEIR SALARIES!

Within his short span of administration, the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua of Nigeria displayed an exemplary character as a prudent manager of the nation’s fiscal economic resources and also exhibited a masses-oriented socialist mien when: First, he slashed legislators jumbo salaries and allowances by 20% and, Second, returned unspent revenue allocation to Ministries, Departments and Agencies, (MDAs), to the Federation Account, at the end of each budget year. But it is sad to observe that the legacy he left behind was thrown to the dogs by his subordinate and eventual successor who not only displayed an unprecedented prodigality but also defended the doctrine of corruption with impunity among public office holders and elected politicians who should have been faithful custodians of the common wealth!

The excessive love of money which spotlighted the legislators of that administration as exceedingly richer than most world presidents, including Barack Obama of the United States was the evident endemic corruption plaguing the polity of most developing economies of the third world! The year 2009 statistics of federal legislators emoluments revealed that they were the highest paid public servants in the world because a total of N102.8 billion, (5% of the country’s annual budget), comprising of N11.8billion as salaries and N90.96billion as allowances, was spent on 469 Nigerians; 109 Senators and 360 House of Representatives members! In the United States of America (USA), where minimum wage was USD$1.257, (N191.667), a US law maker earned USD$15,080 (N2.3million), per month while his Nigerian senator counterpart earned N29.472.749.00million totalling an annual haul of N182million, in a country where minimum wage is a paltry N18.000 and which many State Governments still owed up to seven months payment of arrears to workers!

It was revealed that Nigerian Senators got more money from their numerous allowances than from their annual basic salaries. The allowances include but not limited to the following: Hardship allowance, 50% of basic salary, (BS); Constituency, 200% of BS; Furniture, 300% of BS; Newspapers, 50% of BS; Wardrobe, 25% of BS; Recess, 10% of BS; Accommodation, 200% of BS; Utilities, 30% of BS; Domestic Staff, 35% of BS; Entertainment, 30% of BS; Personal Assistant, 25% of BS; Vehicle maintenance, 75% of BS; Leave allowance, 10% of BS; Severance Gratuity, 300% of BS; paid once in four years and, Motor Vehicle allowance, 400% of BS, also paid once in four years!

The United States of America is regarded as the most developed and technologically-advanced economy of the world, yet President Obama’s annual salary of USD$400.000, (N64.156.0million), including a USD$50.000 expense allowance, which makes him the highest paid public servant in his country, is all encompassing and attracted no further icing and USD$350.000 of it is taxable whereas a Nigerian Senator according to that statistics earned at least eight times more than his US counterpart annually and more than three times the US President! In spite of the hues and cries of concerned Nigerians over the outrageous and mind-boggling salaries and allowances of these very few but “privileged” law makers which was slightly reduced in the 6th National Assembly (NASS), the present crop of legislators have met behind closed doors and are determined not to slash their present emoluments even by one kobo notwithstanding the fact that both President Muhammadu Buhari and his Vice, ‘Yemi Oshibajo, have consented to reduce their salaries and allowances by 50%! Why would legislators lock doors to determine their take-home pays when it is not their prerogative nor within their purview of duty to fix them in the first place? “Greed of the mixed multitude”! CAN A LEOPARD CHANGE ITS SKIN? NO! We must not forget that the present crop of legislators were the same re-cycled politicians who have become professional in the art of politics. They are not Statesmen because they refused to either build strong institutions out of the system neither have they also built themselves into veritable institutions that could stand the test of time as icons and reference figures in the society! They passed through classrooms of political offices without making impact or indelible marks or prints in the sands of time. They have only one ambition; and that is to make lots of unconstitutional money which they hoped would assuage their livelihood as they advanced in age. We have watched their political gimmicks for years as they transited from one corridor of power to the other; from khaki uniforms to civilian “baban riga” (large-flowing mantle), from various professional fields to politics, from government house to the red chamber and vice-versa; from the executive to the legislature and vice-versa and from green to upper chamber; and from all or any of the above, with or without the tacit contribution of the electorate, because most moves were done through “pecuniary bargaining” and all parties smiled to their banks and desired destinations without any hassles!

With those kinds of portfolios, pedigrees and antecedents, these legislators have no right to milk anybody at all but to be shown the exit RECALL door by the electorate of their respective constituencies and districts if they refused to repent and change into the new order of righteous governance! The authentic salaries and allowances figures quoted earlier were neither designed to castigate the Legislators nor to goad the good citizens to any unconstitutional behaviour but to checkmate the situation and bring down the phantom emoluments to present day realities. It is now very imperative that all politicians be cut to size in respect of their pay packets which should be aligned with those in the Civil Service Cadre in the ongoing review being carried out by RMAFC Chairman and his management team to rectify the precarious situation in which representatives of the anointed custodians of the SOVEREIGNTY suddenly became masters in a fresh and sane Republic which should observe the letters and principles of the Rule of Law with much candour!

One ranking legislator in the green chamber said that NASS budget was only a fraction of 2.67% (N150billion), of the national overall estimate and would be shared with other organs including the Assembly’s Civil Servants, technocrats and NASS Commission.

Even at that, the percentage which falls within the ambit of concurrent appropriation had created a big gash when juxtaposed with whatever remained of the 2015 deficit budget! It was high time that citizens fulfilled their constitutional roles in determining salaries of all categories of public officers in conjunction with RMAFC guidelines. From 2009 when NASS collected 5% of national fiscal appropriation, population was about 150 million people and now that it is pegged at 2.67%, the figures are close to 200 million which means that legislators emoluments were still on the highest side and very unrealistic, considering the dwindling national economy! Every adult Nigerian has a say on who milks who or what and how the dividends from the dairy should be utilized and shared without animosity or rancour!

In less than two-and-a-half months of investiture, these legislators had gone on THREE RECESSES of about six weeks and are presently on another SIX WEEKS of recess, all of which period of absence from duty, would be paid for from the tax-payers money! It is very clear that the wrangling and commotions which greeted the inauguration and the appointments of principal officers and which led to consecutive recesses, were predicated on who got the “juicy” positions which attracted much money! Did you know that Senate of the 6th NASS allocated N1.02billion as quarterly allowances to its 10 Principal Officers and each cashed N78 million per quarter or N26million cheques per month as members of the elite Senate Leadership! All of these annoying figures which are in the public domain are still shrouded in mystery because the lawmakers kept denying the figures while their extravagant and opulent lifestyles kept exposing acquisition of unconstitutional incomes! It is an open secret that NASS Legislators had in the past collected large sums of money as Constituency Allowances but the new RMAFC Board has warned that any monies collected by public officials outside of the approved list were illegal and that NASS Chief Accounting Officer should be held responsible!

Why was the Senate Rules forged and Honourable members of the House of Representatives engage in fist cuffs to appoint the present crop of principal officers? MONEY, MUCH MONEY! Before the close of the 7th NASS, Legal Defence and Assistance Project (LEDAP), a concerned Non- Governmental Organisation (NGO), made up of lawyers got a landmark judgement from an Abuja High Court in February 2015, which ordered NASS Clerk to submit all budgetary allocations to legislators for Constituency Allowance Projects between 2011 and2013 to the NGO which petitioned the court for details of the highly secretive constituency allowances through Section 2 (1) of the Freedom of Information (FOI), Act which required all Public Institutions to give the right to access STORED INFORMATION of such institutions to any person upon request and if denied could petition the court; but the Clerk is yet to comply since he appealed the judgement!

The Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), had met with Senate leadership and had made it very clear that the Commission was the only constitutionally approved and delegated authority saddled with the determination of the emoluments of all Nigerian public servants, beginning with Mr. President, according to all indices of economic realities.

The new RMAFC derives its powers and constitutional functions from Paragraph 32 of Part I of the Third Schedule to the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and is vested with powers to: Monitor the accruals into and disbursement of revenue from the Federation Account. Review from time to time the revenue allocation formulae and principles in operation to ensure conformity with changing realities Ensure that any accepted revenue formula backed by NASS Act remained in force for at least FIVE years. Advise the Federal, State, and Local Governments on fiscal efficiency and methods by which their revenue was to be increased. Determine the remuneration appropriate to Political Office holders, including the President, Vice President, Governors, Deputy Governors, Ministers, Commissioners, Special Advisers, Legislators and the holders of the offices mentioned in Sections 84 and 124 of the Constitution and such other functions as are conferred on the Commission by the Constitution or any Act of NASS.

RMAFC is an autonomous body and is not subject to the direction or control of any authority or person in the exercise of its power to make appointments or to exercise disciplinary control over persons. Unlike what obtained in the past where Ad -hoc Committees and Commissions were set up to review the fiscal arrangements in the country, RMAFC is now the only and permanent institution to handle all matters relating to remunerations in the polity. For all we care, the legislators may spend their entire SIX WEEKS recess which began on Friday, 14th August, 2015, behind closed doors to formulate new salaries and allowances, the move will come to nothing when they resume plenary because their base and foundation are cast on SINKING SAND!

The unambiguous Police Report on the forged Senate Rules which has been forwarded to both Mr. President and Office of the Attorney General of the Federation should receive judicious attention which must further establish the Rule of Law in the new dispensation of CHANGE from the old order of impunity to a new order of total obedience to established extant laws, rules and regulations!

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, https://www.google.com/+zionfaithbiblebelievingchurch .

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, 08098194390.g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com

FOREIGN EXCHANGE SLUSH FUNDS AND NIGERIAN BANKS!

ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER. [ A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. ] { VOL. 3. NO 104. 9th august, 2015.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).

[Zion B-BC Newsletter celebrates two years of prophetic and truthful publications! To God be the glory!] FOREIGN EXCHANGE SLUSH FUNDS AND NIGERIAN BANKS!

When Nigeria was adjudged as the country with the highest Gross Domestic Product (GDP), in Africa for the year 2013, economic pundits and analysts failed to investigate the financial source of goods and services which constituted the national income on which the achievement was predicated! In developed economies, legitimate incomes are generated through production but over the years, especially since Nigeria’s fresh attempt at democratic governance began in 1999 greater attention had been focussed on consumption instead of production!

For instance importation of diverse goods and services of sundry types like: Substituting generating sets for national grid electric power supply which had remained comatose; Importing rice, fertilizers, tooth picks, tissue/toilet papers, biro pens etc and granting import waivers to government surrogate contractors; Exporting crude oil overseas to be refined at exorbitant prices and later importing the refined products of premium motor spirit (petrol) and kerosine for sale to the citizens at “subsidized” prices; Exporting cocoa seeds to be refined in return for imported chocolates; Exportation of rubber for vehicle tyres; hides and skins for leather shoes, sandals and carpets; Cotton for threads and Ankara and Java print materials; Importation of all manner of machineries, bicycles, tri-cycles, motor cars, high capacity trucks, trailers, articulated vehicles, petrol tankers, oil drilling equipments and machines, etc., because the Iron and Steel Industry died at inception through the expertise of Foreign Consultants, who raked in millions of easy dollars in contract fees! Poultry and dairy products like butter, cheese, milk, and assorted sweets were not left out of the long list of importations “that qualified Nigeria as the nation with the highest GDP in Africa in the year 2013!”

If, according to economic templates, the earnings or incomes of a nation must be predicated on the value of all goods and services produced, what manner of parameters were applied by economic experts to award Nigeria that prestigious honour when the country had failed to produce all of the above imported products locally? SLUSH fund, money laundering and oil bunkering had replaced all legitimate incomes that should be generated through organized and massive national production due to importation of sundry goods while national income depended only on exportation of the mono-economic crude oil product from which the very slush ironically accrued and presently suffering the elongated universal oil price fall!

The Nigerian naira and not the American dollar is the legal tender of the economy but like some aliens from outer space, commercial bank vaults in Nigeria have been invaded by a multitude of the American green notes to the point of suffocation; however, the deft move of rejecting the across counter dollar deposits methods by Nigerian commercial banks to sanitize the over-saturated foreign exchange business was no doubt a welcome economic policy introduced at a time when the nation’s foreign reserve (the official gauge of a nation’s economic credibility), was at its lowest ebb due to the maladministration of past administrations! Illicit finances, which accrued from the proceeds from illegal acts of hard drugs, arms peddling deals, robbery, embezzlement of public funds, contract inflation/round-tripping etc., enjoyed official patronage as the administrators of the past regimes turned deaf ears to all criticisms of government in respect of financial imprudence and recklessness! Foreign currencies cash deposits into domiciliary accounts was an all comers affairs since no one queried the source of money being deposited at the counters, no matter the millions of dollars and the ripple effects of that policy lapse placed the American dollar as the unofficial legal tender of the worsening Nigerian economy!

The United States dollars were demanded for local school fees, they were preferred to the naira at hotels, restaurants, the shopping malls, at indigenous market places, they were “sprayed” at birthday parties, marriage/child naming ceremonies and were distributed publicly at political gatherings in large quantities during electioneering campaigns of the last general elections which turned the tables against bad governance! US dollars flowed from the pockets of corrupt politicians like from public water taps as they solicited the votes of the electorate through their agents, traditional rulers, thugs and all manner of miscreants in the various communities at wards, local, states and federal levels! Legitimate Bureau-de-Change centres bubbled with vibrant activities because they had unfettered inflow of the regular weekly official foreign exchange markets because of the avalanche back door supplies from corrupt bank officials and money launderers! The Black Market operated on the streets and major highways of most State capitals unhindered by law enforcement agents who even patronised them openly because the weak naira exchanged at N240 to a US dollar until the recent national policy on foreign exchange business came into effect at the end of July 2015. The import of all of this is that a few charlatans in office hi-jacked the economic space which they decided to run as private enterprise with the American dollars instead of the Nigerian naira with IMPUNITY OF THE HIGHEST ORDER! Nigeria’s re-based GDP rating engendered a lot of controversy in March 2014 when it was announced because the two-time co-ordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance played a major role as a former World Bank executive in the entire face-saving charade of a dwindling economy to prove what turned out to be a bad outing and total disaster for the Harvard graduate!

Gross Domestic Product or (GDP) is an economic gauge of the value of total production attributable to overall factors of generation of goods and services in a given country if prudent calculation is based on the national product or income. This economic evaluation is aimed to achieve the specific purpose of proving a country’s viability as an international entrepreneurial destination and it is termed ‘gross’ because allowance was not yet made for the ingestion of the fixed capital expended in production, to establish or determine actual market price. Nigeria’s GDP was last calculated in 1990! Since all incomes were generated through production, total national earnings of a given period were established by the application of monetary evaluation to all agricultural goods, labour and capital resources, hence Nigeria’s GDP estimates for the year 2013, which makes her the largest economy in Africa, and the 26 globally, was put at $510billion US dollars or N80.3trillion naira, taking into account, a range of new sectors and industries like the mobile telephone market and Africa’s largest-music and the entertainment local Nollywood film enterprise, which has now produced 12per cent of the GDP, or N853.9 billion naira. The re-based GDP numbers imply that the level of economic activity which is much higher than in the past 24 years, is now being more driven by the Service Sector, which means that we now have a clearer picture of Nigeria’s economic landscape which offers a significant opportunity for growth and wealth creation. But on ‘per capita income’ basis, Nigeria was number 121 in the world! Per capita income is the universal index for measuring living standards and citizens’ welfare which is obtained by dividing the total national income by the total population; the higher the quotient, the higher, the standard of living, provided leaders were righteous and accurate census was achievable! A World Bank research in 2012 revealed that about 100million Nigerians dwelt in abject poverty on a per capita of US$1.5 dollars or N250 naira per day which made the re-basing of Nigeria’s GDP as a total contradiction, a misnomer!

WHO ARE THE SOURCES OF THE GDP OF EVERY NATION? The poor masses of course and not the power usurpers! Masses are the, “hewers of wood and drawers of water” who will always procure wealth for the rich through cheap labour in the formal and informal sectors of the economy while crooked politicians also create avenue for slush funds which they corner and pocket for their own benefits! In the formal sector, the civil servants, armed forces, police, customs, immigrations etc, are paid paltry sums as salaries, forced to pay taxes, labour and die as patriotic citizens! The elites hardly paid taxes because they are very fraudulent when it comes to declaration of incomes and assets! In the industrial or informal sector, which is privately powered, driven and funded, workers are goaded by task masters to work far beyond their pay packets! This bunch of unfortunate third rated citizens of the underdeveloped third world countries are also forced to bear the brunt of all societal ills, disasters and calamities resulting from consistent maladministration!

WHO ARE THE EASY TARGETS OF BOMB BLASTS? WHOSE GRAVES ARE FOUND ON ROAD SIDES AND RIVER BANKS? WHO ARE THE ROBBERS AND KIDNAPPERS VICTIMS? WHO DWELL IN THE SLUMS AND THE WORST OF ALL RURAL AREAS? WHO ARE THE “AWAITING TRIAL” INMATES IN ALL THE PRISONS AND DETAINEES IN ALL POLICE CELLS AND SECURITY DETENTION CAMPS OF THE LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES? WHO ARE THOSE WHO GOT HIT BY STRAY BULLETS OF TRIGGER-HAPPY POLICEMEN? WHO ARE THE VICTIMS OF HIGH-RATES OF CHILD/MATERNAL MORTALITY? WHO ARE THOSE DENIED MODERN HEALTH FACILITIES AND POTABLE WATER SUPPLIES BUT CONDEMNED TO DRINK FROM THE SAME POOLS WITH ANIMALS? WHO ARE THE DREGS OF THE SOCIETY, WHO SHOULD BE LEFT TO ROT AWAY UNEDUCATED?

The poor masses of course! But this scenario is not DIVINE it is man-evolved through an orchestrated abuse of the fundamental human rights, coercion and manipulation of the masses by a devious few and with God’s intervention, this ugly trend which has become a universal norm can be reversed! The Labour Force of these nations are the ordinary everyday people around the neighbourhood, the streets, the vicinities, hamlets, villages and rural areas who eek their living at the mercy of the high and mighty of the urban societies of all third world countries! Except for the United States of America and a few civilized countries of Europe and the Near East, the glaring neglect, of basic amenities and necessary infrastructures of life, like decent housing scheme, good roads, electrification, portable water, is visible all over rural Africa and Asia! OF WHAT ECONOMIC SIGNIFICANCE HAD THE DUMPING OF ILLICIT AMERICAN DOLLARS IN NIGERIAN BANKS AND STREETS BEEN TO THE AVERAGE WORKER WHOSE IRREGULAR PAY PACKET IS A MERE N18.000.00 PER MONTH OR N600.00 PER DAY? It had been nothing but hyper-inflation of prices of goods and services, and lack of any form of government’s support facilities of portable water, hydro or thermal-powered electricity, medical or health-care programmes, formal education, good motorized roads etc.

The apex Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), is in support of the timely economic move by the commercial banks and we advice that the tempo of enforcement and compliance be maintained and sustained in order to support President Buhari and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), in their determined bid to rid Nigeria of all corruptive activities within the economic system which is achievable with all patriotic hands on deck! General Muhammadu Buhari/Brigadier ‘Tunde Idiagbon’s Military Government of 1984/1985 stopped foreign exchange abuse when it found guilty and sentenced the very popular late Nigerian afro beat musician to 5 years in prison for being in possession of US$1.200 dollars at the airport which was a violation of the Foreign Exchange/Anti-sabotage Decree 2, Mr. President still possessed the strength of character and the political will power to even achieve greater success, this time around by instructing the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to carry out thorough investigations and unearth all culprits behind this fresh dollar invasion of the Nigerian foreign exchange market!. Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to all people as we need not remind him that he is for no body and he is for everybody! 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, https://www.google.com/+zionfaithbiblebelievingchurch .

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