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Wednesday, 29 September 2021

NIGERIA REMAINS INDIVISIBLE – BUHARI AND SECESSIONISTS WILL PASS AWAY!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.   

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

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria {Vol. 10.NO 418. 15th AUGUST, 2021.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).  PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

NIGERIA REMAINS INDIVISIBLE – BUHARI AND SECESSIONISTS WILL PASS AWAY!

Citizens’ opinions have never mattered in Nigeria! Majority of the people always had their SAY through criticisms while the minority politicians who claim to be peoples’ representatives in government always had their WAY!

For instance, between 2016 and 2021, a sum of N6.4 billion naira was officially spent on the Aso Villa Medical Centre (whereas other sources said it was over N13 billion naira), in those five years to cater for the medical needs of the President, Vice President, their family members and Very Important Personalities (VIPs), BUT incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari visits London at will on medical tourism and in spite of public criticisms continued to expend tax-payers monies with impunity!

He returned Saturday 14th August, 2021, after 18 days of that trip to London! President Buhari had travelled abroad EIGHT times for medical check-up in the past six years 2015-2021, on Awoof!

In a recent interview, Spokesman ‘Femi Adesina, disclosed that the Aso Villa Medical Centre was down-graded to the status of a “CLINIC” and that the President was better off being treated by his team of doctors of about 40 years who have handled his medical history! 

FIRST LADY CONDEMNS LACK OF X RAY MACHINE IN ASO CLINIC!

In 2017, First Lady, Aisha Buhari while on visit to the Aso Clinic, criticised its poor facilities in spite of the huge annual budgetary allocation to the Clinic and called for a probe of a combined N3.2Billion allocated to the facility for 2016 and 2017! 
That amount was reported to be higher than the combined allocation to all the tertiary healthcare centres in the country!

Also, according to that report, culled from Federal Government’s Budget Figures, State House Budget Figures, it was revealed that in the year 2016 when the Centre got the highest budget of N2.83 billion naira while all primary health institutions got a meagre allocation of only N250 billion naira the same year!
No probe was carried out, instead more and more funds was pumped into the facility on annual basis!

CAN THE PRESIDENT BE SUED TO REFUND ALL INCURRED MEDICAL BILL DISBURSED WITH IMPUNITY?

So far, no citizen, NGO nor Civil Society Organisation had gone to court to challenge the President’s medical tourism but in November 2020, the Senate queried Aso Villa over medical bills abroad and insisted that the President including top government officials should use the official State House Clinic!

IS THE PRESIDENT CONSTITUTIONAL ALLOWED TO SPEND THE CITIZENS’ MONEY ON MEDICAL TOURISM ABROAD?

We have it on good authority that the House of Representatives in 2017, also made an attempt to PROBE utilization of N10.98billion budgetary allocation in excess of N3billion in each of the years 2015; 2016; and 2017 as follows: N3.94bn; N3.87bn; and N3.2billion naira respectively which were voted for “upgrading and provision of necessary drugs and equipment” on the Aso Villa Centre!

All of the above died natural death since the legislators never went beyond mere rhetorics! 

BUHARI’S IMPUNITY POSTURE HAS GIVEN VENT TO THE FLAGRANT ABUSE OF THE OFFICE OF THE CITIZENS! 

If the Office of the Citizens [“We the People of the Federal Republic”], to whom sovereignty constitutionally belongs and through whom the Nigerian Government derives all its power and authority is being daily side-lined, trampled upon, dishonoured, disregarded, by President Buhari who said at his investiture in 2015 that: “I belong to nobody and I belong to everybody”, then, where is the hope of the common man?

AND now in collusion with his cabal now rule over the nation like his personal property in the matter of spending of PUBLIC FUNDS, without seeking anybody’s opinion or advice, and for this reason, persons like Nnamdi Kanu, Sunday Igboho, Professor  Akintoye, Elder Statesman Edwin Clark of PANDEF etc, now demand for a BREAK-UP of the country with brazen impunity!

Since President Buhari has decided to frivolously and recklessly spend whatever was left of the nation’s foreign and local reserves as he desired since 2015 and to even borrow from foreign countries without the citizens’ consent or input, then, he would have no moral latitude to harass or hound “secessionists”!

NIGERIA’S TOTAL PUBLIC DEBT BURDEN AS AT 31ST MARCH, 2021! 

The Debt Management Office (DMO), website states that Nigeria’s Public Debt Stock owed by the Federal Government, 36 States and the Federal Capital and   Territory (FCT), was N33.107trillion (about US$ 87.239. billion dollars), as at March 31, 2021, while External Debt Stock reduced from $USD 33.348 billion as at December, 2020, to $USD 32.86 billion because the country redeemed 500 million dollars Eurobond in January, 2021!

As usual the Federal Government is indebted with the lion’s share of domestic debt which includes FGN bonds, Sukuk and Green Bonds used to finance infrastructure and other capital projects including N940,220 billion Promissory Notes.

DO SECESSIONISTS HAVE NIGERIANS MANDATE?

Professor Stephen ‘Banji Akintoye, (86), Historian and a hard-liner against President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration since 2015, has decided to organize A-ONE-MILLION-MAN-MARCH  of Nigerians to demand for  a Yoruba nation from the  United Nation’s  General Assembly (UNGA), 76th Session holding in New York from 14th-21st September, 2021, to “demand a UN-SUPERVISED REFERENDUM on self-determination and abolition of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution” through the world body just like their Igbo counterpart!

The Octogenarian, who is the arrow-head of Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination (NINAS), said he would be joined in New York by other leaders from the South and Middle Belt regions!
Prof. Akintoye, who also doubles as the leader of the Yoruba Self-Determination Group known as “Ilana Omo Oodua”, has been identified with Sunday Igboho, now resisting an extradition order in Benin Republic, since his arrest on 19th July, 2021!

SELF-DETERMINATION OR SECESSION!

The principle of self-determination as prominently embodied in Article 1 of the Charter of the United Nations neither supports nor encourages secession,  break-up, separation, partition etc, which run contrary to constitutional provisions of individual country!

All peoples by the virtue of that Article have fundamental right to self-determination to freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.

The Vienna Convention states that every treaty in force is legally binding upon the parties to it and must be performed by them in good faith provided such parties are fully committed!

Self-determination also includes the right of a people to decide upon its own political status or form of government, without outside influence!

AGF OFFICE MAY OUTLAW YORUBA NATION GROUP LIKE IPOB! 
 
The office of the Attorney General of the  Federation and Minister of Justice may be contemplating to outlaw the Yoruba Nation separatist group including the proscription of NINAS led by the erudite Professor Akintoye. According to fillers from the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, Federal Government would explore all options “within the extent of the law” to ensure a peaceful Nigeria”.

President Buhari should tread softly because Nigeria had never had it so bad under any government since 1960, when the only language on lips of virtually all the 379 Ethnic Groups in Nigeria is the quest for SELF-DETERMINATION – due to the WORST kind of INSECURITY that his inept gang of corrupt politicians have failed to TAME in OVER SIX YEARS!

BUHARI AND HIS STRANGE BED FELLOWS ARE ON THEIR WAY OUT!

Let them “renovate” the National Assembly with N37billion naira, continue to PAD ANNUAL BUDGETS, inflate contract fees by 1,000%, purchase exotic limousines and SUVs in 2022 and 2023, PERSONALLY EXECUTE CONSTITUENCY PROJECTS, collect OUTRAGEOUS salaries, more than USA LEGISLATORS, Award and Share Federal Contracts among themselves every Wednesdays at Aso FEC Meeting, - their day of reckoning is at hand – and they will depart in DISGRACE! 

They have bitten the hands of the TALAKAWAS WHO HAVE FED THEM FAT ALL THESE YEARS AND WHOSE SHED BLOOD CRY AGAINST THEM DAY AND NIGHT BEFORE OUR CREATOR! 

We are against any form of Secession and We have DIVINE ASSURANCE that Nigeria will remain ONE INDIVISIBLE ENTITY but those who are opposed to THE WILL OF GOD WILL BE CONSUMED IN HIS WRATH AND ANGER! 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, 

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.

OIL/GAS/DIESEL STRUGGLE FOR SPACE IN NIGERIA!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.   

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

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria {Vol. 10.NO 417. 8th AUGUST, 2021.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).  PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

OIL/GAS/DIESEL STRUGGLE FOR SPACE IN NIGERIA!  

The coming on board in the next year of the US$12 billion dollars 650,000 barrels per day (bpd), of Dangote Integrated Refinery and Petrochemical Complex Lagos, would no doubt complement the dwindling fortunes of the Federal Government in the oil/gas sector, which had been badly affected by the effects of the Covid 19 Pandemic on international oil price which crashed to its lowest ebb in almost two years!

BUT should the citizens rejoice over this “industrial feat” when developed nations are moving speedily to embrace renewable energy through environmental-friendly and modern sources of wind turbine and solar photovoltaic (pv), cells which convert solar energy into electricity!

Are the adamant and stubborn oil prospectors of the Northern States elated when at any slight opportunity Niger Delta citizens always boasted of contributing the largest share to the nation’s foreign reserves and its resources to develop infrastructures in other parts of the country? 

And for all those claims, passionate northern leaders at the seat or corridors of power had been relentless with the obsession to continue the exploration of oil which was aggressively pursued in most Northern States throughout the 30-year military aberration in Nigeria with a view to confound those Southerners who believed that Niger Delta had monopoly of the God-given natural resource!

Some antagonists of the 1914 Amalgamation have claimed that the second coup-de-tat master-minded by the soldiers of the Northern extraction in July 1966, was a deliberate strategy to grab power at the centre with a view to elevate the region’s culture of civilization their region to a level which would be at par or very close to its Southern Siamese twin through massive oil exploration (if it were possible), in all Northern States!
It is a general belief that the CRUDE OIL endowment of the Southern States had in no small way contributed to its modern development – especially when the South-South indigenes kept drumming it down that they were “feeding the North with their oil money”!

Although it is a constitutional right through the Exclusive Legislative List that the Federal Government should control/disbursement of the proceeds from all Extraction/Exploration activities in any part of Nigeria (on-shore, off-shore), even when the bulk of crude oil is gotten in commercial quantity in the Niger Delta, was it not logical that the principle of derivation and resource control should have been applicable to the region? 

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT’S SUDDEN INVESTMENT IN DANGOTE’S REFINERY IS A SHOCKING SURPRISE!

AUGUST 4, 2021: (1) FEC approved $1.5 billion to rehabilitate Kaduna/Warri Refineries; (2)FG invests $2.76 billion in Dangote Refinery; (3) FG approves Acquisition of 20% minority stakes by NNPC in Dangote Petroleum and Petro-Chemical Refinery!  

NNPC Group Managing Director is already celebrating the Dangote debut as he claimed that with its 650,000 bpd and Nigeria’s 445,000 bdp combined refineries and other modular refineries, the nation would be at an advantage to supply petroleum products legitimately across Africa and other parts of the world!

The rational or wisdom behind the sudden FEC decisions which would still involve a lot of external borrowings at a time when the nation is neck deep in all manner budgetary debts is yet to be explained by government!

Historians were correct to have posited that Northern Nigeria since the geographical marriage still lagged behind in all areas of socio-economic developments because it focused more on Islamic rather than Western Education!

The jihad of the Fulani War in 1804 by Usman Dan Fodio, debuted the Sokoto Caliphate, North West, (1806-1906), and further heightened the resolve of the average Northerner to embrace Islamic studies,  capitalize in commercial activities including trade-by-barter with the neighboring countries of Benin, Chad, Cameroon, Niger not excluding North African countries of Sudan and Egypt in the Horn of Africa!

There was also the influence of Kanem and Bornu Empires of the North East (1810-1893), which encouraged trans-Saharan trade, firmly entrenched Islam and pilgrimages to Mecca were commonplace!

NATURAL MINERAL DEPOSITS FAVOR IGRs! 

BUT the good news is that outside of CRUDE OIL EXPLORATION all 36 States and Federal Capital Territory (FCT), are divinely favored with various mineral deposits that can be commercially harnessed for Internally Generated Revenues (IGRs)! 

Nigerian geologists have confirmed discovery of over 40 types of mineral resources and that at least THREE solid mineral types ranging from: Iron Ore, Gypsum, Talc, Lead, Zinc, Bitumen, Coal, Bentonite, Barite, Marble, Gold, Silver, to OIL & GAS, Granite, Lithium, Gemstones, Iron, Ore, Lead, Salt Tin, Limestone etc, can be harnessed in each State!

HOWEVER the current Oil Producing States (2021), are only 9 out of 36 – Abia (South East), Akwa Ibom (South-South), Bayelsa (South South), Delta, (South South), Imo (South East), Lagos (South West), Edo (South South), Ondo (South West), Rivers (South South). However, 80% of the total crude oil produced among the nine identified States flow from South South’s Akwa Ibom, (31.4%); Bayelsa (18.07%) Delta (21.56%) and Rivers (21.43%)!

OIL EXPLORATIONS IN THE NORTHERN STATES!      

As far back as the early 1970s, Military Administrations had engaged in crude oil exploration and had claimed success in the 1990s but not until October 2019 that NNPC officially came out boldly to confirm the discovery of hydrocarbon deposits in Kolmani River II Well on the Upper Benue Trough,  Gongola Basin, North East, which was flagged off by President Muhammadu Buhari, on 2nd February, 2019! According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC),  was engaged in the computation of hydrocarbon volume  and would in due course commence the drilling of  additional dwells to determine full evaluation of the hydrocarbon volume in the Gogola Basin.The Federal Government-owned News Agency also disclosed that the Gongola Basin discovery would attract foreign investment, generate employment for the people to earn income and increase government revenues.  
NIGERIA DISCOVERS ONE BILLION BARRELS OF CRUDE OIL IN THE NORTH EAST ZONE!A new discovery of crude oil in the North East totaling about One Billion barrels was announced on 12th February, 2020, Minister of State for Petroleum, at the close of that year’s Nigeria International Petroleum Summit (NIPS), held in Abuja, FCT.The Minister believed that with the evaluation of that kind of figure, the geological structure of the region portends that with more exploration a lot of oil still remained to be discovered in Nigeria. 

THE HEALTHY RIVALRY BETWEEN NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN NIGERIA TO INCREASE THE VOLUME OF PETROLEUM PRODUCTS THROUGH THE CONSTRUCTION OF MORE REFINERIES IS AN ASSERTION THAT NIGERIANS WOULD HAVE TO LIVE WITH FOSSIL EMISSION/ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION FOR DECADES TO COME!

‘’The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it’’. (Prov 10:22)
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.com.

HAS BUHARI FAILED TO MAKE THE DIFFERENCE?

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.   

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

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria {Vol. 10.NO 416. 1st AUGUST, 2021.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).  PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

HAS BUHARI FAILED TO MAKE THE DIFFERENCE?

Organised agitations for political, economic and social restructuring of the Nigerian State has reached a crescendo! 

Vibrant and forceful advocacies for self-determination by federating units is no longer limited to geo-political zones but has cut across tribal divide which have in one voice pitched themselves against a tired and confused President Muhammadu Buhari, who seems to have lost grip to the infamous cabal stuck to him as  leach!

President Buhari’s unusual opportunity to govern Nigeria as a “democratic” politician was no doubt a divine intervention to rescue a nation on the precipice in 2015, having demonstrated a rare trait of INTEGRITY in his military days as the “ONLY SHEEP” among THE RAMPAGING WOLVES of BARRACK INVADERS between 1966-1999!

DID GOD MAKE A MISTAKE FOR GIVING BUHARI A SECOND TERM OPPORTUNITY? NO! 

The Word of God says, “Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life which the Lord hath promised to them that love Him.
“Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil neither tempteth He any man.
“But everyman is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
“Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. (James.1:12-15). 

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), opposition tried fruitlessly to criticise the All Progressives Congress (APC), Government for the past SIX years because they left behind horrible mess/stench of CORRUPTION in 16 years of consecutive maladministration which APC still claimed militated and limited them from fulfilling their major campaign manifesto declarations of ensuring 
Provision of adequate security;
Confronting and destroying corruption and 
Building up the economy to enhance the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), but the defeatist attitude of President Buhari from the onset had created a lacuna for delivering effective and righteous administration:
“I wish I were much younger to grapple with the rigours of presidency........but now at 72 .....,” he lamented! BUT yet another divine intervention put him into the saddle for the SECOND TERM in spite of all other political FORCES that ganged up against his bid for a Second Term in 2019, because the 2014 PROPHECY OF THE PROPHET OF GOD IN ZION 
THAT HE WOULD SERVE AN UNINTERRUPTED TWO TERMS IN OFFICE SUBSISTED!

QUESTION: ARE THE PEOPLE TIRED OF BUHARI’S  APC GOVERNMENT?

The cacophony of voices of dissent for secession, Nnamdi Kanu’s IPOB Biafra/Sunday Igboho’s Yoruba Nation, separatism, devolution of power from federal to federating states, total break-up, self-determination, self-governance, restructuring, constitutional amendments, drafting of a brand new Constitution, creation of additional State for the South-East geo-political zone, unicameral parliamentary legislature including the application of a  CITIZENS’ SPEAR-HEADED REFERENDUM to achieve all of the above NOT an indictment against the president and his party?
When will the untameable INSECURITY IN THE NATION END?

LATEST AGITATION FROM NIGER DELTA LEADERS FOR RESTRUCTURING AND NATIONAL DIALOGUE!

Elder Statesman and Ijaw Leader, Papa Edwin Clark (94), has lent his weight to a South-South Zonal Conference which is presently demanding that President Buhari should within THREE MONTHS “restructure the country and convene a national dialogue comprising  representatives of ethnic groups in order to chart a new course for Nigeria!”

In a communiqué issued Friday, 30th July, 2021, at the end of the conference held in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State Capital, where his address was read by a representative, the Conference restated the urgent need for restructuring and devolution of more powers to the States, condemned the oppressive/repressive tendencies against the Niger Delta Region citizens and warned the apex government from further selling out their resources to the CHINESE and other expatriates!

The group which embraces stakeholders from SIX States of the region threatened to commence process that would guarantee their freedom and progress, if the Federal Government failed to heed their demands at the end of the THREE-MONTH ultimatum to chart a new course for the country!

Other demands in the communiqué include but not the limited to the following:

Niger Delta people are “the BREAD WINNERS of Nigeria and demand to be fairly treated with equity by the oppressive Nigerian State/insensitive political class to ensure peaceful co-existence.
Demand full control of their resource and put an end to further deprivation and despoliation of their environment in the last 60 years!
Demand that Governors of the South-South Region, set up security outfits/community-based defence forces in all LGAs to protect the ethnic nationalities from terrorists, bandits, kidnappers, land grabbers and other criminals.
Demand equal representation, control and headship of all relevant security and military organizations in the country and desire constitutional provision for the inalienable right to self-determination through a REFERENDUM in line with international laws!

NIGER DELTA YOUTHS/GOVERNORS REJECT PIB’S THREE PER CENT RECOMMENDATION FOR HOST COMMUNITIES TRUST FUND –DEMAND FIVE PER CENT!

The passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), on Thursday 1st of July, 2021, which was first introduced to the Sixth National Assembly (NASS), by late President Umar Yar’ Adua, (2008) and later to the Seventh NASS in 2012 but which failed to get concurrent passage from both chambers has finally got a controversial approval at the Ninth NASS in a journey of 13 years!

However there is a fresh controversy yet to be resolved in respect of the Draft PIB which recommended 2.5 % of the operating expenditure of the Settlor (operator of an oil licence), according to Clause 240 (1) to fund development of host communities in the oil producing areas. Although the Senate raised the figure to 3% and the House of Representatives Committee recommended 5%, the yet-to-be-signed Bill will still have to be harmonised at the Joint Committee of the NASS!

In summary, host communities stand to benefit immensely through tax exemption on designated payments and other packages of provisional incentives by each Setlor according to Clause 256 provided host communities prevented any form of vandalism, sabotage or civil unrest that could cause damage to petroleum/designated facilities or disruption to production activities within host communities!

NIGERIA’S INSECURITY ARE OF NORTHERN ORIGIN?  

Some critics have traced the multi-faceted and avalanche of insecurity spear-headed by Boko Haram remnants, now metamorphosed into splinter groups of bandits, kidnappers, gunmen, armed robbers etc. to the North which had ruled at the centre more than the South from independence but disagree because no State or Tribe has monopoly of brute force! Before the emergence of terrorist in the North there were the Niger Delta vandals who specialized in blowing up crude oil pipe lines!

WAS THE 1914 AMALGAMATION OF THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN PROTECTORATES A POLITICAL ERROR BY THE COLONIAL MASTERS?

It was not an error! The idea of marriage conceived and master-minded by the imperialist colonial masters was predicated on the doctrine of unity in diversification!
“Though we are many, we are one body, we are one body in Christ; though we are many, we are one body, we are one body in Christ.
“One faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, binding us together to be One, one hope in the Lord Jesus Christ, binding us together to be one; Though we are many, we are one body, we are one body in Christ!” (Courtesy: Pastor Shehu Garba who has publicly accepted that whether we are JEWS OR GENTILES, we are One in Christ Jesus: Rom. 2:9-10; and Galatians. 3: 28). Praise God, Hallelujah! 

WAS GOVERNOR GENERAL LORD FREDERICK LUGARD A MONSTER OR DEVIL INCARNATE WHICH MASTER-MINDED AN UNHOLY UNION? No, no, no! He did what he did in good faith! The only error we noticed is that the Northern at some times were long-throated like when President Umar’ Yar Adua passed to eternity in 2010 and the North wanted to circumvent the Constitution and place another northerner to replace him instead of his Southern Vice! 

WERE THERE TREATIES OR DOCUMENTS OF AMALGAMATION?
Some historians believe that there were no international treaties, no agreements nor documents were employed in the transactions since they had administered both protectorates as their bona fide colonial territories since 1861! 

DID THE NATION OF NIGERIA SEIZE TO EXIST AFTER 2014 FOLLOWING THE EXPIRATION OF THE CENTURY-OLD AMALGAMATION TREATY?

The Nigerian nation remains an indivisible nation recognized as an independent republic by the United Nations and would never go the way of South Sudan which had been in turmoil since its severance from SUDAN in July 2011! 
FEDERALIZING THE POLITY THROUGH NATIONAL DIALOGUE OF NIGERIAN ETHNIC GROUPS!
Did President Buhari promise to organize a National Dialogue any time soon like his predecessor, Ebele Jonathan who convened a 2014 National Conference which has been discountenanced till date? If he did, it was not made official before he departed for London on Monday 26th July, 2021, for Global Education Summit/Medical Check-Up!

 Our advice is that as soon as he returns in the second week of August 2021, he should address all agitations according to their merits as quickly as possible and pacify all the aggrieved by supporting the call for A POPULAR REFERENDUM to determine legitimate demands as listed in our published in our 414th Edition of 18th July, 2021; pages 3-4; BUT not definitely inclusive of SECESSION!

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.

GARBA SHEHU WAS DEAD RIGHT?

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.   

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

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria {Vol. 10.NO 415. 25th July, 2021.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).  PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

GARBA SHEHU WAS DEAD RIGHT?

Any form of veiled reference by any person or group of persons to classify Nigeria’s unfortunate and intransigent insecurity challenges as religious conflict between Muslims and Christians is tantamount to incitement, divisiveness, self-serving/self-righteous assumption and an abuse to the sensibilities of advocates of one indivisible and inseparable Nigeria!

It is true that between the years 2011-2014, Boko Haram insurgents, an Islamic terrorists group, targeted and consistently bombed Christian religious places of worship churches/institutions and murdered their clerics/worshippers in cold blood with a view to provoking religious conflicts that would have spread like wild fire and destroy the very foundation of UNITY, which the founding Fathers birthed and nurtured in the First Republic before military interregnum and for the constitutional fact that Nigeria is a SECULAR STATE!

But the Christian doctrine which ascribes judgment of offenders and the wicked to the Almighty God, creator of the Earth, restricted all Nigerian Christians in general to refrain from embarking on self defence, and neither vengeance nor retaliation; but to depend on Him for their defence!
And suddenly in a U-TURN, they began to detonate bombs on Mosques, Islamic structures and killed several clerics as they demanded for an Islamic Caliphate to be carved out in the North East State of Borno, which was and still is their operational base!

BISHOP MATTHEW KUKAH SPEAKS OUT AGAIN! 

Catholic Bishop Matthew Kukah, domicile in the Muslim Caliphate State of Sokoto since his elevation to the headship of his Church’s Archdiocese in 2011 has been a fearless and very outspoken servant of the Most High God and consumed with the zeal/passion for the Word, commands great respect and admiration at home and abroad! His religious portfolio includes the duty of the ‘Watchman’ who MUST warn the people against wicked behaviour in order to save their lives because God has no pleasure in the death of SINNERS. (Ezekiel. 3: 17-21; 33:1-20)! 

Although Bishop Kukah was invited to participate in a progressing international conversation surrounding “acquired evidences on human rights abuses in Nigeria” he allegedly “castigated” Nigeria before the United States Congress in his Virtual Presentation, at the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, Washington, D.C. on 14th July, 2021, through his testimonies that the Buhari APC Administration was bent on destroying Nigeria’s fragile democracy through ethnic and religious lines!
During the Christmas yuletide in December 2020, the cleric in an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, made similar accusations against him in spite of the fact that they were both of the Northern extraction – Katsina and Kaduna States respectively!

SIX MONTHS OF CONTINUOUS MASSACRE IN KADUNA!

Bishop Kukah’s anguish could be traced to the escalated invasion of his North West State from January 2021 by killer herdsmen, bandits, Boko Haram terrorists, including jihadists and gunmen, who have jointly massacred “3,462 Nigerian Christians”, and hundreds of innocent residents according to newspaper reports, and the Human Rights Watch (HRW), without reprieve from either Federal/State Government, outside of the accustomed statements of condolences!

BUT GARBA SHEHU, THE PRESIDENT’S SPOKESMAN WOULD HAVE NOTHING OF THOSE RANTINGS!

Garba says Kukah should desist from sowing discord and strife among Nigerians. CORRECT!
He believed the Bishop’s opinions before the US Congress were personal. WRONG – They were Biblical.
Religious leaders have moral responsibility to stand up for the truth. CORRECT!
Individual ethnic group should not be negatively labelled before a foreign audience. CORRECT!
Bishop Kukah’s views/opinions were not shared by vast majority of Nigerians. WRONG!
Our multi-faceted challenges as a diverse nation should be harnessed for our greater advantage. CORRECT
But people like Kukah are sowing discord and strife among the citizens. WRONG, VERY WRONG!
Going by the history of the Church as is well known. It will stand up publicly for the truth. CORRECT, VERY CORRECT!
Garba says that the Bible is definitive on matters of ethnicity and racialism according to Romans. 2:9-10, and Galatians. 3:28; that trouble and distress awaited the wicked among Jew or Gentile and likewise that both were all one in Christ! VERY CORRECT!
10. Finally he said that “Whether Christian or Muslim, we stand by these beliefs and are steadfastly committed to them in governance.” DO YOU BELIEVE MR. GARBA SHEHU?

HISTORY OF INSECURITY IN NIGERIA FROM 1999!

It is true that President Buhari inherited insecurity among other LIABILITIES from 16 years of consecutive, terribly corrupt Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Administrations, BUT the ELECTORATE that voted him to power believed he would be the much-long-awaited MESSIAH because he was so DESPERATE to have contested in FOUR CONSECUTIVE ELECTIONS [2003, 2007, 2011 & 2015], TO CLINCH the highly exalted position!
However, the cliché that “to whom much is given, much is expected” is very applicable to the incumbent who in over SIX YEARS had caught the ire of the Office of The Citizens, due to increasing and unceasing acts of terrorism, banditry, armed Fulani herders/farmers deadly clashes, harassment/ kidnapping of adults of both genders, boarding school children in all 774 LGAs of the Six-Geo-Political Zones AND his FAILURE to apprehend the horrible situation! 
Under President Buhari’s watch, (especially since his disputed victory which ushered his second term in 2019), STRATEGIC government infrastructures [police stations/State headquarters, correctional (prison), facilities, army installations at both Federal and State levels], were being attacked and destroyed by insurgents/terrorists with unrestricted recklessness!

Now in its 12th year of insurrection, Boko Haram has teamed up with ISWAP, has acquired more sophisticated weapons which include, grenade/rocket launch attacks on rigid infrastructures, and a more dangerous dimension warfare weaponry of land-to-air missile attacks on government aircrafts!
It is on record that the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), in the last SIX MONTHS had lost not less than FOUR COMBAT AIRPLANES to gun attacks claimed to have been inflicted by the terrorists which also claimed the lives of at least 20 officers – including senior army personnel – the Chief of Army Staff, Ibrahim Attahiru and 10 others!
The latest was the July 18th, 2021, attack on an Alpha Jet which crashed in Zamfara State, following intense firing from bandits – which was confirmed by the NAF spokesperson who also informed that the Pilot was lucky to bailout before the crash and escaped to a military formation for safety!

NOW THAT THE FIRST SET OF SIX  

Efforts of Security Agencies - the Armed Forces, Police, DSS, NIA, NSCDC, etc, have become infinitesimal because of inadequate strength, funding and equipment, due to glaring CORRUPTION/AGGRANDIZEMENT by some bad eggs within the Executive and the Legislative who are bent on satisfying their insatiable urge for slush funds which had taken a frightening dimension - the kind that had never been witnessed since 1999!
PRESENTLY in several Local Government Areas in the North East Bornu State, testimonies recorded from indigene farmers/residents and published on social network portals confirm that Boko Haram terrorists occupy and collect taxes from the dwellers to ensure their protection in spite of claims by the Governor and military authorities that government forces were in total control!

Nigerians are tired of sleepless days and nights due to incapability of retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari to defeat INSECURITY; they are tired of looking over their shoulders, are  suspicious of people around them who might be kidnappers for all they care, tired of Boko Haram terrorists, bandits, Fulani killer herdsmen, gunmen, highway robbers, human traffickers; TIRED of abject poverty and lack of simple basic amenities, WHILE SENATORS AND ALL POLITICIANS who claim to represent them dwell in AFFLUENCE and CITIZENS are jobless and lack basic necessities of life in the form of medical facilities, potable water, decent accommodation for their families, basic and qualitative education for their children, modern roads/highways etc, etc,!
NOW THAT THE FIRST SET OF SIX (OUT OF 12) SUPER TUCANO FIGHTER JETS PURCHASED FROM THE UNITED STATES ARRIVED (22ND JULY, 2021), IT BEHOVES ON THE MILITARY THINK-TANK TO  STRATEGIZE ON HOW TO BRING ALL FORMS OF TERRORISM TO AN END BEFORE SENDING THE BRAND-NEW, VERY COSTLY AND HIGHLY SOPHISTICATED AIRCRAFTS INTO  THE AIR!

 “ If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.’’ (2Chron 7:14).

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.

TIME TO NAIL NIGERIAN SENATE COFFIN WITH A REFERENDUM!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.   

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

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria {Vol. 10.NO 414. 18th July, 2021.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).  PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

TIME TO NAIL NIGERIAN SENATE COFFIN WITH A REFERENDUM!

The clarion call by Office of The Citizens of Nigeria for a unicameral parliamentary system got a boost at the weekend when the Senate at plenary passed the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill with a caveat which empowers NCC and NASS to determine use of electronic transmission of election results instead of INEC which has right of supervision of election according to Section 78 of the 1999 Constitution!

 Senate chose to abrogate Clause 52 (2), of the concluded Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, 2021, of its Committee on INEC, which states that “.... voting at an election and transmission of results under this Bill shall be in accordance with procedure determined by the Commission”, and replaced it with an ambiguous version which virtually transferred constitutional powers of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to electronically transmit results to the National Assembly. (NASS)!

The Senate on Thursday 15th July 2021, passed the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, 2021, and brazenly usurped INEC’s, exclusive powers to transmit election results through electronic process except through NASS approval in consultation with the National Communication Commission (NCC)!

Legislators supported arguments in some quarters that about 48% of the nation’s land mass had no broadband telecommunications network coverage and decided that electronic transmission of election results would only be permissible provided that: “The national network coverage is adjudged to be adequate and secured by NCC and approved by the National Assembly.” Senate’s Thursday approval was sequel to a controversial amendment to Section 52(2) by Deputy Whip Aliyu Sabi Abdulahi (APC Niger) seconded by Senator Ali Ndume, (APC, Bornu South), that: “That the Commission MAY consider electronic transmission, provided the national network coverage is ADJUDGED to be adequate and secure by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and APPROVED by the National Assembly (NASS)” thereby deliberately usurping INEC’s powers in Sections 78 and 153 (1)(f)(2) and Part I Third Schedule F 14 - (1) (a) (b) (2) (a)-(c) and 15 (a)-(i) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999! 
Voting at plenary favoured the majority 52 APC Senators against 28 PDP opposition members but a total of 28 senators were absent! 

THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE (HOS) VERSION OF THE ELECTORAL ACT (AMENDMENT) BILL 2021.

 The House of Representatives pretended to be very cautious to go in the same direction and adjourned plenary until Friday 16th July, 2021, to take some evidences from both INEC Chairman and NCC representatives! HOWEVER FRIDAY HOS PLENARY turned out to be very rowdy because minority PDP Opposition staged a walk out as the majority All Progressives Congress (APC), Deputy Speaker skipped the offensive Section 52 (2), failed to call on neither the INEC Chairman nor the NCC Representative to give assurances on electronic transmission of election results but moved on to Section 54 for plenary consideration!
And in the absence of the PDP Opposition members, the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2021 and the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) were passed in spite of public outcry of over 200 million people they PRETEND to represent!

THE CONTROVERSIAL SENATE’S APPROVAL!

Prior to Senate’s approval, a clause-by-clause consideration of the report of its Committee on INEC in Section 52 (2) that the electoral body “may transmit results of elections by electronic means where and when practicable”, had been considered and concluded BUT the two contending Senators (Sabi and Ndume), argued that its Committee’s recommendation that electronic transmission of results would “disenfranchise some Nigerians in areas with poor or no network coverage”, in spite of the fact that the contentious amendment by those lawmakers was an insertion contrary to earlier provision in Section 52(2) which states that: “VOTING AT AN ELECTION AND TRANSMISSION OF RESULT UNDER THIS BILL SHALL BE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROCEDURE DETERMINED BY THE COMMISSION”.
Chairman of Senate Committee on INEC, Kabiru Gaya, also played the black leg by siding with the objectors and voted against its earlier committee’s recommendation at plenary by claiming that the new position was better!

Senate President Ahmed Lawan said at the conclusion of the FRAUDULENT EXERCISE that if any differences were spotted in legislation passed by the HOS, conference committee would be constituted to harmonise the Bill when they returned from their annual recess/summer holidays and “hoped that the new legislation would improve future elections”!  

HISTORY OF THE ELECTORAL ACT (AMENDMENT) BILL 2021.

The bill which seeks to repeal and re-enact the 2010 Electoral Act which Amendments were rejected THREE TIMES by the Buhari Administration between the months of March and December 2018!
To resolve issues regarding INEC’s proposed introduction of other technologies outside of Card Readers into the electrical process, - especially in respect of electronic voting and transmission of results from polling units

This same bill is now being prepared by the Ninth Assembly to “sail through” by hook or crook and create undue latitude for the ruling party to manoeuvre electronic accreditation which INEC introduced in 2019 – through the CARD READERS – as against Section 49 of the Electoral Act 2010, which allowed MANUAL REGISTRATION, which APC still preferred in a technology-boosted 21st Century!! 

NATIONAL OUTCRY THAT APC WAS POISED TO RIG 2023 ELECTIONS BY IMPOSING DUBIOUS ELECTORAL AMENDMENT BILL THROUGH RUBBER - STAMP SENATE IS TRUE INDEED!

Professor Attahiru Jega, the erstwhile Chairman of INEC has added his voice to critics of NASS unpopular decision and postulated that electronic transmission of results  would ensure that the traditional fraudulent activity of changing results from polling units to the collation centre would be a thing of the past.

He further said that it was useless for the current lawmakers to approve electronic registration through the Card Reader and deny electronic transmission of results.

We know it is common knowledge that there is broadband connectivity in all 774 LGAs contrary to what Senators want Nigerians to believe since their primary motive was how to rig elections and remain in political power permanently!

THE EXIT OF SENATE IS CLOSER AND CLOSER!

Without an iota of doubt, it is now very urgent that our persistent advocacy that the Nigerian Senate should be SCRAPPED is gaining momentum by the day and in the “twinkling of an eye”, the Red Chamber of misfits, reeking with corruption, inefficiency, opportunists, political jobbers, money–mongers etc; POPULAR REFERENDUM from OFFICE OF THE CITIZENS, will engulf the nation like a RUSHING WIND and the WILL OF GOD WILL BE DONE IN NIGERIA NOT ONLY IN THE ISSUE OF THE SENATE BUT OTHER PRESSING NAGGING ISSUES OF DEMOCRACY! 

SIMPLE ‘YES’ OR ‘NO’ WILL SOLVE NIGERIA’S INTRANSIGENT INSECURITY PERMANENTLY!

MARGINALIZATION is a household word among the over 250 tribes/500 tongues of the 36 States – including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), comprising the 6 Geo-Political Zones!
To marginalize means, relegate to a lower or outer edge, as of specific groups of people like in Nigeria where everyone complains of being short-changed in the distribution of the nation’s abundant  natural resources.
And in 60 years of independence the country has produced a host of Frankenstein monsters in form of terrorists, murderers, kidnappers, bandits etc, that have prevented the educated from developing socio-economic infrastructures and have continually decimated the population through horrible of brigandage and unimaginable criminality!

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

Should the Nigeria SENATE be disbanded and shut down? YES!
Should a UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT with 74 or less members be established to replace the DOLLAR-GULPING PRESIDENCY REGIME? YES!
DEVOLUTION OF POWERS to the States through Resource Control/Self Governance SO THAT STATES SHOULD PAY NEGOTIATED PERCENTAGE TO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT? YES! 
STATE POLICE AND STATE PRISONS to be run by all States of the Federation in respect of ALL crimes? YES! 
INDEPENDENT CANDIDACY should be enjoyed if such candidate was not a member of any political party, six months prior to any election? YES! 
Should the 774 Local Government Areas (LGAs), enjoy constitutional autonomy and be free to legislate and create any number of councils as they so desired? YES! 
Food, Drugs and poison to be moved to the Concurrent List so that States could constitutionally legislate on those items, while narcotics/psychotropic substances should remain on the Exclusive List? Yes!  
Labor issues, trade unions, industrial relations, conditions, safety/welfare, disputes/minimum wages/ industrial arbitration, should be handled by both States/Federal Governments who should enjoy independent legislation? YES! 
Mines and minerals, oil fields and mining, geological surveys and natural gas that are ONSHORE will be vested in all States of the Federation, while all OFF-SHORE OIL shall be vested in the government of the federation? YES! 
Registration of Business Names should be on the Concurrent List for companies to choose their areas of operations; State or nationwide? YES! 
Collection of Stamp Duties should be moved to the Concurrent List, for the States to collect duties from individual and small businesses while Federal Government collects Stamp Duties from Limited Liabilities Companies? YES! 
Issue of Citizenship, Local Government or State of Origin, which had hitherto been discriminatory, "should be replaced with State of Residence", through a proposed amendment to the Federal Character Commission Act to allow people domicile in a place to be considered as INDIGENES of such place? YES!

NB: PUBLISH AND SHARE THIS ARTICLE WITH YOUR FRIENDS ALL OVER THE SOCIAL MEDIA AS THE ADVOCACY FOR THE MASSES REFERENDUM SPREADS LIKE WILD FIRE AND THE OFFICE OF THE CITIZENS TAKES OVER ITS RIGHTFUL PLACE OF SOVEREIGN OWNERSHIP OF THE POLITY!

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.

NIGERIA IS NOT ACCURSED TO PERISH – CORRUPT POLITICIANS ARE!!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.   

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

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria {Vol. 10.NO 413. 11th July, 2021.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).  PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

NIGERIA IS NOT ACCURSED TO PERISH – CORRUPT POLITICIANS ARE!!

All Nigerian politicians from Independence in 1960 to 2021, who had looted the Nation’s TREASURY through inflation of contracts, budget padding of re-written, re-invented, re-enacted/re-legislated figures, perfection of conjured insertions, and had conducted pseudo legislative oversight functions etc, should now write their own last testaments because they are already at the departure lounge to give account of their stewardship to The Creator!

Dubious Nigerian politicians had been the bane, the pains, sorrows and woes of Citizens  and have afforded international communities to cast aspersion on the great nation while they neatly cover up their skeletons! 

These enemies of the downtrodden continuously dwelt in stupendous wealth and opulence, tightly-secured posh houses in the high-rise government reserved areas of ABUJA AND ALL 36 STATE CAPITALS, drive bullet-proof G- WAGONS, RANGE ROVERS and other state-of-art SUV's, fly in personal jet aircrafts across the state capitals for spurious selfish journeys not related to the welfare of their citizens, while the citizens, THE NATURAL WORK FORCE AND HUMAN CAPITAL, were abandoned since Independence, to dwell in villages, hamlets mud/thatched-roofed houses in the remotest and undeveloped areas of the nation without any form of security for their lives from terrorists, bandits, gunmen, Fulani killer herdsmen etc, have given room for 

FOREIGNERS TO CAST ASPERSIONS ON NIGERIA AS A NATION BEREFT OF GOOD LEADERSHIP AND HUMAN DIGNITY!
 
QUESTION: WHY had a population of the Nigerian politicians and the entire Civil Service structure - who occupy positions of authorities (Federal and States) including all parastatals added together, which is less than 2 million - in a country filled with able-bodied men, women and ebullient YOUTHS of about 200 million - BEEN ABLE TO MANIPULATE the masses since 1999 - 2021; with the ripple effects of those inglorious years spiraling EVEN into the self-acclaimed CHANGE AGENDA administration of President Muhammadu Buhari?

THE UNITED NATIONS (UN), UNITED STATES, BRITAIN ETC, CANNOT CONTINUE TO ASSESS NIGERIA'S INSECURITY WHICH HAS ADVERSELY AFFECTED ECONOMIC GROWTH/HIGH INFLATION ON GOODS AND SERVICES THROUGH THE MISDEMEANOR OF THOSE OLD HORSES WHO ARE ON THEIR WAY OUT OF THE SYSTEM, FOR THE DESIRED CREDIBILITY! 
 CORRUPT POLITICIANS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR INSECURITY AND ALL FORMS OF CRIMINALITIES THROUGH THEIR AGGRANDIZEMENT! 

The crooked politicians in government have all the official apparatuses to confuse issues and manipulate same in their favor! For instance, what do the Legislators who are aware of their limitations in respect of oversight functions of annual Budgets - that did not originate from them - make selfish and criminal insertions, - (and deliberately delayed such important document of the nation for over half of its life-span period), intend to gain from such attitude other than the illicit accumulation of illegal wealth to the detriment of the down-trodden masses they deceitfully claim to represent?  In the event of such delays as had been occurring decimal since 1999 till date, FIRE BRIGADE approach is forced to be deployed by all CASH-DISPENSING POINTS of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA's), of government to disburse an avalanche of monies into the SYSTEM!
AND in such stampeded scenario, dubious infrastructural projects that were never meant to be executed within the limited time-frame for the budget year to EXPIRE and the illicitly appropriated monies were then diverted into the pockets/bank accounts of the politicians and their cronies for such monies to be eventually disbursed to RIG ELECTIONS AND PERPETUALLY KEEP THE TALAKAWAS (downtrodden), IN SLAVERY!

HON. ABDULMUMIN’S CONFESSION OF BUDGET PADDING! 

IT took divine intervention for Honourable Jibrin Abdulmmumini, of APC to spew the beans in 2016 on how he and his colleagues of ALI BABA'S GANG, usually padded annual budgets to make room for stupendous riches for themselves, and also how distinguished Senator Shehu Sanni, also of All Progressives Congress (APC), revealed that he and his conniving colleagues, had received monthly allowances of N13.5million, designated as RUNNING COSTS, outside of their official salaries of N700.000?

 Hon. Jibrin was suspended for 180 legislative sittings for opening his BIG mouth too wide, while Senator Sanni was lucky to retain his seat because his "distinguished" friends owned up and declared that the payment was very normal, although he was  eventually KICKED OUT IN 2019 AND HAD TO DEFECT TO ANOTHER PARTY IN SHAME!
And  whereas, the poor masses are denied of their meager wages of N30.000, naira per month and their families are dying daily through infant/maternal mortality cases, preventable diseases like (malnutrition, kwashioko, malaria, typhoid, lassa/denge fever, polio, etc,), because of lack of basic social amenities - like clinics, hospitals, potable water,  etc. There is mass illiteracy among the children and adolescents and joblessness among the able-bodied up to 60% of the population of over 200 million people!  For those who are engaged in Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMSEs), which is supposed to be the backbone of industrial growth/economic development, regular supply of electricity is nightmare!

INSECURITY WOULD END IF CORRUPT POLITICIANS ARE ALL COMPLETELY ELIMINATED FROM THE SYSTEM BEFORE 2023! 

Of all prophets of doom, Britain, Nigeria’s former colonial master should cover its face in shame for the very undiplomatic outburst of its foreign diplomat whose crystal ball revealed that the United States of Nigeria (USN), might disintegrate by 2023, for President Muhammadu Buhari to depart for Daura, Katsina State after two terms of eight years at the saddle of power without a befitting legacy of peaceful handover but with ignominy? 
 Chris Beecroft, Director Commonwealth and Development Office in the United Kingdom, said the 2023 General Election might not hold due to rising cases of insecurity/atrocities across all states of Nigeria through mounting insurgency, banditry, incessant gun attacks precipitated by Boko Haram terrorists since the year 2009, full-scale kidnappings, Fulani herders/farmers clashes etc, that had spread from the North-East to virtually all the 774 Local Government Areas without exception!

The diplomat however opined that “....injustice, and impunity, weak Justice Institutions, the proliferation of small arms and weapons, the  weaponization of social media, are all drivers of conflict and instability ..... but with the right commitment, dedications and support, there are solutions .....” through continuous collaboration and  support for the Nigerian Government, when he spoke at a recent event hosted by the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF).

NO NEED TO CRY WOLF, ALL CRIMINALS WILL DROP THEIR WEAPONS IF ALL CITIZENS DEMAND FOR ALL THEIR FUNDAMENTAL/CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS THROUGH POPULAR REFERENDUM!

Has the insecurity status of the nation escalated to unmanageable proportion to warrant such prediction when patriotic Nigerians are busy proffering solutions to the intransigent demand for spread of power from federal to regional states through peaceful restructuring beginning with immediate Devolution of Powers to the States from the CONTROVERSIAL EXCLUSIVE LEGISLATIVE LIST AND PROGRESSING TO DEMANDS FOR REFERENDUM!  
 
Before the 2019 Presidential/General Elections, the threat to adequate security in all polling areas was detected, elections were postponed for some weeks and normalcy restored for peaceful voting – especially in North-East Nigeria!

MUST THE PAST FAILED PREDICTIONS BY THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT IN 2015 & 2019 CONTINUE TO RE-ECHO TO FURTHER FAN EMBERS OF DISUNITY IN NIGERIA?
The United States and Britain passed through tougher terrains of threats of secession, break-up, demands for self-determination by segregating groups/forces but are still united as powerful world powers in spite of the forces of diversity!

QUESTIONS:
Should Nigeria in just 60 years of independence not be encouraged to grow with filial support –especially from Britain?
Should the former colonial master NOT encourage Nigeria to adopt the PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM of government which had worked for its country in centuries as the United Kingdom and advise Nigeria to opt for POPULAR REFERENDUM OR PLEBISCITE even before the 2023 Elections to douse all political tensions and agitations by all stakeholders of the NIGERIAN PROJECT?
Why would the South East/West Geo-Political Zones or any zone want to secede IF they enjoy their rightful places of self-government within the Federation, engendering full potentials of controlling/utilising their Internally Generated Revenues (IGRs), of mineral resources and remitting regularly an agreed percentage of total earnings to the Central Government?
Why should States NOT enjoy free intra/inter state’s economic activities, total leverage in exportation/importation of finished goods and services, adequate security of State Police complimented by effective/indigenous vigilante services, provision of adequate, basic necessities of life - qualitative education, modern health facilities, full utilization of arable lands for maximum yield of agricultural produce for local consumption and finished products for exportation, regular potable water and irrigation of rivers for all-year-round full agricultural produce; etc, etc!

WHICH GROUP AMONG THE OVER 250 TRIBES WOULD EVER DREAM OF SECESSION OR BREAK-UP FROM THE GEOGRAPHICAL ENTERPRISE IF ALL OF THE ABOVE FREEDOMS ARE VERY EXPLICIT IN A BRAND NEW PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION?

This is the moment of TRUTH! If President Buhari knows his onions, he would save his dwindling image by opting for Our Free Patriotic Suggestions in a HURRY!  ‘’For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.’’ [Deut 15:11}

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.

NNAMDI KANU, SUNDAY IGBOHO AND NIGERIAN JUDICIARY!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.   

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

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria {Vol. 10.NO 412. 4th July, 2021.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).  PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

NNAMDI KANU, SUNDAY IGBOHO AND NIGERIAN JUDICIARY!

Though the re-arrest of “Biafra State” protagonist, Nnamdi Kanu, who was facing an 11-count charge of treason, treasonable felony, terrorism and illegal possession of firearms etc, when he jumped bail in 2017, was “fait accompli”, the feat was nothing to jubilate about, although, Lai Mohammed, Information Minister wants everyone to believe that the exercise was “one of the most classic operations of its type in the world”!

In a past summation on Kanu, We classified the 54-year-old as a misguided Igbo Youth who needed further research on the remote and real causes of the 30-month Biafra Civil War from July 1967- January 1970, which began when he was barely TWO MONTHS OLD and to approach the crusade from a more matured perspective!

Although Kanu, leader of the proscribed Independent People Of Biafra (IPOB), was re-arraigned before a Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday 29th June, 2021, he was ordered to be remanded in DSS custody until 26th-27th July, 2021, when the case against him would re-commence, his misplaced doctrine for secession, separation, restructuring, disintegration etc, is spreading like an uncontrollable wild fire which disgruntled youths are poised to support because an unprecedented insecurity beyond the scope of MR. BUHARI & CO. has engulfed the entire nation through, insurgency terrorism, banditry, massive kidnapping of school children, ravaging armed Fulani killer herdsmen, criminal destruction of strategic government infrastructures!

QUESTION: Has anyone ever thought that the erstwhile fugitive Nnamdi Kanu, deliberately baited DSS and its foreign collaborators to officially bring him back to avoid external snipers? 

While Lai was celebrating Kanu’s re-arrest on TWITTER? – No! Instagram, Facebook and other social media platforms, SUNDAY IGBOHO, the cat  with nine lives and his associates hi-jacked Lagos Roads to demand for a YORUBA NATION and engaged the POLICE in a hide and seek game for the better part of Saturday, 3rd July, 2021! The DSS say that Igboho is on their “Wanted List!” 

QUESTION: Can the demand for SELF-DETERMINATION be actualized through violence or peaceful negotiations? 
EYINNAYA ABARIBE, (Senate Minority Leader and an Igbo RABBI – KANU’S SURETIES before he jumped bail may now heave a sigh of relief!

THIS JUDICIARY DUMB ASS MUST SPEAK OUT NOW!

Nigerian Judiciary had always played the dumb Ass of the three-tier government structure since independence through deliberate intimidation and coercion by Executive/Legislature, which execute dominant roles of executing public order, peace and security on day-to-day basis until the Judicial Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN), came to its rescue through a nation-wide strike which began on Tuesday 6th April, 2021 and suspended 14th June, 2021!

The over flogged need for Judicial Financial Autonomy that should place the legal body’s salaries, emoluments, all contractual transactions on “a first line charge”, was the plank on which JUSUN based their argument for the 64-day-old strike action described as the longest in the annals of trade disputes of the Nigerian Judiciary!

But the Executive had from independence usurped that constitutional right since the President appoints the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), while Governors appoint Chief Judges of the 36 States, (through explicit approval of the Legislature), pay their salaries and take care of all welfare needs etc, like the proverbial adage which says: “He who pays the piper, calls the tune”.

JUDICIAL POWERS OF THE FEDERATION– according to Section 6 –(1) (2 (3 (4) (a (b), and sub-section 5(a) to (k); Sub-section (6) ()a(d) and Chapter VII Sections 230 – 296, of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, shall be vested  in the Judiciary, which is regarded as the “bastion of democracy”.
The Nigerian Judiciary had never had it so bad in relegation, not even when its Judges were shocked with a surprise midnight Department of State Services (DSS) “Sting Operation” targeted against “corrupt judges” who were fingered by the Executive, which must suppress the cause of justice to achieve fake results by playing the triple role of the accuser, prosecutor and judge!  

A Human Rights Activist opined that there could be several other ways of ensuring Executive compliance to constitutional provisions on judicial autonomy rather than cripple the entire organ of government but We believe that all options were explored to avoid the impasse – including a 21-day ultimatum – which government ignored! 
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), has confirmed that the Abuja Federal High Court verdict of January 2014 which held that constitutional provision of financial autonomy of the judiciary subsisted and must be complied with by the Executive Arm. 

If the Nigerian Judiciary was favored to discharge its constitutional duties under normal conditions of equality of strength, capacity and separation of powers among the three tiers of government, it would not have been rendered almost financially incapacitated by consecutive Executive Arms until President Muhammadu Buhari officially signed Executive Order 10 , having at a previous occasion accused it of frustrating his efforts in fighting CORRUPTION! 

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10!

The Federal Government Agency also reported that on 23rd May, 2020, that President Buhari signed into law the Executive Order 10, to grant financial autonomy to the Legislature and Judiciary across the 36 States of Nigeria and also mandated the Accountant General of the Federation TO DEDUCT FROM SOURCE amount due to State Legislatures and Judiciaries from the monthly allocation to each State for States that refuse to grant such autonomy. 

The Attorney General of the Federation, also said that Executive Order 10 of 2020 made it mandatory that all States of the Federation should include the allocations of both the Legislature and the Judiciary in the first line charge of their budgets (i.e. directly from the Federation Account), and also constituted a “Presidential Implementation Committee to ensure compliance with Section 121(3), of the 1999, Constitution (as amended)!”
NAN also reported that the Governors Forum promised to begin implementation of the Financial Autonomy May 2021 ending, following a meeting with all state holders at the State House, Abuja. 

JUDICIARY AS THE GUARDIAN PROTECTOR OF NIGERIAN CONSTITUTION MUST OCCUPY ITS RIGHTFUL POSITION TO GIVE HOPE TO THE COMMON MAN AND THE OPPRESSED IN THE LAND “ACCORDING TO THE LAW”!

Now that JUSUN has partially bailed out its senior partner from the 60-year bondage by the duo taskmasters of the Executive/Legislature, the Judiciary should give more attention to dispensing justice to the people, build the structure  of civil liberty through judicious interpretation and application of laws, intensify role in law-making, equity legislation, protection of fundamental human rights, jealously guarding the Constitution and securing all lawful power to get its decisions and judgments enforced in order to lawfully occupy its significant role as the LAST HOPE OF THE COMMON MAN! 

During the elongated JUSUN strike, the following derelictions by major stakeholders were very glaring:

Mr. President was aloof, nonchalant, folded his arms and said, “I don do my own o … I don sign Executive Order 10, shikeena!”
The Nigerian Judicial Council (NJC), and the Chief Justice of Nigeria were very passive like “household enemies”, who usually benefitted from calamities! 
The Minister of Labor intermittently paid “lip service” and watched the situation deteriorate for TWO MONTHS while as usual, poor citizens, litigants, incarcerated prisoners and those awaiting trial, bore the brunt in the 64 days which resulted in  various economic loses through maladministration of the BUHARI ADMINISTRATION!

THE JUDICIARY SHOULD ALWAYS AVOID INJUSTICE IN ANY FORM AND CONSTANTLY REMEMBER THAT JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED!

ROLE OF THE NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION!

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), members who were temporarily SHUT OUT OF LIVELIHOOD FROM THE COURTS, supported the strike from start to finish! They were with JUSUN on street protests (rain or shine), across all States of the Federation to press home their demands in the most decent and lawful manner AND to urge governments at both Federal and States to do the needful without further delay!  

With the ultimate success of JUSUN Strike, Lawyers should occupy the forefront of the struggle for justice to assert the independence of the Judiciary and jealously guard its structural position as the corner stone which the builder rejected BUT has now become the HEAD OF THE CORNER!

SHOULD THE COURTS GO ON RECESS HAVING LOST  MUCH GROUNDS TO JUSUN STRIKE?

In spite of the hues and cries over lost period of 64 days of JUSUN Strike, the Nigerian Courts will proceed on its annual recess from the second week of July 2021, but will nevertheless, provide auxiliary services and continue to operate as normal during those periods, in which hearings could be organized if the circumstances of the case so demand.
THE JUDICIARY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT OF THE THREE ARMS AND SHOULD OCCUPY ITS RIGHTFUL POSITION HENCEFORTH!
Nigerians can do without thieving politicians in both the executive and the legislative BUT DEFINITELY NOT WITHOUT THE JUDICIARY!
“Righteousness exalts a nation, but SIN is a reproach to all people.” (Proverbs. 14:34).

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