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. 11.NO 438. 2nd January, 2022.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32). PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!
THE “GOOD WORKS” OF MAJOR GENERAL MUHAMMADU BUHARI ARE SWALLOWED UP IN MAFIA CORRUPTION/AUTHORITARIANISM!
[2022 NEW YEAR EDITION].
There is no doubt that the negative ripple effects of sixteen consecutive years of maladministration (1999-2015), by the Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (PDP), management team have made minced-meat of assumed claims/achievements, in most areas of the economy and security which President Buhari’s Change administration of six years is gloating about, considering the fact that the over 200 million Nigerian population have condemned him for non-performance!
The following facts are verifiable: that during the PDP era, Nigeria in the year 2000 became the leading petroleum marketer in Africa and was economically upgraded as follows:
1) That CRUDE OIL played a pivotal role and the country’s oil and gas exports of that year accounted for more than 98% of export earnings.
2) Garnered eighty-three per cent (83%), of Federal Government’s revenue.
3) Generated more than 14% of Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
4) Provided 95% of foreign exchange earnings, and
5) Accounted for about 65% of government’s budgetary revenues!
However within the FIFTEEN YEARS (2000-2015), of economic buoyancy and national affluence the extravagant lifestyle of political leaders coupled with brazen institutional corruption reversed the trend and fortunes of the nation to deprive the masses of the people of all basic amenities of life!
Unemployment of able-bodied youths, contrary to human rights provisions gave birth to poverty, decadence, degradation and gave vent to crimes/criminalities which attracted international negative indexes in respect of massive corruption through leadership mismanagement of the MONO PRODUCT crude oil accruals, and foreign exchange earnings!
The appalling situation was further compounded when suddenly in December 2013, international crude oil prices plummeted from USD$110 dollars to USD$28dollars until the dramatic emergence in 2015 of APC which inherited a battered economy and an “almost empty treasury”!
WHICH WAS WORSE - 30 YEARS OF MILITARY LOOTING OF THE NIGERIAN TREASURY OR 16 YEARS OF PDP’S BRAZEN INSTITUTIONAL ROBBERY AND CORRUPTION?
The startling revelation that 55 Nigerians in position of authority stole over NGN1.34 trillion naira within a period of 8 years (2006-2013), was never denied by the obnoxious PDP damagers, BUT only very few rogues among them were successfully prosecuted by the Buhari Administration which declared war against corruption right from inception in 2015!
TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL INDICTED NIGERIA AGAIN!
In January 2021, Nigeria dropped from 146th to 149th position in the Corruption Perception Index (CPI), released by Transparency International (TI), as a result of glaring failure in the anti-corruption campaign! Nigeria was classified as the second most corrupt country in 2020 – an indication that APC Managers were as bad as their predecessors!
In spite of the classification however, the President and his handlers have scored the leadership very high by claiming that the avalanche and myriads of socio-economic/security/corruption challenges which were inherited from consecutive PDP previous administrations had been largely decimated!
For instance the President and his lieutenants claimed that the Boko Haram’s insurgency which debuted from August 2009, and metamorphosed into a terrorist group was technically defeated between 2015-2016, when Federal troops recovered 17 Local Governments Areas (LGAs), of the Bornu North East State from the terrorists!
BUT contrary to that claim, as of January 2021 to date of this publication, the renegades were collecting taxes from farmers and traders in the North East Bornu including neighbouring North West and North Central States before they could venture into their farms!
(B) Because farmers from those regions have been hampered from cultivating the land by Boko Haram terrorists, armed herdsmen, bandits/gunmen, who kill and slaughter them at random, food scarcity and inflation of goods and services have remained an albatross to legitimate administration - a development that has made non-sense of the Central Bank of Nigeria interventionist agricultural “Anchor Borrowers Programme” which over TWO million farmers are believed to have benefited! Government has played down on rumours of a slide into another economic recession!
(C) Although the incumbent All Progressives Congress (APC), administration claims that “normalcy had returned to those regions except for dastardly attacks on soft targets by the terrorists who still wanted to remain in contention”, it is an open secret that those claims are fallacies and cheap propaganda!
APC’S SCORECARD IN 2021 - COMPLETION OF POWER/ROAD PROJECTS ETC!
*Construction of the abandoned Mambilla Hydro Power Project, Taraba State, commenced in earnest in 2021 and Minister of Power assured Nigerians of early completion and delivery.
*Construction of of the AKK Gas Pipeline, OB3 Gas Pipeline and the expansion of the Escravos – Lagos Pipeline, commenced in the first half of 2021 and ongoing.
*Ease of doing business through liberalisation of the Power Sector which allows for increased private sector participation to generate and sell power has been encouraged to expand the economy.
*Work was intensified on the Second Niger Bridge under construction in Onitsha, South East, which should be completed and delivered in 2022.
*Strategic damaged major bridges across the country are being repaired while in some States new ones are being constructed.
*The National Social Housing Programme got attention with completion of 13 Housing Estates in 2021.
*Construction of forty-Seven (47) ongoing road projects including those leading to major Ports from 2020-2021, are being completed and delivered.
*Refurbished Lagos, Kano, Maiduguri and Enugu International Airports were commissioned in 2020.
*Agricultural rural mechanisation scheme to spread over 700 Local Government Areas (LGAs), over a period of three years, was launched in 2020, to boost massive diversification to agriculture and increase the nation’s internally Generated Revenue (IGR), outside of CRUDE OIL!
*Launching of a Livestock Development Project Grazing Model in Gombe State, where 200,000 hectares of land has been identified began in 2020 and still ongoing.
*The training of 50,000 workers to compliment the country’s 7,000 Agriculture extension workers to increase the workforce to 75,000 began in earnest in March 2021 to boost quality of agricultural produce.
*The Lagos-Ibadan and Itakpe-Warri rail lines were commissioned in the first quarter of 2020.
*The Ibadan-Abuja and Kano-Kaduna rail lines also commenced in the first quarter of 2020.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A SOLDIER AND A DEMOCRAT!
QUESTION: How can President Buhari who had been a soldier from his mother’s womb suddenly claim to become a “reformed democrat” because of politics? As soon as he completed his WAEC, he joined the Nigerian Army and reluctantly left when he was forcefully retired with the rank of a Major General through a military coup which ousted him as Nigeria’s Head of State 27th August, 1985!
A soldier is a person who voluntarily submits himself for the service of his country and takes an oath of allegiance to die in defence of his nation’s territorial integrity in the line of duty!
A soldier is immune to fear, frivolities, timidity, empathy etc, in the line of operational duties – especially in war situations! He is ready to kill or be killed! Soldiers hardly enjoy life after retirement because of their regimental mentality!
“ORDER IS ORDER” – is the soldier’s marching order having been programmed to obey orders without question - live and die without questions! Professional soldiers can neither be good administrators nor politicians after retirement by virtue of orientation to “Vertical Order From Above” operational command which they will always expect all citizens to imbibe!
Army power play transcends beyond the barracks! Retired soldiers dare not confront or disobey their superiors –they MUST remain subservient for life!
Retired Genenal Aremu Obasanjo – has publicly told the world that President Buhari was his “junior in the Army” and that he had every right to criticise or correct his actions in government! Buhari has NEVER disputed the fact nor talked back at his superior!
President Buhari’s propaganda that he is a reformed democrat is untenable. It’s nothing but a brazen deceit - a fluke! Since he assumed office he stuck to his 2015 Investiture declaration: “I am for everybody and I am for nobody” – and true to his words, he listened to nobody except the cabal of old friends mostly from the army!
BUHARI’S AUTOCRATIC AND OVERBEARING CHARACTER!
The soldier President is intolerant of opposition or dissenting voices because to him, “Order is Order”! To this septuagenarian soldier the Rule of Law is a paper tiger..... a ruse of law!
DIGITAL AUTHORITARIANISM DUBBED DECREE 4 I984!
During his short tenure as military Head of State from (31 st December, 1983 – 27th August, 1985), Major General Buhari enacted an anti-media law: “Protection Against False Accusations Decree” referred to as Decree 4 which gave his military regime powers to shut down newspapers and radio/tv stations adjudged to be hostile or detrimental to the administration!
It is believed that he intends to subtly re-introduce a similar or worse law to gag the Press through the Press Council Bill!
NOT-TOO-YOUNG-TO-RULE ACT PROPAGANDA!
President Buhari merely signed the Not-Too-Young-To-Rule Bill into law before the 2019 General Elections for very selfish reason and ambition to clinch a second term in office!
He does not seem to believe in the divine order of succession of the young generation of Nigerians as future leaders otherwise he would have spoken, pacify and counsel them as a loving father on 20-10-20 during the #EndSarsEndPoliceBrutality Youth Protest instead of abandoning them to soldiers bullets which sent some of them to untimely deaths!
ANTI-CORRUPTION.
His anti-corruption campaign has turned out to be a political stunt because all those who have either been fingered for the crime, or are already facing prosecution in the law courts are glaringly protected with the connivance of the Courts once they defected to the ruling APC and are treated with kid gloves! Nigerians will not be second class citizens in their country anymore! “Soldier go, soldier come but barrack remains!”
WHAT WILL BUHARI BE REMEMBERED FOR WHEN HE DEPARTS OFFICE “DO’OLE” ON MONDAY, 29TH MAY 2023!
The Grape Vine says, he would be remembered as a “Leopard that cannot change its spots;” because all of his travails are self-inflicted and his “good works” of Change Agenda are just few drops in the ocean – SHI’KEE NA!!
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