THE “GOOD WORKS” OF MAJOR GENERAL MUHAMMADU BUHARI ARE SWALLOWED UP IN MAFIA CORRUPTION/AUTHORITARIANISM!

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!!

 

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.

# CAMPAIGN FOR REFERENDUM AND NOT VIOLENT AGITATIONS! (1).“E PLURIBUS UNUM” – FROM MANY, ONE!- Dr David Olufon

# CAMPAIGN FOR REFERENDUM AND NOT VIOLENT AGITATIONS! (1).

“E PLURIBUS UNUM” – FROM MANY, ONE!- Dr David Olufon.

"E Pluribus Unum", is the United States of America's Latin motto which appears on the nation's coins, currencies and many of its public monuments; which means, "From many, one"! America, a nation of immigrants of different nationalities boasts of a population of over 300 million people of diverse tribes, languages, cultures, castes and traditions with which it has built a united nation in which the American citizen's welfare remained government's priority of action and with such an uncommon policy, is globally classified as the best democracy in about 300 years of existence as an independent nation!

When the Nigerian Military eventually handed over to politicians in 1999, they left behind a very clumsy constitution which further divide instead of uniting the over 500 tribes, about 250 languages, enacted and established a unitary presidential system instead of a true federalism!

Unlike the US, Nigeria’s diversity was deliberately allowed to fester through divide-and-rule land mine bequeathed by the colonialists!

BUT the citizens are now agreed to resolve all controversial and nagging political issues through REFERENDUM! [Please join this campaign that will resolve the nation’s myriads of violent agitations and introduce a period of everlasting PEACE.] Share and look forward to next edition (NO. 2), in the coming days.

THE “GOOD WORKS” OF MAJOR GENERAL MUHAMMADU BUHARI ARE SWALLOWED UP IN MAFIA CORRUPTION/AUTHORITARIANISM!

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!!

 

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.

PRESIDENT BUHARI HAS WOEFULLY FAILED NIGERIANS - HE HAS NO LEGACY TO LEAVE BEHIND!

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 437. 26th December, 2021.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).  PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

PRESIDENT BUHARI HAS WOEFULLY FAILED NIGERIANS - HE HAS NO LEGACY TO LEAVE BEHIND!

              

[2021 CHRISTMAS EDITION.]

With his refusal to assent the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2021, within the constitutional 30-day provision into law, President Buhari has lost the last providential opportunity to leave any legacy for the posterity of Nigerians!

The truth is that in the absence of INDEPENDENT CANDIDACY enactment in the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria, DIRECT PRIMARIES for picking political parties candidates for elective offices is the only alternative for credible elections – not INDIRECT or CONSENSUS!

But the President was influenced by the cabal to veto the very credible and harmonized document passed by 469 Citizens’ Representatives of the National Assembly and forwarded for his assent on 19th November, 2021, because it violated the “spirit of democracy”?

Who whispered to Mr President that Direct Primaries would induce “plethora of litigation from party members/stakeholders or that the process would fuel corruption and encourage over monitorization?  Who told him that Direct Primaries was undemocratic and could raise credibility issues, undue interference, huge financial burden on political parties, INEC, the economy and Security Agencies? 

Under President Buhari’s watch, Nigerians have suffered the worst kind of governance in all ramifications! His fight against corruption just like the war against insecurity died on arrival from 2015 to date because he allowed rebellious Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), defectors to take over the National Assembly (NASS), throughout his first term in office! A very terrible mistake which gave his detractors ample opportunity to deplete all of his strategies which were taken over by the cabal that held him by the jugular and stifled all efforts of recovery!

His manifestoes fell like a pack of cards from the onset in 2015 and even though he won the second time according to prophecy from the Servant of God in ZION, he became the lame duck due to his selfish choice of an oligarchy administration, suffocated with nepotism, separatism, marginalization and tribalism! 

BUHARI WAS NOT THE MESSIAH AS THE PEOPLE THOUGHT!

His desperation to occupy the number one seat between the years 2003 and 2015 made the citizens to believe he would deliver them from the PDP Taskmasters who inflicted so much pain on the people and the economy for 16 long years; that HE WOULD AIM TO BECOME A RECIPIENT OF THE PRESTIGIOUS “MO” IBRAHIM FOUNDATION AWARD; but his regime turned to be the worse!

The “near empty treasury” which PDP left in 2015 was ravaged by NASS APC “mixed multitude” in collusion with civil servants of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), and the only  option open to Mr. President was to travel cap-in-hand all over the world every year to borrow  money from stronger economies!

In addition to all of these institutional maladies, he believes he could block the masses electoral emancipation through his veto but has failed to realise that he and his cabal have lost credibility because SOVEREIGNTY in the execution of the 1999 Constitution –in spite of all its flaws – still belong to the PEOPLE who are set to invoke the option of REFERENDUM to settle all pending issues in respect of RESTRUCTURING OF NIGERIA!

NASS SHOULD ABORT HOLIDAY RECESS TO VETO PRESIDENT BUHARI!

The President has already lost the last opportunity to redeem his battered image due to wrong choices and ineptitudes of his administration through his refusal to communicate NASS within 30 days stipulated for assent by the Constitution in line with Section 58(4)!

The 1999 Constitution did not specify any window for NASS to collect the unsigned Bill at the expiration of 30 days, from the President, attend to his whims and caprices and then re-forward to him for assent!

The only constitutional line of action is for the NASS muster two third majority of the house, veto and call off his bluff and the document automatically become an Act of Parliament!

***PRESIDENT MAHAMADOU ISSOUFOU OF NIGER WINS 2020 IBRAHIM PRIZE FOR ACHIEVEMENT AFRICAN LEADERSHIP!

The “Mo” Ibrahim Foundation Award for Achievement in African Leadership first winner emerged in 2007, when Major General Muhammadu Buhari, made a second attempt to clinch the Nigerian presidency. Way back in 1984-1985, when he was military Head of State, the duo of Buhari and his second in command, Brigadier Idiagbon initiated some radical socialist measures which endeared them to Nigerians and which scorecard eventually secured his desire!

If President Buhari had maintained that socialist tempo from 2015, by now Nigeria’s economy would have been very buoyant, with peace and tranquillity reigning supreme. He would also have been a sure candidate for the “Mo” Foundation Award after retirement from politics – but all of that is now wishful thinking!

Alas, the 2020 “Mo” Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership has been awarded to Mahamadou Issoufou erstwhile two-term President of the land-locked, Republic of Niger as the sixth recipient.

The Prize Committee in its citation praised his exceptional leadership after inheriting one of the world’s poorest economies, facing seemingly insurmountable challenges but fostered economic growth under very challenging circumstances of violent extremism, increasing desertification etc.

He was adjudged for leading his people on the path of progress through poverty eradication which decreased from 48% to 40% during his 10-year tenure and paved way for a better future through exceptional leadership!

“Mo” Ibrahim expressed hope that President Issoufou’s LEGACY would inspire generations of African leaders.

“Mo” IBRAHIM’S VISION AND MISSION!

Sudanese-British businessman, Engineer Mohammed “Mo” Ibrahim, founder of Celtel, an African-based Mobile Telecommunications Company (1998-2007), initiated the “Mo” Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership, which awards USD$5million to African Heads of State who deliver security, health, education, and economic development to their constituents and democratically transfer power to their successors.

According to Wikipedia, Ibrahim has pledged to give at least, half of his wealth to charity by joining “The Giving Pledge” – a campaign body – dedicated to encourage extremely wealthy people to contribute a majority of their wealth to philanthropic causes. As of August 2020, the pledge has 211 signatories from 23 countries. Most of the signatories of the pledge are billionaires and as of 2016, their pledges are estimated to total USD$600 billion dollars.

According to Forbes 2011 Billionaire List, 75-year-old Mo Ibrahim is worth USD$1.8 billion making him the 692nd richest person in the world. He was selected for the TIME “Top 100” List in 2008, and was ranked first in the annual Powerlist of influential Black Britons and credited for “transforming a continent”!

The first recipient of the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership was former Mozambique President, Joaquim Chissano (2007), followed by President Festus Mogae of Botswana (2008), President Pedro Pires of Cabo Verde (2011), President Hifikepunye Pohamba of Namibia (2014), President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia (2017), and the latest recipient, President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger (2020)! 

THE ROLE OF IIAG.

Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG),  established in 2007, provides an annual assessment of the quality of governance in 54 African countries and with the most comprehensive collection of data on African governance the IIAG provides a framework for citizens, governments, institutions and the private sector to accurately access the delivery of public goods and services and policy outcomes across the continent.  As well as being a tool to help determine and debate government performance, the IIAG is a decision-making instrument with which to govern.

The Foundation defines governance as the provision of the political, social and economic goods that a citizen has the right to expect from his/her state and that a state has the responsibility to deliver to its citizens. 

The IIAG assesses progress under four main conceptual categories: (1) Safety and Rule of Law, (2) Participation & Human Rights, (3) Sustainable Economic Opportunity and (4) Human Development.

These four pillars are populated with data that cover infrastructure to freedom of expression and sanitation to property rights. IIAG is a key initiative of the “Mo” Ibrahim Foundation. It has been published annually since 2007, with launch events in various African cities, including Accra, Cairo, Dakar, Johannesburg and Nairobi.

Was it not high time that emerging patriotic Nigerian political leaders and their counterpart billionaires across the continent took a cue from “Mo” Ibrahim, IIAG  and Nigerien President Issoufou to improve on the life of the poor masses and entrench peace in their ? 

***2022 DEFICIT BUDGET OF NGN16.4TRILLION JERKED UP BY LEGISLATORS TO NGN17.12TRILLION!

Like the past budgets from 2015 to 2021, the just approved 2022 financial document of Wednesday 22nd December, 2021, by the NASS was in total deficit! The sum of NGN3.8trillion naira is appropriated for Debt Servicing; NGN6.83trillion (41.7%) for Recurrent Expenditure while NGN5.4 trillion is for Capital Expenditure!

International Crude Oil benchmark price was increased from $57 to $62 dollars in anticipation of a proposed increase in revenue expenditure! Daily oil production rate was pegged 1.86million per barrel and the increase of NGN700 billion to the over-burdened budget according to the legislators, was to accommodate “some other requests of national importance which have not been captured in the budget estimates and which could not be covered by the revenue increase”!

SHOULD ANYONE BE SURPRISED AT THEIR TWISTS AND TURNS?

Is anyone surprised about the increase? Of course not! It is an annual ritual for the law makers to carry out “oversight functions” of padding, re-writing, re-inventing, inserting, and injecting fresh unexplainable and untenable items/figures as buffer funds to still laden their numerous outrageous allowances!

BUDGET BREAKDOWN: 

*Defence/Security – NGN2.41trillion (15%).

*Infrastructure – NGN1.45trillion (8.9%).

*Education: NGN1.29trillion (7.9%).

*Health: NGN820billion (5%).

*Social Development & Poverty Eradication – NGN863billion (5.3%).

“There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. (Prov 14:12).

Merry Christmas to all our readers across the world. May the Spirit of Jesus Christ dominate your lives in this Yuletide Season and into the New Year 2022! Shalom.

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.

NIGERIAN SENATORS MALICIOUS FALSEHOOD WILL TERMINATE BEFORE MAY 2023!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.   

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

NIGERIAN SENATORS MALICIOUS FALSEHOOD WILL TERMINATE BEFORE MAY 2023!

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

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

With legislative impunity unbefitting of the 

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

EVERY LIE HAS A TERMINAL DATE!

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

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

HAS THE EXECUTIVE EVER COMPLAINED OF NASS EXCESSES?

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

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

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

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

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

in May 2020, and subsequent loans in 2021!

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

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

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

THE IMMENSE CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS OF NIGERIAN LEGISLATORS!

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

WHO OVERSIGHTS THE CORRUPT LEGISLATORS STILL WALKING FREE?

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

TIME TO EXPOSE THESE ENEMIES OF THE MASSES IS NOW!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Please look forward to more divine revelation in the next edition of Zion B-BC Newsletter as you share this with friends and remain blessed in the Lord. [For weekly access, to this newsletter, log on to:  facebook.com/zionfaithbible.believingchurch or http://www.zfbbc1.blogspot.com, 

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

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

CURRENT NIGERIAN POLITICIANS DESERVE OMICRON BAN BY ALL COUNTRIES!

ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER.

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

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

CURRENT NIGERIAN POLITICIANS DESERVE OMICRON BAN BY ALL COUNTRIES!

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

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

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

QUESTIONS:

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

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

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

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

POST-COLONIAL ERA PRODUCED COVETOUS LEADERSHIP!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

OMICRON HAS SPREAD TO 57 COUNTRIES! AND STILL COUNTING

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

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

WHY IS NIGERIA SO MAD WITH THE UK???

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

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

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

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

THE BUHARI CHANGE ERA!

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

BUHARI AND NOT NIGERIANS IS THE SHAMELESS BEGGAR!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Please look forward to more divine revelation in the next edition of Zion B-BC Newsletter as you share this with friends and remain blessed in the Lord. [For weekly access, to this newsletter, log on to: facebook.com/zionfaithbible.believingchurch or http://www.zfbbc1.blogspot.com,

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

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

CAN EFCC HARASS THE ICPC WHISTLE BLOWER!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.   

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

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

CAN EFCC HARASS THE ICPC WHISTLE BLOWER!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

WHISTLE BLOWER POLICY WAS BUHARI’S BABY!

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

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

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

ICPC CHAIRMAN IS NEW WHISTLE BLOWER WHO CANNOT BE GAGGED!

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

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

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

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

ICPC RECOVERS 300 HOUSES FROM TWO CIVIL SERVANTS IN ABUJA!

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

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

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

 OFFICIAL PROTECTION FOR WHISTLE BLOWERS!

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

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

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

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

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

INSTITUTIONAL LOOTING MUST END WITH ABDULRESHEED BAWA!

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

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

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