THE PAN NIGER DELTA FORUM ELDERS PARTICIPATED IN PIPELINES VANDALISM!

   ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  (Looking at Nigeria's Political System from a godly Perspective).

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 5. NO 169. 6th November, 2016.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

THE PAN NIGER DELTA FORUM ELDERS PARTICIPATED IN PIPELINES VANDALISM!

The Pan Niger Delta Forum 100-man delegation which met with President Muhamadu Buhari on 1st November, 2016, neither accepted responsibility for economic sabotage against Nigeria either by default through their tacit acquiescence, nor tendered an apology on behalf of their terrorist youths who deliberately vandalized critical crude oil pipe lines in their region with demonic relish to vent anger for the loss of their kinsman at the 2015 Presidential polls! Instead, they brazenly DEMANDED, through the submission of a 16-point agenda, how peace should be restored to the oil-rich region as if no one else existed but themselves! What an effrontery, what an insult to the psyche and sensibilities of all Nigerians who had suffered untold hardships through the treasonable felony of over 18 Niger Delta Opposition terrorist groups, who for selfish demands, vandalized the collective oil wealth, and deprived the nation of its foreign exchange earnings for consecutive 13 months unabated, with the succinct support of these elders! With this kind of very pathetic development in matters of national insecurity poised through deliberate acts of sabotage through household enemies, should it not be the concern of patriotic citizens that it was time to deal with this recurring attitude of impunity by the Niger Delta region according to the RULE OF LAW instead of the carrot and stick formula?
If the elders pretended that the brutal murders and massacres of innocent citizens - including several law-enforcement operatives - by their terrorist children did not deserve penalties and punishments, then the Federal Government should draw their attention to the fact that they grossly erred during the caucus deliberations that preceded their audience with the President since no mention of lawful chastisements to be meted to the culprits was included in their selfish demands!

The first step towards sanity in the region must be for the vandals to surrender themselves and all illegal arms and ammunitions in their custody to their respective State Governments and face prosecution for vandalism and economic sabotage against the Government and people of Nigeria! The second is for a general assessment of damages to be compiled by Federal Government Engineers/Auditors, so that restitution could be made by all vandal-infested States on behalf of their recalcitrant wards; and the third is for the repairs/replacements of damaged/destroyed pipelines that clean-up of environmental pollution through burst pipes might commence! These elders were witnesses to the boastings of these criminal youths who openly declared that they would destroy all oil pipelines to deprive the ruling government of all economic gains from that region but acquiesced even though, an African adage says that the "hoary hair would not sit idly in the market place while his youths perish without protection"!

An objective study of some of the selfish demands include the resuscitation of the Presidential Amnesty Programme - inclusive of job opportunities after rehabilitation; that Federal Government should reduce military presence to avoid "human abuse", (of which the terrorists were culprits); Security surveillance and protection of  oil and gas infrastructure to be transferred to the communities headed by the elders instead of to individuals like Chief Government Ekpemupolo alias "Tompolo", who was declared wanted for economic crimes and his comrade-in-arms who became multi billionaires through pipelines protection contracts awarded to them by the Jonathan's Administration!
Is it not very glaring that these elders, instead of requesting for the employment of patriotic youths and vigilantes for pipeline protection, they had more or less solicited the transfer of the very very juicy contract to themselves as head chiefs of the communities? Can we conveniently opine that the people and elders of this "oil rich" region have begun to feel the crunch of the self-imposed economic recession on Nigeria by the riverine vandals through the principles of the LAW OF CAUSE and EFFECT; following more and more devastation and degradation of their soils through incessant oil pollution by these rebellious children?
Could it be a smart move by the Pan Niger Delta Forum Elders, to quickly strike a lucrative deal with the Buhari Change Administration before the CHAD BASIN OIL EXPLORATION COMES INTO FRUITION AND NOT TO BE ABANDONED TO SWIM AND DRINK THE MIRY AND DISEASED-INFESTED POOLS OF OIL RIVERS? How could they have pretended to have forgotten that at least THREE of their former governors (Bayelsa, Edo and Delta), were convicted for economic crimes of fraud and embezzlement of crude oil funds, at home and abroad? That the Niger Delta Development Corporation (NDDC) had always been under the searchlight of the EFCC because of incessant public complaints and petitions against alleged financial misappropriation and contract inflated figures?
Have they also easily forgotten that the South-South Geo-Political Zone comprising of all Niger Delta oil producing States collect on monthly basis, from the common wealth, 13% derivation fund to cushion the effects of environmental devastation and degradation through a continuous oil exploration and exploitation by both local and foreign companies? How could the elders so easily forget that the Ogoni People of the Niger Delta Region were mourning the 21st year anniversary of the death of KEN SARO-WIWA, a peace-loving environmental activist, who never took up arms against his country but murdered in cold blood by the Abacha Military administration while they were negotiating to reap from his sweat and blood? While government ruminates over the SELFISH DEMANDS, it is instructive for all good and very resilient citizens of Nigeria to understand that no section or region of the vast country - under the present constitutional arrangement could decide to become an island to itself. The clarion call for united nation should not be of lip -service!

TRUTH has no social, political or economic coloration! Truth is saying it as it is, doing it right according to laid down principles and in obedience to the rule of law; Truth is the opposite of lie and truth is bitter! The following truths according to God's lexicon says: "While the earth remaineth seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." Whatever was the mission of the Pan Niger Delta Forum emissaries to the Aso Villa, Abuja, it is crystal clear to the poor and downtrodden masses of that region that whether their representatives were governors, pipeline vandals, or chieftain elders, they would always be SHORT-CHANGED; and this is the gospel truth!
While the governors have become super rich, the riverine terrorists/contractors have become super-duper rich, while the elders would not be sidelined from becoming the latest and emerging billionaires of the oil-rich zone; Niger Deltans and Nigerians by extension can hardly make two meals per day because of cost inflation of goods and services caused through the brazen destruction of the nation's oil pipelines by SONS OF THE SOIL! Must this trend of man's inhumanity to man continue? Because Of The Continuous 13-month Vandalization Of Pipelines Lines, the Federal Government has intensified the implementation of diversification of the economy of revenue earnings to non-oil products in the agricultural, food products, manufactured products, minerals, transport and industrial sectors, which though went through some shrinking towards the end of the second quarter, but from sources close the National Economic Council (NEC), the economic activities occasioned by the fall in productive capacities of industrialists have been reinvigorated for greater capacities through capital financing.

It is important for all patriotic Nigerians to believe that the recession challenges are temporary and would be surmounted in spite of all manner of sabotage sooner than envisaged. Advocacy in respect of the true perspective and position of the recession is being disseminated by the federal government through all its information media and orientation agencies to the grass root for patience and perseverance.  Though, we share the thoughts of some analysts who said that local and foreign investors would need further re-assurances from the Federal Government that investment in the non- oil sector would yield desired dividends, we are categorical that with all adequate measures put in place, these investors would definitely compete for placements in this last quarter in view of profitable incentives already in place! The Executive Director of the Nigeria Export Promotion Council (NEPC), Mr. 'Segun Awolowo, who said that his agency was mindful of the challenges facing the non-oil sector, revealed that it has commenced its ZERO TO EXPORT INITIATIVE to support new generation of Nigerian exporters to effectively and profitably participate in the sector, adding that the Federal Government's fiscal strategy framework for the next three consecutive years was based on NON-OIL!
He attributed the initiative to recent developments on global commodities market which had triggered the wake-up call on the need for Nigeria to accelerate the diversification of its economy by moving away from an over dependence on oil as its main source of revenue. and predicted that with an effective implementation, non-oil exports would be enabled to increase the nation's foreign exchange reserves to $150billion USD within the next 10 years! We are equally optimistic that with the steady progress of the Change Agenda Economic Team, all opportunists like the Pan Niger Delta Forum elders would realize that they were no longer relevant to negotiate from oil derivation positions in their zone!
As at the time of this publication, the OGONI PEOPLE declared at a press conference that the elders did not have Niger Deltans mandate to negotiate with the Federal Government for peace agreement on the vandalization of pipelines, but that their 16-point demand mainly bordered on their selfish interests, covetousness and greed!
THE WORD OF GOD SAYS: "RIGHTEOUSNESS EXALTETH A NATION, BUT SIN IS A REPROACH TO ANY PEOPLE". (Proverbs.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, https://www.google.com/+zionfaithbiblebelievingchurch.

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

I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor. 08130669886, 08098194390.  08080243066   g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

CORRUPTION IN THE JUDICIARY WILL CRUMBLE THROUGH DIVINE ANOINTING OF FEW NIGERIANS!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER. (Looking at Nigeria's Political System from a godly Perspective).  

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 5. NO 168. 30th October, 2016.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

CORRUPTION IN THE JUDICIARY WILL CRUMBLE THROUGH DIVINE ANOINTING OF FEW NIGERIANS!

All through its early national history, the Israelites, - especially during the Old Testament Bible times, - had an arch-enemy in a Semitic warrior race called the Philistines, who were as numerous "as the sands of the sea shore"; always over-bearing, proud and arrogant in attitude towards the Jews for their sheer intimidating population! There was a time during a deliberately provoked war, that the Philistine soldiers broke the ranks of the Israeli forces and stole from them, their most priced and treasured protective divine symbol, "The Ark of the Covenant of God", which went up before every battle they ever won. However, it turned out that the Holy Ark was divinely fortified and too powerful for the pagans to keep in their custody in that, when they placed the Ark of God side by side with their human-fashioned idol god called "Dagon", the idol fell and broke its neck at the first instance and at the second, when it was repaired and set up again, it fell heavily and broke into smittens! (Read I Samuel. Chapters 4-7).
There was another time when they provoked another war in which they besieged the entire nation of Israel and challenged the Jewish soldiers to choose the strongest among them to a duel with their giant warrior called Goliath; 13 feet, 4 inches (5.4 metres), tall man-mountain, who had mighty helmet, spear, sword and shield! After weeks of bragging without any opponent in sight, God chose a young shepherd boy called David to call the Philistines' bluff! He did not only kill the Goliath with a smooth brook stone, slung from his sling, but also cut off his head with the mighty sword which he inherited as war souvenir! Seeing that their giant was killed, the Philistines fled but were pursued by the Israeli soldiers, and great was the slaughter! And throughout David's latter years of reign as King of Israel, the Philistines were totally routed! (Read I Samuel Chapter 17). The import of the preceding narrative is that every creation - especially Nigerian ATHEISTS who are replica of the biblical ungodly Philistines - should believe that GOD is sovereign over all of His creation and that He and He alone, Has the power over all the affairs of men and can achieve His purposes through very FEW individuals like a small nation as Israel and a young lad like David! Nigeria's common wealth like the "Ark of God” is too precious for rogues to covet, steal and keep!  If God could defeat evil and aggressive nations by few groups through His supernatural powers, would it be difficult for Him to set up a righteous government in Nigeria through a few group, arrest all those who had broken into the coffers of this nation and embezzled all of its silver/gold and recover from all of them, the loots in their custody? It is no longer news that many corrupt Nigerians who benefitted from illicit wealth had made restitution by returning such to government; and it will be in the interest of the others to follow suit before the divine whip strikes them with incurable plagues as reprisal for their greediness! Naked, they came into this world and naked, they would depart! There was also a Hebrew youth named Gideon, who defeated the large army of Midianite oppressors, which men of war dominated the centre of Palestine in their millions with only 300 at God's command, out of the initial 32.000 men, he initially amassed for war! (Judges. Chapters 6-7). In today's modern world, Israel stands out as a World Power Block, in its own right, militarily, industrially, and economically through righteous/diligent national institutions! Roundabout the geographical land scape of modern Israel, are the ruins of all nations that at one time or the other had waged war against the small but divinely powerful nation of the 21st Century!

Since the ungodly introduction of MONEY POLITICS into the Electoral system in Nigeria, millions of unpatriotic Nigerians now openly canvass that the nation, (in spite of all strategic economic innovations being meticulously shored up to increase revenue and ease the burden of cost inflation on the citizenry), should back-pedal into the era of national corruption that characterised past administrations! Some very aggressive, modern and ungodly Nigerians like the biblical PHILISTINES and MIDIANITES, have consistently and in large numbers boldly asserted that the Jonathan Administration was better than the present Change Government because a "status quo" of institutional corruption was more acceptable than an era of economic recession and hardship! Money politics was not limited to the Executive and Legislature but was also extended by politicians to the Judiciary which WAS regarded as the last hope of the common man because since the latest accusation of large-scale corruption against members of the revered Bench, the entire population of fraudulent Nigerians have defended the judges' integrity and chorused that they were innocent and untouchable in spite of the avalanche of physical, material and incriminating evidences amassed by the Department of State Security (DSS), for their prosecution in court!

On 4th May 2014, in our No. 38th Edition of the Zion B-BC NEWSLETTER, we published the following excerpts under the title: "CORRUPTION IN THE JUDICIACY! WHERE REST THE LAST HOPE OF THE COMMON MAN"? Please read: "Three quarters of Nigerian prisoners are AWAITING TRIAL DETAINEES, most of whom have spent over 15 years in detention! Comptroller General of the Nigerian Prison Service [NPS], in a shocking revelation, recently said, “….of 50,601 inmates in the various prisons, 36,934, are awaiting trial. Majority of the detainees, not including those held in the various Police cells across Nigeria and who have been refused bail, are charged with capital offences, such as armed robbery and many have since died incarcerated! “The slow process of trial of inmates by the courts is also responsible for more than 90 per cent of prison population in urban centres.” These awaiting-trial detainees are the poor masses of our societies, as no rich man or woman ever waits for any trial since favourable and pre-determined judgments are courier-delivered to their homes, in some cases, by crooked judges! The Rule of Law specifies that  every suspect is presumed innocent until found guilty by a competent court of jurisdiction, but what obtains in Nigeria’s prison system is “the RUSE of LAW”, where suspects, with the deliberate connivance of the COURTS are refused bail or prosecution, and are condemned to dungeons and early graves! "Judicial powers of the Nigerian State, both at the Federal and State levels, are vested in the JUDICATURE, which consist of the superior courts of record, established for the Federation, according to Section 6, subsection (5) (a) to (i) of the 1999 Constitution. These consist of the following: the Supreme Court of Nigeria, the court of Appeal, the Federal High Court, the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, a High Court of a State, the Sharia Court of Appeal of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, a Sharia Court of Appeal of a State, the Customary Court of Appeal of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and a Customary Court of Appeal of a State. According to an insider, a retired President of the Court of Appeal, the Nigerian Judiciary harbours corrupt elements who are politicians and government apologists who attend all manner of social gatherings and frolic even with litigants with pending cases before their courts! How can judges decide cases against their political parties and people they wine and dine with?
"As a guest speaker at a recent lecture titled, “Nigeria at Centenary: A Nation In Bondage”, the retired President of the Court of Appeal said that the noble efforts of the incumbent Chief Justice of Nigeria, to sanitize and rid the judiciary of corrupt elements were being frustrated by “the crop of people calling the shots at the Nigerian Judicial Council [NJC],” adding that some dishonourable people, “not fit to be judges and senior lawyers, get into the system, make it to the highest level of the judicial career and subsequently frustrate the common man’s quest for justice and equity!” He also claimed that it was an open truth that, both serving and retired judges act as the “arrangees” or couriers, who reach out to “purchase justice on behalf of crooked litigants” and concluded that the problems with the Nigerian Judiciary might be compounded or unresolved for a long time because Nigerians naturally hate the truth and whoever dared voice the truth was marked for destruction! "We salute the courage of this fearless retired President of the Court of Appeal whose entire professional career at both the Bar and the Bench, remained untainted and impeccable like the likes of Justices Chukwudi Oputa, Bobakayode Eso, Ayo G.Irikefe, John Idowu Conrad Taylor,  Ovie Whiskey, Chiefs ‘Tunji Braithwaite and Gani  Fawehinmi etc; because what we have today are judges who have made Nigeria’s justice system by itself very criminal.

“ The story was told of Late Justice John Idowu Conrad Taylor, a Chief Judge of Lagos State during the military administration, who turned down his Governor’s official invitation to a State Dinner on the following grounds:  “ Lagos State Government has several pending cases before me……I find it inappropriate to honour the invitation”. At his demise, Military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon eulogised him for his sterling qualities. Do such Nigerian judges exist in today’s 21st century universe?
The Federal Government should be more pro-active in funding the EFCC to pursue to its logical conclusion, all vital allegations of graft against these judges and publicly bring them to justice in order to purge and cleanse the judiciary, restore her reputation and establish a deterrent to others of their ilk! "Of the late Supreme Court Judge, Bobakayode Eso, (1925-2012), were the following WORDS ON MARBLE crafted: “He was an Icon even in death; Nigeria may never have his replacement – a very rare breed. Justice Eso was an untainted Judge with high integrity; one of the great Nigerians, incorruptible, academic, intelligent, serious-minded patriotic, scandal-free. A courageous judge and a consistent advocate for an independent judiciary whose long and exemplary life was dedicated to the service of law and order and the dispensation of true justice, equity and fairness to all.” We need more of the Eso’s, Conrad Taylors, Gani Fawehinmi’s, Oputas in our modern judiciary to re-build and restore the lost confidence of the COMMON MAN in Nigeria’s judicial system. We have a crop of patriotic legal minds, men and women of proven integrity who are ready to serve our great nation without soiling their hands and names! Will the corrupt politicians at the helm of affairs give them the opportunity to serve their Fatherland? Let Nigerians be assured that if they fail to make the necessary RESTITUTION now, GOD WILL REMOVE AND REPLACE THEM ACCORDING TO HIS SOVEREIGN WILL! AMEN." (End of excerpts).  Because the Change Administration expressed its distaste for a corrupt Judiciary, Nigerians who were averred to perverting the cause of justice ferociously condemned the DSS Sting Operation, which exposed seven allegedly corrupt Judges and from whose homes operatives also allegedly recovered, about N93 million in both local and foreign currencies which would be tendered at their trial which should commence soon! NJC had always favoured past indicted judges to retire with full benefits and enjoy their illicit gains unmolested, but that must not happen this time around!

THE LONE VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS, RETIRED JUDGE OF THE APPEAL COURT, JUSTICE AYO SALAMI, HAS BEEN VINDICATED! The NJC is the enemy within the Third Arm of Government! They have no choice than to follow due process by asking the accused judges to step aside and face prosecution! NJC must be purged for righteous persons to take over and dispense justice against erring judges appropriately when necessary!    GOD HAS A COVENANT OF RIGHTEOUS GOVERNMENT WITH THE PEOPLE OF NIGERIA AND PRESIDENT BUHARI WHO HAD BEEN DIVINELY CHOSEN FOR THE ANTI-CORUPTION CRUSADE WOULD SUCCEED LIKE DAVID AND GIDEON IN SPITE OF ALL ENEMY INTIMIDATIONS! AMEN.

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

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

I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor. 08130669886, 08098194390.  08080243066   g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

The Girl- Child of The Infamous Nigerian "CHILD RIGHTS ACT"!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER. (Looking at Nigeria's Political System From a godly Perspective).  

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 5. NO 167. 23rd October, 2016.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

THE GIRL- CHILD OF THE INFAMOUS NIGERIAN "CHILD RIGHTS ACT"!

The pro-creation vessel is in danger of extinction! She is in a dire strait; being battered from all angles! The GIRL-CHILD cannot defend herself from the invasion of her privacy; neither can the Nigerian law protect her from human wolves in sheep clothing and adult predators! When it is not a household enemy - like a father, uncle, cousin, male sibling or houseboy that forcibly took away her pride of purity, it was a boy in her school, a male teacher or kidnappers! Though the GIRL-CHILD is the cradle of life expectancy and source of population increase and sustenance, this endangered species was always a vulnerable prey to the warped and unsound mind! The other day, 14-year-old Ese Oruru was dutifully supporting her mother with chores at their local food restaurant when an older male customer brain-washed and took her on a long journey from Bayelsa to Kano State, where she was forcibly initiated into conjugal rites and became a girl-wife and a nursing mother!
The case of another 14-year-old who was also recently abducted to Katsina State and married off to an older man without her parents' consent was still generating a lot of debate on the social media at the time of this publication, yet, the Nigerian 2003 Version of the Child Rights Act, which was incorporated and adopted from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF's) Charter for universal laws on child protection was supposed to be actively in existence! From time immemorial, when civilization was alien to the shores of Nigeria, historians said that child-marriage was a common phenomenon amongst diverse tribes and religious beliefs and cultures, but were always contractual and with the expressed permission and consents of all families involved. During those dark days, it was said that because those girls were minors - between 9 to 13 years when betrothed, - they were usually put into the custody of their spouses' parents to nurture until they were fully matured into womanhood.

But in the 21st Century when there were international laws to protect the girl-child, caution had been thrown to the wind while even a distinguished and educated former Nigerian governor and presently a serving Senator brazenly married and bragged about his "conquest “over a 13-year-old minor whom he took for a "wife" because the said Child Rights Act was an exclusive Federal Legislation which had no binding force of law amongst the States, since only 22 out the 36, had domesticated the statute!
Gone are the days when woman purity was highly esteemed, cherished, protected and defended as a sacred global culture that should be preserved until the first night of married couples! Not long ago in August, 2016, a Ugandan herbalist was arrested for having illicit carnal knowledge with over 100 young girls with the consent of their parents who paid him handsomely for the despicable acts in fulfilment of certain cultural/ritual beliefs of procuring fruitfulness in marriage!
Nigeria on its part had condoned for too long, the proliferation of commercial "girl-child baby factories" in virtually all the six geo-political zones of the nation, which consistently provided safe havens for the endangered species who were either products of broken homes or peer group negative influences/pressures! There is of course the issue of girl-child physical abuse when engaged as house-help or slave and also the trafficking of innocent minor into prostitution at very tender age which had taken phenomenal dimensions mostly in African and Asian countries with the connivance of some parents, guardians or close relatives in view of the inducements of commercial gains.
Recently in Nigeria, 21 out of the 218 Boko Haram-abducted teenage Chibok Secondary School girls of the North East State of Bornu, were released after over two years of incarceration since 14th April, 2014, but it is disheartening that they had been debased, dehumanized, randomly and severally abused, physically, mentally and forcibly initiated into motherhood by their captors! All the same, we give glory to God that they have been reconciled to their loved ones as we look forward to another batch of 83 whose release was still being negotiated by the Federal Government.

The Health Hazard of Vesico-Virgina Fistula (VVF)!
When a girl-child, though neither biologically matured nor prepared for sexual activities and child-bearing but brutally forced into the act, the resultant damage is the rupture of her uterus that gives rise to VVF and other complications. VVF is an abnormal communication between the bladder and the virgina causing urinary incontinence which results in unrestricted urination as a result of such damage! It is very instructive for the insensitive and demonized male adults who disregard the tenderness of the female physique and anatomy to violate them brutally, that the girl-child in any part of the world possess similar biological features and as the weaker vessels should therefore, have the right to protection, psychological stability and a decent healthy life without such harassments!
Since the domestication of the Child Rights Act by the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), and 22 other States, several Non-governmental Organisations (NGO's), and Civil Society Organisations (CSO's), have advocated that other State governments should follow suit and exercise the political will to implement not only the letter but also the spirit of the Act so that these innocent children would not continue to experience uncertain existence like the lower mammals which were permanently at the mercy of human predators! We believe that there could not be a better time than now for governments to fulfil the social contract promises documented in their political manifestoes by ensuring the principles of gender equality and empowerment of the girl-child through sound and qualitative education!
We also advocate the elimination of negative cultural, traditional and forceful culture of child marriage, child labour, female genital mutilation, sexual exploitation and abuse, including the unholy attitude of treating the girl-child as inferior to his male counterpart!
In July 2000, the Child Rights Act which incorporated all rights and consolidated all laws which provided for the protection and care of the Nigerian child into a single law was passed by the National Assembly and signed into law by President Olusegun Obasanjo.
In 2003, according to UNICEF's Report, Nigeria adopted the Child Rights Act to domesticate the Convention on the Rights of the Child and was subsequently passed at the Federal level, but in spite of all these documental efforts, not much effect of protection of the girl-child had been recorded in the country.
An Africa Union Report, quoted by UNICEF on the rights and welfare of the Nigerian child, revealed that 6.000 children were in prison and detention centres across the country and that girls made up less than 10% because  their involvement with the law was always as result of criminal acts committed against them, such as Rape, Sexual exploitation and Trafficking!

Urgent Solutions and Constitutional Responsibilities of the Nigerian Government.
Since the Child Rights Act has been domesticated in Nigeria and recognizes all rights and privileges of the girl-child, the onus of enforcement of the laws protection of this endangered species rests squarely on all governments! It is their joint responsibilities to ensure free early health care and primary to secondary education, conducive welfare and housing facilities, for them and their parents, portable water supplies, neighbourhood security arrangements, etc.
We are very much aware that the implementation of the letters of the Act through the existing Child Rights Implementation Committees across the nation had been enormous, but not insurmountable; therefore it becomes mandatory for them to invoke all government machineries and apparatuses at their disposal to compel all government agencies to implement all of the set out suggestions, especially in the areas of tight security arrangements for the girl-child at home, school and recreation! We also suggest that at the grassroots and communities levels, the local chiefs and elders should involve the services of vigilante groups who would watch over their own kith and kin, without allowing them to be exposed to predators whether at the streams, markets or even playgrounds!
But it is saddening that the Nigeria Police Force, which is an integral member of the Child Rights Act Implementation Committees and on which the major duty of implementing security duties for safety of the girl-child squarely rests, has defaulted in the KATSINA ABDUCTION CASE which is still trending! The Commissioner of Police of that State told the World that his organisation had no prior knowledge of the illicit and criminal abduction of a minor into the purported child marriage but had, after "thorough investigation", advised the minor (now a guest of the Emir), to return to her parents! This decision and conclusion of the Commissioner is unacceptable to all well-meaning and patriotic Nigerians - most especially members of the Change Administration of President Buhari!
We advise that the Inspector General of Police takes over the case, rectify all harms done and save the new image of the Force by enforcing all relevant laws to send the minor back to her parents before she was subjected to all manner of inhuman treatments since she had no constitutional rights to make a "consent" decision in respect of such sensitive issue as marriage!

The Word of God says that, “Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD; and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate." (Psalm.127:3-5).
THE GIRL-CHILD IS OUR INSURANCE FOR THE NEXT GENERATION - SHE MUST BE SHIELDED FROM EXTINCTION!  Amen.

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

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

I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor. 08130669886, 08098194390.  08080243066   g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com. 

NO ONE MUST BE ABOVE THE RULE OF LAW EVEN THOUGH THE LAW IS AN ASS!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER. (Looking at Nigeria's Political System from a godly Perspective). 

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 5. NO 166. 16th October, 2016.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

NO ONE MUST BE ABOVE THE RULE OF LAW EVEN THOUGH THE LAW IS AN ASS!

Since the advent of the new Change Administration, there had been an orchestrated gang-up of vicious criticisms by some unpatriotic Nigerians against every move made by the President and his economic team to sanitize the polity of the stench and rot of endemic institutional corruption bequeathed by past military and civilian governments in 54 years of the post - independent nation! No one was put in doubt, right from the campaign period of the 2015 General Elections, in what direction the All Progressives Congress [APC], was headed: (1) Total war against and elimination of corruption; (2) Resuscitation of the fledging and ailing economy; and (3) The re-engineering, overhaul and re-organisation of all security agencies for the enabling strategies to contain, defeat and totally eliminate the national insecurity created through six, very bloody years (2009-2015), of Boko Haram insurgency which almost destroyed the very foundation of democratic governance of Nigeria! And, of course, the massive support and unprecedented turn out for the APC, on all election days, (in spite of  rigging gimmicks, delaying tactics and money-induced voting pattern, employed by the then ruling People’s Democratic Party [PDP] ), were very clear indications of where the pendulum swung and favoured the populist Party into a landslide, convincing and undisputable victory, which prompted Dr. Ebele Jonathan to congratulate his opponent before the official announcement of final results by Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC]!

Those who swore by the "graves of their ancestors", that President Muhammadu Buhari, would never win the election, were all infuriated with former President Jonathan, faulted and scolded him for not refusing the authentic results; and have in the last 17 months, become "thorn in the flesh" of the new administration in the area of persistent baseless and unwarranted criticisms of every move of government! They have criticized, him for embarking on several unnecessary international journeys, not rescuing the over 218 Chibok Secondary School Girls, abducted by Boko Haram terrorists, since 14th April, 2014, even when 23 of them were rescued recently; for failing to revive the economy which snow-dived due to international crude oil glut and price somersault from $100 - 48 USD, in 2014; for being a religious bigot who planned to Islamize Nigeria; for loop-sided Federal appointments which favoured the Northerners; for employing security agents to harass only Southern politicians; for "unleashing" the EFCC, DSS and POLICE against PDP Opposition members; for employing "incompetent" ministers who have no solutions for the current economic recession;  for not inviting former economists who served under former Presidents Obasanjo and Jonathan, who piloted the economic ship of the nation and ran it aground;  for the failures in the power, roads, housing and health sectors; for not listening to the advice of distinguished, revered and eminent Nigerians at home and the Diaspora on matters relating to economic competence; for not respecting the constitutional laws of separation of powers between the Executive, Legislators and the Judiciary; etc. Though, these contracted critics had refused to see anything good in the APC Government, they were unable to stop the successes that have been recorded so far in respect of the steady and tacit defeat of terrorism by Boko Haram, the quick diversification from oil to agricultural income within the short period, and all welfare programmes specifically geared towards the alleviation of mass poverty, amongst women, children and the elderly, in spite of the lean purse of government at inception. Presently, more money was being pumped into the economy to support the Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMSEs), which are the backbone and foundation to economic buoyancy of any serious administration which is poised to fulfil its social contract obligations to the citizenry. Apart from the monies looted by Nigerians and deposited in foreign banks, which are being recovered, the World Bank is prepared to support the APC Government with some favourable loan to overcome the travail of the transient economic recession.

STING OPERATION AGAINST SOME JUDGES BY DSS!
The latest and most recent criticism of the APC Government was in respect of the "Sting Operation" against SEVEN alleged corrupt High and Supreme Court judges, by operatives of the Department of Secret Service [DSS], which was adjudged as reckless, barbaric and an abuse of the rule of law against such eminent personalities of high calibre because it was forcibly carried out in the night through the breaking down of doors and barriers, in order to gain entrance into their homes; contrary to Section 37, Fundamental Rights of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Constitution, 1999! First to vehemently condemn the operation was President of the Nigerian Bar Association [NBA], followed by all contracted critics of the opposition party, the Rivers State Governor, who obstructed the operatives from searching a judge's residence, where it was alleged that about $2 million USD was secretly removed to an unknown destination, while he, (the governor), stalled them! The Chief Justice of the Federation diplomatically described the whole episode as "unfortunate and sad ", while former Head of State, Dr. Yakubu Gowon, opined that if due process was not followed, it would amount to a "threat to democracy"! The Nigerian Judicial Council [NJC], which is the disciplinary body of the Judiciary, met for THREE consecutive days before making the following pronouncements! All said and done, what are the implications of regarding some citizens of Nigeria as "sacred cows", while the under privileged down-trodden who bear all the brunt of the society were usually castigated as inconsequential’s? Outside of the constitutional immunity clause, which shields the President, his Vice, State Governors and their deputies, from criminal prosecution, SHOULD ANY NIGERIAN BE PLACED ABOVE THE LAW OF THIS DEMOCRATIC NATION?

According to Wikipedia,  a sting operation by the Federal Bureau of Investigations [FBI], in the 1980s, code-named "Operation Greyford unearthed massive corruption in the Cook County Courts in which almost 100 lawyers and judges who were eventually sent to jail, disbarred or suspended for their illegal actions; while one who could not bear the shame (in another operation), committed suicide! It is instructive to inform our readers that sting operation is not limited to members of the BAR and BENCH, but extends to all illegal activities from labour union corruption to drug trafficking, organized crime activity etc. According to the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, the DSS operatives acted within the frame work of the rule of law because they had well- documented warrants of search and arrest and even when prevented by the sitting governor of Rivers State from carrying out their legitimate duties, they exercised professional restraint to avoid a calamity!

DSS sources also threw more light on the "Sting Operation" as follows:
1. That investigations into allegations of corrupt enrichment and bribe takings by the Judges in question had been on for over six months.
2. That litigants who were solicited for bribes by these suspected Judges co-operated with the operatives by meeting the demands of the Judges who were monitored and evidences in form of videos, phone conversations, banks statement of accounts, and several incriminating evidences including Closed Circuit TV camera footages, were collated against them before the surprise operation of 8/9th October, 2016, was carried out!
3. Some of the accused Judges opened bank accounts in the names of their wives, daughters, sons, etc. for the illicit funds but were exposed through Bank Verification Numbers [BVN], in which pictures of account owners were captured!
4. One particular Judge was alleged to have camouflaged in a funny dress to meet and collect some US dollars bribe from a litigant at a shopping mall without suspecting that he was captured by a CCTV camera lens!
5. Incriminating evidences in forms of bank documents, and monies in local and foreign currencies totalling a sum of over N93 million naira was recovered as evidence against the accused judges during the said operation!
6. Some of them co-operated while others did not, but the good news was that, they were all granted bail in self recognition within 24 hours of the operation and interrogation and were to report back to the investigators at appointed times.
It is very true that these eminent jurists are very important personalities in the society, it is also true that they should be accorded due respect but not at the expense of jeopardising justice and internal security of the masses whose work and sweat pay their salaries!

WHO IS AN ASS? THE LAW, THE INTERPRETER, OF THE ENFORCER?
The Nigeria Judicial Council (NJC) is the only Constitutional Body responsible to INTERPRETE the law for disciplinary action against erring judges; therefore, every complaint against them must be reported to the body for necessary actions and sanctions against indicted members of the revered Bench. The DSS is an Agency empowered under an amended Act of the National Assembly (NASS), to both investigate and ENFORCE the law in matters relating to crimes, corruption and threats to national security and since judges occupy sensitive positions in the dispensation of justice while the Judiciary is regarded as the "last hope of the common man", it is imperative for both bodies to work in unison.
But it took THREE DAYS of almost 72 hours for the NJC, to condemn and issue an official statement in respect of the DSS sting operation against the suspected corrupt judges because of their complicity in the entire episode as follows: (1) NJC was informed of the planned DSS sting operation in February 2016, when it faulted the submissions which were not accompanied by a sworn affidavit! (2) DSS went to a court of competent jurisdiction to swear on oath that all allegations of corruption against the judges were authentic and backed with genuine and proven evidences, but it took the operatives about two months to get an approval! (3) NJC requested for time to STUDY, SCRUTINIZE, ANALIZE, VERIFY and AUTHENTICATE all submissions for necessary disciplinary action! As at the time of the nocturnal sting operation on 8/9th October, 2016, NJC was still studying DSS documents and evidences submitted by DSS with sworn affidavit in March 2016!
Who is the ASS - the foolish or the stupid in the entire scenario? The bold move to arrest and detain the "untouchable judges" by the DSS is a re-awakening call to the Change Government and Nigerians at large that it was high time to expunge all obsolete, archaic, anachronistic and time-wasting laws that still our legal shelf to allow for up to date and efficient statutes that are trending in the 21st Century digital universe! Presently, some very corrupt serving legislators, and yet to be unmasked, civil servants of the Executive Arm are still walking free and earning salaries and allowances from the sweat, labour and taxes of the TALAKAWAS of this nation because the LAW IS AN ASS! What an irony of life! The Word of God says: "THOU SHALT KNOW THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE." (John.8:32). The truth is that President Buhari and his Vice, Prof. 'Yemi Oshinbajo - a distinguished Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), MUST PRIORTIZE A SPECIAL BILL TO AMMEND ALL RETROGRESSIVE LAWS THAT WEAKEN THE "MODUS OPERANDI" OF OUR VARIOUS INSTITUTIONS which portray Nigeria as a laughing stock among the comity of nations and quickly forward same to the National Assembly for urgent passage into fresh, workable and unambiguous laws!
THE WAR AGAINST CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA MUST REMAIN WHOLISTIC! Imagine if some American Judicial Council had placed some clog in the wheel of progress of the FBI in their regular sting operations, this world power would not always remain a reference point! A Word is enough for the Wise!

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

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

I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor. 08130669886, 08098194390.  08080243066   g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

IS NIGERIA'S LEGISLATURE THE "WEEPING OR THIEVING CHILD”?

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.
(Looking at Nigeria's Political System from a godly perspective). 

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 5. NO 165. 9th October, 2016.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

IS NIGERIA'S LEGISLATURE THE "WEEPING OR THIEVING CHILD”?

At every fora where the Nigerian Legislature fell under criticisms for inferior performances in the quality and content of its constitutional duties of law- making for the peace, order and good government of the Federation, the Nigerian Legislator never missed the opportunity to repeat the well-rehearsed parliamentary rhyme that; "Nigeria's Legislature was always the unfortunate weeping child of the three tiers of government in all past military aberration because it was usually prevented from functioning through the suspension of the Constitution." It is not in dispute that duties of the Legislature are very complex, intricate and deserve diligence, painstaking approach and dedication, but it is also very instructive for Nigerians to reject the doctrine that it has failed to perform optimally in its constitutional duties of law-making, investigations and oversights now because it was the "weeping child" which was stripped from performing its duties in almost 30 years of military rule, while both the Executive and the Judiciary functioned consistently and judiciously! Patriotic citizens do not need all the time in the world to prepare to serve their nations if they have sincere intentions!
Though Nigeria began its political experience as an independent and democratic nation in 1960, and though it was short-lived through military interregnum and that the First to the Third Legislative Assemblies failed, (in view of the coupists allegations of maladministration), yet those short periods were documented and would always remain in the annals of history as point of reference for present generation of Nigerians and for posterity! We strongly believe that intending legislators should have prepared adequately for the enormous task ahead through sound political education and orientation; though they might not have monopoly of continuity except that they were re- elected and such checks would always throw up fresh and new entrants who would have to learn the ropes in the arena of legislative environment from the beginning, yet, such unavoidable process should not diminish the quality of service and the purposeful and patriotic determination to serve the nation with diligence!

THE WEEPING CHILD OF MILITARY COUPS!
Nigeria experienced SIX military coups in 56 years of its independence as a nation during which the LEGISLATURE was usually castrated and the CONSTITUTION suspended to make way for martial laws and military dictatorship! At such periods all forms of politicking remained banned and suspected defiants were hunted and detained at the mercy of the Head of State while some stooges and boot lickers were hand picked to support military aberration, excesses and abuse of the rule of law, from among the civil servants for executive convenience and members of the JUDICATURE, to support "kangaroo justice"!
At the restoration of the present democratic experience which has now clocked over 17 years, Legislators still felt short-changed and had to make up for all salaries, allowances, emoluments etc, which eluded them for about 30 years and the ripple effects of their greed have been reflected in annual gaguantous appropriation, now at N150 billion naira as RUNNING COST, which has wiped out all their tears as most of them have become multi-millionaires and billionaires within the very short period! The Constitutution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,1999, Constitution approves 360 Geo-Political Constituency legislators for the House of Representatives, (HOR), and 109 Senators for the Upper Chamber, to jointly make laws for good governance of the nation but recent revelations of financial recklessness in the HOR by a ranking member, have confirmed several years of speculations and allegations of a secret Appropriation Office, which was not subjected to Revenue Mobilisation Allocation And Fiscal Commission's (RMAFC), scrutiny or control! The former Clerk of the National Assembly, Mr. Maikasuwa, who was jointly charged with Senators Saraki and Ekweremadu, in the celebrated forgery case of the Senate House Rules, was ordered by an Abuja High Court, in March 2015, to make available to a Non-Government Organisation, Legal Defence and Assistance Project (LEDAP), NASS SECRETIVE CONSTITUENCY ALLOWANCES earned by Nigerian Lawmakers, but because he appealed the judgement, the matter was yet to be put to rest!

However, the Editorial Board of the weekly Zion B-BC Newsletter wish to draw attention of the TALAKAWAS - the TAX PAYERS and the ELECTORATE - to the following revelations by Abdulmumin Jibrin, a ranking member and an insider in the House of Representatives whom the LORD has opened his mouth to expose the rot of financial mismanagement in the hallowed House, even at this austere period of national economic recession because  his uncontrollable outbursts are the answers to our several prayers and supplications to the Almighty God over institutional impunity in government! The unedited version of his submissions to the WORLD are reproduced below unedited:

"HOW WE SHARED NIGERIA MONEY BY HON. Abdulmumin JUBRIN "I got N650 million as my running cost as the Chairman of Appropriation Committee. Speaker Yakubu Dogara got N1.5 billion, His Deputy Yusuf Lasun got N800 million. House Majority Leader Femi Gbajabiamila got N1.2 billion; Deputy Majority Leader Buba Jibrin got N1.2 billion. House Whip Alhassan Ado Doguwa got N1.2 billion, Deputy House Whip got N700 million. House Minority Leader Leo Ogor got N1.2 billion, Deputy Minority Leader Onyema got N800 million. Minority Whip got N700 million, Deputy Minority Whip got N700 million. I have documents to back up all these.

"TO ALL HONOURABLE MEMBERS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ABUJA.
My dear Colleagues, BURDEN OF PROOF OF EVIDENCE: RUNNING COST OF HONOURABLE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
"I wish to draw your attention to the fact that since you suspended me yesterday and the suggestion of the Ethics Committee report that my allegations were generalized and without proof, I have come under intense public scrutiny and pressure to prove that there exists systemic corruption in the House. I have taken it as a responsibility to prove to the public that the House is a den of systemic corruption. As colleagues, I have bound with many of you and built a life long friendship.
"I have some of you that I hold in high esteem. If you end up at the receiving end of the actions I will be taking up in the next few days, I want you to know there is nothing personal but commitment and fervent desire to ensure that corruption is wiped out of the House and reforms that will restore the battered image of the House and take back the House to the Nigerian people is implemented. Consequent upon the above and before I proceed with the aggressive steps I intend to take, I hereby DEMAND that if you have illegally taken or stolen any money meant for the RUNNING COST OF YOUR OFFICES FOR YOUR ENTIRE STAY IN THE HOUSE, YOU SHOULD RETURN THE MONEY WITHIN ONE WEEK TO THE CLERK OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND FOR THE PURPOSE OF CLARITY, I AM REFERRING TO ABOUT 10 MILLION NAIRA YOU COLLECT FROM TAX PAYERS' MONEY MONTHLY. THE CLERK WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH OFFICIAL ACCOUNT DETAILS, FAILURE OF WHICH I WILL TAKE NECESSARY ACTION TO ENSURE THAT YOU RETURN ANY MONEY STOLEN AND STAND WITNESS AGAINST YOU IN CASE OF PROSECUTION.

"I have written to the Clerk of the National Assembly to stand by in anticipation. In the face of the revenue challenges and biting hardship the country is currently facing, there is no better time the country needs such money than now. In the case of the Presiding and Principal Officers, in addition to my demand in this letter which applies to them too, I have written them yesterday and gave them 72 hours ULTIMATUM to make public the total amount they have received as running cost in their entire stay in the House, failure of which I will proceed with necessary legal action to compel them to make the total amount each of them have received public. There are other issues of monumental corruption in the House that I will be raising in the following weeks which we must all deal with, but first let’s get done with this one.
"Thank you. God bless. Hon Abdulmumin Jibrin Ph.D, MBA. APC-Kano, Kiru-Bebeji Federal Constituency, Kano."

URGENT SOLUTIONS NEEDED TO MOVE THE NATION FORWARD!
Nigerians from all walks of life had always played lip service to the agitation for the blockage of  wastages of funds by the three tiers of government but from these developments, which are so glaring to all TALAKAWAS that they were being taken for a ride by their so-called representatives, it was high time that drastic measures was taken by President Buhari and his determined Change Team to attack this malaise frontally, by instructing crime detection agencies of government, who already have copies of Jibrin's Petitions, to swing into action, recover all fraudulently-acquired monies from the now SMILLING LEGISLATORS, and prosecute all who are found culpable in the shameful racket!
We also suggest that there could not be a better time than this, for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), to propose a bill for a BI-CAMERAL LEGISLASTIVE HOUSE, which will consist of only TWO REPRESENTATIVES from each State of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), and which will be remunerated according to the Civil Service Financial Regulations, so that only patriotic and genuine citizens would go into politics to serve their nation. It is also expedient for the Nigerian government at this austere period of economic recession to mop up all exposed illicit monies stashed abroad by Nigerians and those yet to be recovered from fraudulent politicians at home as exposed by Hon. Jibrin, to shore up and fill all deficits in the 2016 Budget as it works assiduously to defeat the temporary economic set back. As it is written, "Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach unto any people." (Proverbs.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, https://www.google.com/+zionfaithbiblebelievingchurch.
If you have not accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour, don’t miss this great opportunity as you pray this prayer: Lord Jesus; I confess that I am a sinner who needs to be saved through the grace of the New Testament of your Blood, shed on the Cross at Calvary; I renounce every sin in my life and accept you as my Lord and Saviour. Please forgive me and write my name in the Book of Life. Amen. If you prayed this prayer, you have been admitted into the family of sons and daughters of God, who are born-again. Congratulations.

I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor. 08130669886, 08098194390.  08080243066   g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

NIGERIA'S KORAHS, DATHANS, AND ABIRAMS WILL PERISH, SAY'S THE LORD OF HOST

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  (Looking at Nigeria's Political System From a godly perspective).

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 5. NO 164. 2nd October, 2016.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

NIGERIA'S KORAHS, DATHANS, AND ABIRAMS WILL PERISH, SAY'S THE LORD OF HOST!

[IN COMMEMORATION OF NIGERIA'S 56TH INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY]

Korah, Dathan and Abiram were real Jewish characters of the Old Testament Bible times who conspired to truncate God's plan of piloting the Israelites through a vast wilderness expanse of land after rescuing them from over 400 years of servitude in Egypt, into a land flowing with milk and honey, under the leadership of Prophets Moses and Aaron! They challenged the authority of the duo and claimed that they were better endowed to lead the over 1.2 million liberated people to the Promised Land and went ahead to recruit 250 accomplices to support their inordinate ambition. Nigeria is presently contending with renegades who could be aptly described as Korahs, Dathans and Abirams as it celebrates 56 years as an independent nation, in the form of a disorganized opposition party members who had neither recovered from the stupor of a disgraceful defeat at the 2015 polls, nor the shame of wallowing in the mire of their failed boastings of ruling the nation forever!
Their main strategy was to create a furore within the anointed ruling Party of President  Muhamadu Buhari and his Vice, Professor 'Yemi Osinbajo, through rumours that would pitch long-time compatriots against themselves in an imaginary power tussle that would eventually destroy long-time friendship and by extension crumble the Party structure! These, renegade egotists have forgotten that they were under God's surveillance and sovereign control which limited their moral independence to strategize or take decision against divine verdict which could  neither be contested nor appealed! They were unmindful to commit life's uncertainty into divine care but carnally proposed to ruin God's plan of deploying His divinely appointed team of Buhari and his cabinet to take Nigeria through the present economic challenges into an era of buoyancy!
The biblical expose of egotism is expressed as follows: "Today or tomorrow, we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell and get gain. Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say if the Lord will, we shall live, and do this or that. But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. "(James.4:13-16). Man's allegiance and loyalty MUST always be to the sovereign God who has the prerogative over life and death over all of His creation as enunciated above. Egotists unlike animals do have perfect comprehension of the existence of the living God, but deliberately decided to sideline His necessary spiritual contribution to assist their carnal weaknesses which are diametrically opposed to divine expectations from man, because they are selfish, self-centred, and excessively conceited. Man got into the world but pretended to forget his source of origin as the handiwork of the divine Potter who could make or mar him but instead pursued a desperate agenda in the rat race for transient Money and Power Game, as against God's injunction of: " BUT SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD, AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS; AND ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE ADDED UNTO YOU"(Matthew. 6:33).

There was Divine intervention in the general elections which took place in Nigeria in April 2015 and swept out a 16-year-old very corrupt government of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which boasted of ruling the Lord's nation for at least 60 years without interruption; but to the astonishment of patriotic Nigerians, the egotist party, in spite of all court actions in respect of outright embezzlement of public funds against most of its members and the discovery of various forms of officially-aided institutional corruption , have remained unrepentant renegades who still proudly believed they would regain, power at the Federal level in 2019 through an agenda of mudslinging, acrimonies and calumnies against the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Party!
PDP's agents of destabilization needed to be reminded of what happened to those who     ganged up against Moses and his Assistant, Priest Aaron, just as they have done against President  Buhari and Professor 'Yemi Oshinbajo, to chastise, intimidate, harass, persecute and discredit them before the masses of Nigerians who adore them and believe in their antecedents and pedigrees to take the nation out of  the present economic quagmire which was initially created through consecutive maladministration of previous PDP Governments! Messrs Korah, Dathan and Abiram, according, to the Book of Numbers. 16:1-50, strongly believed they could wrestle the divinely-apportioned power of leadership from God’s chosen vessels and brazenly challenged them to a worship encounter of igniting hallowed censers before the LORD, forgetting that the weapons of warfare of the duo of Moses and Aaron were: "not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. Casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity every thought to the OBEDIENCE OF GOD?" (2 Corinthians. 10:4-5).
It is instructive to quote Prophet Moses' prediction before the contest - a prediction that came to pass in the process of the audacious and baseless confrontation which camped him, Aaron and the rest of the congregation against the rebels and their 250 supporters:"And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of my own mind. "If these men die the common death of all men or if they be visited after the visitation of all men, then the LORD hath not sent me.”But if the LORD make a new thing and the earth open her mouth and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD." As Moses made and end of his speech, "the ground clave asunder that was under them. And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. "They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them and they perished from among the congregation."(Verses 28-33)

Just like Korah, Dathan and Abiram, a group of PDP opposition party members who are very desperate to "grab power" in 2019 at all cost, and have lost all sense of decorum, decency and the fear of GOD, have ganged up to: FIRST, dismiss the incumbent government as a failure because of the current economic recession which is being addressed and is gradually picking up through diversification into other sectors of the economy, especially agriculture; SECOND, they have begun to sow seed of discord among loyal APC members in the National Assembly (NASS), because of the ongoing trial of Senators Saraki and Ekweremadu, over allegations of the Senate House Rules forgery. THIRD, as we had predicted, the grand plan of massive defection from APC to the PDP  by the MIXED MULTITUDE, which aligned to form APC before the 2015 General Elections as a convenient platform to fulfil their political ambitions, is now being hatched and orchestrated to lure faithful  members to jump ship by the desperate group who, through a campaign of calumny, have broken the ruling party into THREE FACTIONS; - BolaTinubu/Atiku camp, Saraki/PDP caucus and Oyegun/ Aregbesola camp, - which is the  only one believed to be loyal to President Muhammadu Buhari and his Vice. FOURTH, the desperate group has accused President Buhari of a Northern hidden agenda to perpetrate all forms of Islamic ideologies into the polity, in the areas of political appointments which favoured the North more than the South and also claimed that since he would not contest the 2019 Presidential Elections, he had an anointed disciple in the person of Nasir El-Rufai, whom he believed would continue to perpetrate the agenda; FIFTH, the Atiku faction has incensed Tinubu to fight dirty in the public in respect of  the  controversial primaries which threw up Barrister Akeredolu (SAN), as against Tinubu's anointed cadidate, Dr Olusegun Abraham who is ready to head for the courts to "retrieve his mandate”. This faction also deceived Asiwaju Tinubu that he had been used and dumped by Buhari whom he "single-handedly made President of Nigeria". Haba! SIXTH, the subtle interest of the inordinate ambition of former Vice President Abubakar Atiku, to become Nigeria's President in 2019 was being surreptitiously festered underground in a back-stabbing manner against President Buhari, through the same strategy which he employed in 2003 against former President Obasanjo, but failed!

It is only ONE-AND-A-HALF-YEARS into the Change Administration's tenure and the macabre scenario as enunciated above are truly on ground to destabilize the CHANGE AGENDA (NIGERIA'S ONLY GAIN IN 56 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE), because of  the inordinate ambitions of Nigeria's Korah, Dathan, Abiram and their cohorts, who should now know that the same GOD, who destroyed the enemies  of progress during the  time of Moses and Aaron in Old Testament Bible times, is still  the same GOD who controls  the affairs, seasons and times of men NOW in the 21st Century Nigeria! LET GOD ARISE AND LET HIS ENEMIES BE SWALLOWED UP INTO THE BELLY OF THE EARTH! Amen

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

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

I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor. 08130669886, 08098194390.  08080243066   g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

MUST NIGERIA CLOSE HER BORDERS OR DISPOSE CRITICAL INFRASRTUCTURES TO SURVIVE ECONOMIC RECESSION?

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER. (Looking at Nigeria's Political System from a godly perspective).  

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 5. NO 163. 25th September, 2016.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).   

MUST NIGERIA CLOSE HER BORDERS OR DISPOSE CRITICAL INFRASRTUCTURES TO SURVIVE ECONOMIC RECESSION?  

Nigeria's National Assembly (NASS), resumed plenary after eight weeks recess and the two chambers went in different directions that barely had relevant contents to improve the state of the economy which is in a temporary recession! The Senate, in an attempt to outsmart the Executive, through Senate President, 'Bukola Saraki, proffered that outright sales of critical government infrastructures would assuage the challenges of the present economic recession. The House of Representatives (HOR), on its part went into a rowdy session when Hon .Aminu Jibrin, the arrow head of the HOR 2016 Budget Padding, raised a motion and insisted that some major principal officers, including the Speaker and the Majority Leader, should step down to make way for proper investigation into his several unproved allegations against Speaker Dogara and others! But while NASS was on recess, the grapevine rumored that the Federal Government toyed with the idea of raising funds through the sales of some very active and strategic infrastructures, like the NNPC, NLNG and or the AJAOKUTA STEEL INDUSTRY, to beef up dwindling revenues from crude oil! Though government had neither confirmed nor denied the rumours making the rounds, it is instructive to note that members of the National Economic Council (NEC), are working round the clock to maintain the tempo of revenue gains from the non-oil export earnings in the agricultural, mineral resources, industrial, manufactured/food products, and transport sectors, whose productive capacities have been enhanced since the much serious drive for diversification from crude oil! And according to an authoritative Presidency source, if such a drive was ever considered by government, there would definitely be a provision for the “buy-back" option when the economy improved! Saraki who submitted that, Executive should raise capital from assets and others sources to shore up foreign reserves had been widely criticized by sound economists who believed that such policy would tantamount to robbing unborn generation of Nigerians of their inalienable national heritage of immense economic values when other options through diversification were already yielding fruits! The HOR on their part adjourned plenary last Thursday, 20th September, 2016, without meaningful debates on neither the state of nation nor of the economy!  

CLOSE THE BORDERS NOW?

Other economists and political pundits claimed that a drastic approach, like what the Chinese and Korean Socialists countries which "closed their borders" to other nations, adopted between the 19th-20th Century to  forcibly entrench socialist ideologies on a largely illiterate population, could work for Nigeria of the 21stcentury, as an option instead of discarding critical assets for pittance to political predators who are waiting on the wings to buy them with their illicit gains from OIL MONEY! According to these schools of thought, Nigerians must henceforth embrace Nigerian products and shun any form of importation in all forms in order to allow local industries to thrive with the campaign slogan drive of, “What we don’t produce, we don’t need!”  

What Are The Options Left To Salvage The Economy?

First it is important for all patriotic Nigerians to believe that the recession challenges are temporary and would be surmounted sooner than envisaged. Second, advocacy in respect of the true perspective and position of the recession must be explained by the federal government through all its information media and orientation agencies to the grass root and solicit for patience and perseverance. Third, concerted efforts should be employed by all stakeholders in the economy to stop the wastage of precious funds through criminal vandalization of the crude oil commercial pipelines in the Niger Delta Region of the country because, acts of terrorism of any dimension would always KILL THE ECONOMY of any nation; no matter the number of its natural assets! Fourth, purposeful efforts should be made to maintain the tempo of agricultural export products which had begun to pick up towards the tail end of the second quarter with encouraging statistics released by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), recently. Jigawa State, according to reports had taken the lead to produce seven "Agriculture millionaires""within the past one year through bumper harvests which accrued to them for embracing generous loans from the Nigeria Bank of Industry (NBI), and that all cash crops had reduced with at least 30% in prices! We solicit an aggressive replication of the Jigawa State example in all states of the federation for the diversification policy to agricultural, minerals, industry, mining, textiles, etc. to be pursued by governors with patriotic zeal.  

To Stop All Forms Of Insurrection And Save The Economy, All Illicit Arms Must Be Recovered And Confiscated By Federal And State Governments!  

The perennial challenge of illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW), again drew global attention at the recently concluded, 71st United Nations General Assembly, in New York, from19th – 24th September, 2016, when Nigeria's President, Muhammadu Buhari, solicited the collective resolve of other Head of States and Governments, to beat back terrorism in all its forms No one could have been in a better position to court the co-operation of his fellow world leaders than President Buhari in whose domain lie 70% of SALW in the West African sub-region inspite of the global movement against gun violence!
There was public outcry in August 2016, by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), when news broke out that there was in Nigeria, stockpile of SALW of an alarming 350million, out of the 500 million discovered to be hosted by the entire ECOWAS countries of the West Africa sub-region, and it was yet to be established that collective regional embargo had produced any meaningful impact against the terrifying menace! Judging by the activities of terrorists and militant groups within the ECOWAS countries, one was bound to wish that more stringent measures be employed by concerned governments in unison to block and man the porous borders of their territories. Beginning with Nigeria, other countries on the West African coasts, like Mali, Togo, Cote d'Ivoire, apart from hosting large proportions of SALW, are still being infiltrated by armed groups which caused social, infrastructural, economic and collateral damages, each time they struck! The outcry of August 2016, was sequel to the alarming revelation of arms stockpile in Nigeria during the United Nations Regional Peace and Disarmament In Africa, and Presidential Committee (PRESCOM), Summit on Small Arms and Light Weapons, held in Abuja, which also disclosed that SALW were in the hands of non-state actors who used the weapons to threaten lives and properties of their compatriots.

According to a Daily Trust report, three   inadequacies were identified as responsible for the outrageous statistics: (1). Ineffective management of the nation's porous borders; (2).Stock pile mismanagement by security agencies, where weapons meant for government work were lent or sold to armed robbers and non- state agents and (3) Obsolete laws used in regulating the arms.    The current law against prohibitive arms and ammunition in Nigeria is still the 1958 Colonially-inherited and archaic Fire Arms Act which prescribed inadequate penalties for offenders in a 21st Century "wild wild west", scenario! Way back in 1966, following the January military coup de tat of Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, when violence was introduced into an otherwise peaceful communities of Nigeria through the proliferation of SALW, from internal and external vendors due to the elongated 60month-old- Biafra war, armed robberies rapidly gained momentum while internal security was thrown to the dogs! When "democracy" was briefly allowed a space between 1979-1983, the party with the highest numbers of SALW held sway at the pools through ballot boxes snatching and political brigandage that was totally alien to the electorate and Nigeria was forcibly admitted into the global union of insecure nations! Porous borders of which Nigeria can boast of over 400 of them, had been identified as the major entry points through which the SALW find their ways unhindered to spit fire and snuff out lives of innocent citizens who had always been the unfortunate victims of the maladministration in all governments - military or civilian, but unpatriotic security agents also regularly connived with arms merchants to smuggle in the weapons of mass destruction into the country for pecuniary advantages!

If three hundred and fifty million of the five hundred million illegal arms on the West African coast are hidden in Nigeria, should anyone be surprised about the high rates of crime and criminality in which sophisticated arms were usually employed to confront security agents with much professional audacity! Until the advent of the APC Government, under the determined leadership of President Buhari, Boko Haram boasted of taking over the North East Nigeria and almost did! Kidnappers and assassins are on the rampage in every state of the federation; the Niger Delta Region is under heavy bombardment of several militant groups who are bent on destroying the economy because PDP was no longer on power!

If government ever decided to dispose assets as being proposed, they should be sold through shares to masses of the public who are the "hewers of the wood and drawers of the water"! The Word of God says, "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn". (Deuteronomy. 25:4) Common Nigerians have a stake in this government of Change and we strongly believe that President Buhari and his exemplary team, would not fail them! Amen.  

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

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

I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor. 08130669886, 08098194390.  08080243066   g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.