WHO IS NON-COMPLIANT TO THE "RULE OF LAW": EXECUTIVE OR JUDICIARY?

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. 8.NO 316. 1st September, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32). . PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

WHO IS NON-COMPLIANT TO THE "RULE OF LAW": EXECUTIVE OR JUDICIARY?

The fundamental rights of Nigerian citizens had assumed the derogatory pun as the "Ruse of Law", instead of the "Rule of Law" for various reasons ranging from injustices experienced by suspects during investigations of infringements of the law, prosecutions of offences, bail procedures, temporary remands at the correctional institutions and finally, the unrighteous role of the Judiciary which should serve as the last hope of the common man!

Rule of law should not be given a blanket criticism/condemnation when unfavourable to some persons or segments of the society because of its human rights value chain and the wider implication of its jurisdiction over every facet of human endeavour and MUST be recognized:
As the law which is fundamental, inalienable, and enforces human rights of the individual as stipulated in the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended;
That it should be recognised like the purveyor of freedom which must be prioritized through righteous  governance to ensure fair play, justice and equity to each citizen at every level of enforcement, investigation, prosecution and, or judgement;
That it is a system of law which guarantees innocence of individuals under investigation/prosecution until the contrary was proved at competent courts of jurisdiction;
That the law is applicable to all and sundry: litigants, appellants, accused persons, defendants, plaintiffs, respondents, the religious, the criminals, the rich/poor and all law-abiding citizens without exception;
And that in every true democracy, rule of law must act as the watchword to guide all socio-economic activities and establish the solid platform for crime-free societies where awareness and limitations of citizens rights are respected religiously!

CONTRAVENTION OF THE RULE OF LAW HAS COST NIGERIA TREMENDOUS BLOODSHED!
It is a decade down the line, (30th July, 2009 - 30th July, 2019), when the rule of law was denied to Boko Haram leader Mohammed Yusuf, who was reportedly killed in police detention after his arrest and hand-over by the Nigerian Army for investigation/prosecution in respect of offences of unlawful assembly, violent attacks on worship places, contravention of public order, etc. Following the alleged extra-judicial killing, his lieutenants/followers swore to avenge his death through insurgency and all manners of brigandage which resulted in terrorist acts of suicide bombing and mass kidnappings for ransoms! Not less than 100,000 persons have lost their lives, while billions of naira worth of strategic properties lost to the avoidable calamities! If the rule of law was applied to Yusuf and his followers, in 2009, the nation would have been spared the agony of human and economic disasters that were still ongoing!

URGENT ADVOCACY IS NEEDED NOW TO IMPLEMENT RULE OF LAW IN ALL FACETS OF LIFE!
Who should then be the expert or best qualified to interpret the tenets of the Rule of Law and legal processes of Criminal Jurisprudence in Nigeria other than the practitioners under the aegis of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), whose affirmative submission at their recent 59th Annual General Conference held in Lagos between Friday 23rd to Thursday, 29th August, 2019, was a consensus vote that, "the rule of law must be entrenched and given the prominence it deserved as the priority policy of the Federal Republic of Nigeria!" Being an annual event poised to ensure clientele professional satisfaction, practitioners at the 2019 edition deliberated on the trending national discussion on the danger threatening smooth execution of citizens fundamental rights in respect all the "freedoms" as enshrined in Chapter IV, Section 33(1)46(1)(4)(a)(b)(i)(ii) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Current Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Barrister Paul Usoro, SAN, said during the Conference week that the ruling government of the All Progressives Congress (APC), could not be totally condemned for disobedience to the practice of rule of law, because in some cases, it was compliant.

The Chairman is also a beneficiary of the rule of law because in spite of being prosecuted for alleged money laundering fraud charge of the sum of N1.4 billion naira, he is presumed innocent and remains the Chief Executive of the body until the contrary is proven!  APC was rule of law compliant in the case of el Zakzaki and wife, who were allowed to travel to India for medical treatment; it was compliant when the courts ruled that it had no candidates in the Rivers Governorship/Election and Zamfara Governorship/National Assembly Elections/State House of Assembly Elections, which ultimately favoured the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

VARIOUS COMPLAINTS AGAINST GOVERNMENT ON VIOLATIONS OF RULE OF LAW!
Legal practitioners. pressure groups, NGO's, CSO's etc, are quick to accuse governments at all levels of deliberate disobedience to courts orders and thereby violating the doctrine and the rule of law and by extension, the fundamental rights of several individuals! Although leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, (IMN),  el Zakzaki and his are now enjoy bail facility, retired Col. Sambo Dasuki, who is facing charges of economic sabotage, money laundering, arms possession, in stilll in DSS custody in spite of many court judgements in his favour since 2015, because Government claims that NATIONAL INTEREST SUPERSEDES THE RULE OF LAW?

CULPABLE JUDGES AND LAWYERS!
In 2014, during a lecture titled "Nigeria at Centenary: A Nation in Bondage", a retired President of the Court of Appeal, in a very passionate indictment, claimed that the Judiciary was riddled with corrupt elements especially among those who called the shots at the Nigerian Judicial Council (NJC), and added that some dishonourable people, " not fit to be judges and senior lawyers, got into the system, made it the highest level of 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 acted as "arranges" 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 whosoever voiced the truth was marked for destruction"!
THESE REVELATIONS WERE MADE LONG BEFORE THE "STING OPERATION" CARRIED OUT BY THE DSS ON 8TH/9TH OCTOBER 2016, ON SOME JUDGES WHO HAD BEEN UNDER WATCH BY THE LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY!

Eight months after that operation, described as unheard of, unprecedented and unlawful by detractors of the WAR AGAINST CORRUPTION, even though they are aware that Judges were not above the LAW, one of the accused persons, Justice Adeniyi Ademola, was DISCHARGED AND ACQUITTED by his fraternal colleague on the BENCH following a "NO CASE SUBMISSION" by the defence counsel and was set free to go home to enjoy the sweat of his labours and RESUME AT HIS DESK for business as usual!
He was among the SEVEN Justices investigated after that STING OPERATION carried out by the DSS on 8/9th October, 2016.He and his wife Olabowale and Mr. Joe Agi, SAN, were arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes (EFCC), prosecutors on an 18- count charge bordering on criminal conspiracy to receive gratification in various ways contrary to Section 8( 1)(a) of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000 and items recovered from his home included the following: Large sums of money in foreign currencies; $121.279 US Dollars, 400 Euros, 110 Indian Rupees, £80 pounds sterling totalling several millions of naira and also TWO PUMP ACTION RIFLES!
During his trial at the law court, evidences were adduced that the Judge transferred N175 million in TWO TRANCHES in N90 million and N85 million respectively to a property company through a Nigerian Bank and was also admitted in evidence that a litigant standing trial before the Judge bought a car worth over N7 million naira for Mr. Ademola junior!  That was not all, while the fate of ONE female Judge who was also on trial – Justice Ajumogobia, was yet to be decided, SIX Judges, who were about to be formally charged, were SUDDENLY RECALLED AND ASSIGNED TO DUTY POSTS BY THE NIGERIA JUDICIAL COUNCIL (NJC), who, arbitrarily decided that EFCC failed to file charges against them, months after their arrest and suspension!

WHAT ROLE HAS THE RULE OF LAW PLAYED IN ALL OF THE ABOVE? SHOULD CRIMINAL JURISPRUDENCE AND THE PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE TAKE ITS FULL COURSE WHEN NATIONAL INTEREST IS AT STAKE?

WHO DETERMINES WHAT CONSTITUTES NATIONAL INTEREST: EXECUTIVE OR JUDICIARY?
Defense of "National Interest" according to the Executive arm of government's understanding, constitutes total clamp down on clandestine initiatives/plans conceived and to be hatched by persons with ulterior dispositions in order to perpetrate criminal acts that could destabilize an otherwise peaceful environment with a view to causing confusion, danger, civil disobedience, anarchy or insurgency to innocent citizens, while the Judiciary believes that national interest should constitute total execution of the rule of law which would subdue and nip in the bud any form of disgruntled citizens insurrection!
Either way, both arms should unite to correct all existing flaws in the existing Constitution with a view to preparing the platform for a Constituent Assembly of eminent citizens who will fashion a BRAND NEW and unambiguous Constitution for Nigeria! "A house divided against itself shall fall!" 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.

MINISTERS WHO FEEL SUPERIOR TO CHIEF OF STAFF SHOULD TAKE A BOW AND EXIT!

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. 8.NO 315. 25th August, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32). . PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

MINISTERS WHO FEEL SUPERIOR TO CHIEF OF STAFF SHOULD TAKE A BOW AND EXIT!

DURING his first term in office, the Presidential Villa, Aso Rock, was turned into a sort of "Mecca",   because President Buhari had to play the neutral arbiter and father of the nation, always on hand to settle feuds between elected/political appointees who, in spite of designated powers, failed to appreciate their high pedestal! But this time around, he had given marching orders to checkmate the influx of the Toms, Dicks and Harrys, whom his Chief of Staff (COS), must now properly screen for appointments to avoid administrative distractions!
In a statement at the conclusion of a two-day induction retreat for 43 ministers-designate, presidential aides, and other top government functionaries, on Tuesday, 20th August, 2019, the President was very categorical that he would not entertain an extension for frivolities in his second term as he enjoined the ministers to hit the ground and work for the People of Nigeria, from whom they DERIVE THEIR POWERS to function!
"In terms of co-ordination, kindly ensure that all submissions for my attention or meeting requests be CHANNELLED through the Chief of Staff, while all Federal Executive Council matters be co-ordinated through the Secretary to the Government of the Federation," said the President unequivocally. He also urge the new ministers to engage and benefit from the experience of the older ministers and former governors in the cabinet, because FOUR years is "not a very long time"! The ministers were eventually inaugurated and assigned portfolios on Wednesday, 21st August, 2019, about THREE MONTHS into the new administration.
BUT most critics faulted the presidential directive and described it as high-handed, despotic and very unconstitutional as it has reduced ministers into serfdom/subjection of an oligarchic government!
Further in his address, the President confirmed that solutions that would address collaborative, purposeful and quicker results in actualising a more prosperous Nigeria in the areas of adequate security, macro-economic stability through agriculture and food security, the anti corruption war, industrialisation, energy security for petroleum products/electricity, transportation SMEs, human capital development for social inclusion, transportation, housing, financing and consumer credit facilities for a greater percentage of POOR PEOPLE, were fully researched/discussed at the retreat and must be implemented for them to access regular good/nutritional food, quality education for their children, including affordable healthcare for their families without delay!
He also assured Nigerians that solid foundations for progress had been established through the recapture of 18 Local governments previously held by Boko Haram in the North East  while revamping of decayed infrastructures through investments in Road and Rail infrastructures, diversification of the economy from Oil towards Agriculture and Industrialization in spite of the sordid state of the economy and the huge legacy debts bequeathed to his administration in 2015, were pursued with dedicated/patriotic vigour!

THOSE who have criticised the seemingly derogatory directive to the ministers had freedom of expression but no rights to stop the President who, according to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Chapter VI, Sections 147 (1) - (6) and 148 (1) (2) (a) - (c), possess the prerogative and absolute authority to hire whom to work with, dictate contract terms, conditions of service and duration! For instance, the President could, at any time during the "marriage", revise the terms, reshuffle the cabinet or even FIRE those performing below expectations without infringing "pre-nuptial agreements",  because in the final analysis, ACCOUNTABILITY WOULD BE DEMANDED FROM HIM BY THE PEOPLE WHO VOTED HIM TO POWER AND NOT HIS APPOINTEES!

CHIEF OF STAFF SHOULD NOT BE MADE THE SCAPE GOAT!
Eighty-one-year old Abba Kyari, (OON), a two-time Chief of Staff to President Buhari, is no mean personality.  He was educated at the Universities of Cambridge and Warwick, attended the Nigerian Law School, Lagos and International Institute for Management Development, (IMD), Harvard Business School and possesses a Masters degree; first appointed to the position on 27th August 2015 and his main pre-occupation was always  to organize the daily presidential itineraries and ensuring that his principal was well-informed in advance to avoid administrative negligence or diplomatic blunders; and ensure perfect/ingenious security network within the entire presidential complex! He is naturally unassuming; he is a silent backstage worker whose immense contributions could not be wished away for good governance!
During his first tenure, he caved under much pressure from all directions of the polity; from  appointed ministers, secretary to government, heads of service and parastals, political jobbers in the corridors of power, high profile contractors, captains of industries, organised labour, lobbyists, protesters, etc, etc., because it was the first term of his principal after a long break from martial governance! The President then, had to be very accommodative as he converted to a new trajectory in democracy but this time around he has barred them all from barging into the Villa as if it were a Village Square where the "baale" had no prerogative!

WOULD ABBA KYARI HAVE MERCY ON THE AGGRIEVED?
What would be the fate of the thousands of thousands of petitioners who can only communicate their president through the mails when the men of timber and calibre were barred from free access to the Aso Rock Office? We have it on credible authority that Mr. President was always oblivious to the pains of the aggrieved from one administration to another because documented petitions ended in COS trash bins - in most cases without any form of acknowledgement, even when the addressee was personalized! We want to believe that the presidential directive was a BLANKET CHEQUE to deprive aggrieved citizens from seeking redress from their CHIEF SERVANT who promised to cater for their welfare at all times!

THE BREAKDOWN OF THE CABINET AND PORTFOLIOS!
The list contained 14 former ministers, 29 new names consisting 7 females. The 14 ministers retained their portfolios - Federal Capital Territory, Labour and Employment, Education, Science and Technology, Health, Foreign Affairs, Water Resources; Finance, Aviation, Justice, Information and Culture, Works and Housing, Transportation. Osagie Ehanire (Edo State was) - was made substantive Minister of Health while, Mustapha Babs Shehuri (Bornu State) - was moved from Power, Works and Housing as Minister of State, to Agriculture and Rural Development, in the same capacity.

NEW MINISTERS: Dr. Ikechukwu Ogah (Abia State), Minister of State, Mines and Steel Development; Sharon Ikeazor (Anambra State), -Minister of State, Environment; Ambassador Katagun (Bauchi State), - Minister of State, Industry, Trade and Investment; Clement Ike, (Edo State) - Minister, Budget and National Planning; Isa Pantami, (Gombe State) - Minister of Communications; Emeka Nwajiuba, (Imo State) -Minister of State, Education; Muhammad Mahmood, (Kaduna State) - Minister of Envirionment; Sabo Nanono, (Kano State) - Minister of Agriculture and Development; Major General Bashir Salihi Magashi, (Kano State) - Minister of Defence; Ramatu, Tijjani (Kogi State) - Minister of State, Federal Capital Territory (FCT); Goddy Jedi Agba, (Cross River) - Minister of State, Power; Mohammed H. Abdulahi, (Nasarawa State) - Minister of State, Science and Technology; Zubair Dada, (Niger State) - Minister of State, Foreign Affairs; Sunday Dare, (Oyo State) - Minister of Youths and Sports; Maigarai Dingyadi, (Sokoto State) - Minister of Police Affairs; a brand new Ministry Sale Mamman, (Taraba State) - Minister of Power; Abubakar D. Aliyu, (Yobe State) - Minister of State, Works and Housing; Sadiya Umar Faruk, (Zamfara State) - Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development; a brand new Ministry.

FORMER GOVERNORS AND SENATORS: Ex-Governor Timipre Sylva, new Minister of State, Petroleum under the President; Ex-Governor/serving Senator George Akume (Benue State), Minister of new Ministry of Special Duties; Ex-Governor Richard Adeniyi Adebayo, (Ekiti State) - Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment; Ex-Senator, Gbemisola Saraki, (Kwara State) - Minister of State, Transportation; Ex-Senator, Adeleke Mamora, (Lagos State) - Minister of State, Health; Olamilekan Adegbite, (Ogun State) - Minister of Mines and Steel Development; 'Tayo Alasoadura, (Ondo State) - Minister of State, Labour;  Paulen Talen, Ex Deputy Governor (Plateau State) - Minister of Women Affairs;

EXPECTATIONS FROM THE NEW SQUAD OF LUCKY MARSHALS!
They should take the assignment as an opportunity to serve Nigerians righteously NOT because it was their TURN to share the NATIONAL CAKE! Nigerians MUST watch and monitor them very closely - especially - former governors and ministers who are back in the saddle to continue where they stopped in the first term and might likely relax! Their first task is to ensure that Nigeria attained recognition as one of the 20 economically-viable country in the year 2020 and also achieve the lofty ideals of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), for African nations. Equally important is the fact that they MUST exhibit exemplary disposition: declare their assets on assumption of office, be content with their remunerations, avoid criminal tendencies through bribery and corruption and ensure they would not manipulate the Treasury Single Account (TSA), for illicit pecuniary gains!
RIGHTEOUSNESS EXALTS AN NATION; 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.

FOOD SECURITY IS THE PANACEA TO ECONOMIC EMANCIPATION/POVERTY ALLEVIATION!

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. 8.NO 314. 14th August, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32). . PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

FOOD SECURITY IS THE PANACEA TO ECONOMIC EMANCIPATION/POVERTY ALLEVIATION!

There was a time in the life of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, when prodigality occupied the centre stage and the common patrimony was converted to private possessions of some selfish few shortly after the "Biafra War" and the era of Oil Boom debuted! The hard currency flowed seamlessly into the coffers of successive military governments from the 70's into the 90's when they reluctantly handed over to the civilians in an arrangement which looked more of a Diarchy, because all the corrupt military generals could not take their hands off the TILL, and treasury-looting became the first sets of accredited government contractors through subtle intimidations of the new administration of 1999, headed by retired General Aremu Obasanjo, who perpetrated an import-driven economy!

They were all into the Oil and Gas, Export/Import of foreign merchandise, exotic foods, vintage wines, alcohols, tomato paste,  stock fish, canned fish, beverages, milk, rice, palm oil, vegetable oil fabrics, electronics, automobiles, motor bikes, electric cables, household utensils/furniture’s, even tooth picks, etc  all, to tightly keep the economy in their leach! And in all of those neo-colonialists manifestations, the downtrodden masses suffered deprivation of virtually all social amenities of electricity power, potable water, sanitation/drainage systems, motorable roads, adequate shelters, job opportunities, protection of life and property, etc!

During those periods of sufferings and deprivations one prominent civilian Commissioner in the North in the early 70's LATE ALHAJI UMARU DIKKO, philosophically SAID THAT THE TREND COULD STILL DEGENERATE TO CITIZENS PICKING GARBAGE’S FROM THE DUST BINS FOR SURVIVAL and quickly escaped to London the military could arrest him!!
HOW time changes! In the midst of those commotions, there was a divine intervention through one General who was preserved to change the unpalatable story line in the person of the incumbent second-term democratically elected President Muhammadu Buhari, who vehemently refused and resisted the successive and abusive prodigality of past administrations to entrench true federalism by returning the common wealth to the citizens through the very transparent, Treasury Single Account (TSA), which enshrines accountability as demanded by the Constitution and total war against corruption, violent crimes/criminalities, insurgency/terrorism, which were off-shoots of past maladministration’s!

From the inception of the first term, in 2015, aggressive diversification from the mono-foreign-exchange -earner product of crude oil to Agriculture engage the attention of the Change APC Administration under the watch of President Buhari, who ensured that all foreign goods that were detrimental and inimical to economic growth, were outrightly banned to give way for local manufacturers/industrialists, livestock and poultry farmers to thrive!

Therefore when self-appointed foreign economic growth global monitors of independent Republics announced in 2018 - that Nigeria was the "poverty capital" nation of the universe and detractors at home and the Diaspora chorused the rating to spite the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), government as if that verdict were the gospel truth, We debunked the unsolicited, unholy, abusive and detrimental ranting of the meddlesome interlopers as very incorrect, offensive and untruthful in our Vol. 7. No. 258 publication of 22nd July 2018.
CONSIDERING THE FACT THAT THE NIGERIA CAME OUT OF RECESSION EARLY IN THE YEAR 2018, WE BELIEVE THAT THOSE NIGERIANS WHO ORCHESTRATED THE POVERTY ANALYSIS BY UN (CCA), AND THE PROGRESSION CHART USED BY WORLD POVERTY CLOCK (WPC), TO DISCREDIT NIGERIA WERE VERY UNPATRIOTIC!

NIGERIA HAS ACHIEVED FOOD SECURITY!
On Tuesday13th August, 2019, the Executive President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, declared to the world that Nigeria had achieved food security and advised the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), to stop approval of foreign exchange (forex), allocations for food importation! His exact words: "Don't give a cent to anybody to import food into the country," but he later told critics that the forex ban was to improve agricultural production and attain full food security!
Prominent on the welfare policy of the ruling government is the aggressive diversification from crude oil, the only forex earner to agriculture, which attracted less investments, provided massive employment opportunities and produced credible, glaring and unhidden results for local/global testimonies!

In less than  two years of its first term, the APC Government in collaboration with willing States, lifted farmers fortunes beyond measures and no fewer than 16 millionaires emerged from Kebbi, Kano,  Jigawa, Ebonyi and Lagos States! Food Security is the AVAILABILITY AND ACCESS to food by all people - and according to the World Food Summit of 1996, such situation only existed when all people have that opportunity "to access at all times to sufficient,  safe,  nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life." We believe that food security or sufficiency for any nation tantamount to agrarian economic growth and by implication, a veritable avenue to poverty alleviation, which is a trending situation of the new Nigeria of our collective dreams!

THOSE WHO CHORUSED POVERTY ARE ALSO AGAINST FOOD SECURITY!
They said that the President had no right to stop forex on food importation in spite of the noticeable depletion of the nation's foreign exchange reserves!
That the Executive could only deal with fiscal policy alone and not monetary, a prerogative of the banking agency which was autonomous and independent of government's manipulation, according to the CBN Act 2007, that established it and accountable only to the National Assembly (NASS).
That the Executive President was restricted to only three areas in the administration of the apex bank, namely: approvals of (a) Annual declarations; (b) Currency designs; and External investments, which were in tandem with global best practices and principles.
They also argued that if such forex had to be stopped, it should be gradual because importers would sought for forex from other sources since importation of food was only banned from official forex allocation, and would therefore create inflation - especially after Nigeria became a signatory to the African Continental Free Trade Agreement in July 2019, which encourages tariff wavers!
IT is pertinent to digest the President's directives from the proper perspectives: first government’s concern was predicated on encouraging more investors to venture into farming while discouraging external competitions, opening opportunities for regular exportation of surpluses to needy nations  to speedily increase the depleting foreign reserves! FREE TRADE DOES NOT MEAN FORCED TRADE!
ALTHOUGH, all staple food items such as: rice, beans, millets, garri, soya beans, fish, milk, palm oil, etc, that are locally produced, have been totally banned from importation so that the local farmers could thrive, rich people could still import exotic foods and pay high tariffs to whet their luxurious/expensive tastes which they could easily afford and it should no longer be the concern of government to fund their vanities and frivolities! 

For the records, the concern of the APC administration from the onset to erase poverty in all forms, through adequate provision of strategic social intervention programmes is very much on track and had yielded positive economic results! But detractors want the President to fold his arms because of some administrative clauses of CBN's independence which have no structure in the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria!
PRESIDENT BUHARI HAS SUCCESSFULLY WORKED WITH THE CURRENT CBN's GOVERNOR, GODWIN EMEFUELE, APPOINTED BY PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S (PDP), EX-PRESIDENT, EBELE JONATHAN, IN 2014, AND HAS ALSO RE-APPOINT HIM FOR A SECOND FIVE-YEAR-TERM!
Will this same Emefuele - whom PDP's candidate in the 2019 Presidential Elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, boasted that he would sack immediately he was elected - begin to quote CBN's Act 2007, which encourages social intervention strategies and disobey the Presidential directive?

MORE INVESTMENTS NEEDED TO BOOST NIGERIA'S ECONOMIC GROWTH!
Was it not high time for Nigerian investors to divert more attention to the agriculture, mineral exploration, tourism, entertainment, the film industry, and the Art sectors; etc, to boost all economic derivables, encourage Nigerian-made products manufactured within Nigerian borders for export, acquire more forex and attain the much-sought-after-position among the 20-most-economically-viable nations of the world by the year 2020?
CHINA AND NOT AMERICA, SHOULD BY NOW BE NIGERIA'S ROLE MODEL IN RESPECT OF DETERMINED NATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THAT IS MASSES-ORIENTED AND PEOPLE-FRIENDLY BECAUSE FOOD INSUFFICIENCY WOULD NEGATE BOTH PHYSICAL AND ECONOMIC GROWTHS AND SUBSEQUENTLY BIRTH POVERTY AND CRIME - AN HUNGRY MAN IS SAID TO BE AN ANGRY MAN!

IF some Nigerians had sufficient food to eat in 2010, when the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was at its peak of corruption with impunity - A DEAD AND ROTTEN WHALE, WASHED ASHORE ON THE LAGOS BAR BEACH - would not have been aggressively attacked and bombarded with axes, cutlasses, machetes, jack knives, swords etc, by hungry people who had a field day in spite of warnings by the medics of consequences of health hazards!
FOOD SECURITY WOULD DEFINITELY ELIMINATE NOT ONLY POVERTY BUT ALSO UNEMPLOYMENT CHALLENGES IN ALL STATES OF THE FEDERATION!                                  

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.

SAHARA PUBLISHER GOT IT ALL WRONG: NIGERIA IS NEITHER SUDAN NOR EGYPT!

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. 8.NO 313. 13th August, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32). . PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

SAHARA PUBLISHER GOT IT ALL WRONG: NIGERIA IS NEITHER SUDAN NOR EGYPT!
The choice of the phrase: #Revolution Now', adopted by the organizers of a planned nation-wide protest and the timing of the nocuous event, conceived by Sahara Reporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore, to provoke fresh civil disobedience was very offensive/insultive to the sensibilities of compatriots for peace, stability and good governance in Nigeria - especially the vulnerable downtrodden who would unfortunately become canon fodders, peradventure it succeeded!

Law-abiding citizens had hardly recovered from the atrocities unleashed on the innocent population severally at the Federal Capital and the Commercial cities of  Abuja and Lagos, by the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), Shi'ite protesters between June and July, 2019, when fresh news spread that another 'revolution', that would heat up the polity and further destabilize a nation grappling to contain acts of terrorism, banditry, kidnapping, farmers/herders clashes etc, by some disgruntled elements, was in the offing!

The nation-wide protest tagged, 'Revolution Now', which was disrupted by security agents on 5th August 2019, was a STUNT; a dangerous adventure which back-fired for Omoyele Sowore, the "not-too-young -to-rule" candidate and chairman of the African Action Congress (AAC), during the February 23rd, 2019, Nigerian Presidential Election because the Directorate of State Services (DSS), operatives did not waste time to arrest him on charges bothering on terrorism in Lagos, on Saturday, 3rd August, 2019, for questioning before he could hatch a CIVILIAN COUP-DE-TAT in Nigeria!

Without falling for the legal semantics making the rounds, the security agents who had other evidences against Sowore told him that his revolutionary project was a process of removal and replacement of a government in a political upheaval and was a criminal and treasonable offence  - against legally-constituted authority of a STATE/COUNTRY!
The DSS told Sowore that his planned protest was a ploy to overthrow the democratically-elected government of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), through the application of force!

IS SOWORE A HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST OR A CONFUSED POLITICIAN?
Prior to his incursion into Nigerian politics - 48-year-old Sowore stood out as an outstanding, respectable and successful entrepreneur in the Diaspora, being the chief executive of the internationally-accredited online news outfit, the SAHARA REPORTERS - a trait that cut across accomplished Nigerian professionals, who normally returned home to add value to their nation's socio-economic pursuit of a better life for the citizens!
Sowore lost woefully in the 2019 Presidential Election - coming 10th with 33,953 votes as against President Buhari's 15,191,847 million; but that was not all, the National Executive Council (NEC), of his party later accused him of anti-party activities including refusal to render accounts of donations/ expenditures and wasted no time to relieve him of his position as chairman, - even with a court judgement in their favour!
Sowore first tried his 'revolutionary ideology' to "BANDY OUT", military dictatorship at a very tender age of about 21/22 years as an undergraduate student at the University of Lagos, Akoka, but he and his cohorts seemed to have forgotten that constitutional democratic governments that cannot be 'bandied out' had been entrenched for about 20 years in Nigeria!
Sowore was born in February 1971, just when the 30 month-long BIAFRA WAR ended! That war consumed over one million lives and strategic properties in millions of dollars and by 1992, he was of age and matured sufficiently to re-act negatively to the military environment into which he was conceived and born!
BUT has he not negated his own ideology being the major dramatis personae who conceived the idea of the mass protest (this time, against a democratically constituted government), sold it to his cohorts who defied official ban and occupied some public spaces in Lagos and Abuja on Monday 5th August, 2019, while he was being quizzed by DSS operatives in respect of treasonable offences? Or was he acting the script of the opposition who never saw anything good in neither the APC ruling party nor the person of President Buhari or had he an inordinate ambition? IS HE A MISGUIDED YOUTH LIKE NNAMDI KANU - THE FUGITIVE SELF-ACCLAIMED LEADER OF THE PROSCRIBED INDEPENDENT PEOPLE OF BIAFRA (IPOB), WITH WHOM HE POSED WITH IN A RECENT PORTRAIT WHICH WENT VIRAL ON INTERNET?

'BUNDLE' DEMANDS FROM SOWORE'S 'REVOLUTIONARY' GROUP!
Sowore and the organisers of #Revolution Now' adduced several DEMANDS ranging from: * release of all political prisoners without trial; * implementation of new workers salaries, payment of pensions to retirees; *massive employment opportunities across board; * end of special privileges to the ruling class in the choice of private educational institutions and hospitals for their wards - in Nigeria or overseas; *abolition of humongous salaries to political appointees; *return of political power and national wealth to the working people in order to break monopoly over land ownership; *term limits for lawmakers; devolution of power from federal to states; resource control; * abolishment of the Senate; and the enactment of a new people's Constitution, among several others with IMMEDIATE MILITARY EFFECT! Although those contracted to participate in the protest were advised not carry weapons - even the smallest stones, BUT the organisers had fore-knowledge that members of the recently-proscribed Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), and IPOB fanatics would hijack the protest if government did not moved swiftly to nip the mis-conceived "revolution" in the bud?

THE LISTED DEMANDS, CONTAINED NO NEW SUGGESTION OR IDEAS - THEY ARE ALL BEING IMPLEMENTED SEQUENTIALLY BY THE CHANGE APC ADMINISTRATION! IT IS EVIDENT THAT SOWORE INTENDED TO TAKE OVER THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT AS WAS DONE IN SUDAN, TUNISIA, OR EGYPT, BUT THE NIGERIAN SITUATION HAS NO SEMBLANCE WITH THE ARAB SPRING!

Although, the Nigerian nation's challenges are multi-faceted due to its cultural, lingual, tribal and religious diversities but all citizens enjoy equal fundamental rights and cannot be manipulated by a mis-guided youth who in spite of his education believed that the POLITICAL UNITY - displayed by all of them in 1993, to vote MOSHOOD ABIOLA to presidency, was synonymous to a 'revolution' that could be replicated in 2019! NIGERIA IS NOT A MUSLIM STATE!

An Abuja High Court on Thursday, 8th August, 2019, granted an ex-parte motion by the DSS to further detain Sowore in its custody for 45 instead of 90 days requested by the agency, while further investigations continued in the treasonable charges brought against him under Terrorism Prevention Act, Section 27 (1) and the video evidences: exhibits/clips of his fraternity with the fugitive revolutionist, Nnamdi Kanu and also some proscribed IMN adherents! Sowore should go through the process of the law to prove his culpability to the charges or otherwise!

#RENAISSANCE NOW', NOT, #REVOLUTION NOW'!
Nigerian YOUTHS should come of age and embrace the lofty government programmes for better socio-economic life for all citizens, bond together with security agencies in intelligence gatherings to tackle on-going crisis of BOKO HARAM and other security challenges in the country, because they will eventually take over the reigns of administration in the nearest future! 
Are those social critics in support for a regime overthrow by Sowore who recently lost an election more populated than the united millions who voted for Buhari's first and second terms in office? Those to be bandied out are the terrorists, kidnappers, militants, bandits, herdsmen killers etc! Sowore is no doubt the arrowhead of the gang of bad losers who tried to stop BUHARI both in 2015 & 2019 elections without success!

Nigerians need SPIRITUAL REBIRTH - a process of change that would give fresh hopes to the downtrodden through the sacrifices of all compatriots - who must ensure good governance, block avenues for corruption, treasury-looting and financial wastages; for the common patrimony to go round and provide all social amenities for all citizens!  

All State Governors, irrespective of party affiliations should partner with the Federal Government to actualize the ongoing socio-economic/political restructuring programmes - which include aggressive diversification to agriculture, scientific/technological exploration and exploitation of natural mineral resources which abound in the 774 Local Government Areas, State and Community Policing etc. ALL HANDS MUST BE ON DECK TO BUILD ON THE APC GAINS OF THE LAST FOUR YEARS TO ACTUALIZE OUR DREAM OF AN EGALITARIAN NATION!

"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end." (Jeremiah. 29: 11).

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

THIS NEXT LEVEL MUST ERASE THE WASTEFUL PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM IN NIGERIA!

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. 8.NO 312. 4th August, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32). . PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

THIS NEXT LEVEL MUST ERASE THE WASTEFUL PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM IN NIGERIA!
Concerned patriotic citizens of Nigeria believe that there could be no better LEGACY for President Muhammadu Buhari to bequeath as he serves out his second term in office, than to revert governance to the parliamentary system which was treasury-friendly and effortlessly fulfilled the fundamental rights of the people in areas of security, economy, education, health facilities, employment opportunities, shelter etc, as was the case from independence before the military interregnum!

The people enjoyed better life opportunities without parochial consideration, tribal sentiments, nor social discrimination/classification but as one united people which cared for one another!
But now, the youths have suddenly metamorphosed into Frankenstein monsters -- social miscreants, street children, insurgents, bandits, militants, gunmen and terrorists - especially in the past 20 years of the new democratic dispensation, because political jobbers of successive administrations short-changed them by forcing them into the illiterate world of the STONE AGE and invariably turned them into brutish beasts!

Although, heinous social crimes of kidnappings/homicides have turned out to be no respecter of persons considering the fact that the genre of victims cut across all facets of human discipline, We still believe in the determination of President Buhari to change the unpleasant scenario in no time for he is the divine Crusader who MUST give account of his stewardship to the Fathers of Lights who sent him!

To the ever greedy Nigerian politician, especially the LEGISLATORS, the presidential system is gold-mine, it is Eldorado, a  condition of advantageous illicit financial flow through which all manner of dubious economic transactions contrary to good governance were cleverly executed!
The Nigerian type of presidential system opens its doors for treasury looters who hide behind the faulty 1999 military-conceived and crafted Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to perpetrate all manner of heinous financial crimes from one administration to another through annual budget padding and dubious/illegal legislative oversight duties, unknown to the constitution!

The mono-economic crude oil foreign exchange earner did not help matter because those politicians were able to manipulate the system, acquired for themselves and their cronies Oil Licences through which they were able to penetrate the Oil and Gas Sector to become billionaires at the expense of the perpetually average youth/poor worker who could hardly survive with one US dollar (N360 naira), per day!

BRAZEN CORRUPTION AT NNPC!
In spite of the fact that President Buhari held on to the Ministry of Petroleum Resources portfolio in his first term, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), under his watch, was still perceived to be a citadel of corruption because of the deliberately-infused intricacies of financial accountability through the Petroleum Act which established it and also by its officials, who have taken criminal advantage of the entire commotion that allows the corporation to keep certain percentages of financial accruals for "running costs" without first remitting all oil sales/financial transactions into the Federation Account and by extension, to the Treasury Single Account (TSA), before such deductions were effected!

Although it is gratifying that Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachukwu and Group Managing Director, Mai Kanti Baru, who publicly washed their dirty linens over accusations/denials in respect of illicit NNPC contract awards running into billions of US dollars during the President's first term had been cleverly eased out, that unacceptable administrative step had in no way erased the fact that NNPC cannot boast of a clean slate of annual forensic financial audit records even under the president's eagle eye!

Most Nigerian billionaires made their dollars as recipients of illegal OIL BLOCS while Nigeria is adjudged as one of the most corrupt nation and its citizens, the poorest mass of people in the world because NO ONE, NOT EVEN THE PRESIDENT, CAN AUTHENTICATE THE BARRELS OF CRUDE OIL EXPORTED FROM THE NATION ON DAILY BASIS!

Should Nigerians continue to suffer in the midst of so plenteous natural resources while very few percentage of privileged politicians continue to take advantage of a deliberately faulty system of DIARCHY instead of GENUINE/TRANSPARENT DEMOCRACY?

ARISE AND SHINE MR. PRESIDENT!
President Buhari MUST rise from the onset of his second term last opportunity as a DEMOCRAT to prove his detractors wrong by putting his very best into the ring and defeat those who want to smear his IMPECCABLE INTEGRITY by not only stealing but squandering the COMMON WEALTH through frivolities and vanities of dubious salaries/allowances which they claimed were legitimate perks of office in all departments and sectors of the economy!
Between 1999 and 2018, legislators pretentiously made several attempts to amend the contentious Constitution without success because those bunch of egotistic lawmakers, at every turn, tinkered with the rules of engagement to favour themselves over and above the other tiers - the EXECUTIVE AND JUDICIARY!

ATTEMPTS BY 7TH-8TH NASS TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION!
The 7th National Assembly collected a "working capital" of over ONE BILLION NAIRA from the treasury to enable the Joint Committee of both chambers to function seamlessly and without any form of financial hitch.
Amendments to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Fourth Alteration) Act 2015, as presented by the National Assembly, met all statutory provisions as set forth in the 1999 Constitution. For instance, the two thirds majority resolution of States Houses of Assemblies were obtained according to Section 9(3) and not less than four fifths majority of all members of each House of the National Assembly, were also secured!

Although, the Nigerian Constitution is  silent on presidential assent for Constitutional amendments, the legislators decided in the spirit of  mutual co-operation of checks and balances, to send them like any other Bill of the National Assembly [NASS], that required such assent to become an Act, it was therefore a surprise that the outgoing  President could VETO the document; but in a letter dated13th April, 2015, to NASS, the ex-President Ebele Jonathan, rejected the Federal Republic of Nigeria Constitution (Alteration) Bill 2015 because he perceived deliberate attempts by the very ambitious Federal Lawmakers to whittle down presidential powers!
The 8th NASS also made similar moves shortly before the 2019 General Elections especially in respect of Amendments to the Electoral Act 2010, to regulate the conduct of Federal, States and Area Councils' Elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and were rebuffed by President Muhammadu Buhari who discovered several "booby traps" in the document which was submitted FOUR desperate times for presidential assent!

INTRODUCTION OF PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT FROM THE YEAR 2023!
For starters, the SENATE must be scrapped before the commencement of a new government in 2023, for a single unicameral parliament that will be people-friendly to come on board! Unicameral parliamentary governance is popular globally because the practice enables government to save more money to cater for masses social infrastructures and also create employment opportunities for Small and Medium Scale Entrepreneurs (SMSEs), who are the backbone of the Real Sector of the economy!
THE SENEGALESE GOVERNMENT ERASED THEIR SENATE IN 2012 TO PROVIDE FOR MORE FUNDS TO SUCCOUR THE VERY POOR IN THEIR NATION!

BUHARI MUST REMEMBER THAT HE WAS DIVINELY-CHOSEN TO SAVE THE TALAKAWAS FROM TOTAL ANNIHILATION BY POLITICAL PREDATORS!

Between the Nigerian Senate and its House of Representatives counterpart, N150 billion naira is consumed annually from the national budget with no visible or feasible impact on the downtrodden masses they claim to represent!

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.

WAS THAT MINISTERIAL LIST PRODUCED BY PRESIDENT BUHARI OR THE CABAL?

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. 8.NO 311. 28th July, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

WAS THAT MINISTERIAL LIST PRODUCED BY PRESIDENT BUHARI OR THE CABAL?
President Muhammadu Buhari is a thorough-bred Nigerian! He had lived all of his life in the country except for some periods spent during military training abroad and he was very much around from the first to 11th army coup-de-tat experienced by the poor masses (the talakawas), who did not bargain for forceful martial life! In fact, he benefited from one of the military escapades when his comrade-in-arms crowned him as Head of State and Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces!

The President is a septuagenarian who had seen it all and knows who is who in both military and civilian/democratic politics of the country and was very affirmative when he said, he would prefer to work with the people he knew according to the statement he made "under tremendous pressure" before he forwarded a 43-man list of ministerial nominees to the Senate on Wednesday, 24th July, 2019!
In a soft-pedalled appealing tone of a converted democrat, the revolutionary, tough-talking, no-nonsense military numero uno between December 1984 to November 1986, who declared War Against Indiscipline, (WAI)/Corruption and revolutionized societal values, made that appeal to agitated and expectant Nigerians - especially the talakawas - whose very breadth of life depended on quick and faithful execution of government's social contracts of all basic necessities of life, especially employment opportunities - and would not be patient to wait for another SIX MONTHS like they did in 2015!

But come to think of it, have they not already waited for almost six months - counting from his victory at the pools on 23rd February, 2019 to the 23rd July, 2019, when the ministerial nominee list finally got to Senate for screening and confirmation? According to that report, he was pressurized to choose only APC ministers, whether he knew them or not, but that he was reluctant to agree in spite of the perceived delay because he was not very comfortable when he succumbed to Party pressure in 2015!

FRESH OPPORTUNITY FOR BUHARI TO PROVE HIS DETRACTORS WRONG!
Devoted and patriotic Nigerians, including members of the editorial board of this Newsletter voted on 23rd February, 2019, again for President Buhari for a second term in office, with great expectations that he would build on the solid foundation of his first tenure and he won overwhelmingly and convincingly!
In 2014, We predicted that he would win both the 2015 and 2019 Presidential Elections respectively according to divine revelation and would govern and transform Nigeria into an "UTOPIA" within the two terms of EIGHT YEARS, with divinely-chosen teams. We did not fault his choice of ministers in 2015 but were shocked to the marrows when the President drew up a “COMPENSATION LIST", dominated by some exceedingly and stupendously rich former governors/legislators who should normally take the back seat as elder statesmen and maybe, forgot that he had to give fair opportunities to others whose contributions could also move the nation forward!
It is inconceivable that innovative, gifted, humble, tested professionals, builders, engineers, economists, agro/space scientists, technocrats, information/communications technologists etc were rather sidelined and inconspicuous in that historic list!
Was the President seriously under pressure or duress? By whom, the CABAL? Although we take exception to the existence of a cabal in the Presidency, but when the President openly disclosed that he was under pressure to pick the right management team, he had given much room for wide/unfounded speculations!

During his first tenure when he submitted a similar list, we gave him the benefit of the doubt, being a first-timer in a democratic dispensation: We even compared that list which contained several senile dramatis personae with that of President Barak Obama, who had several elderly citizens in his cabinet but succeeded creditably! Can one conveniently compare the United States advanced and polished politico-administrative capabilities of 233 years with Nigeria's infantile, dirty and corruptive politics of 59 years!

THE MINISTERIAL LIST BREAKDOWN!
About 50% of the list consisted of those who have been re-cycled /spent and some discredited politicians with questionable character, antecedents and pedigree who should have been left on the shelf to be sorted out by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to prove their innocence or otherwise! Where are the wise elders whose integrity is intact but who have been denied the opportunity to serve and where are the vibrant Not-Too-Young-To-Rule YOUTHS?  Is APC bereft of such hoary heads and whiz-kids, who can turn Nigeria's economy round in a "jiffy", in this 21st Century global ICT - dominated space? The following groups of elites were on that controversial list:
Former two-term governors/ legislators;
Senators who have spent 12 years at the National Assembly (NASS), having  earlier served as governors and ministers;
Former State Commissioners, Board Chairmen/Heads of parastatals and critical Agencies of Federal Government;
The re-appointed 14 ministers, some of who for all intent and purposes were adjudged to have performed below expectation, in their former ministries in the first term of the President.
Women representation was only SEVEN! It fell short of gender balance expectation out of an entire list of 43 distinguished citizens which included 29 new names!

WAS AISHA BUHARI  INTIMIDATED?  HOW DID THEY PRESSURIZE THE MAN OF INTEGRITY?
An English adage states that, "a tree cannot make a forest." This is true considering  the fact that a forest needed scores of scores of trees to be so classified; but must the trees be of different species, especially when they are FRUIT-BEARING? While should birds of the same feathers not flock together?
Is it impossible to find a "BUHARI" in each of the 36 States, whether they were APC members or the Opposition? NO! There are many Buharis who were sidelined for party patronage because the elder statesmen (most of whom are very rich) and had contributed to the President's and APC victories at the polls MUST BE COMPENSATED -  otherwise the desperados who could "frighten" the president would definitely team up with the very bitter opposition to orchestrate an ungovernable State as in 2015! The President even found it difficult to fulfil his campaign promise of greater representation of women in the new cabinet!

IN OUR PREVIOUS ADVOCACY FOR SECOND TERM CABINET - We did not waste time to suggest to the President that his second term cabinet should be 100% BRAND NEW and also that he should promptly re-jig the security architecture by replacing all Armed Forces Chiefs and retain only the Inspector General of Police, who was newly appointed because NO ONE WAS INDISPENSIBLE!

THE "BOW-AND-GO" SYNDROME AT THE RED CHAMBERS!
The distinguished Senators at plenary during the screening of ministerial nominees according to "tradition"  adopted the bow-and-go privilege to former legislators/governors, without drilling them in questions and answers sessions to ascertain their competence and readiness to serve faithfully and with diligence. They were not asked if they declared their ASSETS, or did so at anytime in the past!  Was it not said that he who comes to EQUITY MUST come with CLEAN HANDS?
Re-appointed ministers were neither requested to give account of their stewardship nor quizzed about what innovation they would bring on board if hired again to serve in the NEXT LEVEL APC Administration! Former governors were not asked what happened to the BILLIONS OF NAIRA collected as SECURITY VOTES during their tenures in office, though security challenges are still very much with us!

PLAYING INTO THE HANDS OF THE OPPOSITION IN ORDER TO AVOID "SARAKIGATE", IS A DANGEROUS GAME FOR APC!
For Ahmad Lawan and 'Femi Gbajabiamila to emerge as Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives respectively, the ruling All Progressives Congress hierarchy had to seriously lobby the major opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), caucus in both chambers to achieve the herculean task which involved documented promises for juicy slots in the sharing formula of principal offices which have successfully played out accordingly!

The common cliche that there are no permanent enemies in politics but permanent interests is also very glaring in the choice of nominees for the position of Federal  Executive Ministers! Apart from Dr. Ogbonaya Onu and some former ANPP, CPC and ACP, who merged to form the APC in 2013, most of the present APC members in both Chambers and on the ministerial nominee list, were staunch PDP members at one time or the other since the advent of the new democratic dispensation in 1999!
WHAT WE NOW HAVE AS THE APC RULING PARTY IS A POT POURRI OF THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY, JOSTLING FOR RELEVANCE IN THE NIGERIAN POLITICAL PROJECT FOR THEIR SHARE OF THE NATIONAL CAKE!

AN URGENT SOLUTION TO AVOID FUTURE NATIONAL CALAMITIES!
This new Federal Executive Cabinet MUST be RESHUFFLED within the shortest possible period - not exceeding the year 2021- to accommodate new, fresh, vibrant, and more resourceful, brains who possess the requisite knowledge to fix the myriads of security, economic and  political/social challenges of institutional corruption by addressing their true perspectives, without politicising serious issues of economic crimes! “A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE”!

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.

BLOOD-SHEDDING WILL CEASE AS NIGERIANS FAST AND PRAY EVERY WEDNESDAY WITHOUT CEASING!

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. 8.NO 310. 21st July, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

BLOOD-SHEDDING WILL CEASE AS NIGERIANS FAST
AND PRAY EVERY WEDNESDAY WITHOUT CEASING!

The signs of the end-time according to biblical prophecies are very much around considering the manifestations of the wickedness of man against his fellow man as it had never occurred before!
Atrocities which have turned men and women into beasts that predate themselves viciously through kidnappings, murders, assassinations, banditry, militancy, terrorism, decapitation of humans, disembowelling of pregnant women to prove the worthlessness of human lives have become global phenomenon and Nigeria is not excepted!

Human blood-shedding became commonplace in Nigeria from the pre-independence elections, progressed into the senseless sectional military coups of 1966 which snowballed into the 30-month Biafra War between 1967-1970, and consumed not less than one million lives!
The use of the barrels of guns to settle conflicts became the norm throughout the almost 30 years of military rule in Nigeria and by the1999 change of guards (between the military and the politicians), the proliferation of arms, ammunitions, small weapons., big weapons, bazookas, rocket launchers etc, were securely in the hands of virtually every street guy and members of the underworld!

Ex-military Head of State, Aremu Obasanjo, was the first to test the murky waters of insecurity when he became the first elected president of the new democratic order and according to a recent BBC report, about 50,000 people were killed – excluding scores of undetected extra- judicial killings, high-profile assassinations/murders, during his two terms of eight years (1999-2007)! When his “third-term agenda failed he unabashedly and brazenly declared that the 2007 General Elections would be a "DO-OR-DIE mission for his ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and he made sure his threat because scores of innocent lives were lost!!

The bloodbath continued through Umaru Yar 'Adua /Ebele Jonathan’s PDP Administrations from 2007-2015 unabated - during which Boko Haram terrorism debuted in August 2009, and into President Muhammadu Buhari's APC Change Government, which took off in 2015! Fresh dimensions to the blood-letting became manifest from the year 2000, when the herders/farmers clashes reared its ugly head mostly across the middle belt States of Benue, Nasarawa and Niger, but has now become a national malaise, which places higher premium on cattle rather than human lives!

DEMONIC BLOOD-LETTING IS A GLOBAL SCOURGE!
Nigeria's predicament is not an isolated case but a global trend which confirms the signs of the end-time which are precipitated through man's sinfulness: homicides, drug abuse, prostitution, whoredom, homosexuality, body tatoos, sexual perversion/promiscuity, idolatry, satanic doctrines, stubbornness, false religion, flagrant disobedience/rebellion to God's holy commandments, all of  which were frequently reported by the Press/Social Media; documented and condemned by local/foreign servants of God, historians, scholars, professors and the academic, so that no one would claim ignorance of those laws which traversed the past, the present and also futuristic according to biblical ideologies, prophecies and eschatology!  “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. ........." (2 Tim. 3:1ff).

BUT THE NIGERIAN OPPOSITION POLITICIANS, HISTORIANS, PROFESSORS, SCHOLARS, ETC, TAKE EXCEPTION TO THE DOCTRINE OF GOD AS THE CREATOR OF THE HEAVEN AND EARTH AND ALSO, OF HIS SOVEREIGN POWER OVER ALL HIS CREATION! THEY ASSERT THAT NIGERIAN CALAMITIES AND WOES THROUGH PERENNIAL SECURITY CHALLENGES, WAS OPEN ENDED WITH THE CHANGE ADMINISTRATION OF PRESIDENT BUHARI, THE LORD'S ANOINTED CRUSADER WHOSE MANDATE IS TO SAVE THE NATION & ITS PEOPLE FROM PERISHING THROUGH THE SINFUL NATURE OF AVARICE/AGGRANDIZEMENT (THE LOVE AND GREEDY ACCUMULATION OF MONEY), INSTITUTIONAL CORRUPTION WITH IMPUNITY, ADULTERY, FORNICATION ETC; WHICH ATTRACT DIVINE PENALTY OF DEATH! (ROMANS: 3:23; 6:23).

GOD REMAINS THE SUPREME AUTHORITY OVER HIS CREATION! (PSALM. 24:1-10).
Every people or nation, that refuses to acknowledge GOD'S Sovereignty as superior to its constitution, social legislations and its limited comprehension of the divine nature of GOD, is definitely bound to perish!
Most Nigerians who are treading the path of Godless existence and are, through careless vituperations in respect of trending social events and are pretending to forget that there would be severe consequences whenever the doctrine of sowing and reaping was abused, would ultimately  face the punishment of self destruction!
TWO prominent Nigerians who aptly qualified to be honoured and celebrated as elder statesmen, attracted international headlines through subtle indictments of the sitting President, Muhammadu Buhari, who in their opinion was incapable to effectively handle the security architecture of the nation!
In an umpteenth "Open Letter", ex-President Aremu Obasanjo, stated among several other things, that the incumbent head of government could no longer continue to be "nonchalant in respect of tackling escalating security challenges" across the geo-political zones. Obasanjo's latest open letter was that of a glaring defeatist, who would not honourably throw in the towel after all of his boasting as the KINGMAKER of the Nigerian politics, fell like a pack of cards at the 2019 polls which opposition candidate, Atiku Abubakar woefully lost!
THE SECOND elder statesman, erudite scholar and Nobel Laureate, Professor 'Wole Soyinka, in a recorded interview, also took a swipe against President Buhari, whom he claimed could no longer pilot State affairs creditably in view of his incompetence to stem killings and bloodshed, in the nation, because the daughter of the leader of the Yoruba socio-cultural group, AFENIFERE, nonagenarian, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, Mrs. 'Funke Olakunrin, was murdered on the highway between Ore and Akure, South West Nigeria, by bandits, on Friday, 12th, July, 2019!
A THIRD Nigerian personality, ex- President Ebele Jonathan described, 'Funke Olakunrin's murder as "an act of terrorism" and implored President Buhari to implement recommendations of the 2014 National Conference Report (convened during his tenure and which he could not implement due to massive condemnation), to solve the intolerable security challenges! "When beggars die there are no comets seen, The Heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes." Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar’s”.

SOLUTIONS PROFFERED BY OBASANJO & COMPANY SOUNDED LIKE A BROKEN RECORD AS THEY WERE DEVOID AS USUAL OF SUGGESTIONS FOR DIVINE INTERVENTION THROUGH NATIONAL PRAYERS/FASTING/REPENTANCE! None of the armchair critics called for national repentance and that citizens should unite in diversity and together build an egalitarian society where equal opportunities, justice, fair play and equity would be ensured for everyone! WE ADVOCATE WEDNESDAYS PRAYER-FASTING

PRESIDENT BUHARI'S MAIN FOCUS ON SECURITY, ECONOMY AND THE ON-GOING ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE WAR AGAINST CORRUPTION HAVE DOVETAILED INTO THE SECOND TERM NEXT LEVEL AGENDA SEAMLESSLY IN SPITE OF LOUDMOUTHS! In response to all criticisms, the President enjoined the commentators to focus more the unity of the nation instead of exaggerating few isolated cases of crime out of proportion!

TAI SOLARIN CONFESSED THE SUPREMACY OF GOD BEFORE HIS DEMISE!
A SELF-ACCLAIMED ATHEIST, LATE TAI SOLARIN, founder, proprietor, and principal of MAYFLOWER COLLEGE IKENNE, South-West Nigeria, who spent his entire life to propagate the doctrine of non-existence of the Almighty GOD, eventually acknowledged and confessed that he had an encounter with the SOVEREIGN GOD shortly before his demise. BOTH Obasanjo and Soyinka, coming from the same State and geo-political zone, have portrayed themselves not only as parochial, partisan, chauvinistic, ethicist, nepotistic, tribalistic etc, but have allowed senility to rob them of the salient/pressing need to harness Nigeria's adversity positively to unite the nation during their lifetime! What legacy do they intend to bequeath to posterity by sidelining TRUTH for tribal sentiments and HONESTY for farce?
COMING SHORT OF ACTUALLY ACCUSING PRESIDENT BUHARI OF THE MURDER OF 'FUNKE OLAKUNRIN, according to a virally publicised claim by 'Yinka Odumakin, Publicity Secretary to the South-West socio-cultural group, AFENIFERE, the two elder statesmen through their comments, subtly gave credence to the unfounded, unsubstantiated and ridiculous fallacy! Although fingers pointed to members of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), when allegations that armed "Fulani herdsmen" attacked the vehicle of 'Funke Olakunrin, the group had commiserated with Pa Fasoranti and denied that its members had no hand in the dastard crime! On that same fateful Friday,10 citizens were killed by bandits in Katsina State! They and many others after them in the following days, were unsung nor celebrated in death, but government is resolved to win the battle against terror with all hands on deck.

IF PROFESSOR 'WOLE SOYINKA WERE NIGERIA'S PRESIDENT!
Prof. 'Wole Soyinka: an articulate, sagacious and intelligent man of Letters, for whom we have great respect was definitely not cut out for Nigerian dirty politics! Having watched the internationally-acclaimed Nobel Laureate for Literature and scholar for decades, we came to the conclusion that each time he dabbled into national controversies; he always left the scene more confused than he found it! Now that he is advancing in age, he had gone native, tribal and nepotic as it suits his whims and caprices! If he were to replace President Buhari in 2023, would he perform better?

It was high time Nigerian leaders and politicians began to shun the bequeathed ANCESTRAL IDOLATRY LIFESTYLE and the current incessant EPIDEMIC AND ENDEMIC VIRAL CANAL SINS, call upon GOD for forgiveness and solutions to myriad of self-inflicted security challenges of the nation instead of seeking for non-existent SCAPEGOATS! ‘’If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land" (2 Chronicles. 7:14).

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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.