What a Jet can do in Nigeria...

1Billion naira will liberate about 100,000 Youths from joblessness, another one billion will establish factories and industries that will employ about 5000 Youths. Another 1billion will buy a portion of PHCN but our Leaders are flying 4.5billion bombardier Challenger 604 and 605. Where are we going?

 

Warren Buffet is not flying Any jet. Bill Gates drives a normal Car. Richard Branson øwns the largest number of aircraft, yet flies the commercial line. Ingrad Kamprad OF IKEA drives Volvo 2003 model. These are Billionaires in dollars, yet they live normally. 

Nigerians, think twice. Where is our moral value?

 

NIGERIA @ 52 - NATIONAL FOUNDATION and ELEVATION

Dear President Goodluck Jonathan. Vice President Nnamadi Sambo. Senate President David Mark. House of Representative Speaker Tambuwal. Chief Judge of the Federation Chief Justice Aloma Mariam Mukhtar. The SSG Anyim Pi

us Anyim. The President, CAN/PFN-Pastor Ayo Orisejafor. The Leaders, Nigerian Islamic Community and Organizations
Members of the Civil Society Organisations. Members of the Media/Press. Fellow Great Nigerians. Happy 52nd Independence day…
NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE BROADCAST…
NATIONAL FOUNDATION and ELEVATION
I remember when I left secondary school in the late 80s and I couldn’t proceed to higher institution of learning immediately just because I didn’t pass all my papers, I was advised to work at an industry called Polamp Nigeria Limited somewhere in Ekiti State, Ikole Ekiti to be précised. I worked there as a factory worker and we were producing bulbs that were even exported then but suddenly after few years, the company closed down. I didn’t understand the reason behind the closure then until I finished my higher education and started understanding some abnormalities in our country like corruption, power failure and other factors. But one of my role models then who was a manager in the same company made me to realize that the primary problem with Polamp then was the organizational structural foundation of the company and so when the storm came, it couldn’t withstand it but to pack up. Hence, I ruminated over our great country, Nigeria at 52 and I write this letter to my other 169million Nigerians home and in diaspora.
NIGERIA - "If the foundation be destroyed or faulty, what can the righteous do",
If we will move forward at all, President Jonathan and co must deal with the structure of Nigeria now! 98 years of existence as a country and 52 years after colonial independence. We pray this foundation doesn't sink suddenly. Amen. Remember, when a foundation of a building is bad, the only two options available is either to collapse the building and start to build afresh or you continue to patch the building until one day the foundation will sink the building.
There are many questions we need to ask ourselves if we actually want to secure the future of our beloved country, Nigeria, we must learn from history because a people without history has no future. Don’t forget MARRIAGE is not by FORCE but by CHOICE.
The British colonial masters did three major experiments which I call JUMBLED NATION, which means confused or tangled democracy. The first one was when they joined 15 subnational soviets countries together and formed USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) in 1922 after the RUSSIAN revolution of 1917.
In the late 1980s the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev sought reforms in the Union, introducing the policies of glasnost and perestroika in an attempt to end the period of economic stagnation and democratize the government. However, this led to the rise of strong nationalist and separatist movements. By 1991, the country was in turmoil as the Baltic republics began to secede. A referendum resulted in the vast majority of participating citizens voting in favour of preserving the Union as a renewed federation. In August 1991, a coup d’etat by hardliners against Gorbachev and aimed at preserving the country, instead led to its collapse. On 25 December 1991, the USSR was dissolved into 15 post-soviet states. The Russian Federation, successor of the Russian SFSR, assumed the Soviet Union's rights and obligations and is recognized as its continued legal personality. Today all had gone in piece.
The second experiment was that of Northern and Southern Sudan. Also Sudan was a collection of small, independent kingdoms and principalities from the beginning of the Christian era until 1820-21, when Egypt conquered and unified the northern portion of the country. However, neither the Egyptian nor the Mahdist state (1883-1898) had any effective control of the southern region outside of a few garrisons. Southern Sudan remained an area of fragmented tribes, subject to frequent attacks by slave raiders. In February 1953, the United Kingdom and Egypt concluded an agreement providing for Sudanese self-government and self-determination. The transitional period toward independence began with the inauguration of the first parliament in 1954. With the consent of the British and Egyptian Governments, Sudan achieved independence on January 1, 1956, under a provisional constitution.
The new constitution was silent on two crucial issues for southern leaders - the secular or Islamic character of the state and its federal or unitary structure. However, the Arab-led Khartoum government reneged on promises to southerners to create a federal system, which led to a mutiny by southern army officers that launched 17 years of civil war (1955-72).
Since its independence in 1956, the history of Sudan has been plagued by internal conflict, viz. the First Sudanese Civil War (1955-1972), the Second War (1983-2005), culminating in the secession of South Sudan in 2011, and the War in Darfur (2003-2010).
Because of continuing political and military struggles, Sudan was seized in a bloodless coup d’état by colonel Omar al-Bashir in 1989, who thereafter proclaimed himself President of Sudan. The civil war ended with the signing of a Comprehensive Peace Agreement which granted autonomy to what was then the southern region of the country. Following a referendum held in January 2011, South Sudan seceded on 9 July 2011 with the consent of Sudan. Now the next nation experimented by the British Lords is Nigeria and my question is, are we going to allow their mathematical permutation and combination destroy our future?
I am not campaigning for divorce between the two nations because I so much love this nation to the point that we cannot allow foolishness, mediocrity, deception as a shadow of wisdom.
We need answer to the question; are we married together or we married ourselves in 1914 by the selfish British Colonial masters who pretended to give us independence but still holding the rope tied to our waist to themselves especially economically. Who named our country NIGERIA? A husband, wife or concubine? What is the purpose for the name?
MARRIAGE is to be ENJOYED and not to be ENDURED. Are we enjoying the amalgamation that took place some 98years ago or we are just patching our faces.
* At 52, were former colonial states like Singapore and India still groping in the dark?
*If Rome was not built in a day, did it take 52 years? *Is it worth celebrating the independence and why?
*Nigeria at 52, our beloved Dr Adegbite (79) of Nigeria Islamic Community died just yesterday because of the state of our health sector and Canadian Embassy refused him visa 2 months ago to travel for treatment. After 98 years of marriage and 52 years of independence, our children are still desperate to travel abroad not minding to go through the Sahara desert just to escape the hardship in the land while Our Leaders are busy stealing the public funds, sending their children abroad to school but leaving the poor behind to have their education inside dilapidated buildings around the nation. Have you seen Obama’s children coming to school in Nigeria? When did you ever hear that the Prime Minister of Britain is on medical admission in LUTH?
Malaysia came to pick palm kernel seed from Nigeria in 1979 and by 1999 (20years later) Malaysia became the largest producer of palm oil globally. We just honoured one of our youths with National Honour who is the best car designer in the world but we can’t produce a bicycle. Our own Ibo son is the second in command in power generating plant in Germany but yet darkness is our partner even during the day. Our land is blessed with Oil and co but we have to beg before we fuel our cars. We are among the top five nations that produce cassava but we are importing starch. WHY?
Has our inheritance not turned to strangers and our houses to aliens (Some foreigners)? Are we not orphans and fatherless, and our mothers widows in our own land? (Think about Shell and other oil companies in Niger Delta) Have we not drunk our water for money and our wood being sold back to us with times five of the original price?
Now, servants are ruled (imposed) over us, we are buying food with the stress of our lives. Our skins are black like oven because of the terrible famine. Our women are ravished, rubbished, garnished with rape and vanished in beauty.(by some foreigners) There is no more honour to righteous elders and youths but to the manipulating ones. The joy of our heart is ceased and our dance is turned to mourning. Our Parents are no longer interested in MORAL VALUES but MONEY VALUES, to the point that parents are now dashing their daughters away to 419ers, ritualists, yahoo-yahoo men, visionless politicians and so on. Our leadership platform has society has become a den of armed robbers and empty headed vessels. God of heaven give us RIGHT LEADERS not just GOOD LEADERS.
SOLUTION…DIRECTION: It has been said times without number that a man without DIRECTION is a man without DESTINATION. At this critical point of decision of our beloved country, after a long period of research. I realized that this present government inherited 90% of our problems and for this government to leave a meaningful, positive legacy and posterity, behind for generation-next, President GoodLuck Jonathan and his cabinet including the House of Representative members and Senators are advised to call for immediate NATIONAL CONFERENCE (Citizens Dialogue) to actually sit down and review our Nation and fashion out our own CONSTITUTION. Any machine without the manufacturers’ manual of operation will soon pack up. You can’t use the manual of a Honda Motorcycle to operate a Toyota car, it will underperform. We can’t continue to run our national machine with an alien manual, what we will get at the end of the day is colossal failure. It is clear that an UNIDENTIFYIED FLYING OBJECTS can only operate successfully in BERMUDA TRIANGLE and no Aero Contractors carrier or British Airways carrier can go to Bermuda Triangle, the end will be disastrous. So at this point, I will like to say that PLACES don’t make PEOPLE but it is PEOPLE that make PLACES, therefore let us come together as a people from different tribes but with one voice and sit together to map out the way forward for our Nation especially for the unborn generations.
In conclusion I quote from the Holy Bible, Isaiah 1:18-20 which says: COME NOW, AND LET US REASON TOGETHER; THOUGH YOUR SINS BE AS SCARLET, THEY SHALL BE AS WHITE AS SNOW; THOUGH THEY BE LIKE CRIMSON, THEY SHALL BE AS WOOL. IF YE BE WILLING AND OBEDIENT, YE SHALL EAT THE GOOD OF THE LAND: BUT IF YE REFUSE AND REBEL, YE SHALL BE DEVOURED WITH THE SWORD: FOR THE MOUTH OF THE LORD HAS SPOKEN IT.
Great Nigerians, before the different problems happening in our nation will disintegrate and scatter us, I wish to state strongly as a citizen of this country, Nigeria and a National Reformer that we gather together and talk like brothers and sisters. Let us check and fix our FOUNDATION so that we can have a SWEATLESS ELEVATION
God has blessed Nigeria already. May Nigerians realise this and walk with this reality. Amen
GOD BLESS THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA. GOD BLESS YOU ALL. AMEN
gbengademujimi (Pastor Gee) KingsHill School of Discovery. National Reformation Centre 07039714664. cia2001ng@yahoo.com

YOUTH STAKEHOLDERS FORUM

James Asu attended the YOUTH STAKEHOLDERS' FORUM today which was organized by AGDC in partnership with the LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT. In attendant was his excellency, Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola, Mrs Ibukun Awosika (Chairman, AGDC), Dr Yew

ande Adesina(Special Adviser to Governor on health) and several youths in Lagos @ Event Centre in billingsway in Oregun, Ikeja which was filled to capacity.
Part of the speech delivered by his excellency, Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola was extracted below:

"We need people to work. It is only through competition that you can make growth and become productive. No successful nation prosper through hand-out but hard-work. We didn't grow up like this, we competed. sustainability requires we built model that we can hand-over. The revolution we need is not street revolution but the revolution of the mind. Education is the first step to building up your mind. Our better days really lies ahead of us. Be self driven rather than been driven. If you're not competing there won't be luck. Compete fairly and honestly because they have values. Let's ask ourselves, Are we in the worst place? No! We can be the new frontier without being in the front, if we choose to be behind. The Nigeria and Ghana empires is about to rise, you have a part to play. Business models have changed. e.g Event managers replacing the traditional way of organizing parties on the streets. Adversity is the strongest asset of great achievers. All of you can become models for the next generations if you stop feeling sorry for yourselves and start doing something productive for yourselves."

10 LIVING TESTIMONIES WHY BUHARI IS THE MOST QUALIFIED LEADER FOR NOW

But within the limits of human weaknesses let's look at ten reasons while he still stands tall among other contestants for the no1 position in the land:
1.Professionalism
:The wife did not rule by proxy;in fact there was no Oga Madam Syndrome.I am sure many of us do not know the name of the wife till today.

2.Security : He was able to tame the Chadian Incursi
on of Hissen Habre and quell the fire of Maitatsne crisis of Maiduguri in 82 while serving as GOC 82ND Mechanised Div Kaduna.

3Preparation :.He was prepared for power and office and not an unwilling or opportunistic leader.

4.ECONOMY: He opted for counter trade and had a valid forex management policy using counter trade to reduce pressure on the Naira within Dec 83 to Aug 85;It will be interesting to remember that as at 27th August,1985 when IBB took over,exchange rate was =N=1.11 TO 1USD.

5.Foreign Policy : He knew that Nigeria is a regional power and without military prowess there can be no significant political prowess.Most security problems in Nigeria today could be traced to our confusing foreign policy direction.

6.Corruption ; He has the moral courage and political good will to sanitise the body polity (and this is one of the major reason while he may not be able to rule Nigeria,because the system is a corrupt system).

7.IDEOLOGY : He remains one of the last group of African leaders that are trained in the colonial era with a clear vision of what Africa should be;Buhari is a welfarist-pan Africanist ,who like late Captain Thomas Sankara believed firmly in the restoration of African dignity and dominion.

8.SECULARISM : He was able to clamp down on traditionalists and monarchs in his first time and he is a modernist who has what it takes to position us among the best in the world.

9.CHARACTER : He is one of the few leaders in the country who still have integrity;he may need to improve on personal communication but he always meant well.

10.MANAGEMENT AND PRUDENCE :Buhari is a leader and a manager,who has what it takes to catapult Nigeria from the valley to the mountain top.

CONCLUSION :WHEN YOU LOOK AROUND;BUHARI IS LIKE GENERAL DE GAULLE OF FRANCE; PRIME MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHHILL OF UK,A TRANS GENERATIONAL LEADER;HE LED 27 YEARS AGO;MOST YOUTHS OF TODAY,CLOSE TO 40% OF NIGERIAN POPULATION WERE NOT EVEN ALIVE WHILE HE RULED IN HIS FIRST TIME;

NATIONS THAT MISSED THEIR CRISIS LEADERS ALWAYS HAVE TO WAIT FOR ANOTHER GENERATION;WE WASTED A LEADER LIKE BUHARI 27 YEARS AGO;WE ARE LUCKY THAT WE STILL HAVE HIM NOW;IT WILL TAKE ANOTHER 27YEARS OR ANOTHER GENERATION TO GET A LEADER IN HIS MOLD.THIS IS THE WAY LATE CHIEF AWOLOWO WAS TREATED BECAUSE OF SENTIMENTS AND EMOTIONS;

THE ONLY ARGUMENT PEOPLE HAVE AGAINST BUHARI IS THAT HE IS A MUSLIM;BUT LET'S ASK THIS QUESTION;WILL BOKO HARAM EMERGE OR BE VIBRANT UNDER BUHARI?NO! WHY AM I SURE?HE WAS ABLE TO QUENCH THE FIRE OF MAITATSINE 30 YEARS AGO!ALSO,MORE CHRISTIANS HAVE BEEN KILLED UNDER THIS REGIME AND OBJ REGIME THAN OTHER REGIMES LED BY CHRISTIANS;THIS IS BECAUSE CHRISTIANS THAT HAVE RULED NIGERIA ARE MORE OF APOLOGISTS&PACIFISTS(IRONSI,GOWON,OBJ AND GEJ) .

FINALLY;NIGERIA IS A NATION WHERE PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT PREPARED TO RULE ALWAYS RULE;WE WILL ALSO TELL OUR CHILDREN ABOUT OUR COLLECTIVE ACTION IN INSTALLING UNWILLING PRESIDENTS OVER THE MOST POPULOUS BLACK NATION ON EARTH;THEREBY DRAWING THE DESTINY OF THE BLACK MAN BACKWARD! LONG LIVE NIGERIANS!

NIGERIA: A NATION RULED BY ROGUES/419

"President Jonathan's Economic Advisers Owing Nigeria N1.3 Trillion; CBN Bars Banks From Doing Business With 419 Deadbeat Companies And Individuals."

An explosive Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) circular published today by a local Nigerian newspaper lists some of President Goodluck Jonathan's economic advisers among the country’s worst deadbeat debtors

.

Some of the worst offenders are household names: Mr. Femi Otedola, Alhaji Sayyu Dantata, Sir Johnson Arumemi-Ikhide, Prof. Bart Nnaji, Mrs Elizabeth Ebi and Dr. Wale Babalakin.

And businesses too: Zenon, Arik, MRS, Aero Contractors, Capital Oil and Gas, to list just five.

But now local banks are barred from extending even one more kobo of credit to them until they clear all debts.

The big debtors are also among the nation’s richest companies and individuals, and their extensive uncollateralized loans from Nigerian banks to the tune of billions of dollars led to the collapse of the banking sector.

Several of the debtors were also involved in the petroleum subsidy scam that bled the Nigerian economy of some $6.5 billion.

Instead of prosecuting the predatory lenders and borrowers the Jonathan government pushed the problem aside by setting up a bogus body known as the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) to absorb the debts and enable the debtor roam free and engage in more economic crimes.

They apparently roamed far and wide, all 113 companies and 419 directors/shareholders. 419 is the actual number given by the CBN.

The document circular obtained by Thisday, dated last Monday, September 17, showed that the disdain by these rich individuals and companies for their debts has grown so much that the CBN decided to bar banks in the country from extending further credit to them.

“It has become necessary to stop debtors who failed to repay their loans to banks and had these loans subsequently transferred to AMCON, from further enjoying credit facilities from Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) until they fully repay agreed outstandings to AMCON,” said the circular, which was signed by CBN’s Director of Banking Supervision, Mrs. A. O. Martins.

According to ThisDay:

• The circular, which was accompanied by a detailed list of the blacklisted debtors, showed that worst hit by the directive are Zenon Petroleum, owned by Otedola, which was indebted to banks to the tune of N192.4 billion; MRS Holdings Limited, which belongs to Dantata – N119.98 billion; Seawolf Limited – N98.32 billion; Arik Air Limited, belonging to Arumemi-Ikhide – N85.481 billion; NITEL Plc/M-Tel – N71.547 billion; and Capital Oil and Gas Limited, which belongs to Ifeanyi Ubah – N48.014 billion.

• Others include Falcon Securities, whose Managing Director, Mr. Peter Ololo, was arraigned alongside several bank executives in 2009 by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) – N162.9 billion; Rockson Engineering Limited, owned by Arumemi-Ikhide – N60.475 billion; BGL Securities – N6.44 billion; Rahamaniyya Oil & Gas Limited – N46.38 billion; Bi-Courtney Limited – N20.214 billion; and Geometrics Engineering, owned by Nnaji – N19.76 billion.

• The restriction also applies to: Aero Contractors Company, owned by the family of Olorogun Michael Ibru - N32.579 billion; Tinapa Business Resort – N18.509 billion; Nestoil Limited, belonging to oil and gas entrepreneur, Ernest Azudialu – N13.506 billion; Dorman Long Engineering – N9.667 billion; Ascott Offshore Nig. Ltd, belonging to former banker, Henry Imasekha and the Berkley Group – N64.728 billion; Gitto Constuzioni – N11.838 billion; and Dansa Foods – N14.880 billion, whose directors, Sani and Abdul Dangote, are the brothers of business mogul, Alhaji Aliko Dangote.

Furthermore, the banks have also been directed not to grant further credit to two States: Cross River and Zamfara, because of the failure of the Tinapa Business Resort and the Zamfara Accountant General to pay back loans collected.

The Central Bank warned that any bank that flouts the guidelines would be made to make an immediate provision of 100 per cent of total principal and interest outstanding in the account of the customer and related parties, in addition to whatever regulatory penalties the CBN may decide to impose, ...This Day Newspaper

WORTHY OF CELEBRATION

Yesterday President Goodluck Jonathan rewarded Super Falconet and Paralympics as follows: Golden Medalist - N5million; Silver Medalist - N3million; Bronze Medalist - N2million; Coaches - N2.2million; Falconet - N1million and Team Mates N.5million each. This is worthy of celebration. Had we as a nation priotized celebration of notable acts and outstanding achievers, our search for good leadership and patriotic citizenship would have been much easier and our country a much better place. This will not only reawaken the consciousness of patriotism but will rekindle hope that Nigeria is on the path to greatness. I salute all those who put their best effort for the service of nationhood. Be on the watch as we unveils other outstanding youth achievers to commemorate Nigerian 52nd Independence Anniversary. Dont just go away

NIGERIA: A BLFSSED LAND BUT FILLED WITH POOR/CURSED PEOPLE

R*E*V*E*A*L*E*D
Nigerians Bought 123 Private Jets This Year..Peter Obi
**Who own them? These are people who are receiving (oil) subsidy
**owners of private jets include politicians, businessmen and pastors.
**Bishop David Oyedepo, is known

to have the most number of private jets in the country.

Upwards of 123 private jets have been acquired this year alone by some rich Nigerians even as the vast majority of Nigerians wallow in poverty as the economy goes from bad to worse.

Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State made this shocking disclosure yesterday in his goodwill message during the opening ceremony of the Second Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) holding in Umuahia, Abia State capital, South East Nigeria.

Giving indices of corruption in Nigeria, Obi lamented that this is happening in a country where many go to bed hungry. The governor declared that those who bought the private jets owe the public an explanation as to the source of their wealth.

This year alone, 123 private jets have been registered in this country. Who own them? These are people who are receiving (oil) subsidy. It is time to stop them, Obi said.

News Express reports that Nigerians who own private jets include politicians, businessmen and pastors. Bishop David Oyedepo, Founding Bishop of Living Faith Church International a.k.a Winners Chapel, is known to have the most number of private jets in the country. His fourth private jet, a Gulfstream V, is worth $30m and he has announced plans to buy a bigger one. Governor Obi in his speech also revealed that Nigerians seeking medical attention in foreign lands and those sponsoring their wards abroad for schooling spend about $10 billion doing so in a year.

Remedy to this needless capital flight, he noted, lies in fixing and handing over schools and hospitals in the country to the missions with adequate support from governments at all levels.

His words: We have schools in this country but nearly $6 billion is paid for education outside this country every year. Who are those paying it?

In this country, we pay over $4 billion for hospitals in India every year. Who are those paying it. We can fix our hospitals, let's put in money. Government cannot manage schools, government cannot manage hospitals. The ones we go to in India are not managed by government. Therefore, let's give it those who can manage it and support them. The missions can manage schools, they can manage hospitals.

The schools abroad that we take our children to are managed by missionaries; the hospitals we go abroad are managed by missionaries. Let the missionaries here manage our own so that if they fail, we hold them responsible. That is what we should all work for.

Obi explained that domestic debts portends ill for the country. What I want Nigerians to do is to resist the level of domestic debts that is being accumulated in this country by local, state and the federal governments,†he said, adding:

Domestic debt is very dangerous because it is Nigeria, your pensions, your future that we are burning out. The consequence is that In future, if they (the governments borrowing the money) can't redeem it, they devalue the currency and the naira will worth nothing. Let us know who is borrowing this money and what is it being borrowed for.

We borrow money in this country for consumption and not for productivity and who are those consuming, the same people who you must today hold responsible.

Citing the Middle East corruption and bad governance antidote, Obi said “People are blockading streets in the Middle East, let’s start doing it here. If anybody is not doing well, let's block his house.

The four-day conference, holding at the Bishop Nwedo Episcopal Centre, Mater Dei Cathedral, Umuahia, is being attended by Bishops from the 52 Ecclesiastical Provinces in Nigeria, government functionaries and the laity.

*Photo shows Bishop David Oyedepo, who owns the most number of private jets, relaxing inside one of them.

F*I*R*E!

Jonathan Cannot Win Free and Fair Election in 2015 - Buhari.

**let South South people vote for him when 2015 comes.
**I don’t take the decision of South-South leaders seriously.

**Buhari criticized Govt for not prosecuting those indicted in the pension, subsidy and other scam.

The defeated Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and former Head of States, Maj Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.) has dismissed the call by South South leaders that it is Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 or no one else.

The retired general believes those rolling drum for the president were member of the leading People Democratic Party (PDP).

Buhari stated this in Kaduna when the party’s governorship candidate for the October 20 election in Ondo State, Mr. Soji Ehinlanwo was received by him.

His words: “I don’t take the decision of South-south leaders seriously. The South-South people said it is Jonathan or nothing; I know they are members of the Peoples Democratic Party, let them vote for him.

“In a free and fair election, let us see if they can give him the ticket against other geo-political zones. Let them give him the primary ticket first. Let them vote for him when 2015 comes and let us see if he would win.”

He stressed that, “It is also up to the elite to participate and ensure that elections are free and fair. It is not necessary for them to be card-carrying members of political parties. They know how to participate; they should not sit and look. They can go to their constituencies to identify and enlighten their people on the need to entrench free and fair election to stabilise the country.”

The Kastina-born former leader had asserted that it was only in Nigeria that workers would serve the government for 10 to 35 years and come out without due compensation as they end up joining the queue to continue in another phase of struggle in order to survive.

While lamenting the delayed in prosecution of those indicted in the pension, subsidy and other scam, Buhari maintained that “this can only happen in Nigeria”.

Who is wise?....

 

#5000 will bring all of us to poverty...Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.



IF I AM CBN GOVERNOR, I WILL PRINT #10,000 note...Former Bank Chief, Atedo Peterside. Great Nigerians, how far?

At Gatwick Airport, Air Nigeria Asks Passengers To Donate £40 Each To Buy Fuel For Flight To Lagos

 

In a scandalous twist of events, SaharaReporters learned that an Air Nigeria crew at Gatwick Airport yesterday asked passengers to contribute £40 each to enable them purchase fuel to depart for Lagos several hours after the flight’s takeoff was delayed.
About 190 passengers on Flight LOS-VK 0292/08 said they were surprised by the request.  They confronted the airline official who had made the request, and he quickly disappeared from the riotous scene.
The flight, which was scheduled to fly out of London at 9:50a.m, eventually did so at 5p.m., arriving in Lagos at 12:30a.m.   But the ordeal of the passengers was hardly over.
A passenger, Lekan Fatodu told SaharaReporters that when they arrived at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos, they discovered their baggage had not arrived with them. They were left stranded for several hours before an official of the airline told them to return the next day for their luggage.
It was learned that the airline’s bag handling service, Swissport, refused to provide ground-handling services to the airline because Air Nigeria had not met its obligations to the company.
Air Nigeria’s embattled owner, Jimoh Ibrahim, last week announced the sacking of over 500 workers at the airline and suspension of all flight services starting from tomorrow, September 10.
Mr. Ibrahim claimed that his workers were disloyal to the company but the workers said during a street protest that Mr. Ibrahim was a bad manager who diverted funds given to the airline by the Nigerian government and is negligent in aircraft maintenance. The workers have not received salaries since April 2012.
Mr. John Nnorom, a former chief financial officer of the airline told SaharaTV yesterday that of the 11 aircraft in Air Nigeria's fleet, only one is serviceable. SaharaReporters learnt that most lessors have repossessed their aircrafts from Air Nigeria, leaving it with only four aircrafts.
Following the publication by SaharaReporters of a powerful petition by Mr. Nnorom detailing the troubles facing the ailing airline, Air Nigeria’s operations were suspended.
The petition appeared on June 4, one day after a Dana Air MD-83 aircraft crashed near the Lagos airport killing 159 people.
The international flights were operated through a wet lease arrangement between Egypt Air and AirNigeria.

Can This Be True?

 A rumour about the purported death of Nigeria’s First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has started making the rounds as she remains incommunicado for the third straight week.
Following enquiries by anxious Nigerians who wanted to know if the story of the First Lady’s alleged death is true or not, News Express put a call across to Dr. Reuben Abati, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, around noon. His phone rang but was not picked.
News Express then sent a text message to Dr. Abati, requesting his comment on the news. About four hours later, the presidential spokesman is yet to reply even though the phone showed that the message was delivered. Dr. Abati had on Tuesday evening last week (Sept. 4) dismissed Dame Jonathan’s reported illness as a rumour after News Express and some other media reported her medical trip to Germany.
As reported by News Express on Sept. 5, a spokesperson for Horst Schmidt Klinik, the hospital in Wiesbaden, Germany, where Dame Jonathan is believed to be receiving treatment, had revealed that she was in a bad state of health when she arrived the hospital for treatment two weeks ago.
The official disclosed that initial records showed that the Nigerian President’s wife had earlier been treated for food poisoning back home before being brought to Horst Schmidt Klinik, where she underwent a major surgery for a ruptured appendix to remove the poisons in her intestine.
Though admitting that Dame Jonathan travelled to Germany, presidency spokesmen had claimed that she went for a rest but kept sealed lips on her whereabouts.
Horst Schmidt Klinik is gradually becoming a choice hospital of Nigerian top government officials. It was the same hospital that late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua once received for kidney-related ailments.

Nigerian students spend N160b in Ghana varsities, says Babalakin

 No fewer than 75,000 Nigerian students are currently studying in three Ghanaian universities   incurring a total of N160billion expenditure annually, the Chairman, Committee of Pro-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities, Dr Wale Babalakin, has said.
The expenditure is less than the Federal Government’s total budget for all its universities last year,  Babalakin, Pro-Chancellor, University of Maiduguri added.
 He spoke in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, at the weekend at an award night organised by the University of Ilorin Alumni Association in honour of Governor AbdulFatah Ahmed and three  other  alumni of the institution.
 Also honoured were the outgoing Vice Chancellor of UNILORIN, Prof Ishaq Oloyede; Vice Chancellor of the Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, Prof Abdulrasheed Na’Allah; and the Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer of UTC Nigeria Ltd, Mrs. Folusho Olaniyan.
 Babalakin, who was the chairman of the occasion said: “University education is at a crossroad in Nigeria. Only in 1973, four Nigerian universities were rated among the best 20 in Africa. Today, none of them is among the best 30, while none is among the best 1000 in the world.
 “University education is a collective effort. University education can only grow properly with government and active support of the populace. Leaving it for government alone is not fair. Everybody should contribute to ensure education that grows in Nigeria.
 “Since 2009, when the power to appoint VC had been delegated to the university, it has been done relatively peaceful. Most people are surprised that there has not been any rancour in the appointment of VCs. This is the first step towards university autonomy. There are still so many areas that are still not autonomous. It is when we become totally autonomous that all the universities will have the necessary energy to develop at their own pace.
 “The university should be allowed to generate money internally for development purposes. If we generate substantial money within the university and those monies are spent with great discretion, you will be alarmed at how far it will go and the catalytic effect of development.
 “Nigeria government should put measure in place to attract foreign students to Nigerian universities. In the 70s and 80s, so many went abroad for their ‘A’ level and came back to the Nigerian universities.”
  “Before the just concluded Olympic games everyone of us was happy that Nigeria was participating, but I told some of my colleagues that Nigeria would have a dismal outing. This is because we don’t have outstanding primary, secondary and tertiary institution competition.”

SOCIAL MEDIA...GENEROUS but also DANGEROUS

MAJ. Gen. Frank Osokogu, father of Cynthia, the young lady who was murdered in Lagos by her Facebook friends, has admonished all youths to beware of trusting total strangers they meet only on Facebook and other social media. If other youths are saved through this warning, he said, it would lighten his deep sorrow over the loss of his only daughter.

Osokogu who spoke in an interview with journalists in Jos, said it was Cynthia’s friends in Abuja, whom she had visited en route Lagos, who first notified him that she had not returned from her trip, days after she was due back.
 
See full interview  below
How did it all begin sir?
My daughter was in Nasarawa State University, Keffi, doing her Masters programme. She stayed there. I stay in Abuja and Jos, while my wife stays in Jos. So, we are not together.
It became very difficult to know exactly when she was missing from school. But I got to know about everything when her friends started looking for any of her family members and they got to know me and got to know my number.
So, they called me saying that my daughter travelled and she had not come back. From what they had said, my daughter was their schoolmate and friend. She finished before them in the university and they lived in Abuja and she stayed with them anytime she was coming to Abuja.
So, this time around, she (my daughter) called them that she was coming to Abuja on her way to Lagos, because she was going to buy some items and they told her that they were in NYSC camp and not at home.
However, they told her that the key to their flat was with their gateman and she could collect it and do what she wanted to do before travelling.
They said she brought in her belongings and took what she wanted to use in Lagos and left. They didn’t see her; all these were just telephone conversations.
I think it was when the time she told them that she would come back had elapsed and they didn’t see her and they took one or two more days extra, giving her the benefit of doubt, they still didn’t see her that they started looking for any of the family members.
That was how I got to know that she was not in school and had travelled and that she was missing.
How long did she tell them (the friends) she was going to stay in Lagos?
She left on July 22, which was a Sunday, and she told them she was going to spend about three or four days.
When did the message finally get to you that she was missing?
That should be about the end of July. I told you it took about one week after the time she said she was going to come back before they started looking for family members.
I can’t remember the exact day now, but it should be around July 31 or August 1 or thereabout.
What did you do?
Immediately they called and told me her car and some of her belongings were there and they wanted to return them to my house for safekeeping, I said they should bring them. I gave them the description and they brought the car with the items.
When they came, I told them that returning the items was just not enough, that they had to go to the Police to make some statement … and they agreed.
So, we drove to Gwarimpa Police Station, because they live in Gwarimpa and that was the last point my daughter must have travelled from, and they made statements and the Station referred us to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in the Federal capital Territory (FCT), where they have the technological know-how and facilities to track missing persons, missing telephones, coordinating or whatsoever, which the ordinary Police don’t have.
They gave us quick passage to SARS. We went there and they made statements too. The SARS swung into action.
Before this time, did you have any inkling of her movement?
No, no! I told you she was in school; she was a postgraduate student and was a big girl now. I don’t stay with her or follow her movement.
I phoned her from time to time and she would tell me if there was any problem. Occasionally, I visited her and come back to my base.
Within this time, you did not phone her because there was no need to?
I had just seen her before she got missing. I went there and saw her. She told me that their examination was on, so practically there was no need to disturb her.
As she was growing up, what type of girl was she?
Oh, she was a very good girl, very serious, very focused. She had done very well. She finished her youth service about the age of 22 and had never been lagging behind.
So, I was very confident that she was full of promises, full of potentials and we didn’t have any problem with her.
You must be pained reading all the comments about her and the incident, how do you feel as her father?
Well, definitely, it is one of those things. When things like that happen, a lot of speculations and insinuations will come, but that is not my problem now. My problem is to get focused that at least, somebody is dead, and luckily, the Police have been able to do a thorough job from what I was told. I have not gone to Lagos to see the Police, but my brother and my son had been there and from what they told me, the Police from the beginning, did a marvelous job in tracking down the suspects.
So, we are worried about how to move forward with the case, not about what people say. I don’t work on rumours; I don’t work on stupid foundations. In fact, there is no need for that.
For your information, I have always had a standing order allowance for my daughter from the age of 15 till now. When she was going for youth service, I had to give her a car as gift.
I am sure she must have been getting some little allowance from her brothers too, and of course from her mother. So, I don’t see any reason why she should not have at least enough money to go on for people to begin to insinuate that she was a “runs girl” or whatever they mean by that.
So, I don’t want to talk more on that.
How do you feel sir, losing your only daughter?
Well, it is very painful; it is devastating, it is incomprehensible. Our consolation is that when some things happen, you just take it with equanimity. What cannot be helped must be endured.
I believe too that the situation that is unfolding is a big lesson for other youths. They have a lot of lessons to draw on why they should not just be chatting with strangers on Facebook, the Internet or Blackberry or whatever and then decide to go visiting them when they don’t know them.

ASIWAJU BOLA AHMED TINUBU AT OBAMA's CAMPAIGN

E*X*P*O*S*E*D!
Tinubu Lied about Obama’s Invitation.
**he paid $5,000 for VIP seat at the convention.
**“it is immoral to deceive anyone that we are who we
are not.” - DNC
**DNC did not invite him, he bought his ticket like others.

**this gentleman (Tinubu) is not like your popular National icon,
businessman Moshood Abiola whom we know. - DNC.

Fresh facts have emerged that Leader of the Action Congress of
Nigeria, Bola Tinubu, paid $5000 to obtain the generic invitation from the Democratic Party campaign office, but claimed he was personally invited to attend by President Barack Obama as leader of Nigeria opposition.

Obama, it has been revealed, did not personally extend what has been dubbed by Tinubu “a gold card invitation” to him to attend the Democratic party convention (DNC) in Charlotte, North Carolina. contrary to claims by him and his aides.

This is not the first time Tinubu has been enmeshed in controversy bothering on false claims. The controversy surrounding his academic qualifications, his claim of being a Certified Public Accountant, and discrepancy in his age records are still fresh in memory.

According to investigations by reporters of a United States based online medium, Sharpedgenews.com, the invite received by Tinubu was a generic kind sent out to donors by the campaign organization.

The medium which is attending the convention, also revealed that the DNC denied ever inviting Tinubu on any official capacity as the “ leader of opposition” in Nigeria
The media team of Tinubu had claimed that he was invited to the Democratic National Convention in his right as the leader of the opposition in Nigeria.

According to his media aide Sunday Dare “ Tinubu will be at the ring side as the Democratic Party conduct activities that will
culminate in the nomination of President Barrack Obama as its
candidate for the November 2012 Presidential elections in the USA.”

“Tinubu receives a gold card invitation which is prime and with this,
he will be joined by three other eminent personalities – Governor
Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti state, Speaker Lagos state House of
Assembly Adeyemi Ikuforiji and former Commissioner for
Information and Strategy in Lagos state, Mr Dele Alake.” His
statement added

DNC sources irked by the suggestive news reports which is being
interpreted that Barack Obama may have extended a preferential
invitation to Mr. Tinubu in spite of similar politicians in his native
country of Nigeria, said that such notion was further from reality as
was claimed by the ACN leader

The DNC source explained that the invite that was given to Tinubu
was a generic type that similarly went to whoever donated more
than $5,000 to the Obama campaign.

“The invitation card sent to Tinubu, the former senator from
Nigeria, was generic and it generally goes from the campaign
organization and not personally from President Obama,” the highly
placed source explained under condition of anonymity.

The source said that it would be difficult for anyone to implicate
Obama in attempts at foisting a preferred leadership on Nigeria or
Africa as that would negate the philosophy of Washington’s new international engagement.

“Nigerians are capable of determining its destiny,” said the source.

The source said that politicians are free to strategize, while
explaining that “it is immoral to deceive anyone that we are who we
are not.”

“This gentleman is not like your popular national icon,
businessman Moshood Abiola, who was well-grounded and at
home with many people in government and private sector.
Americans don’t want to be dragged into the affairs of any country
through personal preferences. The man probably did what he had
to do in order to gain access to the convention ground.” The
source said. Is is a Shame!

Reuben Abati: The Jonathan “They” Don’t Know

By Reuben Abati

“They” in this piece refers to all the cynics, the pestle-wielding critics, the unrelenting, self-appointed activists, the idle and idling, twittering, collective children of anger, the distracted crowd of Facebook addicts, the BBM-pinging soap opera gossips of Nigeria, who seem to be in competition among themselves to pull down President Goodluck Jonathan. This army of sponsored and self-appointed anarchists is so diverse; many of them don’t even know why or how they should attack the President.

The clear danger to public affairs commentary is that we have a lot of unintelligent people repeating stupid clichés and too many intelligent persons wasting their talents lending relevance to thoughtless conclusions.  Hold on. I don’t want to be misunderstood. I am not saying nobody should criticize the Nigerian President. I spent some time learning that legal maxim: “volenti non fit injuria”. Public position comes with its own share of risks and exposure. But the twittering, pinging, Facebook crowd of the new age must be guided by facts.

Hold your stone. Don’t haul it yet.  Shhh. Wait, Mr. Alaseju! I have spent the last fourteen months working with President Jonathan. I have followed him everywhere. I can write a whole book on his Presidency so far, but you won’t get to read that until much later.  I have heard that some people are protesting that they will not buy the book if it gets written. Well, your choice. What I can report, for now is that he is a grossly misunderstood President. Too many people are unfair to him. They criticize him out of ignorance. They abuse him out of mischief. And the opposition doesn’t make things easy at all. Can we look at a number of issues?

You say he is a clueless President. You are wrong. He is not clueless.  Nobody is more committed to the Nigerian Project than President Jonathan. In spite of unforeseen challenges which his administration has had to contend with, President Jonathan is doing his utmost best to positively transform Nigeria. Ordinary Nigerians know and appreciate this.  Those parading themselves as leaders of the opposition who claim that the President has lost the support of Nigerians represent only themselves and their selfish interests.

President  Jonathan  is a clever, methodical and intelligent man, who is very adept at wrong footing all the persons who make an effort to second-guess or under-estimate him. He understands the complexity of Nigeria. He is acutely conscious of the historicity of his emergence as Nigeria’s No. 1.  He knows that he is here as the leader of all Nigerians. He knows that he is a representative of all common persons, particularly the children of all blue collar workers who never wore shoes or got a chance to eat three-square meals, and whose mothers and aunties could never be part of policy-making processes.

When he spoke about not wearing shoes as a child, he meant that as a metaphor for the disparities in the Nigerian system, and the urgent need to redress inequalities. But I have heard some persons responding literally that Nigerians should never vote for a man who never wore shoes. How simplistic. Attention needs to be drawn to the fact that a rooted, people-sourced President who seeks to transform Nigeria, and who campaigns on a platform of transformation, will necessarily be opposed by those who consider themselves the children of Empire builders, those who think that their ancestors built Nigeria. Wrong.

The Ijaws, the fourth largest ethnic nationality in Nigeria, have as much right to have their son as President as every other Nigerian group. But Jonathan doesn’t even dwell on this. I have never heard him utter an ethnic statement. He sees himself as the President of all Nigerians. He is at home with every group. He is focused on the challenges of nation-building. He wants to transform Nigeria. He wants to unite the country. He is determined to promote the country. And he is doing so already. He knows Nigerians want regular power supply. He is working at it. That is why we have crossed 4, 400 MW.

He knows Nigerians want infrastructure. That is why he is telling Bi-Courtney to fix Lagos-Ibadan Expressway or get out. That is why he is telling a particular Minister to fix the East-West road and get it fixed quickly. That is why he has directed the relevant agencies to get corrupt persons to answer for their misdeeds. That is why he is strengthening Nigeria’s foreign relations. That is why he is transforming the agriculture sector, from a contract-awarding, fertilizer distribution enterprise into big business. And more… The reason President Jonathan does not go into a song and dance routine is because he knows that true rebranding of a nation is a projection of positive things that are already happening.

They say he is “tribalistic”. Not true. How many Ijaws are in President Jonathan’s inner circle? Very few, I can tell you. There are of course, all kinds of persons who go about telling people that they have the President’s ears and eyes. They would even tell you that they think for the President! I used to have nightmares whenever I heard that, but it no longer bothers me. I have since learnt that some Nigerians consider it fashionable to wear false garments.

The Presidency qua Presidency is staffed by key officials from all parts of the country. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation is from Ebonyi State. The Chief of Staff and the Head of the President’s Secretariat are both from Edo, the Protocol Liaison Officer and Principal Private Secretary are from Adamawa, the Chief Detail is from Borno, the Aide De Camp (ADC) is from Kogi, the Perm Sec, State House is from Benue, the State Chief of Protocol is from Kwara, the Special Adviser, Media and Publicity is from Ogun, the Chief Physician to the President is from Rivers. Only the Chief Security Officer, the Special Assistant, Domestic and the Special Adviser, Research and Strategy are from Bayelsa.

When he is in the office, and he gets there early every day, and works till very late, he is exposed to all categories of Nigerians.  He runs a modern and open Presidency. He is on Facebook, Twitter, email, SMS, BB, and he reads. And he writes. This is not a provincial President. The intelligentsia, his immediate community, should support him to do his work.

President Jonathan was the first Nigerian leader to appoint a woman as his Chief Economic Adviser as well as the Nigerian leader who opened up the Nigerian Defence Academy to women. And he took affirmative action in political appointments to a higher level by reserving 35% of all appointive positions in government for our women folk.

The facts in this regard are incontrovertible. Under President Jonathan, women occupy very strategic positions (Petroleum Resources, Education, Co-ordinating Minister/Minister of Finance, Water Resources, Minister of State, FCT, Minister of State, Defence,  Minister of State, Foreign Affairs 1, Minister of State, Niger Delta) and the headship of many of the MDAs. The President’s  commitment to Nigeria is total. All his children school in Nigeria. Even his dress code promotes Nigeria.

They say Mr. President drinks. My friend and colleague, Etim Etim, called the other day to say that whatever may be the challenges on this job, he could affirm that I am at least enjoying. “What with all the choice drinks on every trip,” he said. I told him, “No, we don’t drink.” He protested. He thought I was lying. He had heard that kain-kain is a staple fare on presidential flights. I told him No. We are not allowed to touch alcohol. Alcohol is not served during official duties. Yes, when there is an international function, wine is served, but nobody gets drunk around here. That will amount to an act of indiscipline. The President himself does not allow alcohol to be served at his table. But when you go to social media they tell you something else. Lies. Lies. Lies.

I have even heard that the President spends billions on feeding. Well, I have enjoyed the privilege of eating at the President’s table. What does he eat? Fish pepper soup. Cassava Bread. Slices of yam. Rice. Boiled plantain. Fruits and vegetables. He fasts when he chooses, and fasts all month during Ramadan and Lent.

And because he takes his exercises and keep fit regime seriously, he eats very little.

Okay, he drinks coffee.  And yet there are people out there who keep claiming that there is a feast in the Villa every day. They say at every meal, the table is decorated with roasted turkey, and every delicacy under the sun.  Lies. Lies.  This President is not a glutton. We have a disciplined, hardworking president who enjoys his privacy, and the company of intelligent people.

Here is a man who is an epitome of loyalty and simplicity. The thing about the President’s critics is that they just cannot accept that someone with his simplicity can be their President. This is the Saul Complex. Saul could not accept the fact that somebody as simple as David could be favoured by God. And just like Saul threw the spear at David out of uncontrollable jealousy, these critics are out to throw any kind of spear to see which hits the target, hence all their lies about the President.

Let me end by saying that the President is a simple man but simplicity is not naivety. If simplicity were to be naivety then the world would not be where it is today because it is simple men like Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and Kwame Nkrumah, who have shaped the world that we live in by simplifying what others have complicated.

Dr. Reuben Abati is Special Adviser (Media and Publicity) to President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.

Why I Called on Jonathan to Resign-Sheikh Gumi

Renowned Kaduna-based Islamic scholar Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi Sheikh Ahmad Gumi yesterday explained how he survived the recent suicide bomb attack along Ali Akilu Road near his house in Kaduna, saying the attack was hatched by elements trying to spark war between Muslims and non Muslims.

Speaking at a media chat organized by Desert Herald newspaper in Kaduna, Gumi said, “That same morning I was contacted by an army officer from the Nigerian Army Headquarters who told me that in today’s security meeting; my name was top on the list of names of people who are going to be eliminated by the so called Boko Haram.

“When that happened, I was having a chat with the people of Jamhuriya Hausa newspaper because they met me a little bit late; so when we finished, we saw a convoy of two motorbikes and they stopped by the road. So when they saw the first car coming out, they quickly went a few meters to the road to plant the explosives so that they can go further away to detonate it when my car was coming.

“Unfortunately for them, I was going to make a projection, so the car came out but it did not take that road where they were stationed; so in trying to quickly put the bomb, it took off and killed them instead; if you go to the scene, you will see the hole by the road side where it uprooted.

“Immediately, I sent my security to take pictures of the scene and one of them was even still alive when he got there but there were a lot of honey bees in the areas so nobody could help him, even my security the bees stung him too but he was able to take the pictures and come back.

“One of them was even carrying a pistol because you cannot guarantee bomb explosion; so they intended to come back and finish whoever they intended to kill, and I learnt from the police that the bodies of the bombers were not handed over to them by the military and they are in the military hospital”.

He said if such a thing happened, it was the responsibility of security agents to have the pictures of the people in the newspapers so that Nigerians could know who they were and who was supporting them “but no investigation is going on about the issue”.

“A source in the 44 Army Reference Hospital mortuary said the bombers are not even Muslims; so this Boko Haram is a creation of the Western powers but they got cover from the government because the government is insensitive to the extent of irresponsibility; and that is why I called for the resignation of the Nigerian President.

Contacted on Gumi’s remarks, acting police spokesman for Kaduna police command DSP Abubakar Balteh said the police had not made any arrest so far in connection with the recent bomb attack along Ali Akilu Road, saying that the two bomb carriers died in the incident.

On the whereabouts of the dead bodies, he said the bodies were mutilated and taken to the hospital.

“The bodies were mutilated; so they are not something anybody could keep. They have been transferred to the mortuary, though I am not sure of the hospital where they are. If they were to be alive, information could be got from them but they are dead,” he said.

On the allegation by Sheikh Gumi that the military had bodies of the attackers, Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, 1Mechanized Army Division Kaduna, Col. Sani K. Usman, said he has no idea where the bodies are kept. “I don’t know where the bodies are; if I know, I will tell you; but I don’t know,” he said.

Also, Director of Army Public Relations Brigadier General Mobolaji Koleoso said he was not aware of the claims made by Sheikh Gumi.

How To Change Government Peacefully: Social Mobility Is No Longer Frozen In Nigeria By Pastor Tunde Bakare

Last Sunday, we looked at the subject: HOW TO CHANGE GOVERNMENT PEACEFULLY AND MAKE SOCIETY BETTER. That message was delivered in a lecture format in this auditorium. Unknown to many, I was originally scheduled to leave the country that night for an engagement in the U.K., but I was restrained by the Holy Spirit to stay behind because men of the State Security Service (SSS) would come for me, and if they were to find out I left the night before, they would assume we have a pattern of preaching and leaving the country almost immediately; more so when their last invitation came after I had left the country. I therefore stayed put, and, true to type, they showed up at my house in the pursuit of their legitimate duties the following day, Monday, the 23rd of July, 2012, at about noon.

I would have ignored the whole episode and moved on to other things today but for the need to clarify some issues and to share the vital lessons we can glean from the SSS episode as well as other matters that cropped up following my visit to the State Security Service department. Let me deal with the lessons first.
LESSON #1: God knows what we do not know, and, when we cannot trace Him, we must trust Him. It is clear to me that in these perilous times, we need hearing ears, seeing eyes, and obedient hearts more than ever before. Someone may ask: How did you know that the State Security Service would come the next day? The answer is simple: God told me, and that was neither the first time, nor is it likely to be the last. I recall a crusade we held in Ilaro in the nineties (90s). I woke up early to pray at the hotel we were staying and, in the course of prayer, the Holy Spirit said to me, “Get ready, SSS men are on their way.” I turned to my wife and told her, “Make me a cup of tea quickly; men of the SSS are on their way here.” She did and I had scarcely finished drinking the tea when there was a knock on the door. Guess who knocked – Men of the SSS. I followed them and they asked me to stop the crusade because of the surge of the crowd. I responded that it was not the surge of the crowd that was their concern but the ancient gods of the Yewa people and the devils I attacked publicly. I told them: “I have the necessary permits for the crusade and will not stop till we finish.” They then advised me to tone down the message and, of course, I toned it up.

Three notable things happened at that crusade, among other miracles:

1. The occult hired worthless men to throw stones at me on the platform, which they did. However, no stone hit me and, as I preached, serpents came from nowhere and bit them. Nobody needed to chase them -- they ran out of the place themselves.

LESSON #2: O ran mo ni se fi aya ti ni Eledumare. Translation: God’s man, in God’s place, doing God’s work, in God’s way, and at God’s time, will not lack God’s support.

2. The second notable thing that happened was that a heavy cloud descended upon the city and many concluded it would rain. I stood there and declared, “God is the Father of rain; He cannot send me here to preach and send rain to disturb the crusade.” I told them it would not rain until we were done. The cloud became thicker and thicker and we could feel heavy downpour looming in the atmosphere - but it did not rain. The last night of the crusade, I announced to the hearing of all, “Get your umbrellas ready, for as soon as I leave your city, heavy rain will fall.” By the grace of God, it was so.
LESSON #3: God does not sponsor a flop.

3. Now to the third notable thing. Just before we closed the crusade, a young boy who was very sick and lying prostrate on his sick bed was supernaturally healed by the power of God as he listened to the message coming through our powerful public address system. His father was immediately contacted by relatives and he rushed to the crusade ground to give us the testimony in writing as there were too many people on the stage giving testimonies. The boy that was healed happened to be the son of the police head (D.P.O.) in Ilaro.

LESSON #4: The people that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. Who knows what could have happened to the boy if the SSS had succeeded in stopping the crusade? Your guess is as good as mine.
As I said earlier, I had planned to move to other matters today but the SSS interruption - I beg your pardon, invitation - has necessitated a sequel to the message: HOW TO CHANGE GOVERNMENT PEACEFULLY AND MAKE SOCIETY BETTER. This sequel is predicated on Psalm 2 and I will proceed when we are done with the vital lessons from the SSS’ invitation.

LESSON #5: There is panic in the enemy’s camp (Joshua 2:8-14). Why? Acts 4 gives three reasons for the arrest and the harassment of the Apostles -

Reason (i): A notable miracle had been done through the Apostles that those who harassed them could not deny (Acts 4:13-16). What notable miracle has taken place in our own clime? SOCIAL MOBILITY IS NO LONGER FROZEN IN NIGERIA. Nigerians have gained and are gaining their voices back since the Ojota Freedom Park Rally in January 2012. Save Nigeria Group’s role in that is acknowledged by the powers that be, including the State Director of the SSS last Monday.

Our role at the SNG is not just to be the voice of the voiceless, but to let the voiceless regain their voices and use them as they please within the confines of the law. That is why we refer to the VOTE as the VOICE OF THE ELECTORATE.

Reason (ii): They arrested and harassed them so that the gospel would not spread further and none of them would teach or preach in the name of Jesus any longer.
Reason (iii): Their worst fear as contained in Acts 5:27- 28 (NKJV):

27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest asked them, 28 saying, “Did we not strictly command you not to teach in this name? And look, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this Man's blood on us!”

Let me make it clear that the officers and men of the SSS did not arrest me or interrogate me for eight (8) hours followed by the granting of bail, nor did I say I was misquoted by any newspaper, as was falsely reported by AIT. AIT has since interviewed me and aired the correct version of what transpired on Monday, the 23rd of July, 2012 at the SSS office in Shangisha. The State Director of SSS and his men treated me with respect and dignity; they were very civil to me. The State Director himself had earlier visited me here at The Latter Rain Assembly in November 2011, making the same request that I tone down my message where politics is concerned, especially with regard to the person of President Goodluck Jonathan.

Last Monday, the same request was made. I gave the State Director a signed copy of Sunday’s lecture and promised to send him past publications and documents from the SNG office. I got to their office at 3:10 p.m. and left at 4:10 p.m. I am very grateful for their civility and respect accorded to me. They will all remain in our thoughts and prayers as they pursue their legitimate duties of ensuring peace in the state and country and allow us to continue to pursue ours within the ambit of the law.

But what lessons are we supposed to learn from the visit?

Acts 4:21&22 (NKJV):

21 So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way of punishing them, because of the people, since they all glorified God for what had been done. 22 For the man was over forty years old on whom this miracle of healing had been performed.

There are at least two (2) additional lessons here:

LESSON #6: When you stay within the boundary of your call, no evil shall befall you.

LESSON #7: When your words are choice words fitly spoken, your traducers will find no way of punishing you.

Isaiah 50:4&5 (NKJV):

4 “The Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary. He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear to hear as the learned. 5 The Lord GOD has opened My ear; and I was not rebellious, nor did I turn away.”

Brothers and sisters, I appeal to you by the mercies of God, especially those of you who carry and will carry the prophetic mantle and speak truth to power - You must learn to follow the injunction of Paul the Apostle as recorded in Colossians 4:5&6 (NKJV):

5 “Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time. 6 Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.”

LESSON #8: Apostles and prophets must not only be accountable to their primary constituency, they must accurately report every encounter with the civil government authorities to their base for the following primary reasons:

i. Prayer cover, and

ii. Recharge

Acts 4:23-31 (NKJV):

23 And being let go, they went to their own companions and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them. 24 So when they heard that, they raised their voice to God with one accord and said: “Lord, You are God, who made heaven and earth and the sea, and all that is in them, 25 who by the mouth of Your servant David have said: ‘Why did the nations rage, and the people plot vain things? 26 The kings of the earth took their stand, and the rulers were gathered together against the LORD and against His Christ.’ 27 “For truly against Your holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together 28 to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose determined before to be done. 29 Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word, 30 by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus.” 31 And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.

The content of their corporate prayer should interest every genuine disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The highlights are as follows:

HIGHLIGHT #1: The Lord is God who made heaven and earth, and the seas and all that is in them. What is the implication of this?
Jeremiah 10:6-11 (NKJV):

6 “Inasmuch as there is none like You, O LORD (You are great, and Your name is great in might), 7 who would not fear You, O King of the nations? For this is Your rightful due. For among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, There is none like You. 8 But they are altogether dull-hearted and foolish; a wooden idol is a worthless doctrine. 9 Silver is beaten into plates; it is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the craftsman and of the hands of the metalsmith; blue and purple are their clothing; they are all the work of skillful men. 10 But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and the everlasting King. At His wrath the earth will tremble, and the nations will not be able to endure His indignation. 11 Thus you shall say to them: “The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens.”

HIGHLIGHT #2: The powers that be, including Satan and his human agents, can only do what God permits or allows them to do.

Acts 4:27-28 (NKJV):

27 “For truly against Your holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together 28 to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose determined before to be done.”

HIGHLIGHT #3: Realizing that God is truly in charge, they asked Him to grant them boldness, that with all boldness (not some boldness -- all boldness), they may speak God’s word. Let us pray for all boldness to speak the Word of Life accurately.

HIGHLIGHT #4: Finally, they asked God for more healings, “and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your Holy Servant Jesus.” (Acts 4:29-30; NKJV). Healings are okay, but because God does awesome things, some signs and wonders can be very frightening. Examples to come later.
The end-product of the Apostles’ collective prayer is recorded in Acts 4:31.
Acts 4:31 (NKJV):

“And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.”

This is what I call Re-charge; Holy Ghost Faith Booster. Did they tone down their message afterwards? NO! Should I then tone mine down? NO!!

Acts 4:31 (NKJV):

“…and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.”
Who should I obey – God or the SSS Director? The answer is in Acts 5:27-32.


Now, to today’s main message.

Text: Psalm 2:1-12

This is the sequel to last Sunday’s message, HOW TO CHANGE GOVERNMENT PEACEFULLY AND MAKE SOCIETY BETTER. My focus is on verse 12.
Psalm 2:12 (NKJV):

“Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and you perish in the way, when His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.”

From that verse of Scripture, and for the little time we have left, I am preaching a message titled:

DON’T INTIMIDATE THE PROPHET: YOU WILL INFURIATE HIM AND BRING JUDGMENT UPON YOURSELF.

Since the beginning of this year, especially after the Ojota Freedom Park Rally spearheaded by the Save Nigeria Group (SNG) and allies, there have been threats of arrest against my person and some of our key leaders from the highest quarters; and at least twice in November 2011 and on Monday, 23rd July, 2012, the State Director of SSS asked me to tone down my message because, in his words, I have become partisan. I countered his argument by saying that my message has not changed since the days of the military. A corrupt, perverse, wasteful, directionless and clueless government is offensive to me and should be offensive to every intelligent patriot in this nation. I asked the Director if he considered my activities and that of SNG in January 2010 controversial and partisan when we marched the streets of Abuja and Lagos to protest the impunity being meted out to then Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan in the dying days of President Yar’Adua. He did not answer me. Now is the time to answer him and the likes of him who think partisanship is a spiritual sin or crime that must not be committed by lazy men - I beg your pardon, clergymen.

First, let’s define the word ‘partisan’ or ‘partisanship’ (Webster’s Dictionary):

a. n). Someone who actively supports (a party, cause or principle). By that definition, everyone should be partisan, because if you don’t stand for anything, you will fall for everything. Also, by that definition, only the spineless or lily-livered will not be partisan.

b. Someone not in a regular army who engages in guerrilla warfare. Such a charge cannot be levied against me. I am not and cannot be involved in any guerilla warfare against the state. Many in that category, such as MEND, are friends of this government and they now benefit greatly from their past guerilla activities as they are rewarded with fabulous contracts. And as the English adage goes: “Show me you friend and I’ll tell you who you are.”

c. One-sided or biased.
The messages I preach are only biased in favour of Righteousness, Justice and Truth. To this, I plead guilty because there is nothing anyone can do against the truth, but for the truth. If I am being asked to tone down my message because of perceived partisanship, those asking me to do so have only succeeded in precipitating a tone up, and examples abound in Scriptures which I encourage our security service agents and men of the armed forces, and the police to read and meditate on in the pursuit of their lawful duties.

• EXAMPLE #1: AMOS THE PROPHET.

Amos 7:10-17 (NKJV):
10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words. 11 For thus Amos has said: ‘Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive From their own land.” 12 Then Amaziah said to Amos: “Go, you seer! Flee to the land of Judah. There eat bread, and there prophesy. 13 But never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is the royal residence.” [IN OTHER WORDS, TONE IT DOWN.] 14 Then Amos answered, and said to Amaziah: “I was no prophet, nor was I a son of a prophet, but I was a sheepbreeder and a tender of sycamore fruit. 15 Then the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to My people Israel.’ 16 Now therefore, hear the word of the LORD: You say, ‘Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not spout against the house of Isaac.’ 17 “Therefore thus says the LORD: ‘Your wife shall be a harlot in the city; your sons and daughters shall fall by the sword; your land shall be divided by survey line; you shall die in a defiled land; and Israel shall surely be led away captive from his own land.’ ”

Whenever you ask the prophet to tone down his message, his God will respond on his behalf. The answer to tone down is tone up.
Amos 2:6-16 (NKJV):

6 Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, because they sell the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals.7 They pant after the dust of the earth which is on the head of the poor, and pervert the way of the humble. A man and his father go in to the same girl, to defile My holy name. 8 They lie down by every altar on clothes taken in pledge, and drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god. 9 “Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was as strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath. 10 Also it was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. 11 I raised up some of your sons as prophets, and some of your young men as Nazirites. Is it not so, O you children of Israel?” Says the Lord. 12 “But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets saying, ‘Do not prophesy!’ 13 “Behold, I am weighed down by you, as a cart full of sheaves is weighed down. 14 Therefore flight shall perish from the swift, the strong shall not strengthen his power, nor shall the mighty deliver himself; 15 He shall not stand who handles the bow, the swift of foot shall not escape, nor shall he who rides a horse deliver himself. 16 The most courageous men of might shall flee naked in that day,” Says the Lord.

• EXAMPLE #2: KING SAUL AND HIS SERVANT DOEG VS. THE PRIESTS OF THE LORD.
Secret service agents, men of the armed forces, and the police, hear the word of the Lord - Be careful how you carry out your assignment against genuine servants of God by any label – Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor or Teacher. Be careful not to obey the last order, especially if the last order is evil or against natural justice; you cannot obey such without bringing damnation upon your own head.

I Samuel 22:6-19 (NKJV):

6 When Saul heard that David and the men who were with him had been discovered--now Saul was staying in Gibeah under a tamarisk tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants standing about him— 7 then Saul said to his servants who stood about him, “Hear now, you Benjamites! Will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, and make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds? 8 All of you have conspired against me, and there is no one who reveals to me that my son has made a covenant with the son of Jesse; and there is not one of you who is sorry for me or reveals to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as it is this day.” 9 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who was set over the servants of Saul, and said, “I saw the son of Jesse going to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. 10 And he inquired of the LORD for him, gave him provisions, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.” 11 So the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests who were in Nob. And they all came to the king. 12 And Saul said, “Hear now, son of Ahitub!” He answered, “Here I am, my lord.” 13 Then Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as it is this day?” 14 So Ahimelech answered the king and said, “And who among all your servants is as faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, who goes at your bidding, and is honorable in your house? 15 Did I then begin to inquire of God for him? Far be it from me! Let not the king impute anything to his servant, or to any in the house of my father. For your servant knew nothing of all this, little or much.” 16 And the king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father's house!” 17 Then the king said to the guards who stood about him,

“Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled and did not tell it to me.” But the servants of the king would not lift their hands to strike the priests of the LORD. 18 And the king said to Doeg, “You turn and kill the priests!” So Doeg the Edomite turned and struck the priests, and killed on that day eighty-five men who wore a linen ephod. 19 Also Nob, the city of the priests, he struck with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing infants, oxen and donkeys and sheep--with the edge of the sword.”

My question to our state security service men is simple: Which one are you - Servants of the king with conscience or Doeg the Edomite? As you ponder on that question, just remember that judgment eventually fell upon King Saul and his sons and servants (II Samuel 31:1- 10).

• EXAMPLE #3: ELIJAH THE PROPHET VS. THE CAPTAINS AND THEIR FIFTY.
II Kings 2:1-17

Don’t assume you will get away with the evil you perpetuate against the priests when you turn to do same with the prophet. There is ranking in Ascension Gifts. It is important to use wisdom in the discharge of your duties as the third (3rd) captain did.

EXAMPLE #4: JESUS VS. KING HEROD (“TELL THAT FOX”).
See Luke 13:22-35

Speaking of foxes, let me close this message by focusing on my constituency - that is, the church. Last Sunday, journalists asked me three vital questions among others at a press conference in our Strategy Hall following the lecture. Here they are:

i. Can’t you see any conflict in your marching for Jonathan to become President and your criticism and campaign against him now?

ii. You have taken a public stand against Jonathan, but some of your colleague pastors are praying for him in secret and in the open. What do you say to these things?

iii. Does the Bible not enjoin us all to pray for men in authority? What is your view on this?

My answers:

First, let it be known to you that neither I nor the SNG marched for Jonathan:

i. We marched for constitutionality; for the Constitution to be followed regardless of who that action favours or doesn’t favour.

ii. If you think my present stand is against Jonathan’s person, then you goof. It is against bad governance, misappropriation of state funds, embezzlement of public funds and spending money like water without appropriation. I am against whoever does any of such and similar things.

iii. As for praying for men in authority, please note that God ordered Samuel to anoint Saul as king over Israel and subsequently ordered the same Prophet Samuel to stop praying for Saul and to go to Jesse’s house and anoint David instead of Saul in Saul’s lifetime. Is that consistency or inconsistency? When reigning kings start behaving like lunatics and make a lot of noise instead of speaking with the voice of reason, it is because God has found and anointed another king. See Jeremiah 46:13-17.

Furthermore, concerning all the window dressing, the shenanigans and the charade going on in respect of the subsidy thieves, it is my considered opinion that the efforts of this government cannot deliver justice, neither are they meant to. “Why?”, you may ask -- my answer is contained in Ecclesiastes 8:11-13 (NKJV):
11 Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. 12 Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him. 13 But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he does not fear before God.

We have been lied to as a nation and there is no sincerity in this government’s words or actions. Can you imagine that, as the nation is burning, Dame Patience, the First Lady, is busy pursuing and obtaining the status of an absentee Permanent Secretary? Does this make any intelligent sense except to political morons and imbeciles?

Now to the prophetic foxes who call evil good and good evil. Agents of the state within the church who are sustained by crumbs from their master’s table, hear the word of the Lord:
Ezekiel 13:1-23 (NKJV):

1 “And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy out of their own heart, ‘Hear the word of the LORD!’ ” 3 Thus says the Lord GOD: “Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing! 4 O Israel, your prophets are like foxes in the deserts. 5 You have not gone up into the gaps to build a wall for the house of Israel to stand in battle on the day of the LORD. 6 They have envisioned futility and false divination, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD!' But the LORD has not sent them; yet they hope that the word may be confirmed. 7 Have you not seen a futile vision, and have you not spoken false divination? You say, ‘The LORD says,’ but I have not spoken.” 8 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Because you have spoken nonsense and envisioned lies, therefore I am indeed against you,” says the Lord GOD. 9 “My hand will be against the prophets who envision futility and who divine lies; they shall not be in the assembly of My people, nor be written in the record of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter into the land of Israel. Then you shall know that I am the Lord GOD. 10 “Because, indeed, because they have seduced My people, saying, ‘Peace!’ when there is no peace--and one builds a wall, and they plaster it with untempered mortar-- 11 say to those who plaster it with untempered mortar, that it will fall. There will be flooding rain, and you, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall tear it down. 12 Surely, when the wall has fallen, will it not be said to you, ‘Where is the mortar with which you plastered it?’ ” 13 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “I will cause a stormy wind to break forth in My fury; and there shall be a flooding rain in My anger, and great hailstones in fury to consume it. 14 So I will break down the wall you have plastered with untempered mortar, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be uncovered; it will fall, and you shall be consumed in the midst of it. Then you shall know that I am the LORD. 15 “Thus will I accomplish My wrath on the wall and on those who have plastered it with untempered mortar; and I will say to you, ‘The wall is no more, nor those who plastered it, 16 that is, the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her when there is no peace,’ ” says the Lord GOD.

17 “Likewise, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart; prophesy against them, 18 and say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Woe to the women who sew magic charms on their sleeves and make veils for the heads of people of every height to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of My people, and keep yourselves alive? 19 And will you profane Me among My people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, killing people who should not die, and keeping people alive who should not live, by your lying to My people who listen to lies?” 20 ‘Therefore thus says the Lord GOD:

“Behold, I am against your magic charms by which you hunt souls there like birds. I will tear them from your arms, and let the souls go, the souls you hunt like birds. 21 I will also tear off your veils and deliver My people out of your hand, and they shall no longer be as prey in your hand. Then you shall know that I am the LORD. 22 “Because with lies you have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and you have strengthened the hands of the wicked, so that he does not turn from his wicked way to save his life. 23 Therefore you shall no longer envision futility nor practice divination; for I will deliver My people out of your hand, and you shall know that I am the LORD.”

In the days of OBJ, the message that shook the nation was titled ‘NO MORE WALLS’, preached on the 7th of March, 1999. Today the message is stronger and bolder:

THE WALL IS NO MORE, NOR ARE THOSE WHO PLASTERED IT! HALLELUYAH! (Ezekiel 13:15)