on 14th of January 2018, Pastor Tunde Bakare of The Latter Rain Assembly Lagos Nigeria made a Speech on THE STATE OF THE NATION.
After expatiating and backing up the Twelve Prophecies with ten point for further clarification and understanding, he spoke on the current state of our Great Nation.
He start his speech talking about how the current government seems to be patching the cracks on the wall build by the previous government. In his words "This administration anchored its policy outlook on three main thrusts, including security, job creation through diversification, and anti-corruption, yet all around us are signs of retrogression."
He went further into the current unemployment rate in Nigeria "As at June 2015, the unemployment rate was 8.2% of a labour force of 74 million (Daily Post Aug.3,2015), meaning that about 6 million Nigerians were unemployed. By September 2017, despite such efforts as N-Power and a range of policies aimed at improving enterprise development and facilitating job creation, the unemployment rate had risen to 18.8% of a labour force of 85.1 million ( Vanguard. December 23, 2017), indicating that between 2015 and 2017, the number of unemployed Nigerians rose from about 6 million to almost 16 million.
Pastor Tunde Bakare further into the Herdsmen attacks and the Delibrate Sinful SIlence of the Nigerian State, in his words "Not only has the government failed to stop these killings across the country, it has done so against the backdrop of conspiratorial silence, choosing rather to label such attacks “an issue of communal misunderstanding”, as the Inspector General of Police recently did in respect of the Benue attacks (Daily Trust. January 5, 2018); it has treated the menace with kid gloves even after the Global Terrorism Index 2015 described “militant” herdsmen as “the fourth most deadly group of 2014” (Global Terrorism Index 2015). Worse still, some of these killings have reportedly been carried out in collusion with the military (Vanguard. October 17, 2017).
Recently, the Secretary to the Adamawa State Government, Umar Bindir, justified the bearing of arms by the herdsmen (Daily Post. December 15) but failed to tell where the herdsmen get their guns from and with which government agency these guns are registered. Who authorized them to bear arms? Who gave them immunity against section 3 of the Robbery and Firearms (Special Provisions) Act 1990, which prescribes punishment for illegal possession of arms? Who monitors the use of these guns? Why have the relevant government agencies failed to act? In particular, why has the name Department of State Services (DSS) become synonymous with the phrase “Deliberate Sinful Silence” (DSS)? Or is it now the Department of Sinful Silence?
He concluded by providing possible solutions and letting all Nigerians know that its time we stand and wake out of our hibernated mode.
In his word "As a nation, we have an opportunity to rewrite our history and choose a more prosperous future. We can choose to continue to play the ostrich or we can decide to take up the gauntlet and face our national challenges squarely. Just as Moses said to Israel in Deuteronomy 30:19.
Let it be known, however, that the New Nigeria is like a moving train that cannot be stopped, like a stone that will cause the wicked to stumble, and like a rock that will make them fall (Isaiah 8:14 (NIV)); and whoever falls on this stone will be broken, but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder (Matthew 21:44 (NKJV) ), and this nation will fulfill her destiny.
Nigerians are tired of Primitivity, Mediocrity and Babaricity in governance
Lets Embrace the #NEWNIGERIA
