A northern group, the Concerned Arewa Citizens, on Monday submitted a bill to the Speaker of the Kaduna State House of Assembly, Shehu Tahir, seeking the registration of Southerners resident in the state for consideration.
The group also cautioned the South not to see petroleum resources as a blessing but a curse.
The President-General of the group, Audu Bukarti, who presented the bill to the Speaker,said the bill, which would be known as ‘Registration of Southerners and Allied Matters Bill’, was aimed at protecting the state from the evils of drug and human trafficking, baby factories, armed robbery and kidnapping among others” being perpetuated by Southerners.
Speaking to newsmen shortly after submitting the bill to the Speaker, Bukarti said the South should not see the oil(petroleum resources) in the region as a blessing but a curse.
“Can’t you see that anywhere in the world where there is oil (petroleum), there is war, war, war,” he said.
He said the group would continue to pressurize the Northern Houses of Assembly to pass the bill, saying when that was done, Southerners would be required to obtain permits in whatever they want from the region.
Meanwhile, a covering letter, signed by Bukarti and the General Secretary, Sunusi Umar-Sadiq, stated that the bill would protect the state against crimes like “drugs and human trafficking, kidnapping, armed robbery, importation of fire arms, pile line vandalism and other terrorist activities” which have become prevalent in the south.
It said, “Our dear state has suffered and is still suffering from most of the aforementioned criminal activities. Thus, passing this bill, subject to any modification this great house might make, is not only appropriate but necessary.”
The seve-paragraph-bill, when passed into law, shall require southerners, which means indigenes or any indigenes of the 17 states of Nigeria wishing to enter the boundaries of the state, shall not be permitted to do so unless he or she was duly registered with the appropriate authorities.
According to the bill, every southerner desirous of entering the state for the purpose of residence, shall give security in such amount as the appropriate authority may prescribe, and shall supply information as the authority may reasonably require.
The Punch.
May the Lord grant you understanding of this prayer journal as you pray, consequent upon which there will be changes in your life or your prayer group or family, church, nation and continent.
You may wish to pray in two ways:-
- You can pray using the whole journal to pray into the womb of August according to the authority level granted to you by your appointment in the Lord. Expect the prophetic germination [as you saturate the ground and the sphere of the life of August with God’s ordination] to happen. In any case ensure your seed remains in the ground of August and as investment for this new month.
- You can also use this daily for your prayers to prevail at the gate of each day, especially on critical days of intense warfare in the heavens. Remember that the day starts from 6pm for the next 24 hours. If you are in Britain for instance the time will be early hours of the next day in Hong Kong @ your 6pm.
Pray that your prophetic faculties will be on the rise and be enlarged and sharp… …visions; dreams; interpreting symbols; applying parables; riddles; revelation and predictions; accurate delivery of words of wisdom and words of knowledge; intercession, divine decree to cause the future and many other such faculties.
The Unbroken Covenants God Gives Us, Provides Unflinching Confidence
Ge 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. {While…: Heb. As yet all the days of the earth}
Jer 31:35 ¶ Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name: V. 36 If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever.
Jer 33:20 Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
Jer 33:25 Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
Ps 89:36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me. Ps 89:37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.
Adam Clark’s Commentary
Psalms 89:37
“As the moon and as a faithful witness in heaven.”- That is, as long as the sun and moon shall endure, as long as time shall last, his kingdom shall last among men. The moon appears to be termed a faithful witness here, because by her particularly time is measured. Her decrease and increase are especially observed by every nation, and by these, time is generally estimated especially among the eastern nations. So many moons is a man old; so many moons since such an event happened; and even their years are reckoned by lunation.
Or the rainbow may be intended; that sign which God has established in the cloud; that faithful witness of his that the earth shall no more be destroyed by water. As long therefore as the sun, the moon, and the rainbow appear in the heavens, so long shall the spiritual David reign, and his seed prosper and increase.
Selah means- It is confirmed; it shall not fail.”
The church must not miss the understanding of the things that heaven has tied to the ordinances in the earth. One main area where we have to touch each month is the fact that our “month” is determined by the movement of the sun, the moon and the stars. This is the way God ordained it.
Gen 1:14-15 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
Psalms 89:37
EXPOSITION
- 37. It shall be established for ever as the moon. The kingdom may wax and wane to mortal eyes, but it shall still abide as long as the moon walks in her silver beauty.
And as a faithful witness in the heavens, the most stable part of the universe is selected as a type of Messiah\’s kingdom, and both sun and moon are made to be symbols of its long endurance. Whatever else there is in the sky which faithfully witnesses to the unbending course of nature is also called upon to be a sign of the Lord\’s truth. When heaven and earth witness and the Lord himself swear, there remains no excuse for doubting, and faith joyfully reposes in confident expectation.
Matthew Henry’s Commentary’s on Ps 19.
The constant and regular succession of day and night (Ps 19:2): Day unto day, and night unto night, speak the glory of that God who first divided between the light and the darkness, and has, from the beginning to this day, preserved that established order without variation, according to God\’s covenant with Noah (Ge 8:22), that, while the earth remains, day and night shall not cease, to which covenant of providence the covenant of grace is compared for its stability, Jer 33:20; 31:35. The counter changing of day and night, in so exact a method, is a great instance of the power of God, and calls us to observe that, as in the kingdom of nature, so in that of providence, he forms the light and creates the darkness (Isa 45:7), and sets the one over against the other.
Ps 121:6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
The children of Satan have found out that the heavenly bodies can cooperate with them to hurt the many lives that are lost and our continent, Africa has suffered the most, some nations being padlocked and multitude destroyed.
The church must wake up and respond by prayer and understand the times.