‎**If politics, desire for popularity,politicians or their money are the reasons why I led civil protest against Fuel Subsidy, Let my name be removed from the book of Life.
BUT If national peace,steady and predictable progress in Nigeria is the reason why I resisted the government , then let those who rise against me be scattered and consumed!

**I was asked why I went to Ojota with my whole family, my response is this: It's evil to ask other people and their children come out to protest while you hide your own. Leadership must be transparent

**FG through their agents, said to me, You are the one asking labour to insist on #65 per litre of fuel. For that, we will investigate your early years in legal practise and expose you. And I say to them, THAT WHICH YOU WANT TO DO, DO IT QUICKLY! Go investigate, if you find anything,PUBLISH IT!

**My wife was called and told to inform me, DO NOT SLEEP AT HOME TONIGHT, we are coming for you. Odumakin also got the same text message, I got home that day,tired, ate my food and slept like a log of wood!

**Even if tomorrow never comes, I have great peace/joy that I have fought the good fight of faith,

**It will be foolish for anybody for anybody to ascribe the success of the rallies and protest in Ojota and other parts of the country to Save Nigeria Group and its allies, ONLY GOD COULD HAVE DONE THIS. There is a clear handwriting on the wall that God is at work in Nigeria.

**A Bishop sent me a text asking me to be careful of being 'contaminated' by my actions, and I replied and told him, Our high Priest,Jesus Christ can be touched with our infirmities. We must be ready to identify with the poor and depressed of the land.

His church keeps growing, I love this man a true christian and a man after God's heart

lol

So after advising others to stay off work, Bakare still went to work(church) and made his own daily bread (offeriings and tithes).

chuks01:

His church keeps growing, I love this man a true christian and a man after God's heart

Advert? Hope you paid nairaland admin?

Fool

I think people are tired of Bakare already!!
His vituperations speak of one who possesses bitterness derived form forlorn expectations of victory in an election he didn't work hard enough to win.
He Couldn't even win the polling booth where he voted!! And yet he opened his mouth to claim say the elections were rigged because he lost. Was his polling booth also rigged??

A true man of god.

between jonatrash and bakare? who would you stand with? fools for gej, please reason!

MAYOWAAK:

‎**If politics, desire for popularity,politicians or their money are the reasons why I led civil protest against Fuel Subsidy, Let my name be removed from the book of Life.
BUT If national peace,steady and predictable progress in Nigeria is the reason why I resisted the government , then let those who rise against me be scattered and consumed!

**I was asked why I went to Ojota with my whole family, my response is this: It's evil to ask other people and their children come out to protest while you hide your own. Leadership must be transparent

**FG through their agents, said to me, You are the one asking labour to insist on #65 per litre of fuel. For that, we will investigate your early years in legal practise and expose you. And I say to them, THAT WHICH YOU WANT TO DO, DO IT QUICKLY! Go investigate, if you find anything,PUBLISH IT!

**My wife was called and told to inform me, DO NOT SLEEP AT HOME TONIGHT, we are coming for you. Odumakin also got the same text message, I got home that day,tired, ate my food and slept like a log of wood!

**Even if tomorrow never comes, I have great peace/joy that I have fought the good fight of faith,

**It will be foolish for anybody for anybody to ascribe the success of the rallies and protest in Ojota and other parts of the country to Save Nigeria Group and its allies, ONLY GOD COULD HAVE DONE THIS. There is a clear handwriting on the wall that God is at work in Nigeria.

**A Bishop sent me a text asking me to be careful of being 'contaminated' by my actions, and I replied and told him, Our high Priest,Jesus Christ can be touched with our infirmities. We must be ready to identify with the poor and depressed of the land.

No matter what u say of Bakare,u must giv it to d man that he's consistent wt his views& highly principled.He may still bear some bitterness for losing d election,but d man has never bn a govt sycophant like so many so called MOG are.We should allow history to judge him

Pastor 'Tunde Bakare delivered this expose on Fuel Subsidy at The Latter Rain Assembly a few hours ago. Please read, digest, and share with as many people as you can. Enough is ENOUGH.
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FACTS YOU MUST KNOW: SUBSIDY MADE SIMPLE (SMS)

1) DEFINITION
To subsidise is to sell a product below the cost of production. Since the federal government has been secretive about the state of our refineries and their production capacity, we will focus on importation rather than production. So, in essence, within the Nigerian Fuel Subsidy context, to subsidise is to sell petrol below the cost of importation.

2) THE UNSUBSTANTIATED CLAIMS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
The Nigerian government claims that Nigerians consume 34 million litres of petrol per day. The government has also said publicly that N141 per litre is the unsubsidised pump price of petrol imported into Nigeria. (N131.70 kobo being the landing price and N9.30 kobo being profit.)

3) ANNUAL COST OF IMPORTATION
Daily Fuel Consumption: 34 million litres
Cost at Pump: N141.00
No. of days in a regular year: 365 days
Total cost of all petrol imported yearly into Nigeria:

Litres Naira Days
34m x 141 x 365
= N1.75 trillion

4) COST BORNE BY THE CONSUMERS
Nigerians have been paying N65 per litre for fuel, haven’t we? Therefore, cost borne by the consumers =

Litres Naira Days
34m x 65 x 365
= N807 billion

5) COST OF SUBSIDY BORNE BY THE GOVERNMENT
In 2011 alone, government claimed to have spent N1.3 trillion by October – the bill for the full year, assuming a constant rate of consumption is N1.56 trillion.

Consequently, the true cost of subsidy borne by the government is:
Total cost of importation minus total borne by consumers, i.e. N1.75 trillion minus N807 billion = N943 billion.

Unexplainable difference: N617 billion

The federal government of Nigeria cannot explain the difference between the amount actually disbursed for subsidy and the cost borne by Nigerians (N1.56 trillion minus N943 billion = N617 billion).

6) BOGUS CLAIM BY THE GOVERNMENT
A government official has claimed that the shortfall of N617 billion is what goes to subsidising our neighbours through smuggling. This is pathetic. But let us assume (assumption being the lowest level of knowledge) that the government is unable to protect our borders and checkmate the brisk smuggling going on. Even then, the figures still don’t add up. This is because even if 50% of the petrol consumed in each of our neighbouring countries is illegally exported from Nigeria, the figures are still inaccurate. Why?

WORLD BANK’S FIGURES: POPULATIONS OF WEST AFRICAN COUNTRIES

NIGERIA: 158.4 million
BENIN: 8.8 million
TOGO: 6 million
CAMEROUN: 19.2 million
NIGER: 15.5 million
CHAD: 11.2 million
GHANA: 24.4 million

The total population of all our six (6) neighbours is 85.5 million.

Let’s do some more arithmetic:

a) Rate of Petrol Consumption in Nigeria: Total consumed divided by total population:

34 million litres divided by 158.8 million people = 0.21 litres per person per day.

b) Rate of Petrol Consumption in all our 6 neighbouring countries, assumed to be the same as Nigeria:

0.2 litres x 85.5 million people = 18.35 million litres per day

Now, if we assume that 50% of the petrol consumed in all the six neighbouring countries comes from Nigeria, this value come to 9.18 million litres per day.

7) PATHETIC ABSURDITY
There are two illogicalities flowing from this smuggling saga.
a) If 9.18 million litres of petrol is truly smuggled out of our borders per day, then ours is the most porous nation in the word. This is why: The biggest fuel tankers in Nigeria have a capacity of about 36,000 litres. To smuggle 9.18 million litres of fuel, you need 254 trucks. What our government is telling us is that 254 huge tankers pass through our borders every day and they cannot do anything about it. This is not just acute incompetence, but also a serious security challenge. For if the government cannot stop 254 tanker trailers from crossing the border daily, how can they stop importation of weapons or even invasion by a foreign country?
b) 2nd illogicality:
Even if we believe the government and assume that about 9.18 million litres is actually taken to our neighbours by way of smuggling every day, and all this is subsidised by the Nigerian government, the figures being touted as subsidy still don’t add up. This is why:

Difference between pump price before and after subsidy removal =
N141.00 – N65.00 = N76.00

Total spent on subsidizing petrol to our neighbours annually =
N76.00 x 9.18 million litres x 365 days = N255 billion

If you take the N255 billion away from the N617 billion shortfall that the government cannot explain, there is still a shortfall of N362 billion. The government still needs to tell us what/who is eating up this N362 billion ($2.26 billion USD).

ILLOGICAL ASSUMPTIONS
i) We have assumed that there are no working refineries in Nigeria and so no local petrol production whatsoever – yet, there is, even if the refineries are working below capacity.
ii) Nigeria actually consumes 34 million litres of petrol per day. Most experts disagree and give a figure between 20 and 25 million litres per day. Yet there is still an unexplainable shortfall even if we use the exaggerated figure of the government.
iii) Ghana, Togo, Benin, Cameroun, Niger, and Chad all consume the same rate as Nigeria and get 50% of their petrol illegally from Nigeria through smuggling.

These figures simply show the incompetence and insincerity of our government officials. This is pure banditry.

9) FACT 9: The simplest part of the fuel subsidy arithmetic will reveal one startling fact: That the government does not need to subsidise our petrol at all if we reject corruption and sleaze as a way of life. Check this out:

a) NNPC crude oil allocation for local consumption = 400,000 barrels per day (from a total of 2.450 million barrels per day).
b) If our refineries work at just 30%, 280,000 barrels can be sold on the international market, leaving the rest for local production.
c) Money accruing to the federal government through NNPC on the sale, using $80/bbl – a conservative figure as against the current price of $100/bbl – would be $22.4m per day. Annually this translates to $8.176bn or N1.3 trillion.
d) The government does not need to subsidise our petrol imports - at least not from the Federation Account. The same crude that should have been refined by NNPC is simply sold on the international market (since our refineries barely work) and the money is used to buy petrol. The 400,000 barrels per day given to NNPC for local consumption can either be refined by NNPC or sold to pay for imports. This absurdity called subsidy should be funded with this money, not the regular FGN budget.

If the FGN uses it regular budget for subsidising petrol, then what happens to the crude oil given to NNPC for local refining that gets sold on the international market?

10) TACTICAL BLUNDER
The federal government is making the deregulation issue a revenue problem. Nigerians are not against deregulation. We have seen deregulation in the telecom sector and Nigerians are better for it, as even the poor have access to telephones now right before the eyes of those who think it is not for them. What is happening presently is not deregulation but an all-time high fuel pump increase, unprecedented in the history of our nation by a government that has gone broke due to excessive and reckless spending largely on themselves. If the excesses of all the three tiers of government are seriously curbed, that would free enough money for infrastructural development without unduly punishing the poor citizens of this country.

Let me just cite, in closing, the example of National Assembly excesses and misplaced spending as contained in the 2012 budget proposal:

Number of Senators 109
Number of Members of the House of Representatives 360
Total Number of Legislators 469
2012 Budget Proposal for the National Assembly N150 billion
Average Cost of Maintaining Each Member N320 million
Average Cost of Maintaining Each Member in USD $2.1 million/year

Time has come for the citizens of this country to hold the government accountable and demand the prosecution of those bleeding our nation to death. Until this government downsizes, cuts down its profligacy and leads by example in modesty and moderation, the poor people of this country will not and must not subsidise the excesses of the oil sector fat cats and the immorality cum fiscal scandal of the self-centred and indulgent lifestyles of those in government.

Here is a hidden treasure of wisdom for those in power while there is still time to make amends:

PROVERBS 21:6&7

“Getting treasures by a lying tongue is the fleeting fantasy of those who seek death. The violence of the wicked will destroy them because they refuse to do just.”

A word of counsel for those who voted for such soulishly indulgent leadership:

This is the conclusion of the matter on subsidy removal:

i) “If a ruler pays attention to lies, all his servants become wicked.” (Proverbs 29:12)
ii) “The Righteous God wisely considers the house of the wicked, overthrowing the wicked for their wickedness. Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor will also cry himself and will not be heard.” (Proverbs 21:12&13)
Thanks for your attention. God bless you all.

Pastor ‘Tunde Bakare
Sunday, January 15, 2012

But this man led the group that made them give power to Jonathan as Acting President~even when Jonathan was not allowed to act, they took to the streets again. When did he become a bad person? Because he had a close contact with him and believed he should not be trusted and went his way? GEJ should remember that these same crowds he calls hoodlums brought him to power and not SLS and co.

diluminati:

between jonatrash and bakare? who would you stand with? fools for gej, please reason!

What makes bakare better than GEJ?

Arosa:

What makes bakare better than GEJ?

Simple : THE TRUTH!

^^^

Were you in the church to verify if he truly collected tithes and offerings?

honeric01:

^^^

Were you in the church to verify if he truly collected tithes and offerings?

Leave adino, he is suffering from Jonathan immune deficiency syndrome,

There comes a time in a nation history when men desirous of better change rise, take necessary action for benefit of fellow country men.
Bakare is one of the numerous men and women who have taken the bull by the horn several times in our clouded history.

meexteriox:

There comes a time in a nation history when men desirous of better change rise, take necessary action for benefit of fellow country men.
Bakare is one of the numerous men and women who have taken the bull by the horn several times in our clouded history.

IBB fought hard for Nigeria, he is one of the true hero of this country. But do we still feel the same for him.

I love bakare most of the people castigating him havnt contributed anything both positive or negative to the entity called nigeria

I wonder if he is trying to radicalize christians or his church members.Using the pulpit to castigate leaders doesnt sound that nice.The Bible tells us to pray for our leaders.I wonder if he prays for Gej govt.Religion and politics do not combine well.They are like oil and water.

that's why they will do all these in Gods name and on the last day God will say '' I know you not''.

where was he in OBJ regime when corruption was more than what we see today?
because he contested for Presidency and Lost he is crying foul?

this is rubbish to me. let him go to to the bible and marry the bible. many people have not heard about Jesus he should be there and not spoiling Gods name. making people hate christianhood.

chima12:

I wonder if he is trying to radicalize christians or his church members.Using the pulpit to castigate leaders doesnt sound that nice.The Bible tells us to pray for our leaders.I wonder if he prays for Gej govt.Religion and politics do not combine well.They are like oil and water.

May God bless you for this.
had it been he has put this effort in talking bad about GEJ govt in making peace between the Northern religious groups and the Eastern religious groups so the killing of Christians will stop it would have been better.

or had it been he used this zeal of talking trash to go on mass evangelism in many parts of Nigeria and other countries where the word of God has not reached i think God will value it the most than him standing and disgracing us.

Please anyone who know this Yoruba Fake failed Prophet KEKERE Bakere should ask him, Why he didn't protest and seek Subsidy for Nigerians paying high House and Land rent in Lagos to his Yoruba kinsmen?