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...For a better society... Wednesday, September 01 2004 Vol 17 No.30 News Editorial Politics Opinion Features Foreign News The Arts Sports Education Business Money/Market Travels/Tourism Property/Environment Columnists Cleric tackles retired generals over 2007 TOM MOSES A cleric has described the clamour for 2007 by retired Generals as a prove that they squandered the nation’s wealth while in office. President and general overseer of the Christian Central Chapel International (CCCI) Evangelist (Dr.) Emmah Gospel Isong gave the revelation during a press briefing in Calabar, Monday to mark the 8th Anniversary of the church located at Ikot-Eneobong, 8 miles, Calabar. Isong posited that since politics has always proven to be capital intensive especially at the presidency level, the retired military men have simply come out to prove that they looted the nation’s treasury while in office. The cleric said that the salaries of the former military men if used as indicators, cannot sponsor electioneering campaigns three years to the election period. "The fact that former Military-Generals are coming back to power is because they are the ones who looted our treasury. "What was their salary when they were in the military? Politics is a game of money, so, their coming back is an indication of who looted the nation’s treasury," Isong remarked. In effect, he expressed discontentment over the flag-off of campaigns by some politicians three years to 2007 when the next elections are scheduled to hold, saying that the development was capable of distracting politicians’ attention from fulfilling the terms of their mandates to their constituencies. For him, "the federal government should ban all discussion, conferences, seminars, proposals and campaigns about 2007 elections." He also spoke on zoning of political offices in the country. According to him, zoning was not quite visible in the nation’s politics rather what looked like zoning was usually the handiwork of members of a cabal who sat together to select another member that will protect their interest. Isong explained that if the cabal was not comfortable with the disposition of a particular nominee, they will say they have zoned that particular position to another place. According to him, if zoning system were to be real a state like Akwa-Ibom State would have produced a president by now. However, Isong said that eight days annual National Conference/Eight anniversary celebration of the church tagged "free indeed" will be committed to offering prayers to God to deliver and free Nigeria from the principalities and powers of darkness. � 2004 @ Champion Newspapers Limited (All Right Reserved). Powered By dnetsystems.net dnet�

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