 Welcome back to the breakfast and plus TV Africa. It's now time for off the press. And that's our segment. I'll take a look at the stories making headlines today. I'll begin with the nation newspaper this morning. The headline reads, Why insecurity is rising by the one I.A.D. Ganda J. A.P.C. to police rise up to challenge. How kidnappers evade tracking by NCC. Government rejects failed state of verdicts by CFA ex U.S. envoy. Malamie here says, I didn't tell Buhari to suspend constitution. New constitution not feasible says Senate. 9.9 billion Naira Muneai saying road inaugurated. I'm in government to make life better for citizens says Kuyitola. Raba's hijack school boss in Undu. Usual attacks. We lost four men says police. Also on the nation newspaper 160,617 candidates write 2021 mock UTIME in 777 CBT centers. Those are the stories on the nation newspaper this morning. And now on the Nigerian Tribune. We can see there. It's going to be in just a few seconds. It says a new constitution. Why national assembly is handicapped. That is from Ovie Omar Gege. It says a C.J.N. once review of judge's salaries every four years. Can one's immunity clause removed and states creation. Conference of speakers seeks amendments to impeachment procedures. Also on the Nigerian Tribune. No mass retirement of senior military officer says defense headquarters. And former president to Lucia Gorbas on Joe says Nigeria now flowing with bitterness and sadness. Lament's growing number of out of school children. Partisan politics least of my concerns now says Mimiko. And $1.5 million clinical trial cost delays. Okay. $1.5 million clinical trial cost delays for COVID-19 vaccines as a federal government. We can also see on the Tribune this morning alleged planned invasion of Southwest. We are ready for you. Hunter Stelfel and the headsman. I want to relent in transforming Oshoom says Oetola and four policemen, three and three civilians killed in Oshoom bank robbery. Nigerians in pains provide good leadership. Potom tells Buhari as reconstructed 65 kilometer Monia Ishe'in road is inaugurated. Those are the big ones on the Nigerian Tribune this morning. On the punch newspaper hunger, hunger disease dominates not west Zanfarah in crisis. MSF raises the alarm. Team treats 10,300 children in three Zanfarah towns so for severe acute malnutrition others. Women abducted, raped, returned to communities. AFG not assisting says Zanfarah. Also on the punch newspaper foreign investors withdraw 99.94 billion Naira in four months. Cup members part of defense can be mobilized for war that's according to NYSE. To stop abductions sponsor factional bandits. Gomet tells federal government. Presidency berates ex U.S. envoy magazine over U.S. over Nigeria is falling apart is failing reports. Bello dismisses rotational presidency says Nigeria deserves best material. Apabio visits Tumpolo over ex warlords threats against oil facilities. Police ambush invading bandits in Katsina Q5. Ganderja raises the alarm over gathering of bandits in Kano forest. Laws shouldn't be made to hinder technology elections that's according to INEC. Police arrest three-man gang for stealing victims 572,000 Naira through ATM. Police repel gunmen's attack on Zanfarah Fulani settlement. Getting new constitution almost impossible says national assembly. Those are the stories on the punch newspaper. All right now on the daily independent. Nigeria flowing with sadness and bitterness. Once again, that's from former president Lushek Mabasungio. Buare should resign. He has nothing more to offer says a fenifera. He says United Nigerians not 2020-23 elections should be priority. Chief of Army staff mass retirement not contemplated in military says defense headquarters. It also says most senior officers free to stay or retire. And also soldier kills customs officer and himself at Senate border. Federal government lobbying to acquire more COVID-19 vaccines from donors. The Senate says it's impossible to frame new constitution. Despite my defection, I still have great respect for the PDP says governor Ayadee and APC lacks capacity to lead Nigeria. Autumn is saying gunmen hijack a school bus in Ondo. And we can also finally just throw in this one. NPC to begin pre-test census in 112 local government areas. On the daily independence. I beg your pardon on the Guardian newspaper. We see this one says Senate says no as campaigners demand brand new constitution. Christian association of Nigeria monopolizing presidency by a region. Police kill five bandits in Katsina. ICPC urges publication of public savance assets to check graft. Also 70% of government agencies host data abroad despite $220 million local infrastructure and gunmen hijack school bus in Ondo. And those are the stories we're looking at this morning. All right. Good morning to our guest. GD Johnson. Thank you for joining us. Be yourself. I look forward to work. How's the weather at your end? Well, it's getting busy and I hope it's going to be a cool wet weekend for everyone of us. Okay. Let's start with one story that, you know, made the headlines across all the papers. And that is from a former president to Lusheko Basinger saying, you know, Nigeria is, you know, currently filled with bitterness and sadness and some of all of that. Quickly react to that. We don't need it to tell us that what are the major stories that we've seen across the headlines of newspaper. Over the course of this year, what are the stories that have dominated the pages of newspaper from media reports? And then if we if we domesticate it, what are the stories that we have had from family, friends and friends too? And then if we personalize it, what are the pressures that you have received in terms of help from family members or friends and that are not working, that require one form of quality or a uniform from also, it's clear, it's clear. We read the story, school children have doctored in although we read the story of Greenfield parents, the university students that have doctored in Cardinal saying that they paid 180 million ransom and they did pay 180 million ransom. And it's a sad and sorry situation that if you find yourself in any daft street, you are left alone in Nigeria because there's nobody to come for you, not even the government or its agencies will actually come for you. Minking that story also with another another story. Ferragome is lobbying donors to donate more percent. Can you imagine the talent of Africa, the leading nation in Africa lobbying donors to donate more COVID-19 percent for us in Nigeria. That means that if those donors don't give us the COVID-19, you are left alone to yourself. So it's a sad story. There is sorrow, there is tears and then there are bloods all over all over the land and print of this of this country. It does not require prayer for us to solve this problem because if we do require prayers and Nigerians are the people that go to churches more on Sunday and they go to mosques more today, a prayer will not solve the problem for us. It will be based on religiosity. Nigeria should be the most developed country in the world but we need decisive decisive action and we need decisive leadership for us to solve this this this problem. Okay so another big story we've seen across the papers this morning is about the senate saying that it would be impossible to frame a new constitution and he's basically saying this is of Yomai Gigi now saying that the reason why they can't frame a new constitution is because the 1999 constitution as amended does not include a clause on how to produce a fresh document and the question really then is what what's the relevance of the constitution review that we're having if you know you're saying there's not going to be a new document? Because you don't have strong constitution. If you have strong constitution like a strong judiciary the constitution we have is a by-product of 1995 constitution assembly which was meant to perpetuate Abata in power. You know all the five political parties adopted Abata until and until death took Abata away and that was the report and that report was dusted by 12 wise men and those 12 wise men in court and transformed that constitution was transformed by the military council in decree 24 to a constitution and the power government said we the people of Nigeria where we which people it is the military that come up with that constitution so there is the need one of the things that are characterised but the localism is the one for the structuring now if you talk about the spray is about reading the structure changes structure change the structure of government change the structure of governors because the foundation for anything is the structure of government the foundation for any building is a structure of the building and and the foundation for the top government is the constitution. And we said if the foundation is not strong, there's nothing you can do on it. So when they started the tambourine, I told you last week, I said it's just a clear waste of time. I would, an assembly that was inaugurated in 2019, be planning to do a constitutional review in 2021. When you have learned that by December 2021, taking for 2023, we start. I said there's nothing meaningful that will come at all. It was more or less like we give no hope to that constitutional review. There's nothing meaningful. They just want to distract us and justify why they are spending money. And would you have constitutional review in top most hotel? You go to the hotel. You can't find government duties. Are you telling me, federal government does not have duties in all of the states they've selected? Are you telling me they can partner with states to look at the halls in those states where people can easily assess that rather than go to a five-star hotel for them to have their tambourine that they are calling constitutional review? They are giving us this call card of even something which they voted and delegated on. So there can never be any meaningful discussion that will come out of it. However, if they have the will and the desire to bring about a change, then definitely this could be reviewed. Depends then through executive order, maybe executive order that gives financial independence to the legislature and to the judiciary. Such executive orders could be transformed into an act of the parliament. And the party that controls the states as of assembly, almost to turn of the state as of assembly, is the same party that controls the center. It is the same party that controls the national assembly. So if the will is there and the desire is there for them to think about a change, and it's a party that claims to be the party of change, then they should do it. I tell my folks in Lagos State, where they created the NCDAs and Lukubo Men, they said this was the best idea was that. I told my folks in 2015, I said now, I will see whether the NCDAs in Lagos State will be listed in the fifth schedule of the constitution as part of the local government because they've not done anything. These people know how to play on their own intelligence. They know how to play on their own intelligence. And some of us said we can fool people for some of the time, we cannot fool them all of the time. The time will come that the answers to this will not be unlikely. The answers to this will take place on the floor of the state as of assembly and on the floor of the national assembly. And those seats will be taken to their heads because they will run for their lives because people will take the protest to the representative of the people. Okay, let's talk now about something on the Nigerian Tribune. It says here, and that's from the Southwest. It says, alleged planned invasion of the Southwest, we are ready for you, hunters, tailful honeyheads men. Let's have your thoughts on that also. If it takes hunters and not security agents to come up with intelligence to deal with that, then it tells you how our fund ourselves, you know, we are in this nation. I will give a story, I'm going to tell a story which you have in the newspaper, and then I'll wrap it up. Good story about Shigumi, saying that Trayla Gomez is also a rival bandit groups so as to stop adoption. And then the counter state governor said that bandits are barbed in farms close to Kano. He began to wonder, is there a nation where there is no security for lives and property? Is there a nation where citizens are to take to defending themselves from internal or external threat? And then, is there a machine for people that have been assigned responsibility to provide security for lives and property of people in this country? I really see that the situation of security mission, mission has come to the state of Anomi. And that's how we started with what Oba Sadio said. That's come to the state of Anomi where the center cannot move, everybody's left. On the stone, so as far as I'm concerned, what are security agencies doing that will take hold of us to come up with an idea to deal with the mission of the surplus by others. And then who are the sponsors of the others? What intermediaries we have? Do we see the army responding to issues of banditry and others, like me, the respondent to IPOC? No, I'm wishing that on TV, we have a more clear, consistent approach to not dealing with insecurity, to not dealing with insurgency, to not dealing with banditry, anything that threatens the peaceful coexistence of people in Nigeria, that threatens the territorial integrity of Nigeria must be dealt with with the size of you. Government should not be the spokesperson for dissident groups. Dissident groups such as bandit, such as others, such as any group that wants to bring up this harmony in the region. Then government should speak with one voice team. Other than that, we treat someone with conciliatory approach and we treat them with a confrontational approach if you rework criminality. And we have seen that in Zanfarah state. The governor asked people to submit their AK-47 and they gave them 2 million. We've seen that in Kassina state, which is the state of the president. We've seen criminals being rewarded. So if you have a society where you rework criminality, you have courage more criminality. America attempted that when the colonial company that was the colonial part, the supplied gas line to Titori was asked by Russian hackers. They pay 4.5 million dollars. What has happened again? Now they add into their meat supply. So once you rework criminality, you get more criminals in the society. And government must deem it decisively with criminal element, whether they are edas, whether they are Boko Haram, whether they are farmers, whether they are militants. They must deal with this. How do we do that? I tell you, we still have this same problem that we're having in this country. So Mr. Johnson, do you agree with the director general of the NYIC with one of the ways to deal with criminals? Is mobilizing the core members for war? Because he mentioned in an interview recently that the core members of the NYIC are part of the Nigerian defense policy and that they can be mobilized for war anytime, that this is in light of all the violence and secessionist agitations in the country. Right? If the security agencies cannot handle it, those who are there are treated by a plunder of time. Now you might give a couple of other things, two weeks, two, three weeks with paramilitary treatment, to go on face, to go on face war. And that's true. And we just a rhetorical question. I think that still they were made for him to have a rematch and for him to have a space in the public domain so that he can talk about that issue. And then you know the debate that is ongoing, whether NYIC should be scrapped or should not be scrapped. And that's the debate that is ongoing. That takes me also to another issue. Should the entire NYIC be a military personnel? Under the civilian dispensation, is the aid of the defense of the FBI or CIE or NIE in the United States of America are the heads of these agencies are the military men in uniform. And I say about the plumber that we only have civilian administration, we don't have democracy. In democracy, all military authority will be subjected to civilian control. So he said that just to have, just to let us know that the only ones and the only ones of NYIC that you guys know that to, to, to, to scrap NYIC because that's one of the things that the media has to keep on the public sphere in the last, in the last two weeks I'll tell you about. Is there any, you know I think what this, this is called the flow of the national assembly. Is there any for us to, to have the NYC and scripting the NYC? I think we should circle with you on the flow of national assembly. So he's just, he's just getting people to know the general events. As far as I'm concerned, there's no comment about that when we're having that discussion yesterday with my son, like he started in 2023. He was saying that, he found my son and he's saying that he doesn't want, doesn't want to serve, why would he serve? And then it's, it's fair to think that in 2023 you will be the year of election. So you will go, you will go and you will be involved in, in, in, in, as, as, as part of the electoral of your son. You know what he said? He said, I was keeping my seat in 2023. I was also in 2023. I was also in 2024 because I can't put my life on the line trying to be an electoral officer in an election that I know that a lot of their life in the past who are the family are still, are still growing people. So you can see, these are conversations that are going privately. I just use my own family, my own as, as, as just, as just a background and I'm sure they are, they are thousands of non-news of, of, of, of Nigerians that are here in the session to, to my son who wants to serve, to me, to, to be not, to be not, to be not serve. I mean, you know from a session with Judy Johnson. Wow. Thank you very much for your time this morning. Thanks for speaking with us. Looking forward to another Friday. Thank you. It's a great pleasure to be with you, thank you very much. All right. Stay with us here. Still is a very, very wet Friday morning across Lagos. We hope that you can make it to work in time and of course, safe. We'll be back after the short break to tell you about what happened on this day in history and I'm going back to the year 1996. Yes, just stay with us.