 Today, on the breakfast, President Mohamed Buhari directs all members of the Federal Executive Council running for elective offices. There are some media letters of resignation on all the four Mondays, the 16th of May 2022. Also on the breakfast, the National Executive Council neck of the People's Democratic Party PDP opts to throw the contest for its presidential ticket open, rather than zoning to a particular region of the country. What does this make of the party's change and chances? And like always, we will be reviewing the biggest stories making headlines across major dailies in Nigeria. Good morning to you. Thanks for joining us. You're watching The Breakfast on PLOS TV Africa this Thursday morning. My name is Justin Akadonye. And I am Massey Bupu. Welcome to The Breakfast. Massey, how are you doing today? Very well. You want to ask me how I'm doing too? How are you doing? And now you come. I'm doing very well. You've asked me how you're doing. How are you doing as well? No, it's teeth intact. Well, it felt like you don't want me to actually land with my, how am I doing? I didn't know you were fine. It was more of you, how are you doing thing? I'm doing okay, I'm fine. Okay, so it feels like you wanted me to ask you how you're doing. Talk trendy and what's trending in Nigeria? A whole lot is trending, not how are you doing, even as much as Massey doesn't want to ask me how I'm doing. The whole lot is actually happening in Nigeria. Let's start with what happened in Arcano State just yesterday, a court sentenced, wait for it, a 19-year-old to death by hanging for kidnapping. And this person in question is the suspect, he's not a suspect since he has been sentenced. The criminal's nephew, it is Massey, he's just 19 years old. Some people would say that he's just a youngster, he has his life ahead of him and it has been caught short because of one singular crazy act that he did and now his life has been caught short. He's been sentenced to death by hanging. A lot of people would question, okay fine, is it too harsh but the fact is that I'm content right now because this is just a teenager and he's been sentenced to death and it's just as though he didn't even live life at all. So if you look at it, I know that a lot of people think that it's very harsh and is a teenager because he is 19 and that's why he's a teenager but if you also look at the constitution of the Federal Republic of Niger where you talk about a child, an adult would become 18, so the constitution recognized 18 as an appropriate age for an adult. So yes, he's an adult even though he's within his teens, a young adult. But unfortunately, I think that we need to pay attention to what's going on with our teenagers. Not necessarily trying to stereotype or limit it to a certain region because, but if you follow the stories and the development, especially in Karno, you find out that a lot's been going on with teenagers. That's the moral for me. So yes, this sentence has actually been put out by a court but a lot's going on with teenagers. So this is one. So you have that the court sentenced a teenager to death by hanging because he buried his nephew alive. There's also another story of having a teenager taking out the eye of a 12-year-old. You know, there's a lot of... I wonder what runs through their head right now. There's also another story from Karno emanating that a teenager has also been arrested or something. I can't remember but it has to do with stealing the roof of stealing roofs and stuff like that. But like I mentioned earlier on, we need to pay attention to our teenagers. We should. And this has nothing to do with a certain region but I think that we should be concerned. Everyone should be concerned about the happenings. And it's quite unfortunate because if you talk about the conversations that have been generated, you don't really get the buzz. The buzz that you would get, you know, naturally, if it was the subject. I really don't know but it hasn't really generated all of that buzz that you would get with the APC and the PDP and all the issues and who's the camping and who's not the camping. But if we constantly say that these young people are the future of tomorrow, then we need to do better. Well, it's a capital punishment. Some people have asked, do we still have capital punishments effective? Do we still use it? But if you look at capital punishment as a legal authorization to kill someone, I mean... If you kill, you have to be killed. For some punishment. It's a means of punishing someone. And the criminal code endorses all of that. So, yes, I understand the arguments that some people have put out, he's very young. I mean, he's a teen. So when you say he's a teen... Well, he's committed a crime. So he should do the time. You know. But I agree with you. I agree with all of that. It still goes down to the family level, to the society and every other thing. Like you have rightly said, maybe the society, maybe the family, maybe the churches, maybe people, the community, who ordinarily should be taking care of them, or watching out, or looking out for these young people, molding them to grow. They are seemingly abandoning what they should be doing. Not long ago, we saw the sex tape, Christian and I know, those are young people. I don't know how their minds work these days, though. For someone as young as that, who doesn't think of God in our time, another person's eye, killing, burying people alive. What doctrine has he or she been listening to? How come he or she has been so indoctrinated to the extent that they do these things and they seem to have lost their humanity? So what do we go from here? I mean, when you say indoctrinated, or you say the some doctrine, what doctrine is that? Indoctrinated, the things they are watching, the things they are listening to, what they are telling them, maybe their faith, you know, it could be anything really. But I don't think, I mean, there's no faith if you look at it. If you look at Islam, and also if you look at Christianity, if you look at it fundamentally, the snow part of all of this religion that promotes violence. Right? But in all of this, I think that people hide behind religion to portray people. To the people of this country. To deceive people. And so when we wake up and begin to see the punishment that's been put out, it's a capital punishment, and we're querying and questioning it, and some people are saying, that's hash. What do you expect? It's part of the law, the criminal code, you know, it's part of it. You also have the fact that this is what it is. Really, if he was maybe 13, then you probably say he's not, you know, the age. Just a juvenile. Yeah, he's just a juvenile. But he's 19. And so 19, 18, the constitution recognized 18 as the age. What is unfortunate? Like I mentioned earlier on, I think that we need to pay attention. I don't think, but we need to pay attention to our children. We need to pay attention to the young people. We need to understand. It's okay. But I feel also that if you look at it, we seem to be more concerned about... The wrong things. No, not necessarily. No politics. What consents us? And so you're having this one who wants to become the next governor, who wants to become the age, and nobody's paying attention to all of the things that I have. Because it's really shocking that a 19-year-old would bury their nephew alive. Wow. So it's what has happened, and fingers are actually crossed. I mean, that has happened, but reactions have generated. But does it change anything? It doesn't, because he's going to be, you know, sentenced already. Yeah, he's going to be hanged. If that hasn't already happened. I don't think so. It's just been sentenced. But the hanging has not been done yet. But let's move on. You know, remember the super cop, Abba Kiari, who is facing charges for, you know, alleged drug trafficking, and of course, also some questions to answer at the United States. Well, he was in court yesterday, and something came out of all of this. I don't know if I'll call it just boldness. Some people say imprudence. Some people say temerity, you know, I don't know the English or grammar, you know. But how can somebody think just because of him, you know, the society, you know, will just be stored, or maybe crime fighting, you know, will take a different turn because he's not been around. Anyway, that was one of the arguments that was put forward yesterday in court, and Kiari is saying that, you know, criminals have been emboldened since he's been in detention. Criminals have been emboldened even before Abba Kiari was, you know, detained and before his case came up. So no one is indispensable. Yes, at some point he had his chances. I mean, he made a mark, and of course, he was tagged a super cop. But that has not changed the fact that criminality and crime has not continued. So crime and criminality has been ongoing for a very long time. It's been going on. Before he became, you know, he was tagged a super cop, you know, for what he did. And that hasn't really changed anything. So, I mean, Abba Kiari should understand that he's not Spider-Man. He's not Superman. He's not Superman. He's not even Ben 10. Ben 10, is he? Because Ben 10. You watched too much. No, I'm just saying. You watched too much Pixar. It's not Pixar. These are superheroes. When you talk about them, you know, if you want to talk about superheroes, you have Spider-Man. Spider-Man is a superhero. That's your favorite. It's not my favorite. But you mentioned it first. Oh, well. Why are we going into that? That's not an issue. It's a very serious issue, right? So, he's not a superhero. He did a great job. He was tagged a super cop. Supposedly. Now, Nigeria. I'm going to dispute that. He did a great job. But a lot of things came out. He was seemingly doing the great job. By the end of the day, he was doing some other bad things. Good. So, it brings us back to the conversation that, like I rightly mentioned, you are not a superhero. You did a great job. You were tagged a super cop. Supposedly. Right. But you need to also understand that Nigeria is not, one man cannot survive. Nigeria's problem. Now, the problem with security is not a one man problem. We're still even questioning the fact that, how come we have the police? How come we have other security apparatus that's been set out, you know, to handle issue of security? And then, crime is still, you know, on top of the chat, right? So, how about carry a loan cannot solve? I mean, if you look at the police, how the police work on security, they don't work in isolation. They don't. They don't work as teams. Yes. So, it's a chain kind of organization. You have to work with a team of people to achieve that. For him to say that, it's not very logical whether his lawyers make him that for him. I just feel like it's one of those things trying to appeal and not appeal, because he's also mentioned the fact that, oh, his life is also a problem. Yes. That's another thing we need to talk about. If your life is all, even if you're saying that you're a super cop. You should be sharing it with me. I mean, if you're a super cop. You've been given a VIP. If you are a super cop here, right? If you're super, one would expect that you should put out all of that super cop kind of energy. Gang, gang, gang, gang. Right? Yeah. And take down anyone who's coming at you. But that's not a light enough. But the point here is, this is not a logical conversation. It is. It is. It's very laughable for you to say that because of the fact that you have been detained, crime and criminality has all, has thrived. Overtime. It's still thriving. It's still going. People are saying that the reason it's thriving is because the body language of Mr. President is different. The President is not acting in a certain way and not because Abba-Kyari. Because he's in detention. So it has nothing to do with Shua Abba-Kyari. It has nothing to do with Shua Abba-Kyari. And the idea is still big for you. Yes. I've given him too much credit. It's costing us for too long really. Then again, he's saying that his life is at risk because he shares the same detention cell or facility, which are independent people of Biafra and the Eastern Security Network. So Mercy, is it like he feels that they are after him or what? No. But I don't know. I don't know how it is because I've never been to prison. No. I pray you don't go to prison. You don't need to go to prison. Let me be, you're going there for your work and you need to do some story on the prison. But you are not going to go to prison. You don't want to know how to prison. But I have been detained on lawfully. Mercy, how long did you stay in prison? Not in prison. Jail. Detained from himself. No, I'm not going to call you that you went to jail. No, I didn't go to jail. Mercy was in jail. I wasn't in jail. For how many days? I was just there. What did you do? I didn't do anything. What did they accuse you of? Teft, an example. Mercy, klepto. Not that. I mean, it's really wrong because even as I wasn't even 18 at the time, we had to do with examination. I was still detained. Yes, I was on lawful. And I knew I was telling the cop that, you know, when I turned 18, I was suing you for this. I said that. I remember it very well. I will sue you for what you have done because you had no right to put me behind. It's a long story. Examination. You find yourself in an examination environment, GCE. The wrong set of people. You know, we're just taking away, whisked away and said, you were part of, I don't even know. You know, for me, that's why sometimes it's really strange when people talk about exam or practice. At what point do I understand that people, you have to write something and send to another person and that's cheating. But it's a long one. But it just shows you that we live in a very lawless society where people are irrational, including those who should protect our rights, you know, trample on them, take advantage of us. But maybe, I don't know if I forgive you, maybe I should, you know, consider suing those who arrested me. Maybe you have your rights. You still have. You know, I mean, you are lawfully detained. You have the right to seek redress. You want to continue with Abba? I don't. I think we should let him just go. We've just given him too much attention. That's just, in my opinion. First of all, he feels he's some super cop that his bodies have been emboldened. I feel that's just an affront. But a lot is going on in our system. And for every other time that we talk about changing Nigeria and the fact that we talk about the corruption and the ruts in the system, we also need to look inwards. Like I would say, a corrupt society is, when you have corrupt leaders, it's just a reflection of who we are. Yes, they do just fall from space. They were bred from us, from amongst us. So a corrupt society would always throw up corrupt leaders. And so when you have your leaders corrupt, when you say the president is nepotistic, it just shows you that it's a reflection of who we are. We're nepotistic. We're corrupt. Whatever it is that you accuse, those are the top. It's just a reflection of who you are. And until we begin to understand that it is not entirely the fault of those who are ruling, but it's just a reflection of who we are. And we take responsibility for doing the right thing. If you look at some of these climes, for instance, we always want to make reference to develop climes and talk about the things that happen. Those things don't happen by magic. They're not spirits who make them happen. People obey the rule of law. You respect the law. It doesn't. Because, of course, the rule of law, the law itself is not a respecter of anyone. And so that's why you have the principle of check and balances and all of that. We're not even doing that. It's just who we are. And at the end of the day, you become a president. You become a governor. You become a chairman. You become a councilor. I mean, the chairman of a council chairperson or a councilor at the ward and what have you, the lease is almost endless. You are becoming some leader, the director in one ministry. All of that will continue to show up. We need to take responsibility for where Nigeria is. We need to take responsibility for where the police and agency of government is because we're just a reflection of what's going on in these places. Yes, it is. We'll take a last talk. It is actually a very sad one because somehow we can relate to that. This person in question was a journalist and she was killed in the line of duty. And right now there has been a bit of outrage in Palestine, Israel over the killing of the Algeria journalist Shiran Abu-Aklah. She was shot dead by Israeli forces and he occupied West Bank. The 51-year-old was covering an Israeli army raid on the Jenin refugee camp when she was shot in the face by a single bullet. Well, despite wearing a press vest, it is really a very sad one. I'm not going to be emotional. But our hats and prayers with what do I say now? The family of journalists who's lost their loved one because she belongs to a family. She's someone's friend, she's a mother apparently. She could be, she's everything apart from the fact that she's a journalist but it just shows you that there's a lot of hazard with the job and it's quite unfortunate. As at the time of the report I remember taking the particular story. There was no comment from the Israeli government and what have you but it is quite unfortunate. It is, it is and may God give the family of them that this is the fortitude to bear this particular irreparable loss or leave it at that, that Zaw were taking on top trending this morning, and that's it on top trending. We tend tomorrow with more reactions, more conversations generating reactions in different spaces and that's it. But just before that time out when we come through we will be looking at the papers this morning and bringing you up to speed with what's making the rounds across the country. Stay with us.