 Today on the breakfast National Assembly says CBN is the most potent threat so the forthcoming 2023 general elections due to its badly implemented narrow redesign policy. Also on the breakfast the flying eagles are drawn in group A with horse, Egypt, Mozambique and Senegal will be discussing these and more on the show. And don't forget would also be looking through today's newspapers and lies in the biggest stories of the day. Welcome to the breakfast and plus TV Africa. I am Messi Popo. It's good to have you join us this beautiful Friday morning. A lot of people will say thank God it's Friday and hopefully we're all thanking God that today is Friday. I hope you're doing very well and you're having a great time instead of our conversation as always with what's making the rounds and you know the social media space what's actually trending. We like the set of our conversation what's making the rounds and what Nigerians are talking about. Now first on our list this morning is that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission that's the EFCC has a Reign Rashida, wife of Yahya Bello and of course the nephew of Yahya Bello who's been governor of Kogi State if you like to know who's been involved in an alleged fraud. Now it's also reported that they were reigned before a federal high court in Abuja. Ali Bello identified as the nephew to the Kogi governor and a duo who had docked alongside three orders, three order peasants on an 18 count charge bordering on criminal misappropriation and money laundering to the tune of 3 billion, 81 million, 80 hundred and 4,664 Nair. I mean we had to take it the way it is like every detail has to be involved talking about the amount. Well in some courtes you probably see 3 billion Nair. We have to let you know the several fractions to that and it's been a lot of conversation on the different social media spaces and what have you. Now some people say that remember that those who approach the three governors that approach the Supreme Court talking about the Nair redesign policy CBN and the debt line and one of them is Yahya Bello, the governor of Kogi State. It probably might just be an irony that you know just as the approach in the Supreme Court gave the ruling then you know how the fact that if this is arresting or arraigning you know the wife and the nephew but you know according to that report and according to the judgment that's been given this funds where you know we're talking about the issue of fraud misappropriation and what have you. You want to ask yourself a 21-year-old boy how did he get through billionaire what exactly is he doing what's the business too many issues but some people say it's very commendable you know in the fight against corruption if that's the case we'll proceed fingers across and let's see how all of this pans out. Moving away from that the Lagos State government says that I like to say she over every other time but the Lagos State governor and or the government you like to say Babajideh Son Oulu has announced the reduction of transportation fare in the state by 50% well according to the governor the price reduction is in all state public transportation on the road and so if you patronize the waterways system this would take effect from next week as our yesterday so next week is like next week this is weekend now Son Oulu said that the BRT bosses first and last mile bosses have been directed to charge 50% including the lag ride and also the lag ferry of the current fare to reduce the hardship of the narrow swap on resident the 50% caught in all fairs like I mentioned earlier on lag ride which is a taxi scheme the first mile and last mile bosses and also the Lagos ferry services one would say that's very commendable should be commendable I mean even if it's going to last for you know just seven days but we have this thing there's you know this this popular statement you'll say at all at all now winch so this is this is a good one and should we say thank you but let's talk about the thoughts of Nigerians and Lagosians especially on the different social media space especially on Twitter as I was saying is it that we have few more days to the election really what happened when in November prior to December the fairs were high Nigerians are going through a lot and Lagosians are going through a lot we wouldn't have been being very possible is it that it's because of the elections so there's been a lot of doubt and I haven't really seen a lot of people say no I'm grateful but other other persons have also acted differently they have asked what happens to those who own vehicle vehicles I mean some people are saying well I own a private car own my own car so what happened with me I mean I have a car what should I do and maybe you probably have to you abandon your car and use the public transport the lack ferry if you're probably going anywhere via the airways no I beg your pardon the seaways and other means of transportation if you like well that's the case but let's see how this actually pans out if there will be implementation just seven days seven days from the day of the announcement is what Lagosians are expected to you know benefit we were in December we were in November where the pressure of scarcity was high when nothing actually happened but it's also a reminder that government is responsible for the security and you know the prosperity of the people ensuring that life is easy ensuring that they are in the business of governance and it should not just be at a time because when you begin to act in a certain way when it's close to election period people will miss understand or misinterprets you know your gesture or policy or action at a time whatever government does or government refuses to do would become you know a policy and when that's the case then people begin to give meaning to it and that's why a lot of people are thinking that hey it's just a campaign tactic is an election period and this is a period where you know there will be several you know tactic and different type of actions from different quarters and Lagos state governor is not out of this but I think that you should accept it you know with your with gratitude really saying for the period of time just one week you probably might just be enjoying that 50% discount and we hope that those who are involved in this also have also taken note of it to ensure that they implement implemented for the time being we move to a top trending our next up trending which is three on the list is that the Nigerian immigration service in Abuja said that they had seized 6216 permanent voter card and national identity card from a migrant in 21 border states nationwide and that's what the acting Comptroller General of the NIS Idris Isa who disclosed the information at a retreat with zonal coordinators and all commander controllers and the service headquarters in the FCT now according to Idris he said that 2,393 voter cards and 3,823 national identity cards were seized from peasants believed to be in unlawful possession of the documents now the states where the items were seized include a damawa aquaibom, bauchi, edo, jigawa, kebi, kogi, kwara, Lagos, Nassarawa, Niger, Ogun, Oyo, Plateau, Sokoto, Taraba, Yubeh, Zamfra, and three others the cards were seized during the operation to prevent migrants from neighboring countries from participating in the food coming general elections revealed that the this migrants most of whom hail from the West African countries have been deported to their various homeland according to the ECO's protocol on freedom of movement well the that's exactly what it is so you want to ask yourself commendable of the NIS that's the Nigerian immigration services I mean we say kudos to them we think that a lot has to happen just before the 25th you know off of February 2023 which is still the date for the presidential elections so fingers are very cross but the question you want to ask is how did these peasants six thousand of them get you know the PDC's how did they get it who registered them at what point how did this happen don't forget that in 2022 that's sometime last year I don't remember if it was you know very close to the end of the year we're talking about the fourth quarter or it was just in the third quarter there about but there were several allegations there were several complaints of having INEC personnel in you know this foreign I mean neighboring countries registering and that particular report was debunked it was debunked by INEC I remember saying oh that's not the case but see I think that that's what we should start from the conversation because I don't think that these people use superpowers these six thousand plus peasants use superpowers to come to Nigeria how did I get there how did I get the PDC I don't think it was magic I think that there's a compromise somewhere that's exactly what it is and that's a major threat to you know our democracy and that's a major threat to our elections that you have people who are not because if you look at the electoral act if you also look at the constitution you have to be an Nigerian you have to be an Nigerian to be part of this election you also have to be of age and the age that is recognized by the constitution is 18 you have to be 18 years and above so yes how do we get to this point as much as we say kudos to them but there's a compromise there's a compromise from you know the empire that is saddled with the responsibility of conducting a free and credible elections an empire that's expected not to be partisan there's a compromise there's a compromise even at the border how did they come in yes we say that our borders are porous but exactly how do you even explain all of this so there's something that's not right I think that we have to begin to investigate those these persons that have been a pre-handed it's not enough to deport them back to wherever they came from but it's also important to hold them and get the truth investigate get the questions they have to answer how did they get in who got them in at what point did I get this pvc's and you don't also forget that there are reports that over a million persons have not collected the pvc's over a million pvc's have not been collected because it's a human less even at the course of death so if you want to do your calculations a couple of persons would have lost their lives in the course of all of this so if you have almost one million or one million persons who have not collected their pvc's due to calculation how many persons would have died my point is foreigners have the pvc's but Nigerians a lot of people who leave here who are residents or taxpayers don't have the pvc we can't continue like this and expect a free and credible elections which I could break when we return it would be time for us to go through the front pages of a national deal is to call it off the press please stay with us good morning