 And we just finished the discussion before the news with two gentlemen that we're discussing about why some people are afraid. And if the fear is justifiable, the fear of the beavers. Some people say the fear of the beavers is the beginning of wisdom for politicians and all that. But if you have ever thought about the electoral process and got frustrated, I'm sure you'll be on the divide where people are standing for beavers. Justice for beavers, justice for everything. Justice for fairness. Because nowadays, if you don't get things right, you just say justice for that thing. Just under hashtag on Twitter. Yeah, justice for Poma, for instance. All right, one of the trending stuff that just came up, we've just been notified that for 2023, both the federal government and the state government put together a budgeted 19.16 trillion error for salaries, pensions, emoluments, and all these payments that need to be done to workers and people who pay taxes. So how much was budgeted for capital projects and all that? I think it's around 11.3 something billion. Which is a paltry sum compared to what they're just using to pay salaries. You know why I'm just hoping that actually these salaries will be paid. That's another thing, especially the pensions will be paid. But now this brings us to the fact that I don't know how Nigerians have been made to believe that to have a job is to work for the government. Because if paid jobs were everywhere, the government wouldn't have had any need to budget this kind of money just to pay salaries and all that. Because if you create jobs, you're not creating jobs in ministries, you're creating jobs, you're giving the enabling environment for businesses to thrive that will also employ people. So the burden of salaries will be taken away from the government, as it were, and put in private hands. Private individuals will now be paying the people and all the money that the federal government or the state government will have will be for doing the things that will make life even more easy for the people that live in that community. I think you're talking about an egalitarian society where things work the way they are supposed to, because it is a society that we live in. I mean, they work hand in hand. It's people, I am proud of my country and the people that we have in this place. We are so open and ready to work. We're very talented, very industrious. But just like you mentioned, how is the environment? How supportive is the environment? How conducive is it for businesses to thrive? I have a friend who just opened a business and he was telling me that he had spent over 500 to 800,000 just to get the business registered. Please, what is he registering? Is he registering a new federal government? So your startup capital will be used for all the registration and all that. And you still have to make plans for taxes, all the people that come and tell you to pay for door sticker, bathroom sticker, this done, that one. And then you still need to pay salaries. And then it is away from the 800K that he already spent on registration. That doesn't make any sense. So it works hand in hand. If the government wants us to help them pay salaries, they need to make the environment conducive and enough for us to thrive doing businesses so that we don't have to work. But on the other hand also, in fairness to the government, sometimes we also need to believe that if you're not working and wearing a tie like I'm wearing now, you are still earning a living and you're gainfully employed. So there's this notion people have that if you're working for yourself, you're not employed until the government employs you. If you go to the roadside and you see somebody who is a vulcanizer, for instance, the money those people make in a day, if you put them together in a month, they make more than a lot of people who are in the formal sector as it were. But they will never see it as work. And so they will start, or someone who is seeing them will now be calling them people who don't have a job. So that there will be this courage to do this thing. We should encourage ourselves to be self-employed as well. And then I think we need to improve a lot on education. What I mean by that is not your regular school. I mean financial education. I was sitting in a bus the other day and by the time the conductor was collecting money from passengers, I did the mart in my head. And you realize that what these people make in a day is actually higher than the daily pay by the time you break down your salary over a lot of people who claim to have a job. Yeah, yeah. You go to an Akara seller on the roadside and people are kidding to buy Akara or some food that someone is selling at the roadside. But those people will still not call themselves people who are gainfully employed. Now, I've seen on the internet as well someone who dressed up and was selling and all that. I have seen one myself. I did a program with him at one point. And he told me that, while I was interviewing him, he told me that he, because he was selling Moimoi, he would wear a suit and carry this Moimoi on his head or in a barrel. And then people were rushing him because just seeing him in suit tells you mentally you just have that this guy is neat even at home. So I have to buy his own Moimoi. So he said he had used that to train all his siblings. And there are four through university. He had two houses where I interviewed him. And he come somewhere across the state. He had two houses there built and three more plots in separate locations. And he needs in his village is from the East. In his village, he had a house as well and some land from selling Moimoi. I was like, guy, me, I'm the one coming to stand before the camera talking to someone selling Moimoi, the house Moimoi. That is someone who understands how his money works. So you can do it yourself. And while you're doing it, have the dignity. Tell yourself that this thing you're doing, you are not the worst person because, just because you're not sitting in an office. I mean, you want to make money. You know, every time I talk is almost as if I'm always talking about mindset, but we could never talk enough about it. It's all in your head. You're a vocalizer and you, you, I'm good. That's just fine. Yeah. So whatever comes from your mind, I think the good book says it as well, whatever comes from your mind is, is what your mouth speaks in what, what, what defines you. Anything that you conceive in your mind, there's a possibility you become that thing. So what are you conceiving in your mind today? What do you want to be because of how your mind is today? We need to change it. For instance, if you are not, you don't eat, let's say dog meat and someone gives you and you don't know, you eat it and you enjoy it. And then once they tell you, that is dog meat. You feel like puking. Yeah, you begin to throw up. So the dog meat in itself doesn't have any properties that will make you throw up, it's in your head. So you were enjoying it before you were told. Once you were told, it became poisonous to you. So a lot happens within and that translates into what will become outside. So you become sick because someone has told you one thing or the other and all that. So we should be mindful how we think. So mindset, like you said, is very important. And take me back to where we started this conversation from. I really honestly do pray and hope that these salaries be paid because people have worked. People have worked. Yeah. Well, federal governments, state governments, they're budgeting this thing. But private sector, the federal government keeps talking about private sector coming into play and all that. Whatever the challenges are, I'm sure there are avenues to engage the government to make our business environment more flexible, more conducive for people to thrive. But whether the government comes in or not, the entertainment industry is growing. So if soaring, it's flying. Yeah. If you can do that, then your own sector might just be able to do that as well. The ICT sector is surviving almost without any contribution from the government. Entertainment is thriving. Every other thing is thriving. And even the footballers that over the years have made us proud, even though we didn't go for this World Cup. Well, most of them are from the streets. In Ajegunle, you go that they're playing. There's no academy that is set up by the federal government, for instance, and all that. But the people still do what they need to do and measure up. They go outside, play Europa League and all other leagues in the world, and they do very well. So it's not all the time that we should be blaming government, but you two governments sit up. When we vote you into power, like we are going to do in 2023, fulfill your campaign promises at least, first of all, and then every other thing shall be added onto us. Where did that come from? I'm wearing a suit, you know. So I could pass for one pastor. OK, no problem. All right, this is where we draw the curtain. And today's edition of the run-up, I had an amazing time. I hope you did too. Whatever you do, stay positive. The voter's cards are already out there. Go and get your own if you registered. If you didn't, what happened? But then if you registered, it's already out there. Go get your own. And it's closer to you now. Stay positive. My name is Uche Chuku Onado. Shun violence, be patriotic. And let me repeat, and every other thing shall be added onto you. Happy weekend, guys. My name is Nyam Gul Agadji.