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My name is Kofi Bartels and of course with me this morning is Merci, Epopo will be starting with a look at the top training stories today and of course a lot to talk about as we usually say we bring conversations in the social space on your screens every single morning and we'll start off with this particular story. Let's roll the tape. Wow, well you can see the, it's clearly a school bus, clearly a school bus and it looks like that of a private school. You can see that the bus was being lifted up from a canal of sorts and that is a bizarre one. It makes me feel somehow sick to see because the school bus is meant to carry school kids and if it's one of the private schools like you're seeing it's a day, maybe a nursery school or a crash or something like that, it's quite sad. Well, thankfully no casualties were recorded when that school bus plunged into a canal while the driver was rushing to pick up students according to reports, the accident involved that school bus and it had to be removed from a canal where it landed. That's really bizarre and we thank God, we just thank God really when things like this happen you just only can thank God. That's all you can say, it could have sunk and life could have been lost. So when we hear that the bus was removed by with the help of a crane, you can see that crane there, which means that it probably must have spent some time in the canal and we just thank God really. All right, so that crane left the bus and parked it on the road. It had been seriously damaged as you can see from the video and details are sketchy but we just want to thank God that that particular incident recorded no casualties and this for me, I was speaking yesterday to a friend who records a relative who happens to be a school administrator and I said, you see, you have to call your driver, your bus driver and just give the bus driver a warning and tell him to take it easy when he's driving. Let him see this video. Okay, so it's a day and boarding primary and secondary school crash, nursery primary and secondary school as you can see from the bus. Tell the driver to be careful and I shared a story with this relative of mine to say, hey, I've seen school bus drivers, private school buses speeding as if there is no tomorrow. So I saw one particular one, I was trying to get the number on the bus to see if I could call the school and tell them the driver was speeding and some of these schools don't take particular care to monitor the drivers because they have so much on their hands. So when they employ someone, they don't test the person and then they just put him on the wheels and some of these school and the kids in the bus. So the kids can't shout on the bus driver, they can't tell him, usually he, to slow down and then he's trying to rush up to meet with maybe a particular time for dropping the kids off or picking them up and they have them at different parts of town. So he has to rush sometimes, just meet up in time, sometimes it's just his attitude, the attitude of the drivers. I've seen it in time without number. So it's a call to the schools, private schools especially in Nigeria to take particular attention, monitor your drivers and see how they drive. Let them know that they are being watched, they are being monitored, it's very important. Always time because we've taken a lot of time already. Let's look at the next top trending story. I think we should roll the tape so you can understand where we're coming from. By language you say it's what is for you to see, not for you to be told. So let's see it and we'll come back to you. Not use your past to manipulate you. That is why we need to carry out and defend our faith, pass to the future, but it does not use your past to manipulate you. That is why we need to carry out and defend our faith. I'm sure if you've not seen that video anywhere on social media before, you will be like, what just happened? Can we roll it again very quickly please, because some people just see it for the first time and they'll be like, what happened? Can we roll that tape again one more time? Future, but it does not use your past to manipulate you. That is why we need to carry out and defend our faith, pass to the future, but it does not use your past to manipulate you. That is why we need to carry out and defend our faith. All right, so yes, yes, yes, that's a rifle. That's a rifle. That's an AK-47 rifle. That's a Kalashnikov, what they use in the fighting war. If you've been in the war zone, you've watched the soldiers. That's a Kalashnikov, AK-47, believe it or not. And that's a preacher. You can see the logo there. If you are a good Christian like myself, you would know that that is the logo of house on the rock. I almost feel like I lifted it up like that. I swiped the gun up. I almost dodged from my seat right here, because you don't swipe up an AK like that. So that is the house on the rock. His name is Pastor Uche Aigbe. Pastor Uche Aigbe is a pastor of the Abuja branch of house on the rock. And he costs quite a stare amongst many when during the second service, the second service of their Sunday worship, he, Pastor Uche Aigbe, walked into the church carrying an AK-47 rifle. I'm sure some of the members were like, Pastor, OK. The pastor's entrance, of course, would have then gone on to cause some sort of commotion and confusion and concern among members of the congregation who were trying to understand what was happening. So he walked up to the lectern, aware of the tension he had created without looking at his worshippers. He then opened his Bible and said, some people are looking for my trouble and I came here prepared, is what he said. Some people are looking for my trouble and I came here prepared. So the preacher's statements threw the entire congregation into the fit of laughter as he continued preaching on the topic, guarding your hearts from false teachers and faith without works is dead. That's what he said, you know. So it was bizarre, all right, for a lot of people and his actions sparked a lot of discussions about the role of firearms in church and the responsibility of religious leaders, you know, what they have to do to make sure that they stay on the right track where a lot of people had views to share on this. But I think one other highlight of this whole incident is that we must also inform you that the police was invited to pass so we can say arrested him and detained him for brandishing an AK-47 rifle on the altar. That's what happened following the leaking, let me say, of this video. Right after that Sunday service. According to the police public relations officer, that's Mu'yua Dejabi, he said that the investigation had commenced on the incident. When you say the same investigation, I don't know what the police will usually mean, they want to interrogate the suspect. Because for me, I always say that police never hardly investigate beyond confessional statements. You know, oh, the suspect confessed to kidnapping this one, the confess, but investigation is that all it's about. But anyway, they said they're investigating the incident. And we hear that a police inspector, Musa Aoudu, is the one who handed the gun over to the Abuja pastor. Because you be wondering, OK, does he have an AK-47 rifle or not. So an inspector of police handed the gun over to him. His name is Musa Aoudu. And we also hear that the Commissioner of Police in the FCT, that's Nigeria's Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Sadiq Abubakar has made a recommendation to the inspector, General of the Nigeria Police Force, Al-Kali Usman Baba, to dismiss the inspector, the police inspector, Musa Aoudu. So that's what we hear. But interestingly, we hear also that he'll be facing an orderly room trial going forward. What an orderly room trial means, excuse me, is that if you are a police officer accused of any infringement, they have what they call, you know, in America, they call it internal control in the police service there. It's an internal control, it's a sort of a police unit. Talking about the Marshal, I'm trying to get the correct team, but it's not coming back. So the police, they have what they call their marshals. And what the marshal does is that they investigate and then they try, police officers who are airing, who have been found wanting, they actually have a trial. All right, so they'll take their belt off, take their cap from them, you know, detain them, and then match them in before the officer in charge. It's called something marshal. Okay, so that's what happens. Sorry about that, I just went blank, you know. So in the army, I think they call it a guard room or something like that. So it remains to be seen if he will be dismissed as the recommendation has been made. But the church has released a statement. I just want to go to that right now. Why are pastor mounted the pulpit with AK-47? I just want to read a statement from House on the Rock. Okay, and what the church is saying that is that he carried the gun to illustrate his message to the congregation. So it's simply an illustration. I want to read the exact words of the church. So this statement reads, quote, on Sunday, February 12th, a resident pastor of House on the Rock Abuja Church pastor Uchi Aigbe in a message about fighting the good fight with spiritual weapons carried an unloaded gun to illustrate his message on guarding your faith. Pastor Uchi Aigbe has been a leader in House on the Rock Abuja since 1999 and has always shown exemplary leadership. However, he realizes that even with the best of intentions carrying a gun to illustrate his message was ill-advised and regrettable. He says, without hesitation, Pastor Uchi Aigbe has acknowledged the gravity of his actions and apologizes unreservedly for them. He says, as a church, House on the Rock rejects all forms of violence and we stand on the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ which embraces peace and goodwill for mankind or for all mankind. We're cooperating fully with the authorities as they carry other investigations into this incident and we will continue to engage in tenly to ensure this breaking protocol does not happen again is what House on the Rock is saying. All right, so that's that. I think we can move on from that incident and we'll wait to see if the police will indeed dismiss the inspector who handed a police weapon, a police weapon, an AK-47 to a pastor so he could preach with it. The word I was looking for, the name I was looking for was Provost Marshall. Yes, the police have what are called a Provost Marshall who is like their own judge. When you go to the court and you face trial, they have their own internal trial so the Provost Marshall will gather the evidence if their witnesses invite them. For instance, when I had a human rights case with a police and some officers did what they did to me, I didn't actually lay a complaint but the police invited me to attend the trial and the officers that assaulted me were marched in before me and the Provost Marshall interrogated them and then interrogated me. They had a chance to interrogate me and they took his notes and they would make his recommendations to the authorities, the CPU or the IGP as the case may be, if it is miss all, that's what he will say. But it's not always usual that you see the police recommending that one of them should be dismissed. So we'll have to keep our eyes on this. Some people will say they can bet that this inspector will not be dismissed. Maybe he'll be transferred somewhere else. Maybe not, we will see what happens with that. But it juries out as to the judgment that the pastor exercised and the question pastor's always right will pop up at this point. Clegemen always right because in this part of the world, they're seen as next to God, all right? Next to God. In fact, they're seen as, in some congregations, members see their pastors as God, really. Yes, yes, yes. Because they believe they can do everything. You know, believe their pastor sticker on their car will save them from accident. Their pastor sticker on their door will save them from a armed robber. So I mean, some Christians see their pastors as God, actually, so some see them as next to God, some see them as God. But I think this should go a way to show that pastors are human beings. Sometimes they are wrong. Yeah, yeah. Sometimes pastors are wrong. But everything a pastor says is right. You'll be a fool, a big fool if you take everything a pastor says, hook, line, and sinker. You'll be stupid because even the Bible says that you should test everything. Okay, with the scripture, with the word of God. So if a pastor is wrong and he makes a mistake and tells you to do something, you go set the scripture, pray about it, and say, okay, what is saying? Is it true? Okay, that's what you have to do. Okay, even sometimes Paul himself will tell, you know, in the scripture, say I'm not the one, it's not God speaking through me now. This is me telling you how I feel. All right, so we need to make that distinction. We need to realize that before the term God, there are the words man of. Okay, for me, I never get carried away when a clergyman makes a mistake or does anything that is controversial. Because why? They are men first. Man of God. Man. And as a human being, he's not an angel that can appear and disappear. He's a human being. Okay, he breathes in air. He can make a mistake. And if he makes a mistake and I see that he's telling me to do the wrong thing or acting wrongly, I will not jump into him. I won't do what he's saying. I'll say, see what my scripture says. No, this is not right. Okay, and when he makes a mistake, I won't judge him. I'll say, he's a human being. I also make mistakes too. All right, and let him go and, you know, God will forgive him. That's it. So, I think we're just gonna leave it at that for now. We'll take a break and then when we come back, we'll look at what the rest of us have to do. They still have us.