 You're welcome back to the breakfast on Plus TV Africa. It's now time for Off the Press and we've invited the publisher of the podium media, Mr. Ademmola Akinbola. Good morning and thanks for joining us. Good morning. Thanks for having me again. Fantastic. How are you today? Fine. Thank you. How are you? All right. Thanks. All right. Let's begin with the punch in these papers this morning. The headline reads ACF Ohanezi PDP Slam Buhari as presidency alleges coup plot. And the presidency here says championed by disgruntled religious and past political leaders. The intention is to eventually overthrow the country into a tailspin which would compel a forceful and undemocratic change of leadership. And then the ACF is saying the criticism is done in good faith and if acted upon will help improve the situation in the country. It went on to say it's wrong to see all critics as his grunt hood religious and past leaders with dark motives. Some of them mean well for the government and the country. Ohanezi indeed by responding to this says Ohanezi is not interested in anything coup. Ohanezi is saying that the president should listen to us and address the nation. The president should reorder his steps. He should root his governance in justice as everything has become an injustice especially against Ibu. The worsening insecurity despite 10.02 trillion Naira six year security vote. And that's a you know an analysis by budget. Ahmed, minister of finance appears before Senate says army got one trillion Naira in two years. Sheikh Gumi here says CBN should pay 100 million Naira Greenfield students ransom before it's too late. Pension operators seek alternative investments as assets decline. Still on the punch newspaper, there's a picture of parents here who seem to be protesting. And the writer reads parents of 29 college students still in kidnappers den protest at the National Assembly. We know this happened yesterday, but of course they locked the gate of the National Assembly denied them entrance. So parents and members of the student union government of the Greenfield University and of course the federal college of first year mechanization protested for the release of their children. Also on the punch newspaper on door to repatriate 137 illegal forest occupants arrested by Amotecun. CCT chair gets Senate two week automaton to defend assault allegation. Subscribers insist on pantomies resignation despite NINSEAM linkage extension. Police snab 52 year old man for defiling three daughters and neighbors niece. Lagos Assembly suspense three local government chairman for flouting guidelines. And lastly on the punch newspaper, herdsmen ejected from on door driven away by car residents and security agents. Big stories down the. Yes, absolutely. Let's move to the daily sun. And see what we can also find over there. The big one top right. You can see IPOB shifts sit at home to May 31st. Other shutdown of schools markets. Mass up condemns attack on Waziriki. Presidency raises the alarm. There is a plot to topple Bwari's government. Fingers religious political leaders politicizing security dangerous says dairy. And also Lagos begins installation of 20 or 2000 rather CCTV to offer free internet to public schools reps weighed in. Aspirants of abducted Kajuna students protest at the National Assembly schools no longer safe say any any NS. Economic crunch federal government to slash salaries of government workers and marriage agencies. And also article to demand so to warn terror suggests recall of ex soldiers kidnapping banditry not federal offenses says the federal government says security agencies on the trail of saboteurs. Government and PDP trade tackles over insecurity. Dozens feared dead as Boko Harama attacks burn no community. Gunman Q8 injures six in Abia and Kaduna. Those are the stories on the daily sun. On the Nigerian Tribune, mothers of 17 abducted Kaduna versity students cry out. Please help us. Weep during protests at National Assembly Gates. Bandits release one student. And we see pictures of four parents here who are in tears and obvious agony over the kidnap of their children. And above the headline on the Nigerian Tribune return rice seized from Ibadan market in two weeks. Senate tells customs. Alled sexual assault. Baba Yasha to face five charges. Risk live imprisonment. Life imprisonment. FG may review payroll and merge agencies to cut costs. That's according to the finance minister. Cano Hysper attacks official allegedly caught with married woman in hotel. Another 137 persons from hundu forest. Alled assault. Senate gives city chairman two weeks to prepare his defense. And lastly on the Nigerian Tribune, opponents plotting illegal confab to over through presidency. On the nation this morning, anxiety over abducted students as a deadline expires. Headers evicted from hundu forest and quara village. Also Legos slams five sexual charges on Baba Yasha. Army got 1.08 trillion Naira in 28 months says minister. Also PDP lawmakers accuse APC's government of constitutional breaches. We can also find here presidency. We've uncovered rather plots to bring down Buhari. DHQ wants military chiefs, politicians against treason. And can rejects accusation of religious leaders involvement. Islamic council seeks probe. Legos assemblies suspends three council chairman and INEC verifies new polling units. Those are the stories we'll be sharing this morning. It's up to you now. Thank you. The news all over Nigeria is quite overwhelming. It's very sad news right now. But I think the pick of all of this is the statement by the presidency that has been that it is covered by some people to talk for the presidency of of the Islamic party. Quite frankly, I would like to summarize that feeling. We're the ministry of team with your portion of the Bible that says we care to run it when no one sweat. I don't realize it's shocking. I don't realize it's a failure. It is natural for this government to begin to assume. Maybe you're rightly told that's what people want it out. Yes, in the minds of every major, this government has already told the truth. This government has already overthrown in court the mind of every major because things are not working. And I sincerely do hope that this alarm, that the president's assurances will not progress into wanting arrest and detention of various individuals and organizations who have been calling for this government to step down is beginning to look like this is a plot. This is a well-organized government to clamp down on opposition and I hope it doesn't get to that stage. But coming back to the issue, we said it the last way that the National Assembly has demanded at this critical time in the history of this country to rescue the country. In the history of Nigeria, no president has ever resigned. So we shouldn't expect his president to resign. He is not going to resign. And I do not in any way support a forceful military intervention and do not support a coup. But the easiest way is the National Assembly to impeachment of president on grounds of incompetence. So this is the period that we expect National Assembly if it has spine, if it has, we don't have to call it to rise up to the occasion and deliver Nigeria. We are not heading into regulation at all. We are not. The kidnapping of the Cardinal Vasile student is beginning to look like another Chibok. And you won't blame the parents. A lot of students have kidnapped. We never found them. Even apart from Chibok, a lot of these things have gone unrecorded. And it seems the president and his team, they've come to the end. And the National Assembly should rescue us. Talking about kidnapping and boundaries, not federal offenses. Legally and questionarily, you may say yes, that is true. But morally, it is the responsibility of the armed forces of Nigeria to ensure the safety of life and security. It is the responsibility of the commandant of the armed forces with Mr. President to ensure the safety of every Nigeria. And that is why I called last week for collaboration. State governments should forget about political affiliations. They should forget about PDP, APC. They should work together. There should be synergy, there should be networking. All hands should be on deck. This is a national emergency. This is not the time for any governor to go to the gallery. This is not for everybody to work together. But shouldn't they have been declared federal offenses by now? I'm asking, shouldn't they have been declared federal offenses by now? I mean, shouldn't we at least see them as federal offenses now? So, you know, looking at the rates... Long time ago, long time ago, we have said that we should have declared a field of emergency in Nigeria. A state of emergency, we were aware of some of the circumstances. Because critical problems require very drastic solutions. This is not the time for surface trade. This is not the time for any constitutional legality extensive one. This is a time, like rightly said, for federal government to step in and begin to assure that it is kept... Yeah. So, Ms Hakim Bala, former Vice President Atika Wubaka is suggesting that the government recalls retired military officers and for the government to declare a total war on terrorism. Do you see this as one of the likely solutions? It is not the viable solution. First, in Nigeria, we don't have that culture of calling on the reserves. And like I said last week, how many of those reserves are in good health? How many of them are happy? Okay. You want to call on people who are retired. That is when they are happy. If they left happily and if you are taking care of them, they'll be paying their pension, leaving up to go on expectation. When you've not been doing that, they're not going to call on anybody. That's not it. Okay. So, that to me, it is not a solution. The solution is to get more people into the various emphasis. Okay. If we have a shot for in terms of numerical strength, let's get more people, let's equip them, let's motivate them, and let's work together. A lot of local military groups have critical roles to play. In war against terrorism, you realize that you need local intelligence. You need people who are on crack. Why? In those villages to actually work too. But when you don't bring them on board, when you don't factor them in your security architecture, you're going to have problems. Okay. But they understand the terrain to know the people. All right. And we've been talking about the right level. Okay. In terms of equipment for the army. Are they well equipped? Are they well equipped? Do they have what they need to fight this war? Are they happy fighting this war? Are they happy with this current government? Because you can actually assemble a group of people to fight the war. But if they are not happy, they actually won't fight any war. Like someone was saying, how come the Boko Haram, each time they attack, they have so much time to plan the attack, they carry out the attack, they retreat back into the villages, and nobody, nobody among the emphasis shows up to do anything. Okay. And that brings to the issue of connivance. Like I said last week, active connivance of members of the Indian Armed Forces. We could have fit colonies who are actually working against the state. So you can't go that route. It's sad that we have to come here doing the same thing about insecurity. And you know, the services have been placed into 34 months now. We haven't seen any changes. And like I said, we are not likely to see any changes now or in the near future. A lot of things are wrong with the way the generation is set up. People are not happy. People want this government out. People are going to go out. Some of those people who are unhappy are the parents of these students who are kidnapped from the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization in Afarka and Kaduna State. We saw that, you know, in addition to that, there's the issue of the Greenfield University students who are kidnapped. And the bandits released, you know, a statement. We saw that they granted an interview, you know, to the press where they demanded 100 million a year ransom. They also said that they needed 10 brand new Honda motorcycles or they would begin to kill the remaining students. You know, in response to all of this, I am yet to see, you know, government statement or from the Kaduna State Government. And now we've seen parents, you know, protesting at the Gates of the National Assembly. You know, it's almost nothing seeming to be done at the moment. I don't know what your assessment is of this. You know, vis-à-vis what Shagumi has said now that just yesterday that 100 million Naira is almost in consequential when you consider the lives of those children and that the government should be able to pay the money, asking the CBN to do so as well. Well, it is unfortunate that we've gotten to a state where we have on within legitimized and legalized negotiations to grant it. And the thing about this is once you start, you cannot stop. They are asking for 100 million Naira to pay it. Next week an understatement comes up and the amount of 100 million Naira they are able to pay again. Okay, so it's a delicate situation that we are in as much as parents are concerned about their children, as much as we want all the students to come back safe. The question we need to ask ourselves is have we gotten to a state where all we need to advise to negotiate with the bandit? Okay, so we might as well just give up. So okay, we don't have security in Nigeria. We just need to save money, save money for ransom because we know that we don't do anything about it. Okay, so I don't want to come on TV to encourage this kind of state where you pay the money. But whatever needs to be done, needs to be done. Okay, security, operatives, they know what they need to do. The state government is working on a grant, I believe, because at times like this, you don't come into the public space to share all of the things that you are doing. But I sincerely believe that the state government is doing something. And I pray that these children will return to life. That's all we can do at this time. We can only pray. There's something on the Daily Sun this morning. The IPOB, speaking of us, stay at home, sit at home rather on the 31st of May. What's your response to that? It has never worked and it will never work. And between now and then, I won't be surprised if some of it has been arrested and detained. Okay? And then, like I said, the federal government is gradually setting the stage. It's gradually putting together plans to be able to crack that on the opposition. Okay? So between now and then, I won't be surprised if some of it has been arrested and detained. And sit at home doing what? We need a spontaneous, mass response. Sitting at home does not change anything. We live in a country where over 80% of the population depends on daily income. Okay? People need to cool out in the morning, come back in the evening to eat, to take care of their children. Sit at home and never work. We'll be sitting at home in Nigeria. We need action. We need action. We need people to begin to hold their response. Last week, I talked about the need for us at all levels to begin to hold our leaders' response. Counselor, local government chairman, commissioner, co-sponsor. That is the kind of mass action that can change Nigeria. Sit at home just to be a waste of time. I don't sit at home in Nigeria. This is the day we have a peaceful protest. And they've done it, I think, for two, three years now. Let's also move back to talking security. There's something on the nation that says the army got 1.0 trillion nair in 28 months, says a minister. There's also a release from budget yesterday that stated that 10 trillion nair had been allocated for security since 2015. We've, of course, still continue to see that there's not been much change with regards to security. So how much of a probe do you think should go into the expenditure that has gone into security and the Nigerian security agencies in the last couple of years? I think we should start with the service chiefs that sat on that presidential letter. Okay? It's not, as we said, about the circuit. It's not, as we said, about what the service chiefs did. Okay? To the money, to the funds that were allocated to them. That probe needs to be concluded. And the immediate past service chiefs also need to be probed. Okay? I said on this program there's a difference between money allocated in the budget and money that's actually used. And that is the pain of Nigeria, corruption. $10 trillion must have been allocated due to the right sources. Was this money spent on the right purpose? The personnel who should have gotten a chunk of this, of this one, did they get it? Okay? Between by equipment? So we can ban these figures around, we can talk about $10 trillion, we can talk about $50 trillion. The reality of grant is that this money is not being used for the right purpose. We're not seeing the results. We're not seeing the results. I do not believe that if we have that, that huge amount, if we had committed it, that you would worry, it's terrible. We probably would have seen better so than we are seeing now. Okay. Thank you so much for joining us and for sharing your views on these stories this morning. Thank you. Have a good day guys. You too. Yes. Staying with us. We're going to short break when we come back. What happened on this day, the 5th of May, many years ago. I'm going back to the year 2010. It is one day that will forever remain in Nigeria's history. And I will share with you. Yes, and I'm going three years later to still talk about security. You know, where all this started from. Do stay with us.