 It's the breakfast and plus TV Africa. It's time for us to go through the papers We call it off the press to the color. Well, he joins us at no time We set up with this day newspaper that's been made available by paper vendor You can't abandon work for election campaign. Buhari wants says Penalty awaits violators or order of the order and directs SGF ministers to prepare Transition documents signs executive order 12 to institutionalize accountability and transparency INAC chair expresses concern over attack on PDP rally in Kaduna says it has reduced Essence of peace accord house minority situation room worried and demand probe Just before we move away floods build dams desealed major rivers or core Urges the federal government Diri six federal government supports direct workers to go on one week break Neither Delta first minister promises medical infrastructure will lead to bowser rivers and others These are some of the headlines you find this morning on this day newspaper Very quickly the nation needs to perhaps the following headlines. How I will boost Economy enhanced security by Tiddable how I will boost the economy enhanced security by to the way PC candidate promises So the same Buharis legacy it's a picture of the candidate there Flanked by the vice president the second to the government of Federation and the FCT minister the federal government's minister Retreat holding a sit house conference and taboo job more from the nation now weekend doses so all for second term Dumps PDP candidate as well the nation is putting in those surprises there governor's demand police a state police others Constitution review Stalled and some headlines on front page of the nation Away from the nation. We have the daily trust newspaper and the daily trust says despite one billion allocation Constitution amendment in limbo Very interesting 25 states with whole votes over state police others your threat wound Intermediators deputy senate president Governors for straight in review NGF moon why were you brought to nation assembly speakers quoted to say seven months ago? Buhari orders minister to prepare transition document Boko Haram killed 100,000 and displaced over 2 million people That's what the defense chief is saying and be away to Kogi who are no longer interested in 50,000 Hector land investors may shun state over hostility. That's what expat is saying. I next summons party of a electoral act violation attacks on Openant bandic attacks Niger hospital in queue to abduct doctors and others Well, these are some of the headlines this morning aren't at the daily trust All right, and finally the punch has the following headlines political rally attacks. I next summons parties police plan one a 13 rather billion narrow firearms purchase And we have some writers to that story there terrorism Lofage's Nigeria stock plunges amid 778 million dollar fine till we launch his campaign on veal's manifesto Friday In surgeons he killed 100,000 displaced 2 million this according to the chief of defense staff as a picture They are flood victims in an internally displaced camps persons camp somewhere I think they should be in a number of state and the story headline underneath Flood victims battle hunger risk disease in a number of these are some stories on the front page of the punch and others Probably bringing I guess legal practitioner and public affairs analyst tunic. Well, I miss a call away. Good morning And thank you very much for a time All right, I Want you to look at the situation of You know things in the country that with two headlines captured on a front page of different papers number one Is a picture story on the front page of the punch of IDPs? persons is placed by the flood is on the front page of the punch and the headline Flood victims battle hunger risk disease in a number that's one Then we look at a front page of the nation. You can also go to the front page of this day and you have pictures of political leaders as a presidential ministerial retreat Holding at the state House Conference Center in Abuja as far as you're concerned and this is amidst laughs as far as concerned Um, is government is government doing justice to Nigerians in its handling the way it's handling the flood situations Why I'm asking this is because in some states The entire state is flooded like by also state and people don't have access to food Just food. They don't have access to food I So they go out here in the handling of this matter and they show empathy with the people that have been affected. For example, in the U.S., and then back in town, and someone is in a place that is absorbed and wrapping their hands. Three of the prime ministers of the country. You see the prime minister. Generally, most of those places that are affected by floods, they have also created special places for them to be able to manage themselves, leave it and sleep. And then they provide them food. And then the security people, the army, the soldiers, the national guards and all that. They've also been part of some of these places where floods are raging and where people displayed are being kept. But that is not the situation we are finding ourselves. That's why we saw the politicians tend to ask us to make the right decisions and say that they are going to win the next election. But if I even go deeper into that, let's examine the origin of the floods that we have in some parts of the country. Some of the documents that I read indicated that when Cameroon was going to dam in a van way, there was a memorandum of understanding that Nigeria will also create a dam, or will also build a dam over river Henry in the south part of Nigeria. Such as anytime there is flooding, or when the dam in Cameroon is filled up and they want to release part of the water, the Nigerian dam will be able to hold the water that is released so that it does not go flooding the dams of Nigeria. Such as Paraba, Genway, Kogi and Warazo. Forty-two years after the memorandum of understanding was signed and Cameroon has built its own dam, Nigeria has not been replaced to build a dam that will be holding whatever water is released from the dam that is built by Cameroon. I am told that is the source, the significance of the flooding that we have in Nigeria, almost on another basis. The implication of this is that we have refused to plant. And what the politicians are also doing after work, when people are dying through flooding, when farmland has been washed away, when houses have collapsed and other, there is also enough empathy for the people who have been affected, for the people who have been displaced from their homes, and now living as refugees in their own fatherland, it just shows you the mindset of the people that we have in government, that they have the two or no respect for the lives of the people and that what empowerment to them is how they will win elections and stay in power in perpetuity. What are your thoughts on the unending constitutional review or constitution review as it were? That is on the daily trust. Now we know that since 2003, there is always one billion that has been voted for, located to the two chambers and the Ninth Assembly has since been on this particular issue. The 44 bills have been put out, but we seem not to be making progress. Is that really... Okay, so I allow you to answer this. My question is, what do you make of this on ending process, especially when we have critical issues, such as state policing among others? Constitutional review is a very, very complex matter. Well, the proposed amendment, you have to draft it. The legislators at the state level and at the federal level, we have to take it to the different consistency and do public hearings on them to see whether the people are in tandem or agree with that amendment or not. And of course, you and I also know that all the statutory states of the federation, including Nabooja, will have to sit on the proposed amendment and vote here or no. Before the thing, again we'll be taking all the amendments, again we'll be taking it to the National Assembly in Nabooja for the Senate and the House of Representatives to sit and debate it. And then if the statutory state of the federation, even if it's more than to talk, the National Assembly in Nabooja, that is the Senate and the House of Representatives, cannot pass it into law. With the time that is left in the hands of the government in power today, which is just about six months, I am not to show that there is enough time to go through all the steps that you have to go through before the amendment can become a lesson. But don't forget, the campaign for the federal elections have also started. And you and I will know the average politician will put more priority on the campaign so that he can get elected either as Chancellor, either as Senator, either as President or as President. So where is the time for this political party to hold us or for this politician to now be voted this constitutional amendment? As far as I'm concerned, the proposed constitutional amendment is dead like a doto. There is no way you can see the light of day within the short span that we have left. The one bill or whatever has been voted for that is just money down the drain. And then you ask yourself again, how many times are there amended American constitution, which is more than 400 years old? I'm not to show it's up to 10 or 15 times. And the volume of the American constitution, the one I have, is no more than 15 pages. The implication of that is the problem Nigeria has is either it's just this constitution entirely and do a new draft or we manage ourselves through customs, precedence, the decrees that the governor and the president can consign and influence. So you have said that timing is a major issue, so there's no time and we understand. So if we have not been able for a very long time, including the Ninth Assembly not being able to achieve an amendment of the constitution, 44 bills have been transmitted to the state and that has not returned. And you're saying that yes, because of the process that's involved. What's the guarantee that if we need to trash the constitution that you have said, we need a new constitution. We also require the same process. So we probably might never have time. It brings me to the next question, whether time is really the issue or is the issue of a political will? We don't maintain, we will not change the issue. It's the fact that it's the issue now. Say for example, if immediately the government won the last election in 2019 or even in 2015, it admit the constitutional amendment, its priority. Or even a whole day review, a draft of a new constitution. The problem will not be having the challenges that we have in our hands today. But the truth of the matter is that so many politicians are not interested in having a wholesale amendment of this constitution. They don't want a constitution that will work for the Nigerian people. Because as it is today, have so many problems, so many challenges. But in fact of all those challenges, it is fact-true that certain people, very well and to their own taste, such that the kind of amendment that certain people or certain sections of the country are proposing will undermine their own personal interests. For example, I am aware some states, some politicians don't want to set police. I am sure, and I know as a fact, some politicians will not want to revenue a location formula to be reviewed. Some people are comfortable with the way and manner the national resources is allocated today. So, if you don't have a concordance or a concordance or an agreement by all the different classes of politics in the country, if your name is difficult, call you to amend the Nigerian constitution. And then every year, or every time that you have a new political class in power, billions of Naira will be voted, which will go down the drain or go down their pockets, all in the name of constitutional amendment. All right. Very quickly, sir, because of time. This CDS lucky rubble has been speaking recently and he's talked about the insurgency in the nation's northern parts that has displaced persons. He actually has put a figure to it. It says two million people have been displaced and 100,000 persons killed. It's captured on the front page of the punch. What are your thoughts on this? Do you think that the chief of defense staff in the Nigerian security architecture has been able to handle the situation better in recent time with its successes against the terrorists? It's a very, very delicate matter. Putting the books on the table of the chief of defense staff might not be appropriate. You and I know that initially, they were handicapped with regard to the necessary equipment which we took by the insurgency. You and I also know that there's a political undertone to the fight against this insurgency. We have already said in the past when certain persons or when the certain presidents wanted to face the insurgency squarely, some people came out that it is a design to kill their own people. There are many people out of the conscience of whatever actions or whatever steps and whatever manners in which they handle this insurgency that they have in their hands. Don't also forget that there is international criminal court. We talked about the genus. We talked about violation of the army rules and laws or rules of engagement. And of course, you and I do know there's also a religious undertone. So this insurgency matter. The chief of defense staff, I'm sure, is a Christian. If he goes out there, unleashing all the assailants in his arms, he could be a king of problems. Pressing certain political systems simply because he's a Christian. So it is very complex. And also remember that this insurgency that we have in our hands and the IDP that is created is man-made. It was immediately certain people insisted on having a sharia in the country, rather than run Nigeria on the secular basis. That they get the impetus. So they are on youth to begin to have a sharia and an Islamic state, a geographic state of the Nigerian freedom on Iran's table and decide whether they want to run Nigeria as a geographic state or as a secular state. We will never see an end. We have to go now. We have all over the country. We have to go. Thank you so much for your time and the insight into some of the issues. We appreciate you, Tunde Kalawali. Well, Tunde Kalawali is a legal practitioner. And that's it this morning on After Press. We'll return tomorrow or things being equal. We take a break and just before that break, let's tell you what happened today in history. Please stay with us.