 You are still watching Waze Now Global Family Day also known as World Peace Day is celebrated every year on the 1st of January of course to promote the concept of harmony and unity in the world for the more it emphasizes the idea of the world as a global village in which we are all family regardless of Citizenships borders or race. I mean when I saw this international holiday, I just remember the speeches that Black man Putin and then what's his name? the Ukrainian guy Zelensky. I remember their speeches as a chat. Wow What needs I mean literally like is there I don't do that I really don't believe in war. Yeah, because I believe truly that there's absolutely nothing that can be settled and resolved without I mean like without There's a lot of things that you can settle without having to go through the route of violence or the route of violence Whatever you call it, right? So when I see this killings here and there left right and center you bomb me I bomb you you do this I do that. I'm just wondering like What exactly is the fight for is he a personal ego thing or what exactly is it about right? And we talk about world peace day We're talking about family day and you're looking at it and you're seeing that you know People cannot just rise above setting kinds of differences. Just embrace peace no matter what it is You know, it's just difficult one can only hope I mean we're in the face of two Major conflicts that have been one running for longer. That's the Ukraine Russia Israel Gaza and then now we've got Israel and Hamas and you know America waning and all the Effects of that across the world anti-Semitism people who are pro Hamas. I mean it's when you look at it None of it makes sense. It's all Just scary and then you come home and you know, you look at all the killings that have been happening in plateau It's sometimes you just wonder you're like, you know, how do humans get to this point? But I was watching a movie last night actually And it was about Scotland many many, you know decades and centuries ago where the Kings Had asked the King of England the Lords of Scotland and asked the King of England After the death of the King without an heir to help them pick a King and in that in that decision They realized they made a mistake the King tried to in fact took over Scotland a photo wall for eight years and lost and eventually And I just you know in watching that movie. I thought to myself the same things in the 1300s This is 2024 You know nothing really new on your son whether you are fighting for land whether you are fighting for ego Whether it's driven by greed was women all of these things. They have always existed and I kept saying that Until the human race decides to do things differently And I don't know even what is going to trigger that because maybe it's one one day aliens turn up And we all have to band together. We don't care Maybe then that would be what will happen, but we keep repeating the same things over and over again So we're not learning, you know Well, there have been so many wars Well, by now everybody should have the sentiment you have which is that never again, but here we are I was I just in fact I was playing something for background noise and I was watching the The the debate for the Republican nominees in America and all of them were unanimous in the crush crush kill destroy and I'm like These are people who are vying to be leaders So I mean that if we all still see that, you know, everything must be met with brute force I think I think I did at the base of every war that I have studied, right? It is a function of ego I Is a very big part like so can you just put aside those like literally who are you trying to impress you want to show that? Oh, my weaponry is a lot. I can dominate you It's just it's just ego play out. Yeah. Yeah, and it's so sad. It's so sad All right, so what did you find for us in today's news? well, I'm starting my story on one based around security and This has to do so it's not really for me about the locality In which the story is about so the headline Says lecky streets gates removal will worsen in security And that was coming from human rights lawyer and senior advocates of Nigeria miss Diablo lower I think we're who are who are said a decision of the legacy government to remove street gates in lecky phase one is ill advised now He said this yesterday And of course, we all know and remember what happened in lecky phase one during the SARS Ensars protest and how lecky was overwhelmed with crime and you know and a lot of streets had gates put in After because let's be honest That's a quite a porous neighborhood because it was many residential, but now it has become quite Business district and commercialized so people are sort of living in the middle of businesses And you know they really did go through a lot in that period and they of course then taken their own security into their hands and put up And put up these gates now I understand that and this was driven according to the story by the visit of the president over the Christmas break and where he was According to the story wrongfully informed that the cause of the traffic was that there were lots of street gates now Put up in lecky, which was causing gridlock To which the Lagos state government has now started to remove those gates So he's appealing to the governor to instead work with the residents association to achieve something that is a workable arrangement Around it. I mean why the story stood out for me It's not really about whether it's lecky or wherever the case may be the fact is that as citizens We constantly have to take our own security into our own hands We build more gates. We build higher walls, you know, we have we pay for our own private security So for me, it's it's more the symptom the root cause rather that I'm looking at in that You've clearly not been able to provide The kind of comfort that your citizenry need to know that I am safe without gates These gates to be honest only give us an illusion of safety so they have taken the matter into their own hands and Rather than having this sort of open dialogue around how do we make this place more secure? We just always have largely reactionary Approaches and that is it. Take it down. Take it down. I saw it. It is just the wrong guess. Yeah Reaction to that kind of Problem that you're trying to fix so if there's a gridlock it is not removal of those gates Let me cuz let me tell you we have we are far from where we were Where you just wake up in the middle of the night. There's a Like yes Christmas time at night you are always hearing gunshots you always here waking up in the morning to hear Oh, they rubbed in this street. They rubbed in that street It's tough of ours then when I was still with TVC He came back to a bruise all over his body and robbers had invaded the house Even while I was in the university in Delta State University, I we because of the Insecurity right the information that we gathered was every every room had to have a burglary So we my mom and my dad installed the burglar inside so you love the door, but there's a burglary outside So do you know that even when the armed robbers came they didn't even bother to touch our door? Because even those who work with information, right? This is not a case of oh this gridlock Do you understand the problem that you're going to cause for this residence? A lot of us are paying through our noses Living in gated estates. Yeah, not because we choose to live in gated estate because we want to be big men and big women No, it is because of the security that we're trying to ensure that at least we're safe In the in an estate the other day I saw a video on social media where the man's car was completely vandalized in Benin Vandalized it took out the brain buzz it took out everything that was valuable in that Mercedes SUV Genocide and these are the things that you know some of these What's he called this? estate security Measures that a lot of residents have put in place together Yeah, I think for me. I mean I also understand how these gates can impede traffic Because where we find that alternative alternate routes are available I mean typically the idea is that when you try to to direct traffic all through one route You're always going to have good luck. So these are the streets and then Alternatives and meant to disperse the traffic and ease off. But you see the thing is these things are like I said There are consequence. So you have to have engagement. Oh, you put there's always a why we're not crazy, right? Why is this gate here? How do we achieve the security that you want and also ensure that we don't cause good luck Then we have engagement we have interactions perhaps, okay You don't need a gate at every two streets Maybe if we look at the and just a set up and we create a big barrier that says okay There are gates maybe four gates in these streets and every street in between. There are no gates Those are the kind of engagement that we should have but when people have gone and done your job Then you now come from the place of authority where you have failed to do your job Satisfactually to protect the people and give them a sense of security. Then you just will the hammer of authority So I mean it goes for every neighborhood, but of course God help us Well, I feel I agree hundred percent with you some of the gates are unnecessary. Yeah, like you see this Every every street once you put gates at the major because we have a lot of people that take hard drugs and all of this Around right so if you put gates at the major points, it is enough Yeah, you know instead of all those in in-betweens is really just dialogue to understand What the security threat is and how best and how best to mitigate it. All right, so I am not oblivious to the expressed and Sometimes unexpressed frustrations of my fellow citizens I know for a fact that some of our compatriots compatriots are even asking if this is how our Administration wants to renew their hope and this was an excerpt from the president's speech that he gave this morning So I woke up this morning quite late, but I had to go catch up on the speech on social and on YouTube, right? I'm quite Not really. Let me not say I'm excited. I am I'm looking for the word. I'm not excited, but I am I Well, I appreciate let me put that word I appreciate the fact that he pointed the real core issues that are happening You know that we need to really focus on in Nigeria. However, I don't understand how much of security You know when you say that, you know, there's been a lot of progress in security on what matrix are we Measuring some of these things right which will just make me to keep quiet because we're gonna go on a break now I will now discuss our topic for today. I'm holding myself