 Lashed out at some foreign embassies for allegedly issuing unverified terror warnings on the nation's capital, the federal capital territory, Buja, posting clickbait and causing panic in the country. This is what they said. At a ministerial session of the ongoing UNESCO media and information literacy week holding in the nation's capital, Abuja, Muhammad said if indeed such security alert was necessary, it was for the attention of citizens of the Asian countries in Nigeria and not for the Nigerian public. Now recall that the United States of America, the United Kingdom as well, had on Sunday a warrant of a possible terrorist attack in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, especially aimed at government buildings, places of worship and schools, among other targets. The United States government proceeded to authorize the departure of its government employees and their families from Nigeria as serious as that, without a potential terrorist attack. The U.S. State Department announced the approval of the evacuation in its updated Nigeria travel advisory on Tuesday evening. That's quite a serious one. Maka Deba is a public affairs analyst. He joins us now to look at this unfolding situation. Maka Deba, good morning to you and thank you very much for your time. Do you agree with the Minister of Information and Culture, Al-Hajjilai Muhammad, who says that this situation and the advisories issued by the foreign embassies amount to what he calls a clickbait. That is something you put on a website so that people can click the link and go to your website so you can get more traffic going to your website. He says that it's clickbait and it's unverified to cause the country panic. It's quite unfortunate and absolutely reprehensible for the minister to have trivialized the security and well-being and welfare of over 200 million Nigerians, just like that. Calling it a clickbait. When you have a government that operates on the basis of falsehood and the basis of denier, that is what you get. It is a known fact that Nigeria has a functional intelligence network. Our intelligence agencies are not doing what they are supposed to do. They are not doing their job. They are not doing it their way. You remember on March 20th this year, we had no train attack. There was no intelligence whatsoever. Of course they came out to say they gave the intelligence but nobody had to tell anyone. There was no proactivity on the side of the intelligence agencies. People were caught, people were killed, people were abducted on that train. July 5th this year, there was no intelligence whatsoever as to the prepared attack on the Kujeprisi. There were over 8,000 inmates. Most of them had been criminalized including almost 100 Boko Haram terrorists. They were scared from Kujeprisi. Most of them have not been recovered. They have not been brought back into custody. So in the event of having such terrible, dysfunctional security machinery and having terrible intelligence security machinery that cannot be able to pre-end, attend, just let them attend on adherence and institutions. And then a foreign agency. In fact, you know there is a collaboration of an intelligence network among the advanced countries. It was not only in the UK, it was not only in the US. All other countries came to say this is something that we should appreciate them for. It is not something to trivialize about calling it a treat date. But of course, most of the deniers are not surprised knowing the pedigree of the minister of information who said that. Most people are not surprised. Not many people expect that minister to say anything that is square in the right way. So considering the spread of the media, that is a personal part of it. The issue is that if such large scale attacks could take place right in the basis of our security agencies, including the intelligence community, would not everybody be able to forestall it? And then what authority does the minister of this government have to approve the security report of those countries? America, UK and Korea are not the kind of countries that do about pirated fake news. They must have done their job very well. They have done their own job very well. They have their professionals in the field. They have their security people all over the place. Both human personnel and technology that are deployed all over the world. So they know what they are saying. And let me tell you, the minister is saying, he's could not in Abu Dhabi. He said he does a great bit. He's could not in Abu Dhabi. He's very, very close to the deniers who are not in Abu Dhabi. My Indian soldiers were killed just a few months ago. And the soldiers who were killed are the big gate of those soldiers. Who are guiding the seat of power. Who are protecting the president. They were killed. None of those attackers has been arrested to date. None of them has been caught to date. And then we have, remember, the first coup in Nigeria. The first coup in Nigeria is this. It was the UK that gave the government intelligence report. As a matter of fact, the first coup, the prime minister, Tafua Balila, was offered a suit that we should be taken out of the country because it was going to be bloody. But he ignored it. And then he played with his life. And Angelos has been trained into terrible situations in that time. Because since that time, that the figure arrangement has been turned, has been used, has been used. And we are here to recover from it today. So nobody should throw away the intelligence report of America or UK, or France, or Germany, or Italy, or Canada. Nobody should throw it away. Nobody should trivialize it as a working bit. What do they start to do from it? What government should have done was to launch a new to us to benefit from it. The government should have done was to launch a new to us to benefit from it. I use it to frustrate whatever is going to take place. Today, I work in Amidya. I work in Amidya. No. None of the kidnappers are taking place in Amidya, almost on the daily basis. Are you aware? Maybe not on a daily basis. We do in Amidya metropolis. Maybe even on 50 cars. Between 50 to 80 cars, and I'm stealing every day in Amidya. People, I'm in the 15th of Amidya in Amidya. I personally am in the 15th of Amidya in Amidya. Of both land and coal, in Amidya. So nobody should come and tell us that it's a good day that they are saying. In Amidya, you know, about two or three months ago, that an itchy within Amidya metropolis was rubbed in bloody light. People were eating lunch and they said these guys were scared. They just showed me on the CCTV camera, came in and removed them and began to collect things, laptops and everything and money and everything. They robbed everyone else and escaped successfully. They were not caught. Within the Amidya metropolis. So how much do you tell us that this is a fake news? This is a fake security report or something like that? Nobody. For example, that it's totally incompetent in the area of security. No, they cannot come and tell us. What we should tell ourselves and the genius is that we fidget us but we are on alert 24-7. Within that, within that asses. Within that asses. The Niger State government has come out. You know, Niger states, borders, you know, in fact, they have entered each other. Niger State and Amidya City. They have come out to say that the Boko Haram theories and Israel theories are just a few hours from Amidya. We came out to raise that alarm. So much back. One before the Boko Haram that killed our soldiers with impunity and we went away. One before Kuja in Amidya was attacked by theories. And 800 and the criminals were let loose. One before them. The government. We still have governments that have been shouting that these guys are moving close to Amidya. They are moving close to Amidya. So, why would you tell us not to be lying? If theories have been killing our soldiers in Amidya, if theories have been abducting and kidnapping people within Amidya, and then somebody is coming out to say it's just a kick-bait, imagine. What a terrible, disingenuous way of dismissing a serious security situation. It is condemned to be just a clear signal. You know, it is only a government like this that keeps up a minister like that. Like many of them that are in this government that have been killed there, despite the fact that they are famous with it. Look at the minister of education for his staff. A year, almost a year of our society. She didn't at all. She didn't. We were at all. Except for the ones that are going to maybe state universities or going to private universities. We were at all. I have a few questions to ask you. And the minister of education is still in office now. Makadibayo. Makadibayo, can you hear me, sir? Makadibayo, can you hear me please? I'm hearing you. Okay, fantastic. I'm trying to get to interject so I could ask you a further question. You obviously are really, really pained and upset, you know, at the minister's response. And for some people, it would be even the occasion whether that occasion called for such a response. This was a UNESCO, you know, event, media and literacy week, you know, and what they were discussing there was fighting misinformation and fake news, the effects of misinformation and fake news. And that is what he brought to the table as an example of fake news that can give a negative effect. And he used the word click bait. Click bait is what you, people, you know, all these people who have blogs and websites can just put a sensational headline to attract you to click it so that you can read more and then they get traffic and they can. So for a minister of information to add a forum on misinformation and fake news to cite an example of a travel advisory, a security advisory, or terror led by, you know, a diplomatic mission in its country in the form of fake news and, you know, misinformation. Do you think that is where such an example should have been raised? Do you think that this has to do with fake news? Just very shortly, please. And how does this speak? It was my God to replace my location to embarrass, to give such an international embarrassment to this country by the city minister. And do you know that the thought of this is that these guys, who are supposed, the security personnel, who are supposed to protect us now because the government is saying, we swear to you, they will relax, they will not do anything about it, until it will happen. Until it will happen. Do you understand? So when you are saying such serious security a lot of you are supposed to treasure and act upon not to dismiss, without dismissing, in such a, in some way, in a, what you do is that you destroy the security agencies from being proactive in tackling these menace. That is the problem now. Now the citizens are led to themselves, are led to themselves, to protect themselves as they are done human, as human kinds told us in this country that Nigerians must be able to get the means to defend ourselves because we are abandoned by this government. And that is why that minister who is, who the minister is not sure, is not sure that he is, that is, that is commendable, you know, that, you know many Nigerians you are not the minister of defense. You are not the minister of defense. You are not the chief of defense, to come and tell us that you are supposed to be a minister of information. But Makadebayo, Makadebayo, he is not a minister of defense but he is a member of the cabinet and he can easily get the information from the defense headquarters or from the DSS who have the primary responsibility to protect Abuja to be able to give to the, to the media, to the public. Maybe he has the information that there is no imminent threat. You know, they have their briefings and I don't know what you say about that. But also, what do you say about the fact that the Americans are evacuating their staff, you know, from the embassy in Abuja? Do you think that really paints a very grim picture? Because you said the Americans will not or the British will not say things like this if they don't have credible intelligence which I think is, is galaxies ahead of us. What do you think he says about the fact that they are evacuating their staff says about the seriousness of the situation? They are moving their staff out? It shows that it is a very desperate situation. It is in very volatile situations that are extremely serious situations. For them to be evacuating their staff and reaching travel advisories to their citizens that may not go to in the world we call it tourism and rest of that in Nigeria and rest of that. People should mind where they go, how they move where they stand. So it is a very serious situation. And what is important is that Nigerians should not listen to the minister. Nigerians should listen to the Americans and the British. That is what I am talking about. But Makadeba, I am sure you recollect that there have been several instances in the past where they have issued terror lets they have their level, you know maybe orange, amber, red, you know, they have these things and travel advisories and nothing happened and there was no breach of scouting in Nigeria. Several in the past I am sure you are aware of that. Yeah, I am. But the issue is that the fact that they were exposed the fact that they were exposed by these international credible security agencies might destroy the attackers from being ahead. And that is why we are here for other means to carry on their path. But nine out of ten times those international security agencies are correct in their report. But Makadeba, nine out of ten we can count at least five times in recent maybe in the past two decades. You know, if I can say the majority of the travel advisories they have issued in the past two decades yes they issued a travel advisory but there was no attack no breach in the country in Abuja or Lagos. They issued several for Lagos. Nothing has happened in Lagos where we are. That is why the fact that nothing happened should not make us to treat it with clarity. It is important for us to take every security alert very very seriously. Like I said, most likely because those guys have been exposed they would drug their plants to do their part. Yes, that is most likely. But for a country that has not been able to manage its international security and to now be condemning what international security agencies are issuing us. It is absolutely unacceptable. But we are not able to do it. We lack the capacity for intelligence to first all such attacks so many that have happened in recent times and in the past. What do we do? Professionally? Another issue is why would these foreign embassies or these countries put out this information publicly when they have the internal means of communication to their staff and to their citizens. What is the aim of publishing something such information that has the potential to affect the mood of the country to create panic in the public and to even affect a potential inflow of investment to the country. What is the aim of making such information public if it is just an advisory and you are not sure if it will happen or not why not do an internal memo for instance? In terms of the standard operating procedure of security architecture international and global that is how it is done. That is a general security alert for Israel. We are not concerned about their own citizens anyway we are much more concerned about their citizens anyway because if there is an internal memo that nobody hears about how will people even become aware and be alive. For a country like Nigeria that we know that the government is sweet on that security report and tithes that this is not going to happen because the government believes in more political survival than the general security of the people. We understand with the attitude of this government they will be more they will be more in tune with the political survival of the government than the general security of the people even if it is issued perfectly through a memo through a friendly memo and let me tell you there are tons of friendly security memos that change us every day across the world but this one we have to say it because it is usually a memo to our government how will their own citizens know. How will the common people of course the retinue of soldiers and women police my gardeners will also know how to approve cars so how are we going to know how to be security conscious which is important not only for the government but for the different cities to be conscious of their security in the figure and collective security is actually important so the private memo to the government minister will say this is a quick date some of it may not even go to the president it is as bad as that so we shouldn't we cannot blame these countries for what they have done considering the fact that Nigeria is at war with itself very interesting analysis from you Makadebayu and it leaves a lot of a grim reflection if you ask me but thank you so much for your time Makadebayu public affairs analyst for bringing your wealth of experience to bear in analyzing the situation you spared no words to assess the performance and the delivery of the minutes of information thank you for your time and that of course and that's the size of our package this morning on the breakfast on Plus TV Africa we have the news coming up at 9 but don't forget you can follow us on social media we have a platform on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram and Plus TV Africa also on YouTube you can find us at Plus TV Africa and at Plus TV Africa Lifestyle we have content uploaded on YouTube you can watch us live stream our programs every day and watch recaps of our previous programs on our YouTube page my name is Kofi Bartels from the entire team the cameraman and production crew right here at our studios on Victoria Island leaders thank you for your time we will be back tomorrow good morning