 Welcome to what are you saying hashtag ways where we talk about topics in the news as it affects us all? I am Osayome Sali and today I have D with me Good, how was your week? How was the What was it though? Was it holiday before now? No, just today. What did you do today in celebration of democracy? How was your day? How is your day going? My day is still going. After now I have a meeting. I do one hour meeting on Zoom and I think I have a date, I am not sure I am supposed to go on a date I will go for dinner. This long postpone date is kind of like business though Let me not call it date before they come for me Yeah Norma is supposed to be joining us and I don't know if Norma can hear us Okay, so um Norma are you there? Did you hear something? Yes, sir. I'm here. Can you hear me? Oh, we can hear you. Not my fan. How are you? I'm good. Thank you. How was your day? It was um It was uh all shades I was mostly tired For the fact that it's the beginning of the week. It's not It's not a position you want to be to start the week. But yeah, it uh, it went on as Possibly could and we're here now Okay, okay. Well done We're almost there. So My last lap you did now It's interesting. I didn't even have a break this weekend. Like I was round the floor Yeah Sunday weekend was very busy for me too. I was been walking doing different things Unless weekend is going to be interesting too. So this way All right. So oh god of creation direct our noble cause guide our leaders, right? Help our youth the truth to know At ease we are saying happy democracy day in Nigeria. So tonight in conjunction with enough is enough Nigeria We'll focus on the history of democracy In Nigeria till date So I'll start off, you know, given a background From my slides um They can project it. Yeah So I mean june 12 1993 in Nigeria Had what is considered its freest fairest and most peaceful election till date Mko abuela won but of course it was annulled by the administration of then president head of state So his wife Kudirata Biola was assassinated on june 4th 1996 a biola tried to reclaim his mandate He was then arrested and eventually died in custody Of the federal government on the 7th of july in 1998 So other Nigerians were also killed in that fight to reclaim This mandate of june 12 So, uh, I mean, it's so interesting. Uh, I wish I did they were here because he was telling me a few stories How some people had to flee even now our president had to be Nigeria, you know to go seek asylum in the uk for a bit and all of that So a lot of them were arrested. They were thrown in jail You know such, you know an eventful day And it's just um, so surreal that now we get to like, you know, honor The struggles of that particular day and you know Eventually and I mean that's one of the legacies of president Muhammad abuela But let me come to you. Uh, I think you're next or is it normal number you're next All right, so in uh continuing from where you stopped in may on may 29 in 1999 The folk republic began with the president of lusha goba sujo Been sworn in and that was the second time in nigeria's history that an elected an elected civilian administration will succeed a military government and Same may 29. It was adopted as democracy day and a public holiday but however Lakers and or shun continue to celebrate the june 12th june 12th as democracy day and uh also as a public holiday and um present day June 6th actually in 2018 president Muhammad abu harry was recognized or had had Cognized that june 12th was more meaningful to nigerians as democracy day instead of may 29th And from then on june 12th became the nigerian's democracy day And the public holiday that is now used to celebrate that democracy day presently Back to you Okay, so the 30th anniversary of the Historic elections and the fifth year of june 12th as democracy day. That's this year Now while celebrating june 12th is important A frank narrative of the complex and complicated roles of different actors is missing Telling the story will help learn critical lessons about our history and ourselves and I think that's absolutely true We must I mean There were a lot of people like you rightly mentioned at the beginning a lot of people were part of the struggle Yeah for us to get to where we are now now. Um, the president is the highest elected office However, the office of the citizen is the highest office in the land Our citizens do the elections Once the court cases are over find out who represents you through our whatsapp chat box And engage them and that's one of the best ways to own a democracy Absolutely, absolutely and to know more about this chat box, you know To know your elected officials to also know your governors your senators house of representative House of assembly members local government chairman and counselors The office of the citizen chat box just say hello on whatsapp 201 700 6381 I mean, um The reason and I keep I would keep on every opportunity I get every monday to reemphasize why we're doing this in partnership With enough is enough. You need to be informed Right part of what kills us as a people is not so much of the kinds of things that are going on It is the the the lack of information Whilst we do this in partnership with enough enough, we are also learning right The important thing is once you are knowledgeable enough in a subject matter You are able to tell what is propaganda. Yeah, you are able to tell what is fact You're able to tell what is real. You're able to, you know, bring back history So nobody comes and bamboozles you absolutely and you are acting an agenda without even knowing because If you look at the Nigerian political space, there's a lot of things going on But you see the intelligent people and the well-informed people You know, they stay quiet not because they don't have things to say or because they know better You know, so engaging the citizens and teaching us You know, it's part of what the core of enough enough enough is and that's why we're happy, you know To take on this time every single Monday, you know to bring different What's it called different research? So you understand and learn, you know tomorrow We are now asking better questions more intelligent questions. We're not just throwing tantrums We are actually engaging most of our elected leaders intelligently, right? So once we come with intelligence when we once we come with information, right? They will be forced to listen to us. They'll be forced to back down They'll be forced to do the needful. They'll be forced to govern, you know So it's no longer going to be business as usual when they are dealing with An educated bunch. Yeah, so we need to educate ourselves about national issues political issues issues around governance around leadership that way we can really truly make this country You know a better country and make it, you know the kind of country that we'll be proud of to say Yes, I am Nigerian. All right. So on that note, here's what we found as today's quote We have more conversations today because it's just us right today's quote Of course is in line with what we're discussing. He says I admit and this is from the president that the decision will impose An extra burden on the masses of our people This one decision that we must bear to save our country from going under and this Was a quote that was made today by the president Bola Ahmed to nimble now the federal government um The federal republic rather of nigeria has addressed the subsidy issue removal issue that was announced during the president's inauguration just a few weeks ago now in his speech today Marking of course nigeria's democracy day He noted that the sacrifice of the citizens will not be in vain and today we will be discussing the topic Do nigerians have to suffer for the survival of nigeria? That's the conversation we're having today We'll do all of that. But first let's quickly run off for me. Come back from the break. We want to see what we found in the news All right, you are still watching ways now democracy day is a national public holiday in nigeria and until June 6 2018. It was held annually on may 29 So democracy day marks the day the military handed over Power to an elected civilian government in 1999 marking the beginning of the longest continuous civilian rule since nigeria's independence from colonial rule in 1960 it is a tradition that has held or that has been held annually Beginning in the year 2000 now June 12 was formerly known as a biola day celebrated only in Lagos nigeria and Some southwestern states of nigeria, but today Thanks to president mohammadu buhari The day is being Celebrated as our national democracy day in honor of those that fought and lost their lives, you know, just to Give us, you know a democratic government or leadership all right, so Let me come to you. No ma ifana. What did you find for us in the news today? All right, I came across this story about an nigerian And the story had it that six swiss cops face manslaughter charges over the death of a nigerian So six swiss police officers Appeared in court today over the death of a nigerian man who had a fatal Hat attack after he was pinned down during an arrest in 2018 And these Officers were white officers and were accused of homicide through negligence In relation to the death of this 39-year-old nigerian. His name was mike ben peter and he the the situation Surrounded his death was that It was it was a situation where he was trying to be arrested according to them The officers first noticed him during a drug patrol and after a bag he collected What showed to contain marijuana? Peter and that peter himself did not comply with police requests The officers used pepper spray and kicked his knees And his ribs and groping him got him down to the ground to handcuff him But after a while and the struggle while he struggled it was his head was held face down And after a few minutes it was noticed that he had appeared to be unconscious These police officers of course have pleaded not guilty Stating that there were other factors that Caused his death But today they've been arraigned and they face possible Uh Likelihood of being in prison for three years or so It's really unfortunate The situation surrounding his death, but we continue to see situations like this, especially when it it's concerning either black men, not just nigerian I remember the time where the black lives matter Situation ensued it was about policemen handling and even in nigeria we've seen several cases of Police being irresponsible in the way that they handle people that may be Suspected of crime one way or the other. So I think that these reforms is not just Uh concerning nigerian police force or I mean, it's I think it's a general police situation that really needs to be Reconsidered across board because it seems that when you have that level of power Sometimes it is impossible for you to control the urge to suppress others with that power And this is something that uh, governments state governments of Or countries need to begin to be mindful of and begin to To look for avenues to address as quickly as possible so that situations like this Can't be avoided at all costs. All right. Thank you. No, ma very sad. Sorry All right. Um, your story. Yeah, president um ten number sign student loan student loan bill into law Interesting times, you know, so um, they say this law is to provide Easy access to higher education for indigents nigerians through interest-free loans from nigerian education loan fund and this was A bill that was sponsored by the speaker of the night's house of representatives family by jabbi amila Which says that of course, I mean it provides Interest-free loans to indigent nigerian students And it has passed the third reading at the house two weeks ago. And today it was signed into law Well, personally, I don't know I mean, it's a good thing but as with all things Nigeria We need to understand the process first, you know, the eligibility criteria You know, I help you I took my time Today I came for peace So part of the the criteria is you're qualifying for this law Okay, that you would need to have a family income earning of about 500,000 or Or more, right? I think the minimum of the family to earn is 500,000 Or more you have to have two garanters So the conditions of those are be the status of those garanters in a civil servant that has nothing less than level 12 Has directly Oh, level 12 a lawyer with a 10-year post call experience a judicial officer can be your garanto and Or a justice of peace. So I think those are the criteria for you to was it called access the loan So I'm now thinking in my head The people that can afford to have all of these people if they rally around all these people Yeah, absolutely I don't know how They arrived at this arrived at this, you know Um Is it targeted at people that are registered under the federal government workforce? Um, a lot of concerns, you know, I even tweeted it. I said, okay with the issues around strike Where I'm supposed to take four years to go to school and I'm taking eight years or 10 years to go to school The issues around even the quality of the education, right? Um, the issues around job Right job creation. No jobs. There are so many graduates right now. They don't have jobs, right? So fall back to so how do we um How do we ensure that they they have the there's there's a plan, right? They can't they can't pay back those loans because Clients where they offer student loans. Yeah, like you can literally say it all your life You are guaranteed that as you are living that invest. There's a job. Do you understand? There's a job that can absorb you and that can immediately start to you can do like Debits on on your salary account, right? So I like it is a good way to move forward I'm sure a lot of companies that have been thinking about Loans and all of that they would wake up Nigerians that think In fairness, I've seen that the people that even pay back loans more the people that in the market for those markets Yeah, the ones that are afraid of loans. So the target market for this loan would definitely they would do But I'm saying that the criteria that 500,000 family income. It might not work Because I don't think they have that someone who is from a really from an extremely, you know, poor background I mean you can go to school and that is supposed to be the target for this. Exactly. You get so please they need to We need to refine tunes and review On the issue of cookathon, you know, I said yeah, we'll follow this game because let it not look like because she's not popular She's not famous Hey, we're not talking about her. No Chef Dami Dami a day peru see who is attempting to set a Guinness world record has been offered two weeks Cook tour by someone in the u.s. They are hoping that they would Be able to get her to come on a two weeks cook tour by By the time she's done and all of that which is fantastic Someone offered a hundred thousand. I think a commissioner went there and all of that The only challenge me I have with the dummy that the food the presentation because you know, I mean there's a finesse to food I don't know. It's not a for me. Yes. So may I eat with my eyes? It is what I see first that we that we call my tummy because literally I can't starve myself If the food doesn't look like what I want to put in my mouth, right? I think her presentation She's she's an attempt. I mean this is she's not the only person There's somebody else that is gone in for a hundred and 40 hours. Now. I just saw another one 200 hours, right? But something or this lady adiola Fire who I think that's her name. She's a popular blogger posted on online she talked about the the Criteria for Approvals like the approval process. So she says so this the chef dummy get approval from Guinness world record before and backing on the 120 hour Applications takes about 12 to 16 weeks to review She says she's just asking for a friend because she then screen grabbed the criteria that the first step of any successful world record title holder is the application Right here, you will find all the information needed to make your own application Including the different options what to expect from the process and the frequently asked questions So she then posted something around step four. It says complete and submit the form When filling in the form you can choose if you want to purchase a priority application Which means you can receive your guidelines in five walking days Charges apply a standard application will take up to 12 weeks to receive your guidelines and sometimes longer if There is a high demand. Please check the current waiting period to get up to date information on the waiting times Due to large volume of application the current waiting period for all application is a maximum of 16 weeks Our current waiting time for reviewing evidence for attempting records is a maximum 16 weeks. So iudabachi Yes 16 weeks can imagine so Our current waiting time for answering online correspondence is a maximum two weeks. So already iudabachi's Uh Record is in is in the queue because they have a long list. So expedited. Um, what's it called approvals? Maybe she paid it now even the question around this because when when this lady brought this up people are even asking I hope Hilda also went through the application process Appropriately because it's quite an interesting thing. Everybody wants to become a cookathon. If you know Um He's a popular food blogger. He gave like he gave like five Different What's called for food lovers and food chefs and all of that he gave different five related This was just this is he said he just let me just speak five, but there are multiple Records to break that they should just leave hildas. Exactly That's clean with We jump on the wagon and then it's like a trend everybody wants to do cookathon Yeah, everybody wants to do because but you see the thing they keep missing out is that the reason it was like look at this girl now The reason we're just following up. It's because let it not look like we're being part Fresh partial The truth is that the hildas team did a great job in that pr right in making sure they pushed it and all of that What's the the pr team for this lady? And you could even tell for hilda that there was a lot of Work that went no it was a lot of work Everything even the cookware everything the kitchen the structure. Yeah, it was all built for that purpose. Yeah Hey, it is. Well, I wish dami all the best and I hope she applied properly You know so that the the the event will not go in vain and yeah A labor will not be lost. All right. So on that note we want to come back and discuss our President's speech and of course the recently signed student bills stay with us. We'll be right back