 Welcome back to the breakfast and plus TV Africa time to check out the big stories on our national dailies this morning And as usual we have a guest and standby who will be making sense of all of the stories on the front pages of a national dailies I'd like to start off with the daily trust newspaper this morning Looking at the front page of the daily trust Hashtag and says one year after no evidence of lecky massacre That's the boat story on the front page of the daily trust newspaper this morning. There are several riders CNN amnesty should tend to apology. That's what the federal government is saying PDP kicks as please dispense Demonstrators in Abuja and Lagos That's also another one moving away from that story declare bandits as terrorists Erufai tells Buhari and Niger Turkey signs eight packed on energy defense mining and orders Just before we move away after dealing Dilly Dalling notorious bandits releases 30 skull abductees That's also on the daily thrust newspaper this morning. That's the much we can take on the daily trust newspaper The leadership newspapers it says here big one federal government budgets 2,178 naira for each citizens health care in one year 20 years after health budget falls short of 15 percent of budget declaration Sector got 4.5 percent 4.75 percent in 2019 3.83 percent in 2020 and 4.18 percent in 2021 experts identify corruption lack of accountability as major pitfalls in the sector Bandits kidnapped 30 passengers in Niger and Also, the Nigeria Turkey signed packs on energy defense and industry Protesters defy police mark and saw as anniversary It says 888 killed 2,553 kidnapped in Kaduna in nine months Also on the leadership thinker can squeeze in one more this morning It says a DPR PPP our APF federal government dollars workers fear of job losses All right, let's check out the punch newspaper this morning looking at the front page of the punch newspaper hashtag answers panel compensation Legos pays 420 million naira NBA falls a quai bomb or goon or your Benway for shunning payments That's boldly written on the punch newspaper this morning We will submit report to neck abuja to pay victims says or your Please disrupt rallies disperse protesters journalists arrested Insurance firm puts claim at 20 billion naira and probes delay payment That's also another head of the you find on the punch newspaper I see looking at the front page of the punch You also have bandits allegedly kidnapped over 30 travelers and steel cows in Niger Power producers lose 1.66 trillion naira over non-payments for unused power power producers lose 1.66 trillion naira over non-payments for unused power That's on page 33 of the punch newspaper Terrorists who try to overthrow me where in Nigeria you find the the Turkish president Quoted on that that's on page nine and Just before we move away from the punch newspaper and lists 774,000 youths from 74 local government against bandits L. Rufai tells federal government and that's also on page Nine of the punch newspaper. I think that's so much we can take on the punch this morning or now to the Guardian Arrest police brutality headline and SARS Memorial in Lagos, Anabuja It says over 20 police stations burnt by hoodlums used to be refurbished Federal government claims lekkie killings false phantom or phantom massacre rather US advises Protesters to engage leaders politically and it says no justice for victims of police brutality one year after that is from Amnesty International Also who rewired acts national assembly to set up protection board for protesters Also on the Guardian anxiety in defunct oil agencies as new heads take charge PDP governors meet to resolve threats to convention consensus arraignment We can also find EFCC a reigns or legion for alleged 69 billion Naira fraud Turkey cool plotters still active in Nigeria Edogan warns Buhari Declare bandits as terrorists a Rufai urges federal government security experts erred Buhari to take Fito alert seriously and we can also see Nigeria Turkey trade volume to expand by five billion dollars Those are the big ones on the Guardian this morning. It's time. I talk. Good morning. Thanks for joining us Good morning and nice to be with you as always Yeah all right, I think we can basically just get started with the end SARS Memorial and You know the events from yesterday I Wish I could write a book titled and says as metaphor you know because It seems the federal government does not really understand what Nsars is all about Nsars is young Nigerians wishing they had a country Nsars is a demand for Citizenship rights to be protected Nsars is a metaphor is not a group of Recalcitrant young people coming around and causing havoc So long as you see it within that very myopic prison You Seeking a country hoping that Nigeria and Niger could be merged because government controls Nigeria with all their resources Whereas they have to take you of themselves and provide everything in the Niger country and nobody would not want to Also have what belongs to them and so long as we do not get that right We'll start to continue to be car and complain and whine about the young people and then there were no people killed CNN should tender apology. No, there were 95 people killed and we failed to catch the spirit of Nsars So my appeal this morning is that government should take a step back and ask themselves exactly what is Nsars That's what I like to start from Okay, let's look at the leadership newspaper this morning 20 years after the health budget fails short of 15 percent a budget declaration That's it. Let's show you the whole thing that and the fact that federal government budgets 2178 Naira for each citizens health care in a year. That's that's what it is Thanks for bringing that up because that's actually the figure that I wanted to bring out when the budget that for health care per citizen, please go and find out what the budget for defense and Ask me what they understand as national security These are people living in the past. I keep saying this There is no defense that is stronger than the defense of the generality of the people so all these people are contractors in Their own understanding of defense is buying hardware for the army buying this buying that buying this buying that it's contract They're not doing it because they care about Giving us defense. No, they don't care. They couldn't kill us because they are defended I ask you why should as low as a commissioner Be guarded by sometimes as many as three four policemen There was something that somebody said and I agree with the person There should be a law that you cannot be in government Continuously for more than 12 years Even if you must come back take a break of at least two years and come to this world These people are being in government all their life. They've been protected. They've been provided for so they don't really Understand the alternate world. They don't understand the world that you and I live in So all they do by way of their policies is how to protect their empire And as far as they are concerned, they are the conquerors and we are the citizens. It's like Emirates That's what it is. So our governance is not democracy. We're not partners with them That is why they can vote as little in a pandemic because we are still in the pandemic which means that if there was no Pandemic they probably would have brought it down to 1,000 Naira per citizen So what are the proactive rules that they are doing and even in this pandemic? Have you who is going about telling apart from the general wear your mask? Wash your hands, you know, those things that you know, the global body says May I know the body that is going around telling Nigerians what they can do to boost their immune system Outside of go take the job Where is that commitment with that sincerity of purpose with that engagement with the citizens that you can see that? enlightenment I'm going to be married to whether I should I'm happy with that I'm privileged to be married to a medical doctor and She is so involved in health literacy and she seems to be one person that just stands out in Nigeria Handling health literacy and even when she tries to engage government. They're like, you know, so how much and she's like no It's not about buying anything. It's about enlightenment because knowledge is power The first thing in medicine is knowledge is awareness There are many sicknesses diseases that you can do jettison or avoid just by having knowledge The day they tell you about hand washing and they sit down to engage you My wife engaged me on hand washing and my life changed. I'm like wow Just that habit of hand washing and then communication in medical Vocabularies you discover that you go to a hospital the doctor is not interested in telling you what they are doing The writing didn't seem in handwriting that you cannot understand They are using grammar that do not communicate and she's like we need to change the narratives engage the people Where is government effort in health literacy? Just health literacy. So our government are not really interested in our welfare They are just using us as a bait to do more and more contract unless something has a Contract value that they cannot word they they're not interested or it has this a defense that people can see I bought this I bought that I built this I this I that We don't understand what governance is all about governance about service to the people and you should rate yourself by how much the people are satisfied with your service Absolutely, and of course in all the angles to this would really be to look at how much of our budget release going into security going into infrastructure going into health care and Also education, you know, which is a very huge part of the conversation as to where Nigeria will be in the next You know 20 years with the level of education that Maybe you brought that in and I and you know We live in a house where we are like one mini government on our own as my wife is taking health care For me is education. Anybody who knows my life knows that I am where I am today because of just one word education That's all my birthday. Like I said off camera on the 1st of November All we're doing is a colloquium on education and the whole world is coming into a quibble We're talking about a large quank or so that is called a Mr. Education people like moral and them just just name it all of them You know, they are coming into a quibble and it is between oil and education Be, you know, so that that that that attention to education that Understanding that mindset that the future is education is just not there You can't see it if you want to understand a country look in the budget When you look in the budget of the country, you can tell, you know, first time the priorities the mindset of the people and Look at our own budget and you will see where we stand. Yeah Before we move on just also mentioned that there is also, you know, a part of the conversation that should include the difference between what is budgeted and budgeted and what is actually released The budget implementation at the end of the year is something that we don't get to speak about enough To know how successful the previous budget I did I did that of a quibble and it was it was in fact It was like somebody doing a coup against the government because the Auditor General's report for the previous year I took it out for the first time and I Spread it as if tomorrow will not come and the results were were bloody. It was was terrible I think that we should serve and This other body Budget should do a lot more enlightenment. They are on budget implementation as a post-budget analysis Releases they are setting places that you have almost 100% release where their contract and things like that But when it comes to welfare and the citizens they release is They are hard to come back. All right. I'll show you thoughts on the state of the story and the leadership Bottom left of the leadership is in Kaduna. I'd say it's 888 killed 2553 kidnapped in Kaduna in nine months You know, I Elrify is is an enigma of some sort many times I find it difficult to know where to place him and how but Hate him or like him That guy has a capacity to say things the way they are many things. I don't understand how we just turns a blind eye I think that's what makes me a human being because we all do have a dark side or blind sight but 888 a very very very kind of graphic figure and I think it's almost intentional and deliberate by by Divinity 888 killed in nine months in nine months and That man is saying federal government. Please declare these people as terrorists He has a reason for that and I've tried to say that in this place before today They are what you call rules of engagement by by which is global And when you leave office, you can be brought back and try it for things like genocide and things like that So unless people are declared terrorists, there is a certain might you cannot you cannot You know bring to bear on them and Elrify knows that and many of us know that and we tell the federal government if you could declare Ipob a Terrorist organization. Why is it so difficult for you to these guys look at the figure? They have been killed. I don't even want to talk about that one of kidnapping The figure they've killed in less than one year in one state That means my time you get to the end of the year they would have killed me know 1000 in one state in one year and those people are moving the street And sometimes you are romancing them as much we bring them amnesty should we do this we do that about them, please Let somebody just tell me how I pop is more dangerous to national security Security than this terrorist that are called bandits. So I want to agree with them Error fight this morning. I want to take sides with him that these people should be considered Terrorists so that I took a new jet that we brought so much money and spend so much to get How can it to kind of just cannot engage a civil society? All you need is like look if you're not different leave this place Because we are going to level it them was the casualties they will be casualties on because they are casualties on a daily basis 888 in one in one state. What are they? And they're not casualties. Hey, you may kill sir. I need no same person 888 in one in less than one year. I did not innocent people We've got to sit up and get very hard decision a Man has had an accident The hand is bleeding and they say cut off this hand Even also this person will bleed to death cut off the hand so they can stop the bleeding You say all the other fingers are still moving if you cut off the hand You will lose the fingers are still missing and you're going to be nursing that finger until that whole body dies It's sad is unfortunate. We don't pray for it When you go to war people are killed. They are what you call unintended consequences. I think we need to Take a hard question answer Position so that we can sleep with our two eyes in this country All right, let's also share your thoughts on this headline on the punch newspaper It talks about the end says panel compensation Legos to pay 420 million era and the NBA falls aqua boom or your and Ogun state and burn way for shunning payments. I Feel very sad in that. I don't know why my state aqua boom should be on that list. I feel very sad in I Don't know whether it's an oversight or there's something that's not because I don't think my governor would do that I don't think he would he would do that I don't see him as such a person who would say he couldn't careless they could go to hell and because that's just the attitude I don't know about other states, but I would like to believe that that of aqua boom There's an oversight somewhere there because no sane governor Should see what's going on should know that those panels were set up with a good intention of Addressing at least a part of the demands of of The young people and also letting this gun-tutting, you know Trigger happy please men know that they could be there could be consequences Okay, so we talk of the carrot and the stick on one hand those that were affected We said Recommend compensation for them. No, it's really adequate, but just as a symbol as a gesture and those that were culpable Put them where they belong And why a state government would say we don't care we can't do it recommend compensation It it it it falls on the wrong side of me and like I say I would say it again I Is not my place to come to a national television to cast to get my state So I would rather think that there's an oversight or a misreport somewhere because I don't think that my governor would Would be that insensitive to to Jettison such such a noble gesture Okay, well on the punch One of the stories there and of course that this is interesting because in the southeast there's Also meant to be a seat at home today because of the trial of Namdi Kanan So you can see it at the bottom right of the punch that says lawyers demand candles presents as trial resumes today Say I talk this is you know going to be another opportunity for the Nigerian government to once again You know bring Namdi Kanan to court and you know come to resume his trial They failed the last time to present him in court. What do you think will play out today and how important is it? It depends on what they want to achieve If they want to achieve mischief and let there be some more understanding and trouble in in the southeast knowing that Anambra election is just next door They will try to play game But if they care about the southeast They care about the people whether it's southeast or south-south or not east or north-west or north-central or southwest What they would do is to balance out between Satisfying the people on one hand and maintaining a level of peace and security on the other hand and asset today They should have the necessary Intel These people work when they want to work There's a story that a former governor friend of mine told me that he said Ezekiel Something happened. I left where I was and I went somewhere and in the night I to use the back door and took off and went somewhere and by the time I came back to my state The director SSS called me and told me exactly where I went told me exactly what happened And he said as a governor said he was he couldn't believe he was shot What does that mean when these people want to work? They know how to work Once they want an intel on something that is of interest to them They know what to do and how to get about it So you can balance out between the needs expectation desires of the people and National security in quotes by doing what you can have this trial Open you can change the venue. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know if I'm changing venue You know makes any difference so that you invite the people Those are should be invited a lot of the media and they are covering it and if possible even transmitted life So that people can see what is going on All this question of national security national security national security is becoming another metaphor Maybe we're not having a country of metaphors where you say one thing and yet it means another thing altogether National security could mean that we really don't have anything to say But you see we cannot expose ourselves and embarrass ourselves by coming to say what we know We don't have to say so let us just keep going and them, you know Pretending that we are you know, it's like speaking loud and saying nothing So I think that they should please for whatever it's worth for the sake of peace in the southeast They should take Namdi Kano to where people can see him have a free fair trial openly and Then we will not be able to say you wanted to see Namdi Kano. You've seen it You wanted to see the trial. You've seen it. It's transparent. So let's cool down We'll be able to do that But if if they refuse to present him now a child is crying and I'm gonna tell the child don't cry Don't cry. Don't cry. I'm probably they are beating the child. I'm letting them beat the child He's not talking to the person beating the child. I'll be telling the child. Don't cry and they say Why haven't you told the child not to cry? I'm an associate southeasterner You know by association and I feel their pain I understand what they are going through and I expect the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Who is the father of the whole nation to feel what they are feeling and do the need for as Nigerians would say that's an appellance Carry them along and do the needful. What do you do those two things? Nigerians are okay with you Okay, maybe the next one minute Let's see for how we can show your thoughts on the issue of bandits on the punch newspaper It says bandits allegedly kidnapped over 30 travelers and steel cows in Niger What do you think of this current security concern especially on our roads? Yeah, I think you can also add to that. I'm sorry. I'm saying I talk you can also add to that The story also on the punch if you see look at the top corner of the punch It says the terrorists who tried to overthrow me are in Nigeria. That is from the Turkish president You see let me that of that of bandits and what they do I mean, it's a story that I don't even know what I'll say that Nigerians don't even know better Even put it better, but let me come to this of this then Turkish president When a president comes and makes such an open statement in your country It's not that he's in the comfort of his home and saying and you like you look yet We are renting absolute nonsense when he comes to your country to say that I Think you should take it absolutely serious And then go into cooperation with him. It's a better thing for you to take You know the way it is than to want to explain a way. There's nothing to explain a way I think that the Nigerian government should actually listen to this president ask some hard questions seek some Corporations and root out all these people that are starting to find Nigeria to be conducive Because that's that's that's the message we're sending out to to all these terrorist organizations Why would they want to leave, you know? Where is it Turkey and come to Nigeria? Even though that they find that the area that is like an investor You go to an area where the investment climate is conducive. It's a simple So I think that our government should feel embarrassed enough to call this man and have real serious heart to heart talk and take them serious except of course They know something that we do not know or they have an interest We do not know outside of that if their interest is the security of the country They should take that man serious and do something about it. There's nothing more to say than that And probably as my parting words today is the birthday of my very good friend large one so so I mean cannot to celebrate with him as he Commission's many projects including the sanatorium and I think those who leave this seat of power should use whatever authority they had or they have To continue to better the society build schools build sanatoriums build industries Stop taking our money outside the country invest in the country And if people will copy that we will be the better for it All right, happy birthday to him. Thank you very much. Um, as you can talk as always for joining us and I wish you're interested in their head Thank you. Have a lovely day. Thank you too All right, stay with us. That's off the press We'll be back right after the short break and of course coming up next Of today in history and share with you something that happened on this day many years ago