 A police of killing eight of its members during protests in Abuja. But the Nigerian police deny doing that. The plan's big for power generation. The Commissioner for Energy will be in the studio this morning to tell us all about the plans. And a foundation moves to get more girls in science and technology using boot camps. Glad to have you join us on the breakfast on plus to the Africa this very beautiful Wednesday morning. Thanks for joining us. I am Osau Ghee. And I am, and as a Felix, thank you very much for staying tuned to us on the breakfast on plus to the Africa. A very beautiful day today in the city of Lagos. But across the country, the top trending stories really don't give us a cost to be happy. Good morning to you Osau again. Good morning. Our first top trending story, the headlines say six dead orders injured as security forces opened fire on Shiite in Abuja. We know about the Shiites and their protests, usually their match that they usually come out. Once in a while to protest the release of their leader, it was exactly. Despite a court order for him to be released, he's still been held. But this time around, they didn't say the protest or match was for the release of their leader. They say it's an annual symbolic trek that they were observing in the city of Abuja when police officers fired open fire on them. And the days leading up to this particular annual match, security had been beefed up, you know, around the federal capital territory because of anticipation of violence or disruption or whatever the might occur. So I really don't know where they got this wrong for the police officers to eventually open fire leading to the loss of six lives. I mean, this occurred near Guarumpak gates in the capital. You know, they were singing songs, they were matching along the road. And this just happened. So people who spoke with the airport said, you know, the police just had a shoot in us. They shot six people dead and they carried some dead bodies away. And trust Nigerians to always string this together to say during the end-tasks protests, allegations of soldiers carrying bodies away during the raid on Ibu Ho's house. Allegations as well of law enforcement agencies carrying bodies away. And here now, we have no evidence to prove this, but that's what we have on record. And I witnessed telling Sahara reporters that six people were shot dead and the bodies of others were carried away. We really have no idea why that happened and why these raids in fact happened because, I mean, the last time I checked the constitution, we have freedom to assemble, you know. But we see this year and year out, week in, week out, month in, month out. So let's really see a clearer picture of what happened at Abuljah. We are finished. People were dispersing while the police and soldiers arrived. They started shooting tiagas, then later on the youth life ammunition on us, majorly female and children because most of the male have even left because they have already conducted the prayer for us to disperse. So this is what happens today. They just attack on innocent female and children. They have killed about eight people now. So many people have run into the bush, so many guns, gunshot injuries. All right. Just a short clip from the event yesterday or the incident yesterday in Abuljah. I was saying to myself yesterday that I personally don't think I am mentally or even emotionally ready to discuss this particular story and just really discuss how Nigeria breaks a person down and how Nigeria hurts because that's really how I can interpret this. Nigeria just really hurts and it's more reasons why you've seen thousands of people jetting out of the country to wherever it is that it takes them. It doesn't matter if they are going to Antarctica as long as they leave the country because the country currently really, really, really hurts. The reports of lives being lost to the reports of bodies being taken away to the fact that this was not even any way violent, it wasn't a protest or any way, it's a walk and the fact that I think it was someone who mentioned yesterday that the injustice that has been done to Ibrahim El-Zakzaki under no circumstance in the whole wide world will anyone look at that and just throw an ignore that it is the worst type of injustice that has been done to that particular person. And then Nigerian government and the Nigerian people just continue to look away. Yes, there's demands from Amnesty International, Sarah, and the rest but it has of course not had any effect. And of course we cannot see these things continue to happen because this is not the first time that we're seeing this. There's a more gruesome video that I actually saw and I shared it with the group of soldiers yesterday and what they were doing to these same shites and it makes you just start to, I mean it's a good point to just mention that when insurrections arise, nobody should act shocked or act surprised and say, oh where are these people coming from because this is not the first time that these shites have been killed in broad daylight. Multiple times, in fact it almost is on record that every time that the shites have a walk or a protest there is a loss of lives, it might be two, five, six, ten but every single time that there is a walk or a protest there is and to be honest and I think everyone should be honest with this that there's never been any time that has been on record that the shites went on a protest and were violent or they destroyed anybody or they cost a harm to anyone. It has always continued to be a repeat of the same thing where the police and the Nigerian army attacks them while they do their protest. There's a video I think I was still on radio back then where there were live videos of the army really just shooting live rounds at shites. Blank, I mean there was no provocation. They were really just walking, I think the video clips are still on YouTube where Nigerian army soldiers really just got on one knee and set it firing into a crowd of shites. So it's not the first time, it's happened many, many, many times and that is the Nigeria of today and that is a Nigeria that the Nigerian army has no respect no respect for the value of the Nigerian life. These are the people who are meant to protect Nigeria's integrity and Nigeria's territory and of course stand for a Nigerian but they are the ones instead that would kill without any fear or worry. And so I mean to be honest I'm just not there in a place where these things are easy to speak about because we're speaking about this today. Pretty much the same thing we did months ago and we will be talking about it in another couple of weeks or months when it happens again and I hate to be a part of a space that really just has these conversations and goes home to sleep and continue my life because it really, really hurts to see what Nigeria is today and there's no ignoring these things because if it doesn't affect you directly, it will affect you indirectly. Somehow, some way you will be affected by what Nigeria is today in 2021 and I made that statement when the policeman was killed in a Jawa state that Nigeria can happen to you at any time regardless of what space you are regardless of who you are, Nigeria can happen to you at any time. There are reports of unverified for now but I'm sure we'll make the news today of someone who was killed in the southeast. I don't want to call the name because it's still not verified but it's the husband of a very, very popular Nigerian who's also late who was reportedly also killed by a non-German in South East yesterday but when those reports are verified we'll talk about it. But well, good morning Nigeria. Six people dead in Abuja and when we just go further down into the northern part of the country, Buenos States, we hear stories of 20 more people who are mostly fishermen, also victims of Nigeria. What the news is saying is that an Air Force fighter jet fired into this crowd, this community in Buenos State and they basically killed these 20 people and like they would say, it's a glitch. We heard stories like this about two weeks ago also where in Buenos States an Air Force fighter jet also opened fire on a civilian community in Yobi killing some people. We saw the pictures on the front page of Daily Trust newspaper children badly injured, women and men as well and of course they denied this at first they will keep quiet but then later they will come up to say oh this happened, we'll investigate. Take us back to 2017, same thing happened in RAN still in this same bonus that we're talking about now in 2021 in 2017 an Air Force pilot dropped a bomb on a village in RAN killing dozens of civilians. The military apologised, promised a thorough investigation but they never made their findings public so we never really knew what happened in Buenos State 2017 what happened in Yobi a few weeks ago at least 12 people were killed and many others were wounded and just now we're getting news of this event that happened reportedly on Sunday, just a few days ago 20 people said to be killed on Sunday in Quatsa Daban Masara community in Buenos State How long more would we continue to hear stories about a technical glitch by the people who are supposed to be protecting us and firing bombs on us I really can't rationalise how this happens what sort of a mistake is it I didn't get training that's why people keep saying things like this has to be a deliberate attack by the army because we really want to question how people of such calibre I mean for you to get on a fighter jet you must have been thoroughly trained you must know your onion so how do you get on that plane with all the training necessary I don't know if it's a quality glitch I don't know if it glitches the right word to use and I think these things maybe happen when there is a mystic with the coordinates that are sent there's always reconnaissance there's people who are on ground I believe there's meant to be people who point out so who sent in the wrong coordinates because it's a mistake too many that's what would be the likely explanation for things like this and also to be fair about a month ago or less than a month ago the United States also had pretty much the same thing where they had fired a drone and on manned aircraft basically had fired what they thought was an ISIS camp or an ISIS member and so in their bid to diffuse that threat killed a man and seven of his kids who just had him driven back from work they had come to welcome him and the bomb exploded or the jet fired on manned aircraft fired and he was dead they had also initially denied it and said that it was actually a nice threat until investigations on ground by the Washington Post and a few others Do you really want to compare that U.S. situation to what happens in Nigeria really? Hold on they did investigations on ground and then the U.S. Army then owned up and said oh yes it was a mistake and they put out press statements speaking of compensations for his family his wife and other family members who didn't get affected but that's in the United States in Nigeria it happened in Iran like you mentioned in 2017 it happened two weeks ago it happened again on Sunday and that's where the difference is these things don't happen every four market days in a country that actually knows what it's doing and so once again Nigeria can happen to you at any time and it's embarrassing and how? and I said do we come here every morning and we're talking about 20 people dead 48 people were killed in Kaduna on Monday or Sunday or Monday 12 were killed two weeks ago in the same Nigerian Air Force was firing and now we're talking about another 20 if you remember not long ago there was also a story of a helicopter firing in the Niger Delta that also led to the loss of lives that to date has not been investigated there's still no explanation as to what happened there this really is just a very very clear picture of what the valley of the Nigerian life is to the Nigerian people and to the Nigerian government and that's exactly what it is because of the speed with which we move on from these things and I've accepted that we can wake up at once and hear 100 people died and we just move on like it's nothing it sounds like some Akara women's oil went bad that's how easy it is for Nigerians to move away from stories like this and nothing will happen the same with the Nigerian government itself has continued to and people would say murder its own citizens and really just move on like nothing happened there's no investigations, there's no sanctions there's no nothing, no checks and balances to be done to find out what happened and where it went wrong you would realize that in the coming days there would be no proper statement from the Nigerian Air Force to say this is where we got it wrong this is what happened and this is what we're doing to ensure it never happens again nothing we move on until we sit here again couple of weeks from now and report a similar story so Nigeria just really breaks your heart and I would say our condolences go to those families who have been affected in the Air Force, Miss Fire okay so we have another story moving away from security to politics right yeah so this is just a short video clip that we'll be sharing with you maybe on a lighter note and this is from River State where there was of course a meeting the chairman of the NDDC Gotsulakpabio was in River State for I'm not sure exactly what the program was but while they were there the governor of River State he had some wiki had a few things to say so let's play it for you and we'll be back there's no collaboration we have had with the NDC that they have completed one the mother and child in hospital we are supposed to have collaborated with the NDDC we brought our own part of the money NDDC didn't bring it down okay we found out it's our money that you are holding it was a walk thank god they know if they didn't pay what the problem would look like and they paid by that money now the headquarters where they are now Mr. Minister you are here you are in the NDDC you told me in government house that you are part of now the state government they are going to bring 2.5 billion the state government will bring 2.5 billion for the de-analyzation of the papers as I speak you have not got one now the road is only 35% if you don't pay I will make sure you use that road to your head because yes because I'm not there for our Christmas yes because you see I got the fact that you have built this one for police IG will not send police to support you that day because I'm going to be the one that will need to block that road because you must fulfill what you have promised hmm I've never said governor he has distinguished himself as the vocal governor almost like around Donald Trump in the sense that he would always bear his mind on issues and regarding the NDDC we know that he's always been calling them out whatever they do wrong whatever he feels this is not you know just doesn't go by the book he calls them out for it and I don't know people love him for it yeah and it's funny you know actually to see and maybe it's a good thing that we end up with that one because you know I watched it yesterday and I did have a good laugh at his you know the way he always expresses himself like you said you know he never holds his tongue on anything and so it's one of the things he's been known for and it's always very very interesting to see I like the part where he said you know it's a good thing that they refunded because you know they know what the problem would look like they didn't so it's funny you know and it's interesting and it also shows also that he knows exactly every every little tiny detail of what goes on in the state he knows about contracts he knows agreements he's you know on ground you know hands on he's not leaving some of these responsibilities for commissioners or house of assembly members or anything he gets involved with every single detail security infrastructure education all of it there's also a clip that we didn't get to play where he was you know in the gathering accusing the GOC in River State there of being involved in oil bunkering he said it to his face that he knows that he's you know involved in criminal activities of oil bunkering and he's a security threat to the state and you know he's maybe doing that for a reason of money to become Chief of Army staff at some point he said it to his face there's also a video clip that I married about a year ago where he was accusing a traditional ruler in River State there of being one of the troublemakers in the state it was very very funny but it shows that really he doesn't hold back his thoughts his views on anything you know and regardless of who you are how high and mighty you are he will tell you exactly what he thinks Do you think other politicians people would rather be politically correct and want to be more diplomatic more tactful regarding these things but we here would say no you're airing here and I'll call you off for it I think there's something that should be emulated so what's most important is to be aware first because a lot of people may not do it because they don't even know you know so what I am seeing here and the same thing with the Governor Yahya below there's also a clip where he was he went to see a hospital refurbishment and realized that it was below par and he called out the contractor who was right there I think was a Chinese contractor and told him that the work is written as zero so for me what's most important is the awareness of what exactly is going on in your state at every single level in every community that's what you as Governor should be yes you appoint people to handle you know MDAs here and there but doesn't mean that you should take your hands off you should know when their strict law is bad in every single corner you should know whoever it is let your security reports actually come to you and these things that you can verify so if he's accusing the GOC of being involved he has been properly briefed and he knows exactly what he's saying if he's accusing the traditional ruler of being a tout and you know being involved in the insecurity challenges in that region he knows what he's saying he's not just saying these things for humor and if he's accusing the NDDC of failing to play their own part you know when they had agreements with certain projects he knows exactly what he's saying and that's for me is the most important part not many Governors would have his humor or have his manner of expressing you know himself which a lot of people find interesting and funny but most importantly say what you want to say and most importantly rather be aware of what exactly is going on in your state and that's really what the answer is and I think that his personality that charisma really makes you know maybe humor that is not even deliberate it's just him it's just who he is and it makes people laugh but the point is he's driving home a message that somebody's failing to deliver on their job and definitely you should listen and take that seriously and sit up yes absolutely so yes kudos to him I mean that's the general view of Nigerians they say yes well done you are politically aware and you're not afraid to see what you think so yes that's across the papers on and off the press