 Nigerian sprinter blessing Okagwa roommates her lawyers as a study and decide the next line of action after athletic integrity union Disciplinary panel issued her a 10-year ban for doping Okagwa re says her first Instagram page that she will inform the public very soon Riversic governor yes o wiki lambasis cross river counterpart Ben Ayade and the police for attempting to prevent people's democratic party from holding its Raleigh for the Bojayela federal constituency and the akbab will stick constituency by elections in Kalbar this Saturday And as always we'll be looking at the national delis this beautiful Monday morning Very good morning to you. It's set up breakfast on plus TV Africa We're back for another week of interesting conversations right here. My name is Kofi Bartels And I am messy, but it's good to be back in your screen this Monday morning. Yes messy looking flawless as always I don't know what the secret is no secret. I cannot fail to notice a new hair. The new hair is oh come on Yes, thank you so much. I mean for a change follow the listing you have to pass through me It was quite an interesting weekend the politicians were politicking, you know those who were catching crews like a young people say we're catching crews and And we're we'll start things off with a look at the trending stories around the country One particular one that I'm you know got a lot of people upset really upset Happens to be the story of a 14-year-old young Nigerian girl Who was allegedly Extorted by airport officials. It's it's a story that for those who travel through the airports You may you may not be unfamiliar with it mercy, you know, but this this is a 14-year-old girl Well, her mom has been has been you know, she's used to keep quite a chef in moteda That's just a name we we got has accused the officials of the airport legos airport as a motor love Muhammad international airport of attempting to actually extorting Her daughter some amount of money a 14-year-old daughter who was traveling to canada traveling to canada But this lady went on to twitter to you know reveal this allegation, let's call it that And she's a canadian or canada based nigerian Alleging that nigerian immigration officials took all the money And and this is really worrying if it's true. She took all the money From her teenage daughter someone traveling from nigeria to canada to go meet her mother 14 years old and the mom says that the immigration officials are the motella Muhammad international airport in legos nigeria took all the money on her daughter You know, this is a minor 14 years old. Well, this is what she said on twitter. There's this quote her My 14 year old daughter is traveling by herself and she put 14 in caps caps lock Immigration took all her money before they let her go. They took money from a 14 year old Girl didn't even leave her with one cobble. She says or 1000 naira so she can buy food while she waits How wicked found officials he puts that in in a hashtag I'm so angry a child. She says why are you stealing money from a child and you took all of it And didn't let her call her mother This is this is really sad is all the mom said of course we would need to get some response from the The airport authorities see if that is out already. You know, we'll get it to you But um mercy, this is um is a really sad one, you know For those who like I said earlier travel through the international airport in legos here to go outside the country They may not be unfamiliar with such experiences No, so so this is what it is I mean a lot of people are quite shocked and some persons actually are still in doubt of that situation because usually the airlines Should take responsibility or take responsibility for minors. They accompany them through the entire process So it's really really had Breaking I mean you also know that you have to establish all of the facts But not to say that there's no possibility that this probably would have happened Because like some people will say this is Nigeria I think it was it was far as who said that so You know where far say this is Nigeria a lot of people say, oh, this is Nigeria anything can happen because um I'm not sure if you um saw that video of foreigner apparently Skin was actually white. He came into Nigeria and he was waving the flag Italy. He no wasn't waving the flag He was talking badly about you know all of the experiences how he has to pay at every checkpoint and now He has to get extorted and all of that So originally we talked about that on this platform. I remember how I felt I felt very pain because I felt like I mean you can't come and talk about my country like that That's me being very patriotic, but to be very honest these things do happen but like I mentioned I'm hoping that an investigation would actually put out to all of this because That's a minor And we should be out there looking out for these minors and children because up until the age of 18 They're still kids And we should be looking out for them and the airlines should usually airlines actually take care of these minors They accompany them on through the entire process. So I'm I'm I'm really saddened and uh, it's really sad to hear that But you also need to establish, you know, the fact of truth and if you look at Previous experience over time You want to might just want to agree because of one or two experiences that have happened with our airports And so there's also an element. I mean likely an element of truth with all of that because This is Nigeria and we know how things have been done over time There's a lot there the mother of this 14 year old girl. I feel pained on her behalf. Yes. Yes. Yes It is I mean a mother for mother to go I mean, how is she supposed to to make her way home from the airport in Canada? How is she supposed to take her of herself, you know through The other airport is a transit for instance where she needs to buy food at some duty-free store How is she going to survive? It is this and halfway around the world to come to North America You know, but I'm the mom didn't just say these things She she went on to to lay curses on on the airport officials and And you know for a lot of people The reaction would be well, this is what we've been facing. Thank God someone has gone through it to Put it out, you know on social media so that it gets Such attention But this is what we face every day I mean Some people have called up some police officers actually criminals I'm robbers because people are started on the road every day The only reason that a policeman or a corrupt let me not say because some of them are not corrupt Corrupt police officer Extort money from you and still take money from you. It's because he has a gun and he has a uniform So that's robbery. It's daylight robbery. So when someone robs from you with a gun, what is that mercy? When someone robs you with a gun, what's that robbery? No with a gun I'm the Robert. I'm dropping to some of our police officers, you know, I engage in an armed robbery Really, that's what it is. It's I'm right because you hold a gun you have a uniform and so give me money And someone has to give them an out of fear Out of fear. So that's that's so what is the difference between you and the robber, you know I keep going back to the code of conduct of public officers enshrined in black and white In the constitution of the federal republic of nigeria 1999 as a man and this code of conduct is there I know other agencies come up with their personal or individual code of codes of conduct But this one is there and uh, like we mentioned, you know, even with a 13 billion narrow case and other cases that have have been revealed so far And that that these this code is consistently flouted by people in government and it's not been enforced You know the code of conduct bureau has become a tool for political, um, witch hunt It it would seem it would seem, you know, and um, the if the code of conduct bureau was on its game, all right I mean we look at look at the head of the code of conduct bureau who has been having questions to answer for a long time Only recently we heard that, um, you know Some some official statements were made regarding that to the effect that he would have to unsign and also leave Okay But but but if you look at the fact that the code of conduct is not even busy every single day It simply means that i'm still doing his job and a lot of federal agencies are not doing their job I mean on saturday, um, I had all complaints at home on saturday complaints at home that um the palm oil that Was was bought from the market in the house Was was tasting awful and spoiled the entire food that was cooked at home You understand for me to enjoy, you know, I like I like my soup. I like my soup and my swallow You know, and um, and uh So this is let's get to any person now. I asked for on bono soup on saturday I wanted to really enjoy my bono soup and okra. I like I like it slimy, you know, I'm saying Yeah, I can't get good at funk here. So You know, so I said I said why why snap that not going into the markets in in Lagos? Because you have a lot of unadulterated Adulterated rather palm oil So the point I'm making just in nutshell is that a lot of federal federal agencies Governments are sleeping really sleeping and people are using these as their personal 18 That's what they do now. So it brings us back to the conversation. I mean, you remember the time where we had uh, christine uh When we talked about the fact that we have collectively destroyed the country and whatever roth that we're faced with right now It's not just dependent on one person and I will say we're just a reflection of who we are The leaders that we have is just a reflection of who we are. If you show you have corrupt leaders, you have a corrupt society and so I feel like too many conversations I see some people put out tweets and posts and all of that and then they make comments about the president Not to make an excuse for the excesses that's going on With the current administration whether the president or governor of a particular state But let's be very realistic We are governed in parts and beats and pieces and you cannot take that out So at the end of the day, so you have a combination of we are nation because you have different families making society And from there we're making a community and all of that we become a nation And so if at the different sphere of control and what we have Influenced we're not doing what is right. We're not doing the right thing in the words of co-bombs Then we'll do what do you expect? So it's the people. So it's the people we have always been the problem You can't blame this on president mohammed abu harry. You can't blame this on the governor of a particular state For instance, legal state. It's not on You know the legal state government. So you have so we all have A share in all of this the fact that we have decided to be corrupt people if that Report is anything to go by which I would think that a mother of a 14 We're not definitely want to just become a superstar on twitter or any other platform Just because she wants to become a superstar But it probably would have actually been something that's very hard for for her to put out But however, we're hoping that the relevant authorities would investigate this and Those behind all of this would be brought to quite unfortunate because we believe that the airlines are supposed to Protect these minors from start to finish So it's a general conversation Also, we talk about the people the people the people mercy here the people But the thing is this government is even enabling these things. I mean you have Government government is meant to to make sure society works. The people are the victims really People are the victims that girl is part of the people the mother is part of people See when president mohammed abu harry came into power I I personally i'm not saying these guys people say this personally the guys on the streets of protakot The points I knew where they were collecting money every day Making returns to the cp of the state and I I said until it stops The ijp is part of it until it stops even it continues it means it's part of it They get money from the streets and send it all the way to the top everywhere in protakot now When bohari came to power The first week First week I had I had I had to drive around My usual activities and the points where I note police in river state have turned into an 18-year point where they Mint money from the people. All right. They were not collecting money. It was all so what change? Yes, sir Because we were we're not sure they were all the corrupt people in government We're afraid they thought that bohari will come and clean the system He came and run on the campaign of zero tolerance for corruption But after one week after one week they just saw was business as usual That this president was not who they thought he would be and it is sad because Nigerians know that bohari from the 80s Run what you call kick out or what against the discipline rather All right, why against the discipline with the diagmo? I I had opportunity mercy just a quick one because this message has to go to him I had an opportunity To travel out of country in that period mercy I can tell you that when I came back the usual guys who would stop me on the in the airport The immigration guys and all those guys were in their ID cards who have nothing to do there Were on their best behavior. I know someone said that's on on their best behavior But of course after a week or so they realized that it was business as usual and it's become worse Right now it's worse than it was under the pdp So it's worse. So the president has disappointed I'm sorry, uh, but I totally understand the points where you're coming from and uh, the fact that yes You have a president who's controlling the country But I you know to some extent we're governed in Like I said in beats and pieces and so you have a federal system whether or not the federal system is functional Is another conversation for another day bohari where you have state government You have local government and then you have the federal government No, no that's that's weak and that's it's on the premise that the president came That's the reason But see this is what I'm saying We have succeeded But would you no no, but let's be very realistic as much as we want to blame the president for everything We can't blame the president for everything So we have governors who are in charge of state. We have, you know, apparatus. We have things that what we think So we have an agency where you have government who's supposed to be look at last time Customs and the fund fund were fighting They were fighting each other over who has access to see cc It's it's been a fair as far as corruption in in in this country's concern The hopes that Nigerians had for bohari and even these guys who were locking up mercy. It's it's a total fiasco It's worse now. Yeah, it's free for all. Can't you see the headlines in the papers? And I'm just saying that, you know, as much as we want to blame the president for all of this It's a collective contribution. We have succeeded in building Structures that are not very strong. And so you seem to have In the 1980s when you had war against That's what it is because today People would do what they want to do Can I please No, that's fine. So recently I'm sure you saw that video at a petrol station where Kate Tentra was in a fiasco with someone who actually These are the little things that we're talking about. You go to a bank. Why don't you follow the queue? What's wrong? I'm just saying that all of these things contribute But you cannot blame the president Who we are knowing who the people can be and how the bill can be Yeah, you have you have you have these things all over the world But what happens? I tell you what that person, okay? Who is jumping the queue in Nigeria who is driving against traffic one way? When they they leave the border cross into another country, Ben Republic Ben Republic, yeah, I'll be very obedient. Really. They just see the gendarmes and then they see how things are They have a border Ben Republic have a Checkpoint a ketogate and they'll be obedient. They will do everything because they know that the gendarmes not will not Will do and they go on them So why why is it that when people leave this country including our politicians the queue? Do you want me to answer that the queue they do everything yet? Tell me why So the reason is that we have A system that is working wait wait wait wait wait. Why is because we have weak institutions and we have strong men And that's it. And that's why somebody will go to a queue of a bad. Who is going to strengthen the institutions? No, but we have to who is going to strengthen the institution collectively. It has to be you So for instance, you I I mean for instance if we have we have to move on I mean for we have to move on But I'm just saying for instance if I am calling the affairs, I mean you woke up to a counter Should you jump? He doesn't matter who you are. You should follow the queue. That's what we're saying You don't need the president to tell you that we're here We're moving together So, um, if you say we are the ones to change it. I agree. Well, people will not change So what happens they they vote people into in the power who they think and make things better You understand and when these people get in the power things don't get better than it's on them But anyway, uh, in South Africa, it's been going down You know anytime we hear stories coming from South Africa, we always will them Be afraid because of the history of mob violence and xenophobic attacks on people from other parts of the continent of Africa, including Nigeria Well, this one is coming from the Nigerian union in South Africa. There's a union of Nigerians who live in that country Announcing the death of another Nigerian in that country, which is really unfortunate Following a vicious attack on him in his shop pictures. You've seen our pictures of previous xenophobic attacks Well, the Nigerian union in South Africa president. He is a colleagues in war Announced the death of miss nicolas john in a statement issued from South Africa on thursday The deceased is said to be an indigent of ogham state and was Attacked by a mob in his shop in kimberley kimberley Is in South Africa's northern cape and we told this attack came on february 12 So this is really sad if you go back in history record show at least 128 Nigerian sub in kiel in South Africa Since 2019 mercy and on the 12th of december as as recently as that A lucia la solari was killed by hoodlums who attacked him and collected his money Unfortunately, it's really sad But this man who is the latest victim of these attacks was married to a South African woman Who has was delivered of a baby barely three months? A go really sad one really sad one According to The Nigerian union in South Africa the president of that union The death of john on february 15 He disclosed that on february 11 The Nigerian was attacked by a South African gang for allegedly buying a stolen laptop So this is what the nusa president is saying is the is reason for this attack He was bitten alongside his friends who they believe were accomplices in buying That stolen laptop while the South African criminal who stole the laptop and sold it to john was left unharmed This is really sad And it's another you know evidence of man's man's inhumanity to man Really sad one. Well, you've actually said that and It's a serious issue as much as we constantly talk about the issue police brutality Which is also a global issue and then you find that that you know man's man's inhumanity This has been ongoing for a very long time Unfortunately, you want to begin to look at the efforts of the Nigerian government in ensuring that this doesn't happen Is there anything that can be done within the spaceport? We still he gets us back to talking about the issue of Strengthening our institution even in Africa and so even in South Africa you have all of these killings going on Where there's a mop attack on a particular person killing is killing mother's mother So the laws should actually not be discriminatory these persons behind all of this should be brought to book And so So it goes on it's it's more like it's becoming a very global issue the issue of humanity The issue of respect of human right and tolerance and all of that So we constantly I think we need to you know be strong and great on preaching all of this message of respecting human right Being tolerant and all of that and the laws because i'm sure that in South Africa You have you have laws governing all of this there's a government there's a system And so the system should not be discriminated the system should be very effective in you know In order to ensure that those who are committing all of this crime If the government is not in support and behind all of this then this person should be arrested There should be perpetuated I mean, there should be made to face the wrath of the law whether or not you're from Nigeria You're from you know, Afghanistan, wherever it is that you're from if you kill someone I'm sure that the law should be brought out to you. There are penalties. There are issues that can be taken care of So yes, that's on the one side We need the South African government to be on top of a game Strengthen her institution as much as we're saying we also need to strengthen as but You come back to Nigeria. What can the government do to protect our citizens outside of Nigeria when you have our citizens in Nigeria? Oh, no, I know you guys are not going to allow Abike Dabri rest Minister of Foreign Affairs even though, you know people Sometimes it comes like that But she usually gets messy the The the public attention when anything happens. She's not a minister of foreign affairs You know, but but she put herself in this position to be sort of responsible for You know, whatever happens to Nigerians abroad and messy if we must be honest, South Africa has its own internal security challenges You know, and sometimes you hear these things you would wonder Okay, is this just one of those those those things that happen in South Africa? I mean their own their own celebrities are being killed by criminals in that country Um, you know, you can go down back to the story of Lucky Dubey and how he was killed I mean on on on Thursday a prominent Nigerian former footballer celebrity Pastor at that Peter side Who is a former Nigerian goalkeeper? and a personal friend had to put up a testimony on on facebook that An attempted car theft his car Unfortunately for the robbers of that his car. There were two of his daughters in the vehicle and they sort of like Chased the the thief away, you know But but it's clear from the reports that there was a South African involved the person who stole the laptop. He wasn't he wasn't Harmed or killed, you know, not that we want to see anyone being When being killed, but if that that preference was given then it means that Of course the nationality of a The disease may have been taken into account in deciding how far to go, you know, so hopefully Um, we get we get some action from the Nigerian government and South African government as well to get to the bottom of this Um, there's another one. Let's go to um, our shown state. Uh, and of course, it's been going down We've given um, uh, quite a number of minutes or hours of a conversation on the breakfast through the apc Uh, governorship primaries or primaries basically in that state that held on Saturday No love lost between uh, Raul Farag Beshella former governor and um, his successor and he's a former chief of staff boy, Gaoya tola Areg Beshella was trending on twitter on saturday. Um trying to write the name that he gave him is baba something I can't remember what they gave him, but um, uh or yetola flawed a deity um, um who is specific to be the preferred candidate of um, uh, reg beshella and he did a lot to To um campaign against uh, yetola, you know, so this is a result Let's see what happens at the end of the day if there'll be any defections or whatever But that's so much you can take on the trending segment right here on the breakfast