 And welcome back to the breakfast on plus TV Africa beautiful Monday morning on this day in history I'm going back to the year 2012 to tell you about the day that 31-year-old state of emergency was finally lifted in Egypt It is the longest I've heard of on if there's any state of emergency that has been that long Do you think when it sounds like that here? Yeah, we do absolutely Yes, we do You know, but you know, the you know the fear really is you know, it's not just you know Declaring a state of emergency is actually being into a night You know and follow you know through a set of emergency because I remember you know during the end times protests The government said everyone should sit at home, you know, and you know There was a curfew but didn't provide security for the state while there was a curfew And so that's why there was all that chaos and people took advantage of the lack of security Yes, and you know destroy the whole you know most of Lagos state So we can you know do that, but can we actually pull through with it? That's that's the question But let's go to Egypt on this day in 2012 This the emergency was emergency law was finally lifted. It was first enacted in Egypt in 1958 as law number 162 of 1958 a state of emergency was declared in 1967 during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war which lasted until 1980 after a break of 18 months the state of emergency was Reimposed following the assassination of President Anwar Sadat in 1981 and was repeatedly extended every three years The continuous states of emergency was one of the grievances of demonstrators that gave rise to the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 if you remember what you know was popularly called the Arab Spring after Hosni Mubarak resigned the emergency law expired on the 31st of May in 2012 and with it the state of emergency Two weeks also before the second round of voting if in Egypt's 2012 presidential election The military governments impose the de facto martial law also in 2012 extending the arrest powers of security forces and all of that but you know it basically was a Three-year state of emergency that continued to be extended and extended and extended until this day in 2012 when of course Hosni Mubarak resigned and you know that became suspended For me, you know, I don't think I've heard of any state of emergency that it has you know lasted that long In May 2008 there was an extension to June 2010 And of course, you know, like I said was one of the key demands during the Arab Spring in 2011 You know, which was eventually approved in 2012 You know, like you mentioned since 1981 yeah, wow, and you know the assassination assassination of President Anwar Sadat You know this state of emergency really give the police Unprecedented power to make a rest detain suspects. You know try them in in special courts You know, this costs so many demonstrations people were very opposed to this to didn't like what the you know What the police were doing to the people because of just how much powers they wielded because of that state of emergency So it was really jubilation in the country 2012, you know, all the major news news outlets covered it people were celebrating in the streets and Join the fact that at the end of the day after About three decades and more the state of emergency, you know had come to an end. So yes, you know and The the Arab Spring or let me let me just you know add to some of the things that you said, you know The effects of the state of emergency for 31 years It basically meant that security forces were allowed to arrest, you know without, you know warrant without any, you know, necessary cause Random people any person that they felt was a threat or felt like was going to be a threat, you know was arrested And so they took advantage of all of that and you know when when the Arabs who started, you know in 2011 And you know when Egypt and those new Mubarak eventually was you know moved out of government It was a sigh of relief for the Egyptian people But I'm gonna relate that with Nigeria and show you that we're not in the state of emergency yet But Nigeria security forces Have and if you follow the events in the southeast in the last couple of days have you know carried out what is pretty similar to what was Happening in Egypt and that is arresting people For no actual reasons without any actual warrants for the arrest without, you know Solid reasons why they have been arrested and just picking up people randomly and all of that. So but that's like a norm 1961 South Africa the Union of South Africa became a Republic in the same history may the 31st 1961 We know that you know about how South Africa was under the rule of the British Empire You know, but the national ruling party of South Africa was greatly opposed to the monarchy and you know referring to Quinn Elizabeth as you know, the the crown, you know, so they basically signed in Voted in a referendum the previous year in the year 1960 majority whites, you know, took picked took part in that referendum We know that 52.29% of the voters were you know Approved a referendum saying that they wanted South Africa to become a republic So this referendum led to the end of you know, the monarchy the British hold and rule in South Africa and Chow Swat was elected by Parliament as the first state president of the South African Republic You know a references to the crown replaced by You know the state's oath of allegiance was no longer to the Queen But to the states the Republic of South Africa, you know, South Africa has a very rich and long history starting from that What would you call it that boot wreck on Table Mountain when you know traders discover that You know many many centuries ago discover that oh South Africa's weather Their climate everything was similar to Europe. So they said, okay, let's stay here All the rebels, you know people who are supposed to be killed, you know in foreign countries I mean, that's that's pretty much pretty much pretty much is what it was, you know, the bush The boom to the ban to all of them, you know people ethnic groups in South Africa. They were all repressed People became slaves in their own country people who were sent to die in their own country became heads You know, that's why I said the history of South Africa is very rich Long diverse, but this day in history South Africa became a republic. Yeah, you know, and of course, you know This is one year after oh, actually, you know, we became a republic in 63 So it was a couple years before us, you know, but look at the you know growth, you know between these two countries You know, South Africa and Nigeria, you know, and you can always say that we could have done better With ourselves and where we where we are today as a country, you know, there's a time we felt like we're growing and then, you know All right, stay with us We're taking a short break when we come back but moving into our first conversation for today in your bongo Umaren, the name became popular a couple of weeks ago and is still making headlines But now an investigative journalist is calling out some inadequacies in the police report And we'll be talking about that after this short break. We'll be back