 Hashtag ways where we talk about topics in the news as it affects us or I am Osayon Mestalli and today Duhala and I are in studio very sober day for me I'm tired I've had a long day how are you how did your weekend go okay the week has it starting off good okay awesome awesome all right lost time so let's just move into the conversation right today want to discuss this 70 billion air matter have you 70 billion air not the last yeah that's what we found as today's quote out of sheer insensitivity coupled with impunity the members of the National Assembly regardless of policy political affiliations conspired to bridge the relevant provision of the Constitution of the federal public of Nigeria 1999 by padding the supplementary appropriation bill 2023 to provide the core code so-called palliative of 70 billion era for 30 for 306 newly elected members human rights activists and senior advocate of Nigeria that's a family I don't know what happened with the video who is running and what's happening okay all right so last week on Thursday the House of Representatives approved the 500 billion air requests by the president President Bala met in a boat for the provision of palliatives to mitigate the impact of petroleum subsidy removal on Nigerians however the recent decision by the National Assembly to allocate 70 billion air from the 819 billionaire federal supplementary budget to its members has sparked outrage amongst Nigerians and the lawmakers claim that the funds are intended to improve their working conditions but many Nigerians view the allocation as insensitive particularly at a time like this now today we are discussing the 70 billion narrow budgetary allocation for lawmakers and we have with us Kuli law to discuss this but are you are still watching ways the international criminal court observes this day that's the international criminal court international criminal justice yeah on the 17th of July each year the significant date commemorates the adoption of the Rome's statutes on 17 July 1998 which established the international criminal court the court primary mission is to safeguard individuals from atrocities like genocide crimes against humanity war crimes and the crime of aggression I know that a lot of Nigerians have done a lot of appeal you know towards you know I think right from the buildup of the 10th and the October 20 2020 and says protest and all of that I know there are loads of cases I don't know how quick the international criminal court resolves cases but I know the Nigerians a lot of Nigerians have submitted petitions you know sign this petition here and there and all of that I don't know how effective do you think this international criminal court is it's actually effective I mean when we look at some of the cases that have been tried but I also think that there is also a bit of sensationalism more like like maybe they only take on cases that are actually so sensational in its atrocities you know that is shocking to the world or their criteria I've never really looked into you know their criteria for even taking on cases like you know so what you said about N-Sat and all that it might just be that it has to go through quite a whole lot of investigation you know before the field the needs to take action okay this one is the headline is a neck may okay tariff hike as electricity subsidy hits 2.8 trillion okay so this one I took this one from punch and it's on Friday the paper reported that 11 power distribution companies in Nigeria had applied for the review of well it electricity tariffs so as to incorporate the changes in Nigeria's macroeconomic parameters the report stated that neck disclosed this in a notice and said that the discuss stated that their reasons for the rate review were premised on factors affecting the quality of service operations and sustainability of the companies now remember that as a term June 25 2023 you know we had all heard or rather we saw like a notice from some of these discos that there was going to be a 40% you know hike but which was going to take effect from July the 1st but you know the discos however they backtracked the next day after widespread criticism as they stated that the Nigerian Electric Regulatory Commission had yet to approve the hike of course this development cost a lot of apprehension considering all the hardship that people are going through and you know so a lot of prepaid consumers I know because I mean I knew friends who rushed to top up oh yeah I mean they rushed to back more electrical electricity units in their meters you know thinking that you know the hike was going to take effect and all that I mean so this is all it's bad timing yes they keep coming up with all these excuses and all that so one neck what I find interesting is now this and this is a senior official at next stated that the Commission will ask the power firms to further state why they were bent on having a hike in tariff during the proposed meeting if you study I mean you know you want to check for their performance improvement plan the number of transformers they're going to buy did they buy it and what what is the justification for this increase they are asking for how many transformers lines meters ETC are they bringing on how many customers are going to migrate from four hours to eight hours from eight hours a day to ten hours I mean they want all this routine and they want the justification before they can approve this electricity hike and I mean if they're really looking into things like this and they're really asking them these questions are not just for you know for the sake of publicity I think this is a step in the right direction you know you can just increase electricity tariff without doing the needful so yes I mean if I'm going to pay more then you have to there has to be some form of guarantee that says that okay yes your quality of service is actually going to improve you know and I think this is good on the part of the regulatory body to ensure that I mean before any hike happens they must satisfy the necessary requirements so if you are among those people that you take a drink in a pet bottle or a sachet but water or pet water whatever or nylon plastics all those ones and after eating whatever it is that you have you dump it on the road you are part of the problem of Nigeria you know I saw this very heartbreaking story this evening and you know it just broke my heart because again this is something that we see all over and over again and I don't know if they can just play the video while I'm talking if you see that video this is around the a gigi axis of Nigeria right really a gigi local council development area that these students were stranded they couldn't go home you know after floods took over the other areas of the okohoba community really a gigi students were seen in different uniforms right according to the residents James Joel had not been able to return to their various homes as the flood leveled up the bridge in that area they have been stranded for about two hours when this report was done they said the students of the Lagos Baptiste senior secondary school a co-junior secondary school and Lagos Baptiste senior college all those children in that those schools were not able to get to their houses and of course they say that these floods always happen they always experience floods and I mean this kind of flooding whenever there's a heavy downpour the Lagos state speaker of the House of Assembly you are from a gigi that's your constituency like if we keep on saying this all the time and you are there at least for some you know some let it be that okay yes you know I know I know that we shouldn't concern ourselves with only just fixing my vicinity but this particular problem it's quite prevalent around that area and if you are the speaker of the the entire state assembly and you you know I mean you've been there for a while find the people in that local government constituency what exactly is the problem unless solve this problem like flooding is not rocket science like literally is not you can actually this water can be channeled in the right way so let's get the expertise if you say okay maybe we don't have enough expertise again look for people that are knowledgeable to be able to fix that problem because it's so sad and it's an ISO it's an ISO like literally when I was when I was younger and it rains I used to hate going home because I have to pass this one is not enough to this I had to pass some kind of streams you see all those centipedes and so the thing used to irritate me so because of that I had a mental like it it's stuck in my head because from my parents go how to cross over to my sister my my older siblings school so that they would pick us up from there that small journey this a particular corridor I can't forget that that narrow path you just see all the things crawling and you know what and everything I cannot imagine all of these that these children are going through you know it's just it's sad that the government is rather react you know reactive like you would expect that they should be proactive we all know the periods of rains in this country in Lagos we have weather forecast you know the peak exactly the challenges and this is an urban area this is supposed to be the most populous local government area in Lagos state so let's even for the purpose of politics say that this is even where you most politicians you know will think to amass their votes from and all you it's just sad that this is happening in a city in an urban very sad let me just quickly mention again before we run off I had another story I wanted to just bring to our attention something around anthrax and breakouts in Nigeria says that they have detected one of the cases in in the farm in Niger state so according to this report right things like consumption of hides that's the case you don't know what hide is in in in local dialect these are the things that can easily cause you know the hides he says the federal government specifically stated that the disease was widespread in northern Ghana bordering Burkina Faso and Togo as it is also promised to keep it also promised to keep Nigerians updated on the development of the disease for those that do not know the answer I quit because I don't know the disease that is caused by a poor a sport forming bacteria it's mainly affect animals humans can become infected through contact with an infected animal or by inhaling the spores now the issue I have with this so why are they linking it with my mama is already treated as heat and everything so maybe the government we need to come out and clarify how this is then transferred because to me I think it's like raw contact not cooked contact do you understand okay so there is also the case of you go to the markets you buy it's not bald yet it's not but more if it's for more they are talking about more before you will miss my mom that's why they even they are people that are fighting against for my it's not so much of this is because of the what they call what they used to cook it so some people use tires to burn it to be able to skin the move the hair right so they say this cancerous to the body so for more ready is a cooked meat as it is you can eat more raw like that you know without even putting in it because it's already cooked so I want to understand the link between the spores and the heights right because it's not like we get the skin raw it is already like but maybe it's resistant to heat it's possible all right so on that note we want to bring in our guest and let's discuss this allocation stay with us over right back