 You're still watching Waze, now jeans and tonics have been substantially a British drink for the longest of time. Now there's a staple among the list of amazing cocktails out there. Now jeans and tonic have a high bitterness to it, but it dies down with lime and sugar to make it palatable for most people. Now whether you order it at a bar or make it at home, jeans and tonic deserve their day to be celebrated. What a day. If I'm on the last day, so the funny thing is jeans, neither jeans nor tonic are my poison of choice. My Shekbe, my go-to alcohol is something called Kwanthru. It's a triple sec. They tend to use it for mixing cocktails. That's what it's good for. But I like it straight and it was my father that introduced it to me. Yeah, RDJ. I remember tasting that drink is quite strong. It is, but it's sweet as well. It's sweet but you know those kind of silent killers, you just be going high. You wouldn't even know you're feeling high until you try to get up. Absolutely. Samolana, thanks again for jeans and tonic. I really wish you'd have shots, I believe. Peace. Alright, so I want to quickly take Mary's story that we found. The source is actually from Business Reporter BBC. There's a cement firm, Lafarge, pleads guilty to supporting the Islamic State. The Islamic State has become one of the most formidable jihadist groups in the world. And the French cement maker, Lafarge, has pleaded guilty in the US to supporting the Islamic State and other terrorist groups. The firm agreed to a $777.8 million penalty. Now this penalty for payment is made to keep a factory running in Syria after the war broke out in 2011. This is really scary. I wish I could find someone that can really break down this to us. Again, you see, when we talk about terrorism, terrorism is not cheap. The funders of terrorism, you know, we know that there has to be a very, very massive funding that goes into that space. So when we start to see things like this, first of all, it tells me that they are working. And secondly, we are hoping that more of these companies, it cannot just be connected to this particular company, Lafarge. There are other companies that are tied and linked to terrorism and that is the only way we can fight. When we find, trace the source and nip it there. What they don't tell you is they will try to make it seem like they weren't aware they were actually aiding terrorism by being present there or reaping the benefits of a government that wasn't stable. But a lot of people know that a lot of governments, when it comes to oil, when it comes to weapons, there are a lot of governments that are invested that gain from destabilization of different governments. I mean, when you watch movies, not that I know what the FBI does per se, but when you watch movies about the FBI investigations, the CIA investigations, and you hear about the exchange of weapons for drugs while their funding was over in certain regions because it's helping them keep some region to themselves so they're the only ones exploring the oil there. You don't realize that there's no war in this country, that it is only the citizens of the country that are involved. Somebody is always a part of it. Absolutely. So you wonder how united these United Nations really are. All right. Look, your story, lady. Yes. If the sound comes up, it's not my fault. I've turned it down several times. But there really wasn't a catch. What's it called? A caption to it. It was a video that I had seen on social media where the members of the village or a community had been walking through floods, hip-high floods, and trying to get from one area to the other, people in the Niger Delta. And they had ropes that other people had been able to tie around different banks of the river to try and guide people on where to walk along and not get into any further danger. The problem, we're still going to talk about flood later on in the day. But what I find really interesting is that if you watch the video, I hope they're going to show a clip of it. If you watch the video, you find people smiling while walking through and kind of like laughing at themselves, saying, see our situation, this is what we have to do. Another girl was telling one of the men that was recording that, please, you'll have to send me the video so that I also have a copy of it is the resilience of the Nigerian spirit that really caught my eye. And in the comments, some people said, well, it's when they're smiling about things like this that the government doesn't take it seriously. But really, me being resilient about suffering should not stop you from doing your job as a government. And I haven't actually seen any relief aids. Unlike when Katrina happened in America, hurricanes and tsunamis and everything. You would have heard that by now there will be camps established and there will be evacuation schemes to get people out. But these people are left to their own devices on how they're going to survive. In a country where we have people trying to win votes and not taking opportunities, even as Indians of this state, to put some support together. I mean, if they could do it for COVID and individuals and private companies were donating $10 million, you could also call them to help you with this as well is what I think. We'll talk more about it when we treat the topic. I was going to say to you that the federal government actually approved a $16.04 billion ecological fund project across 12 states and the federal capital territory for soil erosion slash flood and pollution control interventions. So there has been an approval of over $16 billion. But you know that when they approve the time it takes for the funds to come out? At the Federal Executive Council. No, I'm just saying to you that you know you're talking about relief funds and all of that. They have approved it. So it's not so much of their approval. It's the effectiveness and the execution of the funds. It's whether it's actually channeled to what it was approved for. So that's one hand, right? So let me quickly take my story then we go on a break because I really want us to just delve into this situation with the Kogi state. It's still on Kogi state, right? I just want to quickly read according to Boa Group. According to Punch, Boa withdraws interest in Kogi land. Boa Group said it had withdrawn its interest in the 50,000 hectares of land in Kogi state over the failure of the land to meet its intended purposes. This comes after the state assembly threatened to revoke the certificate of occupancy on the land allocated to the company for investment purposes in 2012 for non-payment of compensation. Now a statement by the company said that since the state invited Boa to invest in 2012 there had been no visible efforts here by the state and successive government to address the issues of access to the land that would enable Boa to utilize the land for its intended purposes. So saying that infrastructure, I know how much we had to cough out, you understand to fix the roads leading to our farmlands. Do you understand? We bought tractors, we bought escalators, we brought in graders, we had to rent graders and all of that just to fix the road that takes us from the express into our farmlands to access our farmlands. So now I can imagine how much, you see these 50,000 hectares I can imagine how much infrastructure that probably the government must have promised Boa Group in the midst of coming to us would make this available. You've not made this available and you're trying to threaten the company. It doesn't make any sense. We've said that the role of government, provide the infrastructure, provide every other thing, basic things, they will be fine. They haven't done their part and they are now expecting Boa Group to pay money. Pay money for what? To fix the road. And then you know about how many times that people as individuals have tried to fix roads and help their communities and government will say to federal government land, leave the road, you can't touch it. But I was even going to say to them, let's Kogi take a cue from what is happening. You know, I mean the other day I took a story that MTN is trying to fix some roads, right? So let's Kogi stay take a cue. Call Boa, I am sure if you tell them that this infrastructure that you want us to put in place, if you do it, we would give you tax holidays. I mean that's how you actually invite real people to come in to invest in your state. I'm sure they've had those conversations before. I can't believe that there will be people sitting there that it has never occurred to. The problem is that when they speak to one person, they actually let them lose faith in the project when everybody wants their palms greased. All right, on that note, let's go on a break. I want to discuss flooding in Kogi state. Stay with us, we'll be right back.