 escaped from facility in Kogi state. Interior Minister Raouf Arib Dishallah discloses Interpol has been placed on alert. Suspected cholera cases now nearly 70,000 with more than 2,300 deaths recorded. And the Nigerian former mobile police officer denied asylum in Canada not because of what his accused of doing but because he was a member of the Nigerian police Canadian court insists he is associated with a force known for overwhelming human rights abuse. Welcome to the breakfast on PLOS TV Africa. I am Annette Felix. And I am Osauge Ogmour. Good morning. Thanks for joining us here on the PLOS TV Africa. How are you doing today, Osauge? Fantastic. Cold? Yes, really cold. You know, hoping for some sunlight today because yesterday was, you know, really, really, I wouldn't say rainy all through but it wasn't, you know, the type of Monday anyone expected. Yesterday felt like a Thursday, you know, all through. All right. Our first stop training story this morning just goes to show that you know how they say a victory for one is a victory for all. There's a way they put that saying, talking about how, you know, when one person achieves something, it's, you know, it affects the larger group. And in this particular case, we've seen how something that is concerned with an enduring institution is now going ahead to affect people who are former members of that institution and it just demonstrates how we need to set up as a country, fix our institutions, put better structures in place so that it doesn't deny other people the opportunities to progress in life. And here's exactly what I'm talking about. A former Mopole officer, his name is Chaos Okonewe. His relocation hopes has basically been dashed and a judge in Canada ruled that they cannot grant him asylum because he was a member of the Nigerian police force and that it's a force that was associated, that is associated with human rights abuses and, you know, just all the crimes. So this Federal High Court in Ottawa, Canada, the judge Patrick Gleason, held that any Nigerian who willingly associates and joins the Nigerian police force will be guilty by association before the Canadian judicial system and by the United Nations conventions relating to the status of refugees, restanding, you know, whether, you know, this person committed gruesome offenses or not, just because you are associated with an organization that has been seen to commuter human rights offenses, I mean, basically your guilty in that regard. This takes us back to 2013. In 2013, a Supreme Court in Canada ruled that anyone who participates willingly in any, you know, organization or regime links the crimes would not receive protection from the Canadian government, you know, because he had gone ahead to seek asylum, you know, he was denied and he went ahead to take this to court to say, why was I denied asylum? So they had to put that before him that it's because of the association with the Nigerian police force, not necessarily because you were indicted for committing certain crimes or because you were a member of the force. And George Gleason here said that it is, he chooses to believe or not to believe that Mrs. Kwoniwe had no idea, no knowledge that the Nigerian police force was corrupt. You know, we've had reports from the Nigerian open society saying that the Nigerian police force had wrought untold destruction on Nigeria and that the Nigerian police force had effectively become criminal. So that really is a story right here. Mrs. Kwoniwe had actually left Nigeria for the United States and that was in March, March 5th, 2018. And then he arrived in Canada June 6th, 2018 and subsequently filed a claim for refugee protection. But that has been denied. So I really wonder what's going to happen. Would he be deported back to the country? What really are the next steps to follow? We really are not clear about that. But the point is here that the fact that the Nigerian police force has been found to be corrupt, has been found to just carry out human rights abuses, it's now affecting the chances of other people in the force who attempt to relocate. And this is not the first case. We also saw a case that happened some time ago. It was in April. A Canadian judge also ruled that one Olusya Lakupola, he was a former member of the Special Anterobisquad SARS, you know, ruled that he would not get asylum on the grounds that he was associating and he had associated with the Nigerian police force. So membership of the force really have cost them any hopes and dreams to put an uncouth jackpot. Yeah, well, I think you've basically detailed everything. You know, he was seeking asylum on the grounds that he was being threatened by a cult group in 2016. Yeah, right. So I read the story and I couldn't even feel sorry for him or for the other person that you mentioned. Yeah, the Popola person. You know, I didn't feel sorry for them in my head. I was really just thinking, where were you running to? Come back here and you know, stew in the mess that you've created and you've been abated and abated. And I would totally agree with the Canadian judge that and if you read the court documents, it sounded like it wasn't even a case that they were even going to consider. They really looked at it and said, please, don't even waste your time or don't bother, you know, also stress us this afternoon with this nonsense. Go back there, you know, go back to Nigeria. We're not giving you granted asylum. And it once again was clearly stated guilty by association. And you cannot in any way say that you were part of the Nigerian police force and you somehow somewhere did it, even if people argue that there are good cops here and there, it doesn't matter. The perception of the Nigerian police force here in Nigeria, prior to the Ansar's protest and, you know, after the Ansar's protest has been the same. It's not changed in any way. It has been seen as a criminal gang. It's almost like a cult. So I'm not sure what cult you are running from. It almost feels like it is a cult group that continues to in court terrorize the Nigerian people. And it still happens to date after the Ansar's protest. You still see if you look at down at Mirauti road in phase one, just before you turn into free dumpway, they are there every from Thursday to, you know, Saturday, Sunday, they are there. They are not looking for criminals on Monday on Tuesday on Wednesday. But from Thursday, when they know that there's going to be people going out, you know, to nightclubs or, you know, having, you know, this late night activities, even if Legosians really shoot, I don't know, I'm not sure why they're still going to clubs in a pandemic. But, you know, the police are there, you know, and they're looking for reasons to peen on you. And I said this before that Nigerian police arrest you and then starts to look for the reason that they arrested you while you are. They won't set you up. I've had conversations with lots of Uber drivers and they tell you that, you know, there was nothing in their car. They do the duty justice and check their car. There's many, many stories. Yes. And then they plant weed and things like that. So it's terrible. There's many, many stories like that. So I'm not sure where he thought he was running to, after being a part of the mess. And yes, he was. Good cop, bad cop, whatever it is. And it says here that anybody who willingly joins the Nigerian police force. You're not conscripted into the Nigerian police force. You apply for these things. Exactly. So anybody who willingly joins the Nigerian police force, seeing what it really functions as, then you really are guilty. And you cannot say that all the while that you were there, he was a cop. He was a police officer for many years, more than a decade, I believe. There's no way that you weren't a part of that system, or you didn't participate in that, you know, in that mess, or you didn't enjoy the benefits of, you know, the in court once again, criminal gang that the Nigerian police force is. So good luck. Could you come back to Nigeria and enjoy with the rest of us? Maybe go back to the force. So safe to say, if you're a member of the Nigerian police force, you're not going to Canada or the United States. You will be here. And we're eyeing this together. Let's stay in our country and fix things. Same thing with being a bandit and saying that, oh, you know, they forced you into it. And once again, Nigerian government is taking stance against whoever it is, a bandit or terrorist or you or you know, on gondon men, whatever it is that the reason that you joined it or you were part of that group, there's nothing like, you know, you weren't guilty. And talking about on gondon men, leading us to our second top trending story. Now, gondmen, suspected to be members of the Indigenous people of Biafra, have disrupted examination activities in a secondary school in Imou State. Now, students of the school were scheduled to sit for their paper English, the objective and essay yesterday on Monday. But what we saw was that despite talks about the ghost Mondays set at home order being suspended, you know, gondmen went to that school, they shot in the air to chase people away. They gathered the motorcycles belonging to students and teachers and set them on fire. I mean, in a video that has now gone viral, we hear the voice of someone who don't know if their identity is a student or a teacher or a passerby. Someone speaking in Igbo saying we're live here at the comprehensive secondary school in Gabaloco government area of Imou State and that the gondmen, you know, had shot into the air. Students have fled the examination halls. People are scared. People are running away for their lives. You can take a look at that examination hall. No one is to be found. And you can definitely understand why. No one wants to sit back and face a threat to their lives. They would rather abandon that examination and say we can sit for it some other time. We can sit for it next year. And that's really what, you know, some of the things that the Nigerian society does to you causes delays in academic progress. We know, first of all, that so many schools in the Southeast have complained that because of the iPops sit at home orders and the ghost Mondays, it have disrupted academic activities. And people have been unable to resume school as usual because we know now that so many state governments have gone ahead to say that school is resuming 13th of September, but most schools in the Southeast have been unable to do that. And now I think what's worse is that these separatist groups, the IPOB, have announced that on Tuesday there's going to be another sit at home order. And that's to mark to remember the victims of the military attack on Canada's residents in 2017. So the question really is which way in Nigeria? Well, it's not just Tuesday. They have a three-day sit at home this week. They've done Monday. They've given us another one for today, Tuesday, to mark the lives of Biafraans lost. And also on Friday, which is meant to be an under-counter trial. So it's three days this week that they have ordered to sit at home. And I have been saying that at some point, there will be a breaking point, the people of the Southeast who have to decide whether they're going to continue to sit at home or they're going to come out and say, we're done with this mess because the IPOB has failed to realize, or I think they realize, but they're just enjoying the attention that they get or the power that they have. It has zero effect on whatever their cause is. It has zero effect on an under-counter trial, zero effect on President Muhammad Al-Bawari, who was there last week and they couldn't do anything. And I saw a video someone made, you know, basically laughing at them and saying, the person that you are basically doing wrong on this campaign against wasn't in most states, you couldn't do anything. You hid in your homes and you were online talking, you know, all the nonsense you could talk, but you couldn't come out on the day that the president came to a mistake. But instead, it is the poor card-riders and the poor market women who are trying to make a living selling Akbar or whatever it is that they can sell to put food on their table. Those are the people that you're attacking. And really just also reminds you of how power intoxicates in Nigeria. The tiniest, the smallest security guard that is given a uniform automatically, you know, becomes more powerful. It's looking for the next Ocada rider to harass or oppress. That's really the thing with power in Nigeria. I don't know about the rest of Africa. So, you know, that's exactly what they're enjoying, you know. But once again, it's important to also ask the question because it leads us into our next trending topic where the governor of Anambra State, William Biano, is leading a campaign to get people back to work on Mondays and ignore the state at home order. But it's important to know how relevant William Biano's campaign would be. And, you know, if the rest of the whole, you know, South Eastern governors, because the reason that these state at home orders have become successful is because there has been a campaign, a propaganda run by the IPO before all these years that has been very, very successful. And the reason it has been successful, it is because a lot of people can actually see that it is true that South East leadership has failed them. All these Southeast governors, all the traditional leaders, the such cultural groups, and the likes, all the factions have all failed them. They have failed to speak on behalf of the people of the Southeast. And that's why whenever, you know, years ago when Radio Biafra came up, and other people criticized it, but there were people even in between the criticism still would say, well, but he's speaking facts, you know, regardless of, you know, how he's doing it. And you hear a lot of people say, oh, yeah, we may not like Nandikano, but he actually is saying the truth and is, you know, that's the propaganda that has worked and being able to disable whatever imagination of power or leadership that the Southeast governors have had or thought that they had. And so Obyano, Umahi, governor of Enugu state, Oguai, all of them you put together, including the Imo state governor, Uzo Dima, and Abia state government, they have shown that they really don't have the ears of the people. And if they say everybody should come out on Mondays, no one really has, you know, has any interest in listening to them because they know that they cannot protect them somehow, some way. And that's really what it's playing out. So Governor Obyano can, we've basically moved on to our third topic, but Obyano has made his own statements. I don't know how many people will answer him or would, you know, take his, you know, cause serious. He has. And same thing with the rest of the Southeast governors lost that faith that the people should have in him. And so good luck to his campaign. But once again, the Southeasterners need to by themselves make up their minds on how much longer they're going to continue to sit at home. And who gives any group the authority to declare sit at home for three days in a week. So you can only come out on Wednesday and on Thursday in a whole week, which is really, really sickening. All right. So the pictures you're seeing on your screen of the governor of Anambra States, William Obyano, at the Akiakwa market, speaking to market women, market men and people, you know, who are in leadership positions in those markets. You also see pictures of him in the banking halls of some banks in Anambra State there. He went out with, you know, security agencies, also with some security agents and other government officials trying to enforce that, you know, the fact that people need to actually continue their commercial activities. And news reports say from around 1 p.m. after his visit, your commercial activities actually began to pick up. But really, is this what you will do every Monday? Should every governor now come out every Monday? So the point is that you need infrastructure structures in place to make this work, you know, that that will work, regardless of whoever, whichever personality, whichever governor is there. So that really is what we need, that structure to make this work, regardless of the governor. They just need to trust you. They need to have faith in what you're saying. They need to believe that, you know, you really have their interests at heart and you have their backs 100%. You know, there would be structure and the structure you might be referring to is security infrastructure. So that is a part of the things. But most importantly, they need to understand or they need to believe you as a governor, that you are speaking on their behalf and you would protect them if they decide to come out. And I've said it before that do we have enough, you know, security, you know, architecture in the whole southeast to protect people in every little corner of the southeast, if the IPO, BODSN decides to go on rampage and destroy people's properties. And no, we don't, regardless of how we want to paint it. No, we don't. The NSCDC basically doesn't show up except it's time to, you know, arrest their tanker drivers in a bush somewhere. The police, you know, are not plenty enough. We already know that. The Army shouldn't be in the streets for any reason. So there's many of these concerns. How much trust do the people have? It's, I think, I really think it's no longer left to the political leadership or traditional leadership. It's really left to the people now to tell themselves that we're done with sitting at home and we'll come out on Monday. And yes, the IPOB eventually would give up or they will arrest because obviously this has zero effect on anything aside just oppressing their own people. Yes, that's it on top trending this morning. Thank you very much for starting our beautiful Tuesday with us. We'll take a break and see the stories that are making the headlines on our national dailies.