 All right, welcome back. You're still watching the breakfast on PLOS TV Africa. And now we move on to off the press and see what are the headlines on the dailies are this morning or begin with the daily independent with the banner headline their fresh crisis in APC as law one of bunny be care over 2023 presidency. There is a high that there is oil and gas announced CEO board of appointment then gunman abduct abya varsity student kill 10 in Niger and in on those state above the must head 27 state 121 local government areas at the risk of severe flooding agency once CBN extends Naira for dollar and 70 for desperate remittances just below the page there Boko Haram attacks scare heightens security tension at National Assembly embrace a name to guarantee peace security. Buhari tells Nigerians that again insecurity Senate grills service chiefs IGP DGSS and NIA or the rider service chiefs are doing their best with what is available. The one is saying Nigerian operating the military government in a democracy that attributed to body judge Buhari, Jonathan, some will call a commiserate with a boy over son's death. Those are on the front page of their daily independent. All right, let's now go to the punch newspaper. The headline reads Boko Haram invasion plot anxiety in FCT heavy security at NNPC. Ami barracks others FG increases security presence in Abuja intensifies stop and search and guards brigade here are saying who are not aware of security threats in nations capital above the headlines on the punch newspaper 1.5 billion dollars but hacker refinery repairs begin projects gets 44 month deadline reps summon NNPC CBA FIRS EFCC probe illicit financial flows cash crunch states bleeding in bad situation says Umahi. Arufah here says we were ready to lose students in planned bandits bombardments. Wow. Wow, that's just shocking. Below the headline on the punch newspaper, we see a picture of people jubilating dancing and the caption reads freed kaduna students excited parents storm school victims in hospital talks ongoing for release of greenfield versatility students and that's according to Sheikh Gumi. Adeyye narrow minded trying to relaunch himself and that's according to fire me's aid Buhari national assembly governors condole with Adeyye Boye over son's death. One dead vehicles destroyed as hoodlums clash in Lagos probe begins Monday as FG suspends NPA managing director Balak Usman and lastly here on the punch newspaper gone men kill policemen abduct another couple other in Oregon state. Well those were screaming headlines away from the punch room over next to the Guardian. The banner headline this morning. These are rumors of bandits attacks and settle a boujah out several riders there. Then again a cautious optimism as contractor takes over Port Harcourt refinery for 1.5 billion dollars rehabilitation. All right. Those are the stories on the mora on the Guardian expect greater floods this year. Federal government tells Nigerians as housing ministry plant portal for sale of houses. Lagos begins distribution of ICT devices to students. Catholic church charges and back up followers to atone this creation. All right. Those are the stories on the Guardian. Finally Buhari governor's PF and Mon Adeyye Boye son Dari. On the Nigerian Tribune reps probe 43 billion Naira safe school initiative. Buhari suspends NPA MD Hadidza Balak Usman. No training of 3,000 full any men in under army barracks and that's according to Akiridolu. All your sets to give final judgment on boundary disputes in 23 local government areas. 28 states at risk of severe flooding that's according to the federal government. Insecurity defense budget not adequate that's according to the Senate president. Buhari governor's others mourn as Adeyye Boye loses 42 year old son reps probe reports on 348 billion dollar illicit financial flow and loss of public funds. All right. Those are the stories on the you know the day list this morning. Let's get back to our analyst GD Johnson. Precisely the caption on the Nigerian Tribune just hit me reps probe 43 billion Naira safe school initiative. Do you really think it is apt right now knowing that the insurgents bandits you know have taken over schools and soft targets recently in the country? The experts are on the list too. The pastor of reading, General Varsial reading Christian Tutor, go over the loss of his first son and his third child. It's very unfortunate God grant them 42 to pay the loss at his critical point in time and also to all other Nigerians you know through one way or the other that have lost their loved ones through this banditry. Somewhere it is somewhat key to the cost particularly in Katna because of them thinking that for going to school which takes us to the first story you asked me to comment about that is everyone of us that are children in school now are scared. I'm sure we are sleeping with our eyes open with our heart beating at the first story. The sighting of schools, whether universities, secondary schools are usually sighted far away from the from the community, particularly coding schools and universities that are hostile and what we are seeing now is giving everyone a cause for concern. I'm not sure if people are not going to adopt homeschooling for their children because the schools are not safe. With respect to the rape proving, I do have never seen the result of any proving by the hours of rape. I've never seen any prosecution. I've never seen anybody being unaccountable as far as I'm concerned it's just pure grandstanding. Grandstanding on their on their behavior of trying to show to Nigerians that they are doing something while in any case they're not doing anything. With the security situation in the country the national assembly should be killing the president not even the service chief, the service chief in Lund. They should be holding him accountable. There's no resolution. There's no process that have been put in place to ask questions with respect to how we are going to make our children safe. If not even invited the minister of education for them to see how they're going to make our schools to be safe. I remember in the in the 70s when we were still young where soldiers were posted. I recall soldiers were posted to all secondary schools in Lagos then to provide security and across Nigerian to provide security and maintain discipline in some of these in secondary schools across the nation then. So this particular issue is a cause for concern. Even to my son goes to school in Lagos but whereas in Lagos it's far from the cosmopolitan area because I still have my art puppets. I every time let me just put it that way. Every time in period receives the call from the son or the daughter that are in schools now. The first thing what's happening the first thing your first reaction is what is you are already agitated and prepped up concerning that. So let we continue to prove but they need to do what they are supposed to do which takes me to the second story which I want to talk about with the senate grilling service chief. We have it in the punch newspaper and in the tribune newspaper the the service the uncle that the tribune newspaper reported the same story is that defense budget inadequate law and we saw that the senate was grilling the service chief the body that was meant to hold the executive accounting and the head of that body at the same time even before the end of the meeting even before we are privy to what happened in the meeting made a defense for the service chiefs one saying that the defense budget is inadequate that's the uncle that the tribune newspaper reported reported it and the punch newspaper said his senate president was also saying that they were doing their best their best with what is available Jesus is Lord that they are doing their best with what is available if their best is not good enough then they should call it quit if this senate president is making excuses for this service chief if the body that has controlled over the post is saying that the funds that they have made available for security issues are not enough and yet they have money to make provisions for the renovation of the national assembly and that they didn't appropriate money for security because false question is if the senate president of if the senate president of the media leader of the united states senate or the brutish house of lord i said it even the first to resign because people are not an old accounting to the worse they speak that's that's such excuse and such reckless statement that that that shows the litigation of duty that shows lack of respect for democratic tenants and the Nigerian citizen who are stakeholders in the Nigerian project you think that if Nigeria is a company and our board of directors are making such statements will not will not have sucked them they will like the the the the the shareholders doing and we'll have removed we'll have removed we'll have removed them for since they know that since they know that the perpetuate coverage and when elections come they give handouts and they give hand out to the people and they make the process very difficult for people to participate in the process they know they will always be in power which we expect that for someone that has been in government since 1999 and that's why some of us have argued that there is need for time limit there has been in government since 1999 1999 to date so it does is far away from reality i'm not even sure that he has gone to UP in the last two months i'm not even sure that he has spent since 1999 he has spent two straight months in Yubi what is going to be the security situation in 1999 which takes me to another two people currently the senate president which is the story between me and the and and and the governor of the state and the character chairman of apc the character chairman of apc that they are picking over 20 over 2023 is the senate president you want to assume larger than life rule concerning that but my warning to apc is that they should be careful apc they are not careful might not have candidates in 2023 elections because if they continue with his their unconstitutional arrangement with having a character committee having a character committee chairman to run their party which is contrary to the constitution of the party which is contrary to the constitution of Nigeria they are opening themselves to litigation it is beyond even bulwan and and and and lawana it is the general overview of the democratic experience they are opening themselves up to litigation and apc out of their own sheer lack of respect for democratic principle i don't want to use the word the word does not sound very very but it's it's english word that's there's there's no place for it quote on quote out of their own sheer stupidity the laws and for our state which they want the laws by us are state they didn't provide candidates in in river states in some other states they lost the election they won the election on the election this election because it is miss ajeda johnson kindly hold on kindly hold on um we'll talk more about you know these issues what focusing on what we're seeing on the newspapers this morning really there's this story here um about the girls who were kidnapped from the federal college of first-year mechanization in africa kajuna state we'll be speaking about this you know in detail with sheik gumi you know kajuna state security commissioner and others but there's a statement here um i'm attributed to eru fa he made this on thirst they're saying that the kajuna state government was ready this is on the punch newspaper that we were ready to lose students in the planned bandits bombardment that this situation is a war and that the plan was to go in there bombard the terrorist hideout he knew that that some students would die but that that will be seen as collateral damage since it was a war and they will rescue the remaining students who survived i don't know what your thoughts are on this statement because he eventually said that the terrorists changed their location and that's why that bombardment did not hold so meaning that if that held the students might not have been up to 27 what is the value of a Nigerian life remember the story of 12 Thai kids that were locked up inside the cave in 2018 i wanted the recreation of that story that were locked up inside the cave 12 boys locked up inside the cave for more than for more than for close to a month you know how they were rescued he became a national international story the boys were rescued if they were Nigerians they would die there jesus name inshallah they would just die there nobody cares what is the value of an hybrid Nigerian in january december last december or january december last or january this year towards the tail end of the year at this year americans came to bonus day to rescue their citizens they were kidnapped as a hostage do you know the distance between united america and nigeria see such statement it tells you the value they have if his own son or his own daughter that are kidnapped would he have said such statement will he have said such statement such statement should not be coming from people you haven't trusted with state resources you haven't trusted with state power you haven't trusted with state authority that's that's that's not upholding the oath of office his swore this for an oath of office to protect lives and property to ensure that they give us the libri bus of democracy and is coming with i don't know what to say because i don't want to sound insulting i must not be here and i don't want to try the same part but such statement if it's coming from the governor nigeria should pay attention these are the kind of leaders you elect and you get the kind of leaders you elect because you don't pay attention to to to to those we elect into into into public office because such statements do come that they are ready to to lose how many country would rather see that we are ready to lose one citizen what's the life i'll give you a short illustration all right doctor that was given was a party that talks about paying attention to whatever is your care okay mr gd johnson just before we round off on this particular session i just want you to address one thing the reins are here again and the federal government is actually giving a more like an alert warning and says 28 state at risk of severe flooding over time we've had them issues in some states you know when the reins are at their peak and the the rivers are being Niger and the states around that particular locations are usually flooded what do you think we should be doing differently instead of just giving you know environmental alerts as we see almost every other time warning they said the government said you are one if federal government is going into state so what do you expect me to say we should keep warning them whether warning we solve the problem which you keep warning them what steps have we take it to address this problem over the years if you look at the money the vote on environmental issues the forestation flood control and the rest of you look at the budget if you follow the money and then you know where government has paid attention so government is warning people without not taking practical step is like someone that is hungry you are praying for him to to to to to be fair you don't provide the person food so what do we get flooding will come like the governor of god knows it said and they are ready governor government has warned them if you pay attention to what they have said you leave those places so that you don't lose your life you can lose your property but the most important thing is you don't lose you don't lose your life but like they said comment we want we are prepared for you to lose your life and property if you don't eat with your money so that's what i would say concerning concerning that because it's irresponsible of of government not to make adequate progression we are fair man we are fair man federal emergency authority we are fair man we have different agencies of government have we mobilized them have we set up a coordination between states and the federal government and the local government to look at the affected areas what will be our response to that particular issue when it happen it's it's nature it's something that we know we happen you know the time it will happen and then you are using warning you are not saying that this we have taken step one two three four five six seven we usually see united state of america another client when you look in it's about happening first level second level third level and they tell us different types of emergency that they put they put in place they put an evacuation system to evacuate people to take them to certain location the open conversion centers and the rest of it we are not doing that we are warning and you want me to advise government that is warning people if you keep warning people okay last thing miss agile joneson has told miss agile joneson lastly we see a story here on the nijin tribune which says this is according to the senate president about this security budget matter it says defense budgets not adequate but when we look at the 2021 budget and just how much of a lion's share you know security allocation took up and how you know that there was a report by syrap just a few days ago talking about how much spent in security votes you know the the budgets for security all the loopholes and just the corruption so how then do we do we marry these two information you know leakage and overspending for security with little to show for it and the senate now saying that defense you know budget is not enough this if money appropriated are not properly disposed and money disbursed are not monitored and funds disbursed are not audited and we have a situation whereby we don't allow public scrutiny over security budget because we say it's national security and national security fund is an operation of what we brought in from a security vote rather beyond security money allocated the bulk of it goes to security vote which you don't allow public scrutiny to go into into into it i have never seen any nation and i want to be educated because i don't know everything and i want to learn i've never seen any nation that gives money to the chief executive of the states and the chief executive of the nation as a particular fund out of the security budget called security vote that is the alpha and omega it cannot be questioned on how he spends those security votes i've never seen and has done to be collected is an operation that we brought from military government into civilian into civilian government and i've said it we are not running a democratic government nigeria translated from a military government to a civilian administration because most of the institution are still militaristic in nature they are still militaristic in nature i went with this one of the stories in this paper we talked about fc t under siege if federal capital is under siege and they are providing security for military formations but central bank for national assembly what sigma does he say to you what sigma if our federal capital territory the seat of power the seat of government is under siege and children are calling the appearance that they want to come back home students are leaving schools is there you need to do is to go to to go on ground and see the stories it tells you the security situation so marry that with what the senate president that has been in a buddha since 1999 is staying with the reality on ground then you know that we have been paying leave survey to security issues and there's the need for us to review it if you are spending money on security vote it's our money it's our taxes explain to us we use this to do this to do this to do that to do that but when you tell us that we don't have public scrutiny on the money you are spending for budget on defense let me tell you we still be in the in the same circle and ziggler said for us to do the same thing the same way and in the same manner and expect to get a different result is the beginning of insanity all right all right well said mr gd johnson many things for your thoughts he was very very dispassionate concerning the issues of security in the plague in nigeria at this particular time yes thank you very much once again mr gd johnson for always great on the breakfast on fridays we do hope you have a lovely weekend sure sure about that surely to that i need to make sure you enjoy the best of your weekend even though you come to work tomorrow if you have some time off thank you just it is a pleasure to be with you and thank you to our listeners there is there is light at the end of the tunnel everything would be better yes there is we hope so thank you so much all right we'll take a break here and we'll return with today in history do stay with us