 The Social Economic Rights Accountability Project has asked Niger to return more than one billion Naira in the nations from Nigeria. Is this request in order? And the English Premier League is back. We'll talk sports this morning with a look also at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, the United Kingdom. And G.D. Johnson joins us later for in-depth analysis of today's newspaper headlines. Good morning to you. We're back with the breakfast of Pasadena Afqal right here on Channel 408 on the STV. And of course, 308 on start times. We're reaching a live from our studios in Victoria Island because my name is Kofi Bartels. It's a beautiful Friday morning and we're back with interesting discussions. Of course, an analysis of the issues that are of importance to you this morning. And we usually would start off with a look at what's trending in the social space. We have, of course, the Internet and the social media networks being a very active space with discussions on very important issues and we call it a top trending segment. Let's go there. The first one we have to look at happens to do with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission declaring a popular Nigerian Instagram figure. All right. Let's call it that. Mustafa. He's probably known as Monfa but his name is Ismaila Mustafa. He's had an on and off, you know, relationship with the EFCC. He's always, you know, being invited for questioning and all that. So they have come up with a new one. This is the latest one. They're declaring Monfa wanted. And of course, they put out a tweet yesterday and this is what the tweet said. It says anyone with useful information as to his whereabouts should contact the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, or the nearest police station. This is what EFCC said. It said Monfa is wanted in an alleged case of retention of proceeds of criminal conduct, possession of documents containing false pretenses, false asset declaration, and laundering of proceeds of unlawful conduct is what they are saying. Of course, there were reactions to this on the social space. But let's do a background to this particular latest request by the EFCC now. In June, a Lagos State Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja had issued a bench warrant. Ikeja is a part of Lagos for those who are tuning in from other parts of Africa. Anyway, the additional bench warrant for the arrest of Monfa and the judge issued the warrant following the continued failure of Monfa to present himself for trial. You can see a picture of the gentleman there being guided into court by an EFCC operative. He was arrested on January 10th by the EFCC and arraigned on January 12th alongside his company, Ismalop Global Investment Limited, on an eight-count charge of alleged money laundering of over six billion Naira. You can see some of his Instagram pictures there. He's sort of a celebrity that I think he was rubbing shoulders with the Hush Poppy terms of flaunting his wealth and celebrity lifestyle, expensive lifestyle. Let's call it that on Instagram. Now, on January 18, this same interview was admitted to bail in the sum of 200 million Naira with two shirtees in Likesum. One of the shirtees the judge ordered was on a property valued at 100 million Naira within the jurisdiction of the court. The court also had ordered that the defendant return to his international passport to the custody of the court while ordering his remand in any correctional centre of his choice in Lagos pending the perfection of the bail conditions. He was able to do that and therefore, think about two months later on March 28, he was released to his lawyer, Boyga or Yehole who is a senior advocate of Nigeria. Shortly after the court varied his bail conditions and of course that was that. But the EFCC have now had to come out to say that this gentleman is wanted for the reasons the earlier put out. And of course it's got a lot of Nigerians talking and you know tongues have been wagging but Monfa has come out in his defence also to resupply the EFCC by saying that he didn't steal or loan the money. That's what he's saying. He didn't steal or loan the money. So he's absorbing himself. He went to, I mean I'm sure there are no surprises that he chose his verified Instagram page. That's where he went and he went there to declare that he could not be declared wanted by the EFCC as he has neither stolen money nor gotten involved in money laundering. That's what he's saying. This is what he put up and I quote, After my arrest and arraignment on the first case of the Federal High Court in Lagos on the 10th of December 2021 the court gave me judgment and ordered EFCC to release my wristwatches and other valuables in their custody to me for being unlawfully seized. He went on to write being a bitter agency caused the EFCC a bitter agency. The EFCC in dissatisfaction with the judgment of the court on the release of my wristwatches came up with another trumped up charge against me he says. Moffa continued to write by writing on Instagram on the 10th of January 2022 while I was at their office at a court able to receive or retrieve my wristwatches in compliance with the judgment of the court. Immediately after collecting my wristwatches they held me down at their office and charged me to court the following day on the frivolous charges he says. I was arraigned before a familiar judge to the EFCC and in fact I was given a very difficult bail to meet as a result of which I ended up spending over two months in prison custody while making efforts to meet the difficult bail. After several attempts to meet the bail conditions failed I successfully applied for the bail conditions to be reduced which eventually led to my release he wrote. Upon my release I traveled outside Nigeria to check on the welfare and well-being of my family and returned to Nigeria shortly only for the EFCC's corrupt lawyer he uses the word corrupt lawyer not our words I wrote to me Oyedepo rather than focus on establishing that his criminal case against me along with the EFCC operative Keina Garba he chose to capitalize on the fact that I traveled to Blackmail me into entering plea bargain he says else he would inform the judge I traveled and ensured my bail is revoked therefore making me have no choice but to dance to his tune so he's alleging Blackmail here he says I initially refused but after so much Blackmail and intimidation by Rotimi Oyedepo I succumbed and was told to pay 142 million to the EFCC not that he's admitted that he broke his bail conditions so he said they made him ask him to pay 142 million to the EFCC as compensation and also signed for a one-year imprisonment sentence I wasn't comfortable and they thereafter if you reduced it to 14 million and one year imprisonment when it became obvious to the EFCC or to the EFCC that I wasn't going to sign the plea bargain and to play the game they informed the judge that I traveled so he's saying despite his breaking the bail conditions meaning that you give us your passport you can't travel out he found his way out of the country he said he went to attend to look check on his family that he came back to Nigeria and the EFCC knew what had happened and they found out and they decided to ask him to pay some money so they keep it away from the judge so he says it is Blackmail he said it is Blackmail but if you actually might say it is a plea bargain so he says that the judge without any concrete evidence and disregard of the fact that I was never absent in court revoked my bail but fortunately the judge again released me on temporary basis and I was asked to appear in court a week after so he goes on and on and on it's a long one that he wrote on Instagram if we want to go into it all we would not take the next story but you get a sense of what his response is which is he is saying that he is innocent and the EFCC is merely trying to frame him up it's a case that of course it's sure to garner a lot of attention as Monfa is quite popular on Instagram with his lavish lifestyle I think the difference between him and his fellow Instagram celebrity who shows an expensive lifestyle it's that Monfa has a little bit convicted and also has over the years chosen to return to Nigeria to face any allegations we'll see how this goes another one that caught attention is the Acquavum State High Court sitting in New York ruling on the murder case of the young woman the job seeker whose disappearance went viral on Twitter me and the family were asking for her on Facebook also everyone was worried about her whereabouts because she put out information that she was in trouble and nobody could find her In Yoban Umoran it's her name I think one of the investigative journalists from Nigeria who is very active on social media David Andrei spearheaded some efforts to get information out regarding this girl and indeed he was trending yesterday people giving him credit for the fact that information was put together to enable the authorities to arrest Uruak Akpan who is said to have been behind Yoban Umoran's disappearance all the cases were in court and the Acquavum State High Court sitting in New York state capital yesterday sentenced Uruak Akpan this 21 year old to death by hanging for the murder of Yoban Umoran the job seeker from Acquavum State the court also found the accused guilty of rape accordingly sentenced him to life imprisonment for having carnal knowledge of the deceased whom he lured to his father's house in Uruak local government area of Acquavum State on April 2021 in April 2021 another pretext of giving her a job so this judgment lasted for two hours the delivery of the judgment lasted for two hours yesterday the trial judge Justice Basi in Kanang discharged and acquitted the convict's father Frank Akpan and his sister Anwan Basi the second and third defendant in this case who accused of being accessories to murder after the fact to murder respectively so this is what the court said the judge said that this court has proved beyond reasonable doubt that Uruak Akpan is guilty of murder and you are charged accordingly you are to die by hanging until you rot away those were the words of the judge however you know this is it wasn't without drama and of course they also got people talking there wasn't there was confusion in the court as the gentleman the young man the 21 year old young man after his conviction attempted to escape from court after the sentence was announced by the trial judge attempted to run away the convict came out of the dock and immediately grabbed a lawyer by the neck before the scary operative swooped on him grabbed him and beat him mercilessly causing a stare in the court so that's that a lot of people on social media expressing satisfaction you know that this case has run its course and the justice has been served to this young man you can see him being dragged away from the court let's listen and watch a bit of what happened there we get up from my face we get up from my face we get up from my face we get up from my face it was really a dramatic scene at the judiciary the court premises there in a quibble state and you can see the gentleman the young man being dragged being dragged from court into that waiting vehicle the case was really followed in fact the search for Inil Moran was really really hot and active on Twitter with a lot of people asking for help for whereabouts looking at the last message she shared online and trying to get clues information coming out that she's going for a job and she also put out information a distressed information on Twitter this helped people to know what was going on and of course the investigation and the search yielded some results the arrest of this young man I think this is one of the cases that has received swift judgment it's not always usual it's not always usual let's quickly take one last one social media was also responding to the appointments by the two major political parties in Nigeria the All Progressives Congress announced an appointment Governor Simon Lalong of Platter State as the Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign Organization appointing Festus Kiamo as a Spokesman a number of appointments were made excuse me now before these appointments you had Commidas Adamso Shimuli former governor of Edo State being referred to as a DG of the Bolame Tinwoo APC Presidential Campaign Organization it seems there's been some reshuffling if you want to call it that why people were talking a lot about Lalong is because he's a Christian from Northern Nigeria and some feel that this may be a way the party is trying to sell themselves to Christians around Nigeria especially in the north following the same faith ticket of the APC now the People's Democratic Party's Presidential Candidate Artiku Abooka also made some appointments appointing two notable vocal Nigerians of vocal and political issues one is a professional politician Dino Mele when I say professional politician I think I mean that he's been in politics for a long time and has held positions in the legislature so Dino Mele who came from the APC to the PDP some years ago it's been appointed as a Spokesman for the Artiku Presidential Campaign also Daniel Boilap is to serve alongside Dino as a Spokesman of Artiku Daniel Boilap is a very vocal on social media and on electronic media as well and he has been known as an APC a staunch APC supporter and so it was surprising to many that Daniel Boilap was appointed to speak on behalf of Artiku during the presidential campaigns but Daniel Boilap last month decamped from membership of the L Progressives Congress citing the same faith ticket of the party all right we have to go I'm up 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