 Alright, you're still watching Waze Now International Snakebite Awareness Day is, that is bad, is celebrated on September 19th each year to raise awareness about the global burden of snakebites and to advocate for improved prevention, treatment and care. Snakebites and benomin is a neglected tropical disease that affects an estimated 5.4 million people worldwide each year, resulting in up to 138,000 deaths. Snakebites are most common in rural areas of low and middle income countries where access to timely and effective treatment is often limited. Hi, you see this snake matter, eh? Have you ever had a snake bite? Go forbid it. Yeah, go forbid it. My sister has been stung by a scorpion and was traumatizing. I've been stung by a scorpion. It was traumatic. Like my mother wanted to go crazy. We quickly tied our hand, we cut some incisions, just bring a blood blood blood blood and we rushed her to the hospital. It was really traumatizing when my older sister was beat by a scorpion. You know my mom ran a restaurant. So we used to cook with firewoods, like big, all those big massive pots. So she went to fetch firewoods, be able to make fire for whatever and I think that she was putting it in the fire. You know the heat drove the scorpion out. We made sure we killed the scorpion, but we took her to the hospital. She was fine, but it was really, I was literally scared because of things around venom and how it can just, you know, stop your heart from working. But there's a guy I follow on Instagram or more. The way the guy is so deadly with deadly animals. I keep looking at him every day. I say, God, may he continue to live in Jesus. Because I just feel like one day we'll just open his page and they will say some of these wild animals are always dancing around with him. Like the crocodile guy. He's completely fearless. Snakes, so different things. Like he has all kinds of animals. I said, let me not wake up one day and open Instagram and I see RIP. And it is one of these things that are killing. I think some people have graces for that. Like there's this guy in South Africa too. He's like best friends with lions. He's playing with them and living in the same jungle with them. He's like the lions regard him as their best friend. Like how in the world? But snakes I think again, especially with the raining season, this is a time to be careful. People that are living around because my children told me some things that I was quite scared about. Snakes in their hostel, tiny ones and all of that. But it's quite scary. We've only had snakes in our house once and it was in the compound. The dog just repeatedly was backing. And the time my dad went out and saw that it was a black mamba, that black onesha. So they killed the snake. Outside of that, I've not had clothes shaved with snakes in the house. But I've heard of around. And you know we are farmers so every day, the local farmers are always killing one snake or the other. And they turn it to bush meat. But I'm just saying that snakes again, you can control a bit. Where then there are some plants you can plant around your houses that just keep snakes away. Meat apple are those too. Oh really, I didn't know that. Just keep it around that strategic point. Snakes don't like the smell of it. I love that for my grandma. Alright so, what's in the news today is around the recent developments of MOBAD. As we all know, I think four states, if I'm correct, I'm here at Biakuta Delta State. Which other state now? Some other states have gone on protests. And just this evening, Iyabuji had planned a protest for Lagos, a peaceful protest in Lagos. But she's just announced on Instagram that it's been put on hold. Because of the opera role that happened around these other areas so she's just put it on hold. She's been advised to put it on hold for a bit before they go. Literally, I didn't even know. I thought all four of us here, some of us even knew the guy. Honestly, I did not know. So I've heard just one of his songs. You understand? Because the tunes sound I like to make. So I don't know who is singing what. So most times I just categorize all of them as Mali songs. And I'm not a fan. Because literally, even now more than ever before, after this young boy's death, I now went online. I've been doing a lot of research, listening to the lyrics. And literally, these people have been speaking about killing people, having sex, drugs, literally all the wrong things you should be listening to. That's what is in the lyrics. So maybe that's why my system just repelled the lyrics in the first place. So I never knew who he was until his demise. And now I'm going online and I'm seeing all sorts of things. The fact that he did multiple Instagram lives, just screaming out, saying that his life was being under threat and all of that. So it just gives me a bit of concern. Like first of all, what's happening in the music industry? Because again, this person that people are calling out, the Naira Mali himself, you came from somebody. Somebody actually groomed you. So is it possible that... I mean, what exactly would this boy have done that would have warranted that it had to be the ultimate prize, which is death? That's the question I really need an answer to. Yesterday, I took the story about the police, you know, setting up a 13-man panel. I think about this afternoon, I heard stories around conclusions to go and take on, to go and exhume his body for a corona inquest. Fermi Falana has requested for a corona inquest. The governor of Lagos State has come out finally and officially put out an official statement and also invited the DSS to be part of the investigation. So I mean, like literally a lot of things are going on around this young boy's death. But you know what really got me worried is the fact that a lot of people knew about these things. So all of us, right? Here we can actually say, okay, we didn't know anything because we are not part of that circle. We don't understand the genre of music, right? But a lot of people actually knew about the issues and the cryouts and all of those things that he had, all this while. So how come? You know, I saw a post by AY this afternoon and I actually put it on my story. He was saying that it's still the same song and what's his name? Celebrate me. Now we are there alive. I love him. Paturanki, right? Like literally, why do we have to wait? Wait, sorry, for somebody's death. Before we now decide to say we want to now start to say we are raising 15 because I saw a post that they have raised 15 million for his son and for his wife. Like why do we have to wait for people to die? Do you understand? Because there are some things that are completely avoidable. If this boy was, his life was under threat, nobody thought about taking him to a safe house. Nobody thought about taking him to somewhere at least, you know, just like literally stay out of, you know, let us see how we can resolve this thing and it's when you are in the clay that we can out. Nothing like that happened. Then even the video that was her name, Iyab Ojo did this afternoon with the DJ. I watched a bit of it. So at some point when they said they were speaking, I didn't really understand what they were saying. But that one, even that boy right now, needs to be moved to a safe house because that boy's life is under threat. You know, so like I have, I don't know, for the past three days now, I've just been consumed with and because, you know, with the Instagram algorithm, once you pick on one, I've been watching all sorts of things, so many audios around, somebody saying that, you know, he's in the mortuary right now and he now goes, okay, yes, that all stations have been settled. Like what are the meaning of some of these things? I saw in lyrics of one of Nehram Ali's song saying that he has put a lot of dead bodies on the ground. Do you understand what I'm saying? Like these things are things that come, you should actually use to persecute people. So now, where is the law enforcement agencies? Where are the sanctions, all these so-called NBC that they are saying, they are sanctioning, sanctioning, because you said something. Who are the censors, who are the censors board officials that allow the songs to thrive? You understand? We have a lot of millions of youth on the street and these are their role models. Now imagine the amount of violence that is welling up on the inside of all these people because of, you know, music is powerful. It's such a powerful tool that if you continue to ingest some of these kinds of lyrics, you become it. So literally, seeing all of this, I am worried. I'm worried because it seems like the generation is lost. It now gives me what's it called, more clarity as to why a police PR or whatever that I took the serious, they will say that almost everybody in Shagamo are cultists. So this is actually very scary. But what are your thoughts quickly? Okay, so I would start from what AY said about, you know, I think a lot of people find it so easy, you know, to not be bothered when you cry out for help and they only get involved when a person I don't know maybe that is something that's or maybe it comes from a place of, you know what, I have so much I'm dealing with, I can't get involved in another person's maybe let's say, I don't know that's the excuse in my head, that's maybe there's a lot of emotional effort it takes, but I have seen it time and time and time again, I personally, I always tell my friends if you are in my circle, you need to love me loudly. That's very important. If you love me loudly when I die I will wake up and slap you. Honestly. You will see me. Honestly. I think we need to we need and you see, it also accounts for why people just keep to themselves when they're going through issues because, you know, ordinarily if they have not said anything the excuse would have been why didn't he say anything I mean, as surprised as you are I myself have never heard of this guy and when this whole thing happened I was like, this guy was this popular you guys have actually been watching on Instagram life all the things that this guy has been saying and nobody has said let's do the usual Nigerian youth thing and say tag police cancel this, cancel that so what have you guys been listening was it entertainment did you not hear the the fear, the tears because I mean if somebody is doing Instagram life, first of all he would have thought of it that this is my final hope there's no way for me, I just need to let people know and most of the Instagram life is kept on shouting, if I die hold this person accountable do you know what I'm saying, like so the people that were following him and you were saying that kind of Instagram life what did you do and then everybody is posting you want to do not doing eulogies and all of that so I feel like I would look at it from the angle for instance if it was somebody like me I actually did not know of his existence up until this incident happened because out of the circular music but looking at it from a human angle, I think that Nigerians individually are already dealing with a lot so there is this sense of selfishness at least you have record label at least you have food to eat let me just deal with my own and stuff, so that's what it doesn't mean that it is right and so in the case of Mobad and him coming to cry out I feel like sometimes when people come out online to cry out that the reason we don't pay as much attention is because maybe we feel like somehow they have people who will handle that you know, because I would be like if I want to talk now I would hear my voice but then I would believe that but not earlier I did not understand anything I said even the lyrics I didn't get anything now as people die most of the videos you see online you see the transcript of the songs so you are now able to tie it oh is this what this person was saying but what about civil societies honestly we we can't claim ignorance we are all complacent in this thing honest that's what I would see civil society is not like we have like there is a structure for liberal congress there is a structure for the bar association, the medics or the medical association but is there a structure the film world is we are only just starting up the music industry doesn't really have a structure like that and because of this thing of their celebrities people are usually in all of them they are like you go for one show you make five million your issue is not a lot because the way the entertainment the music industry structure is such that we are talking inside and they make up about how their kind of music is mostly surrounded by violence and this sort of stuff I was going to say something let me come to Jennifer then if I quickly we will go on a brink because this is really technically the conversation we are having so there was something Sansa said which I agree that because of probably the guy's standards in the society in terms of his music career that's why sometimes when people hear you cry out they are like I'm sure you have people that will help you and even sometimes if you bring it back home to people that will know in our surroundings that are going through something maybe the first day or two you are concerned third day, fourth day you are not bothered anymore you are like I'm sure you have family members that would help you out but one thing that I have noticed with us as humans is yes we can be very selfish too I noticed that a lot of people who cry out, someone who is dead or has been crying out are just doing it for Klaus and joining the band and that's the part that upsets me because like you all said they knew so it's a different thing if he actually did not cry out or cry out or something like that that's different but he did so I don't think there is any celebrity that would tell me they did not know it was when I went on twitter one day and I saw the news then I said two and two together I asked my friend I heard something happened you have the fulges because it was very gruesome records so the things I was hearing it was just very abnormal to me well I mean there are things that do happen in our society this is their circle because I agree with you, let's go on a break when we come back from the break because we've lost a lot of time we'll just open our phone lines immediately so you can just join the conversation we'll go into the conversation for today stay with us