 With barely 48 hours till the conduct of the governorship and state houses of assembly elections, the cut of appeal on Wednesday refused to restrain the independent National Electoral Commission from reconfiguring the bimodal voter accreditation system. Machines will discuss the implications of this for the ongoing litigation over the results of the presidential elections in Nigeria. We'll also be looking at the latest from the African under-20 championship when Nigeria's flying eagles have been doing the country proud and then we'll talk about Nigerian women's sport as a world-necked international women's day. And of course we have usual take at the top stories on the front pages of today's National Daily with in-depth analysis coming away all this on the breakfast. All right it's a Friday morning we're here with the ultimate edition of breakfast and of course my name is Kofi Bartels glad to be back don't worry Messi and I are not wearing a uniform this is not maybe children's choir or something. Well it's good to be back on your screen I am Messi Bopu. All right we said to do justice to today's topics very interesting the Beaver's case has been heard we all know what's going on but we still have to talk about it because there's still some more talking points and matters arising we'll discuss as usual and we'll talk sports the flying eagles giving some mixed feelings to people out there in Nigerian football fans but let's start with our top training segment we look at the stories driving conversations in the social space the first one yesterday we broke the news in the morning while we were here an unfortunate incident of an accident involving bus rapid transport vehicle which was being used to convey staff of a legacy government to work in the morning and a train at the PWD junction in Ikeja I hope we can we can have a look at that video and the incidents there of course we can see the the scene of the accident so far so far from that incident we have six people have lost their lives six people have lost their lives and we hear about 102 persons were taken to the hospital by the paramedics right there at the scene and the hospital we're talking about is the Lagos University teaching hospital we hear about 102 victims were taken to the accident scene several persons went to donate blood not just at the Lagos University teaching hospital also we're looking at other hospitals in Lagos state the governor of Lagos state was there to to look at those who were injured and of course the to try and see what they can do to make sure that they are better treated but what we hear is that the bus driver was he was quite how would I put it he was quite she's aggressive and refused to listen to the he the warnings of the the flag man at that PWD Shogun Leaxis where there is a train crossing you know when you get to a point where the train crosses the road you have to stop so this happened yesterday morning we were here on air when we announced it the train was coming from a gig area of Lagos state and met the bus you know on the rail crossing and smashed that bus one of the onlookers said that the incident happened as early as 8 a.m. or just before 8 a.m. and like we said the body count the death toll right now is 6 102 percent rushed to lose yesterday and out of that we have six dead very sad indeed what is the Lagos state emergency management agency saying to put out the statement yesterday saying the incident happened around 738 this morning a train collided with the bus we have activated our emergency effort plan and all key stakeholders that are important to the emergency are on ground is what the last summer legal state emergency management agency said apart from that they also put out a situation report it's quite wrong so I wouldn't I wouldn't read too much into it but they said that they had the agencies LRT at Kapa alongside LRT at C3 LRU paramedics and C3 paramedics only panel Kapa Lassan boss as legal state ambulance service ok Niger police force last month LNSC and the Nigerian army were responders at the scene they also were able to evacuate the bus so that the place could be rearranged and reordered and I think everybody did a yeoman's job yesterday so that's what but to tell you the latest what the the statistics that we have from the legal state university teaching hospital 102 persons were taken there six people dead the legal state governor also took the stats from Lasso and then they put those stats out as well so that's what we we can say mercy well so the reaction from Nigerians first is very unfortunate and I remember when we you know took that breaking story right here yesterday but our heart and our prayers was out to those who have lost their loved ones it's really really unfortunate at this particular time but I like I wish I think that some accidents can be avoided a lot of accidents that we experienced that can be avoided in that case if we were even able to put out the video and if you have seen the video how the driver what what really happened are we not supposed to have barriers or blockade or something you know so you don't have the crossing of another vehicle especially when you have a train track so that would be you know another question and then you know was a driver in the right frame of mind I think that we really need to pay attention to those who are you know handling vehicles whether it's your personal car whether you know it's a foreign organization or what have you or you're into the transport business because one would category I mean categorically look at that and say this probably might just be a suicide you know this driver probably would have been on the suicide mission it's really scary honestly if you saw the video coffee did you see how did the vehicle navigate you know the bus navigates its way to that particular point that's that's a good question how did the bus navigate its way you know if you if you were around at the days of Moloa in Lagos I think you ask yourself the same question how they get sometimes on top of some bridges how they even fly on top of how they will land where they land you know so it's a very very germane question to ask how did how on earth did the guy the bus get to that point you know because you know when you have most times when you have the truck the train coming something has to happen in this case we're told we're told that there was a flag man but the red flag stop stop stop stop so use the word suicide mission or suicide attempt I mean even if you don't intend to kill yourself or kill anyone you can actually be in back of a suicide if you refuse to do the right thing okay well we move before before before we move on I mean you know the the another thing you mentioned which I think it's we need to reiterate it's very important is is having the the right mechanisms to be able to warn drivers vehicles who are on rail crossings because there are a number of them in Lagos and other cities in Nigeria that have rail trains that time a train is coming you know back in the day messy you used to have what do you call them and bells you hear bang bang bang you know you know that this is a train I don't know I don't know I will try to I want to conjecture here but I don't know if if there was a train there was a bell wrong in that place you didn't have that then also in some in some parts of the country I know that we've seen what do you call it again barriers you know so automatically if a train is coming the barrier is gonna it's just gonna fold you know and then we have lights you know so do we have these things the Nigeria Railway Corporation and the managers of the such facilities and so they have to answer they have to tell people what exactly is going on whether we still have those barriers a flag man in loneliness to me is not enough you know you need more you need more okay you need more flag man to me is not enough you need more at the end of the day lives have been lost I mean I so messy the the the victims who were being pulled out they were bleeding life you know this was really really a dangerous incident you know very dangerous incident but another aspect of this which I think you must also look at is the fact that some dust was raised as to how the the victims were being taken care of you know some dust was raised as to how the victims were being taken care of there is a video that was circulated on social media showing the victims being being addressed I'm sorry attended to on the floor on the floor and the the what do you call the the chief press secretary to the governor of Lagos did have to put out the video you know saying that a tweet rather saying that this is a normal way of of I just want to go to his tweets so I can read it but it said there's a normal way of attending to victims of such incidents he called the user word trash you know trash which is an interesting word you know he's the word trash which is an interesting one so I'll just read the tweet of the the chief press secretary to the governor of Lagos state and then maybe we'll look at the tweet of the governor of Lagos state himself boy boy got a castle he is the is the name of the chief press secretary to the governor of Lagos state and this is what he says his attention has been drawn to a video making the rounds about the treatment of the patients who were involved in the early morning accident at lasso and he says for the avoidance of doubt no one is treated on the floor what you see is called a trash it is global standard practice what you see is called a trash it is global standard practice and then he showed the video and that video should people you know lying on the floor you know at last outside in the open space and then he went to say it's global standard practice in the hospital during an emergency of this magnitude a trash is the is a preliminary assessment of patients or casualties in order to determine the urgency of their need for treatment and the nature of treatment required it says Kate Henshaw your auntie Linda occasion others should take notes thank you and and then also we can look at the the statement of the the governor of Lagos state who also put out a tweet saying I was a lasso to understand the condition of the victims of the bus and train accident the governor says the team at lasso expertly set up an outdoor trash center expertly which has contributed in saving lives and speeding up injury level injury level profiling rather and supporting immediate critical attention so of course the the there was an attempt you can see from the governor to quickly let people know that oh if you see people outside on the floor it's a trash is it's not it's the best thing for doctors to do you can see he tried to take charge of the narrative you know to take charge of the narrative and to let people know that this really helped but his chief secretary went on to address those who were worried about that outdoor treatment of but the thing about is this the chief medical director of the legacy university also said something yesterday he said that yes indeed the trash is a is a global standard of best practice thing to do says global press package but he also said something you know he said that they have a 30-bed emergency unit at lasso 30 bed and that the 30 bed emergency unit was was had patients in it already at the time the emergency the victims were brought to the hospital you know and he went on to say that they received 85 patients at once at 8 a.m. now if you look at a 30 bed emergency unit and then you look at the fact that you have to receive 85 patients at once that is what we call a patient surge and they're not prepared for that I mean 30 bed hospital teddy bear emergency unit what are you going to do with 85 and this is what we call a mass casualty incident an MCI and in these mass casualty incidents you have to just do sort of a temporary arrangement you know you know so so that is it but the thing about is that medical practitioners some doctors I spoke to yesterday late last night at this morning told me that them that this is not a way to go about it that where things are done properly when the ambulance services get to the scene what they have to do is they have to do the charge there as this is what doctor in UK told me yesterday that what they're trained to do as far as he knows is that they have to take care of the charge or do the charge at the scene of the accident place them on the floor you know try to see who is who try to sort out the tragic is important to know those who need because they have categories of injury those who are just walking injured they can just clean them up and they go home those who may have broken bones you need to be careful when you're carrying them those who urgently need blood okay those who don't need to want blood just minor treatment so you can know to give priority attention to what he told me was that before you get to the hospital as the ambulance and the paramedics and co are doing their thing they've already sent information to the to the emergency accident emergency people who be on standby with their with their wheelers those beds that have tires under them whatever they call them get so now when they receive them they wheel them directly to the A and to start taking care of them that's what he told me I'm not an expert in this field but what I think we can say for sure is that it is not global standard practice to attend people in the open outside anywhere in the world why messy in the open because you could have a rainfall okay you could have what do they call it again it could have snow right now in in the United Kingdom they said to have the coldest time of the year I don't know if I hear the scene those images images but you said to have the coldest time of the year and if you have the coldest time of the year then you can't be keeping people outside in the cold at least the least you can do what we see in war zones mercy even in war zones earthquake zones they have tents and remember those COVID-19 tents that that we had in Lagos a very beautiful arrangement but that is the kind of thing we ought to see if you want to have a try you will have a massive proper one not canopy messy I mean if you look at the images you see that they had to hire canopies because I saw the name of the rental company so I mean for if the hospital emergency birds they don't have enough bed space how do you then expect them to be able to afford the tent when I mean if you have that resource you probably would have had enough bed space 30,000 or 30 30,000 are we talking about 30,000 here now we're talking about 30 bed space 30 imagine yes no 30 bed space and there are people already there yes okay so so so the thing is if the government you know the hospital cannot afford you know the bed space that they need they just have 30 bird space and at the time the emergency is 85 how do you then handle it so yeah there's no possibility I mean expecting them to have you know the regular tent I mean what's obtainable best practice when we talk about best practices almost like expecting them to give what they don't have because if they had enough bed space they probably won't have need for you know that tent so so so so then then we have to now say therefore that the the issue is not about global best practices that you have to treat the issue is that they did not have enough space exactly that is that is the issue if you come tell me that the the fact that you are treating people out in the open I mean they put to put the mattresses on the floor okay and then you know and I mean kudos to the governor he went there we're giving credit for that he went to look at them went to see them and of course listen to them and when the governor comes everybody everybody all resources will be available to these people all right the Commissioner for Health Professor Trinja Bayumi was there on ground you know even supervising the erection of canopies you know so yeah but what what what it seems messy if you look at the canopies that were erected where the canopies were erected is a bit different from where they were throwing those mattresses when the gambolans his first came it looks like it was almost an afterthought so let's get canopies and they went to rent canopies now if you have a stand by trash in the hospital that's meant to take care of mass casualty incidents then you already have something there not going to rent canopies as an afterthought now messy sorry that this is this is a final one before Lagos is a city of 15 to 20 million people okay and and some medical experts tell me that in order to avoid such overcrowding in when you have MCIs you you distribute the the casualties or the victims to different hospitals in the country they also tell me that you need to have levels of a let and they say there's something you call a blackout that if you can declare this blackout any hospital anywhere in Lagos now this took place in the Queja so the likes of Reddington and Co any hospital that is of high standard can be taken over they have to close down shut down to receive these people private private hospitals at the end of the government will pay the bill so the point is this if we had enough hospitals in in in Lagos state or if they had a an emergency plan in place you know they won't have to have had to take everybody to lose they could have taken some to even private hospitals where they have facilities in big in large enough to attend to mass casualty incident so that's something something to note that's something well this conversation you know we're not and always when we talk about some of these issues we say we hope that the government on the other hand would act you know in terms of implementing but it's like when you constantly have the case reoccurring then it means that we've not learned anything yeah but but also we must not forget to add that the the Lagos state emergency management agency and then the Nigeria Railway Corporation they blame the driver and he's a government driver of of of being complicit in this in this accident and we don't know what his fate his fate will be and that's how we tell our drivers to to drive carefully mercy it was some some months ago I was saying to myself you know that wow these this BRT we thank God oh you know that they haven't gone the way of mold with a government of Lagos has done well to you know to have a system where drivers are professionally trained you know the days of mold where they were flying off the bridges you know flying off the bridges cut up bridge and all you see them hanging you know you're flying through the Lagos lagoon but this time we've not had incidents I think it's it's kudos and them but we need to do more circuit now we'll call the drivers again and without any of the companies you know and sit them down and reoriented them to tell them you need to you need to be careful you know we need to have an investigation into this to find out what was in the mouth what happened to the driver why didn't he stop when he was flucked down so well so next on a top trending is that Nigerian is involved in this particular incident she's been declared wanted I mean the most wanted list in Italy so the federal government has also contributed in extra dieting the suspected human trafficker by the name Joy Jeffy to Italy to face criminal charges she's 48 years old and she's one of the few women on Italy's list of 100 most wanted criminals that was extradited by Nigerian authorities that happened just within the week here now Jeff has been also on that list since 2010 that's according to report after she was accused of playing a leading role in illegal transporting of Nigerian girls to Italy Netherlands and Spain for you know prostitution and of course trafficking however it's also been reported that she runs a cartel where this recruitment is done these women here in Nigeria they are transported to European countries and they are used where you know violence and all of that I mean if you look at the movies you can only imagine what these people are going through now the fact that she's been tried and sentenced 13 years in prison in absentia by the Italian authorities is not you know a joke and that process had started since 2022 that's 2022 June 4th so it feels like it was a big one for you know the Italian government and also the Nigerian government yes indeed yes indeed I'm messy this story and was carried internationally it's a big story really I saw it on Yahoo news I saw it on Australian news websites they had the video everything you know and it was a big story in fact all these news wires news agencies made money from this story was cried all over the world and and it's it seems this lady Joy Jeff or Jeffy Joy which whatever her name is is quite she's very important to the Italians they want to have her they've been trying to have her for a long time and I think the head of the Italian criminal agency was saying that he they enjoyed good cooperation between themselves the Nigerian Nigerian justice system particularly the Ministry of Justice who agreed to this extradition remember how it took a long time for horse puppy no for no husband before abacare you know how it's how long it's taken and the tussle between the Americans and the Nigerian cow bent over the extradition of abacare you know it's been a long-drawn thing and people I was forgetting about it but this particular one it was just them like hot knife through butter you know it took a while but she was taking out of the country I saw you know when she got to Italy she was not working well it was limping and they had to put her in a wheelchair and I saw the care and attention that they gave to her you know even PT in her you know and I said wow that is something we need to learn and I'd even take her even a criminal in you have to treat them with dignity and humanity this is a case of alleged trafficking in girls you know it's a case of alleged taking girls out of country for prosecution a prostitution you know deceiving them and then when you take them there is a case of allegedly using you know cultists criminals and mafia to intimidate these girls and to and to basically force them to engage in prostitution against your will you know threatening their lives and threatening them you know to keep them in bondage so it's a case of alleged forced slavery you know intimidation threat to life you're looking at illegal migration okay human trafficking you want to call it that a whole lot now these are all allegations that the the the Italian legal system will have to prove I'm sure the lady will also have her time to defend herself in court you know then we now know what I need she's guilty as charged or not you know so that is that we won't rush to conclusion yet but this is not the first time we're hearing of a Nigerian sort of mafia in Italy you know or any part of the world particularly in Italy engaging in such acts it's not the first time and we'll watch this case it's a big one it's really big one watch this case to see where it goes but you know we just celebrated international women's day mercy and it's a day where we'll talk about the dignity of women women empowerment and and gender equality and I think that you know the female folk out there the leadership doing their best to not put the fellow women in harm's way because already difficult getting the men to to agree to the fact that women deserve to do that equally you know so women need to stop these things to do and are not helping the cause of gender equality and women's right we're talking about them gender-based violence GBV we're fighting against it because it is wrong to stamp it out of our society and and women should be leading the cause in in fighting gender-based violence but when you have women now victimizing other women girls then it makes it harder now I'm not saying she's guilty we'll wait for the court to you know see how it pants up but we need to move on and that's because we're out of time would definitely you know come through with more interesting top trending stories of course on Monday but when we come back on the other side will be time for us to go through the papers with GD Johnson all things being equal please stay with us