 Welcome to the Advocate, your Sunday reminder that important conversations are among the necessary tools for a senior society. I'm asking today, I'm talking about the decay in Nigeria, comfort is talking about integrity and all really cares. Elijah is talking about marketing your candidate through internet and attention to details. Today, expect a miss of seriousness, laughter and jabs. And we are here to please after this break, welcome again. The decay in Nigerian system, our collective responsibilities. Nigerians over the years have suffered numerous abuses of identity. And the government moves and actions do not indicate any hope of things getting better anytime soon. The gross effect of this is evident in the recent line of actions of our citizens. Involve in massive migration, which is known in the streets palace, has jagwa, literally translating to seeking alternative land of greener pasture. But then, uninteresting, Nigerians are contributing greatly to the growth and development of the world economy, as seen in venture capital investment in Africa. A statistics from Patek shows an investment of 5.2 billion US dollars from 681 equity runs up 264% from 2020 figure of 1.4 billion US dollars in Africa. The firm said the number of deals is recorded among almost doubled increasingly 92% year over year from 355 deals in 2020. The year 2020 and 2021 reports said Nigerian retained the fourth spot hired of South African, Egypt, Kenya, Senegal, among other countries, with 63% approximately received by FinTech, 7% by logistics, 6% edutech, 5% e and social commons, and 5% enterprise among others as such 2021. It is crystal clear that the heavy investment tailored to Nigeria display a clear potential of great nation, and it is expected to be our collective responsibility to fix the issue affecting the country. Nevertheless, what we basically lack is a system and people at the hands of affairs lack the requisite knowledge and the will power. Collectively, we need to start answering to reality by calling a spade a spade and remove the bad ones systematically. This is a process that requires sacrifice and must be ready to pay the price. Come forward, what do you see? No, me my problem with all these statistics is that somebody somewhere or some company or group or whoever sit down somewhere draw out statistics tell us oh you know people are rushing in droves to Nigeria another one on the other side says no they are not and we are even at the bottom of the food chain. So I think that also contributes to this our irresponsibility if I can put it like that. What we need here you said it is systems we don't need people to tell us anything we need to tell ourselves something we need to look inwards and decide look what do we want to do how do we want to do it are we ready to do it you spoke about JAPAA and it is clear let us be honest the people who are Japan have contributed also to the malice that the country has faced and now that they have contributed to it I'm not saying it is wrong to Japan I'm not saying that everybody is doing it but what I'm saying is that as a Nigerian there is a time that me and you even sitting here have contributed to the problem and the only way that we can get out of this too is for the same us to contribute to how to the system honestly and we are going to talk about it going forward I think you know two of our topics we are going to go on issues that go back to your topic so there is actually synergy in what we are talking about so for me I'm just tired of the statistics and I think it is time that no no seriously I don't want to hear anything about 62% again and 72% Nigeria is first among equals last among equals I'm tired of it we need to work Elijah what do you say to that well let me commend her annoyance we actually need that level of annoyance in our consciousness as Nigerians statistics has been something that I think some people in government have been using to either tell them safe lies to like you know if you watch most times when you hear vice president quoting statistics if we start with what bank said I ask why can't Nigerians have their own book of statistics and then sometimes to we are seeing the challenges are safe and then some other persons in the chamber of power will come and quote their own statistics to favor their inactions to support their inactions statistics or no statistics he will waste the shoe knows where okay just like what you both said exactly a system is necessary but we should not at the same time live aside statistics because it is evident in FinTech we can see the likes of PSTAC we can see what they have been doing we can see the likes of team apps we can see the likes of Flutter waves how they have simplified payment and a lot of jobs has been created aside that you know statistics also is a work up call for us to know that if we bring a system if you go back to years back in banking system you have to queue there are some time you have to make calls you cannot withdraw money unless it is the branch where you open your account but systematically it improved but right now you don't even need to get to the bank to get basic financial services so Hussein you may be confused what are we talking about now what are we talking about the influx of businesses that Nigerians have undertaken that are able to simplify our lives are we talking about a system failure in our country that is making our country difficult for us to live that people are living because these are two different issues so what I am trying to say is I am taking finance as one of the yastic to discuss the FinTech has actually helped us to destabilize bring a system into the financial ecosystem if we can replicate that the same thing in edu like we have asus strike ongoing now if you have edu tech that is influx people come in it will destabilize that power of the asus strike of people learning one or two things and if you build a system around the government entirely transport system management health system and what have you so when you have a system it has to checkmate the abnormalities it helps to know who is working who is not working and what are the problems here of course would now be private hands coming into it because if you go to public private partnership or government subsidizing and making it easier for people for example your transport system you are talking about to move around when you go into when you said edu tech and you were talking about asus I am thinking that already the monster the demons in that closet we have not covered it yet honestly no I am thinking and I thought the major issue of even the asus strike actually is a systematic thing it is actually an issue of a system somebody is trying to bring you one system to checkmate something another group is saying no no no we are not going to participate in it or all that another one is saying no we are the ones so even there there has to be a clarity as to who is driving education for example who has the power in that sector and therefore who is going to balance it out just to add to what you said and I said political will power so when you see in civil servants there are a lot of people jeopardizing efforts to create that system there are a lot of approaches a lot of proposals that have been sent forward but civil servants and public servants are jeopardizing that effort because of political will power so when you are saying who is to handle it I think it is the government if the government is ready the government will make it happen with the government I think we all need to focus on our fundamentals fundamentals are the realistic things on the ground definitely when the fundamentals are sorted out the technicals which are the statistics we take care of it safe okay Elijah will be talking about marketing your candidacy after the break