 Thank you for staying with us. You're still watching The Breakfast on Plus TV Africa. It's time for us to review the papers this morning to see what the national dailies are saying. And joining us to review these papers is Mr. G.D. Johnson, as a chief lecturer at Nigerian Institute of Journalism, and he's joining us here in Lagos State. Good morning, sir. Thank you for joining us. Good morning. Complement of the season to you. Complement of the season. Thank you very much for having me. It's always a pleasure to have you join us. Okay, so this morning we're going to be starting with the punch, and this is quite sad for everyone. It's about the plateau massacre, and it says, Invaders ride community, threatening fresh attacks, when demands probe, and the riders here are attack notice sent to community. Soldiers got 37 distress calls during Saturday's attack. This is from the M. Forum Chief Tain, and police threat intelligence reports on impending attacks. Hugh and human rights chief seeks end to killings in punitive. So that's what this is saying this morning. We saw the massacre that happened in plateau on the 24th year of December, and now the invaders are right in the community threatening them again that a fresh attack would happen soon. What is your take on this? It's ridiculous, but we want to hear from you. What is your take on this? I think it's very simple. When it comes to accountability, when those that we have given responsibility to protect the territorial integrity of our country want the lives and property of the people which they saw and post to using whether the Bible or the Quran, and an oath of allegiance to Nigerians that well, they will surely do that, since we have given them the instrumentality of the institution of the state. So when we are filled to do that, and we have refused to apply sanctions to those we have appointed into various security offices, that's by the fact that security vote is one of the largest vote, unaccounted vote, uneducated vote for governments, local government, chairman and president. That's one too. In terms of budgetary allocation, it is the highest budgetary allocation that we have, and yet we don't even have that security. We don't see for you and I to travel to wherever we feel like traveling to throughout the planet and betterment. You and I see for Nigerians of certain places to even enjoy the comfort of their home, or enjoy the economic benefits of going to their farm, and then we still continue as business as usual. You see the governments parading themselves as governments and people parading themselves as chief of security agencies. That's by the fact that they are not fulfilling those functions and obligations. You wonder, my key question is, you have a commission of policing in Plato State. You have a director of DSS in Plato State. You have the commander of the NDC in Plato State. You have various agencies. You have the commander of whichever military formation and division is in Plato State. And then above all, you have the national, you have the minister of defense, you have the minister, you have the minister of police affairs, you have the chief of army staff, the chief of defense staff and all of these security agencies and with all of the paraphernalia of office and all of the benefits and all of the resources we have given to them, just for them to protect the life and properties of Nigerians. That cannot be done, not limited to this administration. It has become a recurring feature that in 2013, which is about 13 years ago, in December of awesome, you had to pay a letter to Junatan to address this particular issue. And yet we have not been able to address that issue. 13 years down the line, the issue of security of security and life and property started pockets of protest that led to Boko Haram, Boko Haram. We have different groups of insurgents, we have bandits, kidnappers, across the land of this country. And yet people will be saying that their security, I wonder, their security chiefs, I wonder which area are they security and people will be calling themselves chief security officer of the state or chief security officer of the nation. It is part of it. It's only imaginable that in 2023, some groups, some non-state actors will be threatening citizens of the country. That's an invasion and which will be resisted with all manners of means by our security agencies. I'm looking forward to whether to hope people are accountable for what has happened in play too, or what happened in Cardinal, or what happened in Maiduku, you've not even seen the end of the bomb that was mistakenly dropped to innocent citizens in Nigeria. We've been lost over that. So this particular play to massacre is another issue that has taken our attention away from that and probably we are not that in the world. The massacre of people around the Niger in the middle of Bethlehem, you recall, how many battles the former governor of securing the lives of property of farmers in Ben Misty was yet none of those issues. Not even one person has been persecuted and then you wonder what is really going on. It's a sad situation that we find ourselves, but let's move to another issue. If you look at the point story, look at their flagship photograph, a flagship photograph. Look at their major headline and look at their editorial picture, the major picture for the day. It's a reflection of what's wrong with us as a country. Now imagine if this had happened in America and your major newspaper and your major headline is like this, what do you think would be the reaction of the people? Just tell you the situation of our country. Okay, under that picture, where Tidubu is welcoming the African footballer and the media women. That's the most important thing. There is Revive Moribon Farm Settlements. Afeba Balala tells Tidubu, we're facing food crisis in 2024 because we're thinking that's what's going to be the problem in 2024 and so many other things, there's inflation and all that. And here is Afeba Balala trying to offer a solution. Do you think reviving this Moribon Farm Settlements will be a solution to food security in Nigeria? Now the main state of Nigerian economy before the discovery of all was agriculture. Agriculture was what sustained the regional government and the regional government contributed money to the federal government and Nigeria was one of the thriving economies in the 60s, in the 50s, in the 40s. Even under the colonial administration, they will get to the 60s, it's 1960 we got that independence. And the infrastructure of the northern region under Amadu Bilu, the infrastructure in the eastern region under Uilizik and then Michael of Paralita, the infrastructure in the western region under Ulaanlita Akitola and the crisis that later followed. Who are built based on agriculture? The first television station in Africa was built from the resources of agriculture. The first irising building in Africa in the Baddani Kokopuas was built through agriculture. Ikeja industrial estate, look at you, industrial estate, Agbara industrial estates. The one that quickly come to my knowledge who are built based on the business of agriculture and everything changed when we discovered oil. The basic thing is very simple. When God created man, according to the Jewish account of creation, God did not place man in an industry. God placed man in a cadet. And it's an indication of what agriculture is to the sustenance of man. Now, every country that has developed the first thing they conquer is Anga, which is the basic need. Even if you look at Maslow Eraki's of need, it tells you what are the basic needs, if it's geological, food, clothing, water, the basic need of man. Now, if you don't conquer Anga, you can't have credit. And if you don't have credit, because through saving culture, you create credit, you create money in the banks that investors can go and borrow and then use to recycle the economy. If you understand the theory of creation of money by Professor Ivan Fischer in my basic economics that I did while I was in school. So, basically, there's no way this... Nigerians don't even have discretionary income. It's from your discretionary income you have saving. The entire money we have, we spend. I drive in Corolla. I spend more than 100,000 buying fuel. How much do I add? How much do they give to lecturers in Nigeria? Just take 100,000 Naira out of... When the president came in, move to 610, 612, depending on wherever you are buying. So, if we don't go back to the basics, no matter how long you travel on the wrong journey, on the wrong path, you will not get your destination. So, the process of moving forward when you're on the wrong path is for you to go backward. It's for you to turn back and go back to the basics. So, we need, we need, we need, we need. What chief, I've heard about last two, this president, is the direction. It's not about taxation. But what modern day government, what we can interested is in regulation. It's about collecting taxes. It's about collecting taxes from people. It's about taxation, multiple taxation. We had that in Lagos, and what was the first attempt when the president became president of Nigeria is to impose one form of taxation on the other. Until the team that is set up to look at the taxes came up with their recommendation that there are multiple taxation. They need to review the tax policies that we have in place here in Lagos. If you want to renew your paper, they have started collecting the money. You will pay annual money for your certificate of ownership. It's every year you renew your certificate of ownership of the car you bought with your money. You pay certificate of ownership. So, it is very, very, very simple. Agriculture is the mainstay of any, one of the cheapest things you can ever find in developed economy is food. How much groceries can I buy with the 100,000? Compared to how much groceries can I buy with the 100,000? That's, that's, that's the thing. That's the area in which government needs to look into. When we focus on our strength, God has given us horrible land. He has given us natural resources. There's no solid minerals we are looking for that you not find in the 80s over the quality of our land. Now let government invest in agriculture and then the rest we become history. All of the money they've said is spent on buying arms and nations and that they can't even secure the people in Petruin, Binui, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in Zampara state where you are, where you have the needs of state for, for defense coming from we should invest that in agriculture. I agree with, with, with, with the other statement. Okay. Well, we, we hope the government, you know, looks into this and we start to invest in other things other than oil. And yes, agriculture is one of them. But let's move over to nature news. And since I just spoke about oil, this one says OPEC forecast 2.2 million barrel per day on oil demand growth in 2024. So they have like key contributors such as people, Mexico, Kazakhstan, Guyana, Brazil. My question right now is what, what is Nigeria's key into this windfall with OPEC's forecast of 2.2 million barrel per day? Now we, we really know the amount of crude oil we, we export daily. Nobody has the record. There's no record. There's, there's no accountability with respect to that. You recall, I think about a month ago the former CBN government, the former Army of Karnu said, the way NNPC has been operated was one of the reasons why each other think that the money they are making in PCB collecting the income in Naira and the Naira are in dollars and the dollars is not even coming to Nigeria to strengthen the Nigerian economy. You recall in 1991-1992 when there was the Gulf war, when Iraq invaded Kuwait and it took the intervention of the Western world to, to, to secure Iraq back from Kuwait. There was a middle of a windfall that Nigerian and all the oil producing country benefited from. That was under the Mongidian administration that a lot of resources then. The question in your axis, what has been the benefit of Nigerian from the Russian Ukraine war which also has led to major oil windfall because basically the major global powers and post-sanction on Russia which is also a major oil producer. But there's no record. What, where is there no record? There won't be accountability and when there's no accountability there won't be, there won't be any meaningful progress. So it's very clear the other countries in the world when you look at Venezuela even though we accused Venezuela of running after Chavez, I can't record the name of the, the president of Venezuela now. But after Chavez was there for many, many years he succeeded, he succeeded Chavez when Chavez died in office and then you call it a dictator, you have a theocratic monarchy in Saudi Arabia and across the length and breadth of Middle East. Yet they have something to show for their, for their oil. Or even in Angola, in Angola you talk about Brazil. So when you compare Petronas which is, which is the Brazilian oil, major or you complete, compared with which is the Saudi Arabia and then you compare this, this, this major organization with NNPC you understand that NNPC is still at its infancy when it comes to managing the, the, the global the global world fund of the country. So as far as I'm concerned when I see this news I just take it, I, I, I ask in a feeling what to be true which is just one of the major of the economy under Bari's administration. Oh build, what would it be like if you take away somebody like Mili Kiari from NNPC. What are the windows of opportunity is that they've exploited. What are the apparent witnesses they saw in the in the, in the, in the governor's structure under Bari that they exploited. So as far as I'm concerned I'm just taking what, when people talk about NNPC I don't want to develop high-fledged, high-blood treasure because of the way NNPC has to manage or because of the way our sovereign world fund has been managed as a result of people that we have given responsibility to turn our account to. We don't even know. We don't even have any records. We don't have any records of of, of, of the inflow and the outflow from NNPC. So when they release that news just for those that are there for them to continue to do what they've been doing. This is exactly what I said for you to do the same thing the same way, the same manner and expected different result is the beginning of insanity. So we have an insane arrangement in place and until you put sanity into that particular system will still be grown in. You know I've talked about, about how much we spend on all. Nobody is protesting now. From 189 to 610 within this within the space of six months it's unimaginable. Those that we have given the respite. That's by the fact that we had that holy in abundance. We have it in abundance. And one of the best, one of the best in the world is a classic case of somebody under the earth. There is an orange tree in his orchard. And the orange tree sat under the orange tree. And the orange tree are, the oranges are falling down and it doesn't have opportunity of drinking the orange whereas those that are passing by don't want drinking the orange. That's the classic case we have found ourselves in actually. We're not even enjoying what God has endowed us with to enjoy. Interesting. All right. We're going to go to the Daily Independent because this is coming from reverse states. So court extends order restraining INEC from conducting elections to replace reverse assembly lawmakers. So about 27 PDP members decamped from PDP some few weeks ago. Yes. And then now the court is restricting INEC from even conducting fresh elections because these people their seats are supposed to be vacant according to the constitution. When you leave your party that you've been elected in, that city is supposed to be vacant. But now the court is restricting INEC from even conducting fresh elections. What are your thoughts on this? Should this even be done? Is it what we're supposed to be seeing right now coming from reverse states? And the fear is, is this going to happen in other states as well? When the court doesn't have the power to stop, this is not in me. I've seen a better Nigeria that created June 12. I've said it over time that the court does, I recall when they wanted to look government election in Lagos state and there was crisis. And I said that look, it's very, very clear when the court does not have a function of INEC to conduct election. That's the problem. So that court, that judge, all what people needs to do is, so someone to file an hemisphere before the Supreme Court or before the NGC so that that particular judge is sanctioned. And they need to impose sanctions on judges that give interlocutory injunction to stop some constitutional process. We will not have sanity within the system. In reverse states, the court won't entertain that when you have the briefs before you. And then he has given the first injunction and then he has extended the second injunction. I don't blame the judges at the lower level. The judges are even at the higher level. They become political within. Judges were meant to be seen and not to be were meant to be heard and not to be seen. But we see judges during the holidays, fraternities, with the political class, attending, naming ceremony, attending wedding function, attending all manners of social function, and even for the election, for appointed political office orders or elected public office orders. So that's what you have is the discretion of the judiciary. So as far as I'm concerned, no court can stop INEC for the election. So you are saying that in 2027, for example, I approach the court and I said, you know what, I'm satisfied with what the president is doing. As a result of that, I want you to for INEC not to conduct any election in 2027, so that we can extend the ten-off. You know that's not possible, that's not feasible. So you have to create a scenario. So I have said it over time, that court cannot, when a particular debate is just for INEC to pull ahead with what the constitution has required them to do. The moment INEC fixes a date for that election, no court, no court can stop INEC from doing the election. All right, this is where we have to wrap it up on this segment. We want to say thank you for joining us to review the papers this morning. Thank you so much. It's a pleasure to be with you and we see you on the other side of 2020. We'll see you next year. We'll see you next year. See you next year. We'll see you on the other side of 2020. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Thank you. All right, we've been seeking to GD Janssen. He's the chief lecturer Nigerian Institute of Journalism and he was joining us here from League of States. We'll go on a quick break and when we return we'll be looking at our hot topic. Please stay with us.