 You're welcome back to the breakfast on plus TV Africa. It's now time for off the press and let's now welcome our guest Mr Jede Johnson. Good morning. Thank you for joining us Good morning. Good morning. Good morning to My teacher was all over the world. Thank you. It's Friday Daily Sun Daily Sun newspaper the headline reads Nigeria's democracy at risk British government wants Says 2023 election under threat Violence eroding people's livelihoods. That's according to the governor's Save Nigeria from collapse Christian Association of Nigeria urges Buhari again Because seven-day prayers or go assembly passes anti-open grades in Beale COVID-19 Delta variants now in Nigeria. That's according to the NCDC Newed video or Hakeem knows fate September 27th as police arrest complainants in court Airlines old federal government agencies 37 billion Naira that's according to Surika Rumble in a more sub the over suspension of six lawmakers Senate's ignores protests screens Loretta on a chief of ionic job All right, and let's move over to the Nigerian Tribune Let's see what stories we can find the big one there says PDP mocks on a chair. She denies membership of APC also on the Tribune fireworks in the Senate that has screening for ionic job Now Nigeria imports 2.2 million tons of fish annually and Beam of Lakers build in collapses kills a five-year-old boy Also on the Nigerian Tribune gone shirts at emo house of assembly six lawmakers suspended Ogun assembly passes anti-grazing bill prescribes Prescribes three a year geoterm for offenders also Ibrahim Mago loses out as 167 police officers get promotion COVID-19 Delta variant detected in Nigeria says the NCDC and also airlines to refund full Affairs to passengers after two hours delay says the federal government laments airlines debt of 37 billion Naira ex-South African president Zuma be gains 15 month geoterm and Automata invite Buhari to commission projects. That's also on the Nigerian Tribune. That's what we have on the nation newspaper Eminence Nigerian says military force alone can't end into purity Abdul salami fire meal along others give tips We need new tactics says CDS general in rubble UK ones on danger ahead of 2023 Passengers and titled to fair refund in cases of flights delays says Syrica COVID-19 Delta variant in Nigeria travel at tests positive BDP slates congresses for Lagos or your ocean jostle for posts begin if IRS goes for 1.8 trillionaire tax liability from multi-choice covers firm says we will resolve issue while converse is reduction of cement prices and Buhari's aid on a cheat health senators. I left a PC since 2019 there's a picture here of a crowd with the supposed coffin of TB Joshua and it reads cheerful farewell at TB Joshua's line in states Also, the nation newspaper akiridulu orders shut down of clubs by midnight for die of food poison inquire On the punch newspapers parents panic as bandits threaten starvation Demand 30 bags of rice The list the bandits are you have put out include imported rice 10 bags local rice 20 bags beans 20 bags Maggie 10 cartons 10 kegs of oil No, okay. Wow. This is very shocking actually and really sad. They're demanding food stuff And I didn't know bandits were also chefs Well, and that's with regards the kaduna Baptist school students story a kidnap All right diesel prices price surges to 219 narrow and litter as crude rises to 74 Dollars of barrel UNICEF orders 220 million COVID-19 vaccines for Nigeria and 54 orders on a chair Contradicts a fit of it says I stopped a PC membership in 2019 we're gonna stop there so we can quickly get into these conversation a lot of the stories are repeated Mr. Jilly Johnson welcome once again, please Go ahead with any of the stories you want to start with Well, let's start with that young democracy at risk according to the British command that 2023 Three election is also a twist come the question we begin to access and we don't need it So it's here to tell us that we are not adequately prepared for 2020 election one There's no electro art that that will guide the conduct of the election in 2019 And various excuses were made for the president by All at sundry and across all strata sector of the Nigerian society that the time was too short point to pasting Point to a sense to the electric that has been passed by the eighth national assembly now We have the night national assembly inaugurated since June 2019. This is July 2021 two years after that no electoral act invariably We did the loophole has already been set Down for for the process not to to work at spine and even the electoral act that is being Bandit around the view that the national assembly is looking at. There are some contestious issues about them the national assembly stopping a neck from Electronically transferring the result which was part of the resolution of the 17,000 Southern governments that the national assembly shouldn't put that in in in the new build that we found the electoral art for 2020 election So we don't need to see that the APC has not had this non-national convention If you see being run by which is the ruling party, which is the party in government is to be controlled controlled by by By a ticket committee pdps does announce the news for its own convention So the party itself don't have internal democracy They don't have respect for their own constitution whether pdp or apc if a party does not have respect for its own Constitution as a party when they win spot in an election if you know our respect for the position of Nigeria This is the basic truth the city it begins at home if you are not less at home So if you don't respect the the the provisions of the constitution of your own party when you win power and Control government, you know our respect for the constitution for the constitution of Nigeria So everybody is there. It's it's it's clear the loopholes are dead I'm gonna add there that are we really serious. I want to have elections in 2020 Let's wait and see about the indications are there That then we are not we are not serious. Let's talk about the story over of by Courtney Eric yeah, I know that even the aviation sector only in federal government But 37 billion and the question you ask is that how did that happen if you read that to the story of Multi-choice that are developed in the course of this week. We begin to wonder at this All of us Most of us that are watching this program and those of us that are that are facilitating this program now I'm sure we pay our taxes because our taxes are deducted from the source It is pay as you are now you will begin to wonder are these people not paying their taxes Are they paying their taxes and their taxes are going and not limited to the government They are going to the pocket of private individual because you begin to wonder how would 37 we are expecting a revenue. I can't imagine that at the end of the month I know what I'm being paid by my by my employer and I'm the end up at the end of the month I'm not getting my salary yet. I'm still working and I want to the point of more than 10 years No collecting salary. That means that probably I'm helping myself out from that system So some people must have been helping themselves out with money that is due to the nation The other story that is written to that is is is the injustice and the suffering if you travel outside Nigeria You see that we are treated when you when you when you when you take airline and we are treated Luckily when you take airline by the by the airline of Proto. It's a safe. You are you are on your own. I I'm a flight was casual in 2019 till date. I have not I've not gotten a refund. I've written letters. I've written letters to Do The airline the airline they are they are not they are not giving for that the means that is now saying that We are entitled to refund even if your flight is delayed not even talk of the fight the flight the flight and be Be being being cancelled. So what's that beyond the pronouncement what step did the minister put in place to ensure that regulatory body ensure that beyond the pronouncement is is making Um Now what steps are we taking to to address that that particular issue when you travel locally? We should be we should be one of the most enjoyable express You go through everyone and it is easier for a camera to go to the eyes of the needle Then for you to Have more locally in Nigeria and enjoy your flight because flight and ensue They are dealing at we and at whims and at capises that God will will will will help us concerning that another story Is the story of a mustard passing the anti-greasing? Law and you know the southern government in the course of this week and part of their resolution Is that the state is september one is september one deadline for the passing of and let's see how it goes Whether this law will be enforced. We said there are enough. They are there. They are there. There are enough laws In in in the land that will deal with some of the socio economic issues that we have but the challenge which you have is Is is also speak on the link that's the loretta. I'll not check controversy That's that's your point. If I link that story of loretta with loretta. I'll not chase And screening with that of what the beauties government has won us with you you take probably our senators And do not have common sense. You think so That probably they don't have common this thing is is is very very clear and then most Our elected officials you think that They think we are fools It's it's clear that you cannot be a any any commissioner if you are a member of the political party If you're a member of you can just come up and wake up And tell us that I reside the membership of that party even the person that nominated that person Once that is you became the public out there's a public outcry against our nomination You will draw a nomination You will draw a nomination Is it only one that could be an example is very clear Whether she's still a member or not a member of the apc Is very very clear that she's partisan It's very very clear that she has operated a block and she has used different media platforms to project Express our partisanship And such a person cannot become an independent arbiter now if it is just now Two years to the election that you are not just cleaning a commissioner that you have appointed It protects the India that the the British government has pointed out and if the senators should go ahead to screen And Ratify and nomination I tell you they are they will be a disgrace to themselves It is grace to their family and it is grace to this nation and history We put them in the rightful place they belong to if they should take a key from the consumer The consumer was vice president in South Africa for eight years. The consumer was president for eight years today the consumer has Be gone 15 15 months jail time in South Africa People should know that there are consequences for the action If you think that they own this country and they can get away with it they should remember that Um I've got this librarian president was once a president They should also remember that a librarian president Is facing issue concerning this is misconduct while he was while he was president of of Kulliva So as far as I'm concerned, let them screen up Let them make a I like I like I like commissioner. I don't know how this president lost controversy, which is nomination There was a time when the acting I know chairman was allegedly accused of being the cousin to the To the to the president. There are there. There are millions of Nigerian will better see me than loretta Loretta on okay that that that has shown over time that this she's overtly partisan on cultures and that as you zone I don't want Mr. Mr. Jede Johnson She's used to describe people. She's used to describe the Mr. Johnson Let's now turn to security matters in Kaduna state, you know, there's been a spate of kidnappings another one Occurred on Tuesday on Wednesday rather but on the punch these people the headline reads kaduna baptist school students Parents panic as bandits threaded starvation demands 30 bags of rice amongst others also that kidnapping I mentioned that That occurred on Wednesday the bandits are demanding for 180 million Naira and regarding this one the parents say that You know, they're basically left to their face. The government is not saying anything about it And it's the school Management has asked the parents to contribute whatever they can so parents are now crowd funding amongst themselves To send money to the bandits or to send footstuffs to the bandits I mean what what story does that really tell of a country? Such as this and of the government in Kaduna And the government in the nation, you know, last week we were talking about how sophisticated We the government intercepted them And how in the in the course of the night how the dss Really the humor Sunday I think they should use that technology. They should use that intellect They should use that intelligence because how are they going to make delivery of all of these food items? to to to the bandits You call them bandits. I call them terrorists Because the is a ring of terror on the parents the government has left the parents alone You know, the governor of karnos did said he is not he's not he's not going to negotiate With with with any bandit and he even said in which is which is an indictment on his part When it was when it was when it was in tabby when he said that the bandits Is even better than the non-bikhanous non-bikhanous agitation and the rest of the what is it doing? Is he encouraging or exciting? More badly trained in the country people should know that when they are given position of responsibility They are given position of authority as a responsibility that comes with it. The opposite of responsibility is irresponsibility And he has demonstrated that is irresponsible It's an irresponsible government that will not respond to the needs of the citizenry that we left alone To handle that. We had the green fairly the green fair university students. They were kidnapped. The parents said they contributed money hundreds of millions to To to secure the release of their children and they were being blamed by the government They were left alone by the government Nothing has come out of it and the bandit will be encouraged to do to to do that and there is a consistent pattern consistent pattern Of of if it's the other way around we'll have read religious an ethnic issue into it We'll have read religious and ethnic issues into it. Where are most of these people that are kidnapped? Where are they from? What's their faith? If you begin to begin to to pigment and begin to play identity Politics that will not play in this country when when the shoes when the shoes on the other foot You begin to wonder that oh why is government not paying attention? It's it's very very clear that the level of it Intelligence garden the state of eye security is insecure and there is a high level of incompetence On the part of those that have been charged with responsibility of protecting lives and property in this country. It's a constitutional The government is is required to protect The lives and property of a citizenry when you fail to do that We should be both enough to tell them you are free So as far as i'm concerned the government of cardinal the government of cardinal state I've failed to protect the lives and property of the people in In in cardinal state the federal government of the day has failed in protecting a citizenry Can you imagine a citizen of united states of america a beauty citizen kidnapped some of them are kidnapped in In in 2019 in my degree. They said they said an american marine to come and rescue them they rescued everyone of them That's called a spade a spade It means that there is a collapse of government probably a state of emergency should be declared in cardinal And the governor should be sent home to go on to go on relax and then your point is to the administrator to look at That itself is an authentic art of democratic principle because you want democratic governors at every level, but You get whatever you are you deserve as as as As a government when you don't actively participate in the political process or when you allow the political process to be manipulated By people with selfish with selfish interest and the process is when you want to appoint someone that has a questionable character Someone that has demonstrated partisanship to become an INE commissioner. What about this year? Would that would that pressing take with respect? Johnson It's really really heartbreaking Um, you know some of these stories and of course the analysis, you know, still very very heartbreaking when Some of these facts, you know, hits you mentally, but thank you very much for this Friday morning We always appreciate it. Let me just quickly add this. You see, um, you said gory shot at imus did as of assembly Is a study that was criminality Somebody spearheaded the stealing of the coat of arms in the Niger Senate. Nobody was arrested Nobody was prosecuted. They were rewarded with a with leadership position Somebody claimed defense of the national assembly claimed the gate to jump into it. They were rewarded So when you are very long breakers and long breakers, this is the type of society We are when you reward criminality, you get this type of Society, thank you very much. Have a wonderful Friday. Thank you. Thank you. Have a great day Stay with us. So we'll take a short break when we come back. 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