 Welcome back to the Breakfast on Plus TV Africa. Now let's go back in history and I'll start with 2018 where there was a massive street protest in Bangladesh on this day in July 29th of 2018 over road safety. It was a series of public protests in Bangladesh advocating improved road safety and it held from the 29th of July to the 8th of August in 2018. They were sparked by the deaths of two high school students in Dakar struck by a bus operated by an unlicensed driver who was racing to collect passengers. The incident impelled students to demand safer roads and stricter traffic laws and demonstrations rapidly spread throughout Bangladesh. The government arrested several protesters and a photographer for giving an interview about a protest to international media. And of course they continue to be cracked down on student protesters which received high criticism both domestically and internationally. Hundreds of students poured into the streets demanding justice for the incident and it was later revealed that three bosses were involved in the accident. All three drivers were arrested along with two assistants. The Bangladesh police at that time filed 34 cases against protesters and arrested at least 37 of them. So I'm going to move from this Bangladesh down here to Nigeria and also point out some of the things that they were complaining about in 2018 I believe are things that we also should complain about here and that is proper systems and proper checks with regards to who we allow to drive. How many Nigerians really go through a driving test before they get a driver's license? How many Nigerians really understand traffic laws? Drive around Legos this morning, you get to a red light and some drivers if you make you feel foolish for stopping at a red light the way that they drive through it and not even care that the traffic light is red or says stop. And so I believe that there are some things that we need to. It may not be the biggest challenge in Nigeria today. In the news this morning remember I shared that a couple of youth core members died on their way to camp in road accidents. Last week we also shared about dozens who also passed on in road accidents in certain parts of Nigeria. There needs to be better and it's not because accidents don't happen in developed countries, yes they do but I believe that there need to be better institutions and systems to reduce the possibility of a road crash. Better licensing for drivers, better car and road worthiness and also better roads themselves. The amount of gallops and potholes and the likes that you see on Nigeria roads today sometimes lead to accidents and we don't need to wait for a protest before we take action and do what is right and what is necessary. This also is a good time to point out that what triggers protests sometimes cannot be predicted. The things that can lead to a massive massive nationwide protest sometimes cannot be predicted. Same thing with the end SARS protests. It had been built enough for a bit of frustration had been built enough but not very many people expected that it was the incident in Delta State that would eventually lead to the nationwide protest. And so same thing with Bangladesh, it was this particular accident that happened that of course led to the nationwide protest or students protest in Bangladesh for better road safety laws and road safety regulations. You can never tell when it will happen but it doesn't mean that there is no anger building here and there with different regards. Sometimes it might be with regards to healthcare, it might be with aviation, it might be with infrastructure, it might be with insecurity. There is anger building in certain corners and you can never just tell which one would be the particular incident that will spark the flame. That's for Bangladesh. Now let's come down here to Nigeria. In 1966 if you have of course studied Nigeria's history with coups then you would know this day 29th of July 1966. It is called the day that of course the counter coup occurred. And also in 1966 on the 15th of January there was the first coup which took place and of course which was started by Chukumak Kadunaun Zogo as it's popularly called, led to the death of Nigeria's prime minister at the time, Tafawa Belewan and 21 others. Agui, Iran C, eventually took over government after the first coup on the 15th of January 1966. This led to the coup being tagged and being seen as an evil coup mostly because according to the way that the story is told there's a lot of people who would say absolutely not but according to the way the story is told it seems like it was an evil coup because of course Agui, Iran C took over and the number of officers that were killed allegedly were from the north including the prime minister. This continued until this day, July 29th in 1966 when the counter coup took place. And this of course was led by Matala Mohamed, led to the death of Agui, Iran C and Fajui who were both in Ibadon at that time. I've read the stories, a very interesting story of how they were costed and dragged out of the house according to some of the stories that I read, taken to a forest or a bush rather and they just never made it back home alive. But there's some important aspects of this that I thought would be interesting to share and that is some of the people who were part of this counter coup. I earlier mentioned Matala Mohamed was the one who led the coup but there was also Theophilus Danjumma. I'm going to quickly share. He was a major Theophilus Danjumma at that time. He was the principal staff officer, army headquarters in Lagos. There was also Major Abba Kiari, artillery in Kaduna. Other names that you might find interesting. Lieutenant Mohamed Buwari from the Second Brigade in Lagos. There's also, what's his name now? I'm going to quickly share that name. There's also Second Lieutenant Sani Abacha who was also part of the counter coup and there's also Ibrahim Babangida. I'm trying to find where his name was written. Yes, he's also a Lieutenant of the First Reconnaissance Squadron in Kaduna, Ibrahim Babangida. I thought those names are pretty interesting to share as some of the people who carried out the counter coup in 1966 that eventually led to the death of Agui Ironsi and Fajui and a couple of others. And so when people of course talk about the persons who have been somehow, some way in Nigeria's political and governance space for many, many years, for decades, these names always come up. Either because of their involvement in one thing or the other or because of their position in Asorok or because they were military administrators at some point. But there are certain names that always come up. The Dhanjumas, the Sani Abacha, Zibabangida, the Buwaris and sometimes the Oleshe Govabasinger's always just show up here and there because of their roles in where Nigeria currently is today and shaping Nigeria's history. Sometimes because of actions that they believed were the right things to do, sometimes out of their own selfish interests, sometimes maybe just because, well, it had to happen. But they and these names will forever be Nigeria's history because of certain roles that they played and certain parts that they played at some time or the other. And I'm going back now, what I'm talking about now is as far back as 1966. The Biafran War started a year later, 1967. And of course, I said to 69 or 70, 69, I believe. 70, I beg your pardon. So, yes, today in history, 1966, and that is the counter coup led by Murtala Muhammad and Theophilus Dhanjumah, who of course were not generals at that time. Lieutenant Sani Abacha, Lieutenant, what's his name now, Mohamed Buwari. And of course, Ibrahim Babangidah were some of the other people. There was all others that were also part of it, but these were the major names that I thought to mention. Our next conversation this morning, our major conversation is on the agitations for self-determination. We're gonna be speaking with a senior advocate of Nigeria, Paul Ananaba, who will be joining us to share his thoughts on what Nigeria currently is dealing with with regards to calls for self-determination in the Southeast and the Southwest also and in other aspects. So we'll get into that right after the short break here on The Breakfast. Stay with us. Good morning once again.