 Welcome back to the breakfast on Plaw Stevy Africa, which I call the front pages and bring you up to speed with all of the headlines that's making the rounds a cross-bord. And we do have Akim Bola on standby who will join us in analysing some of the stories on the front pages of a national dailies. I set up with a Daily Trust newspaper this morning and find out what big stories are making the rounds. On the Daily Trust newspaper this morning, you have Bandit Imposed Levees on Sokoto Communities, Issues Ultimatum for Payment, Bandit Imposed Levees on Sokoto Communities, Issue Ultimatum for Payment, Resident Don't Trust Security Agent and Opt for Payment, Please State Government MOOM, Ex-Local Government Chairman Once Against Compliance, How Rivalry Fights Demand Notorious Zamfra Abandoned, and the final of the details on page 3. Pari Club Refund will not accept arbitrary deductions from federal government. You have the governors quoted on that. It's illegal for federal government to pay fuel subsidy from federation account, Sanusi is quoted, and just before we move away from the Daily Trust newspaper, you also have abduction, over 12 million children traumatised, afraid of going to school. President Mohammad Buhari is quoted on that. You also have another head is saying, Buhari's exit will end Nigeria's crisis, Afeni Farah is quoted on that as well. That's on page 6. Anxiety is a pure court delivers ruling on secondary suits tomorrow. That's also another header on the Daily Trust, you find information on page 40. Alright, now to the Daily Independent. Big story there says plots to halt PDP National Convention thickens. Party may exit equity, and another state over conflict in delegates says it does not expect court ruling to put convention at risk. Forex scarcity hampering our operations, and that's from manufacturers. Some APC leaders will defect to PDP soon, says Bukola Saraki. It says also it's illegal to pay petrol subsidy from federation account, Sanusi. CJN vows to read judiciary of bad eggs. We can also find on the Daily Independent, federal government moves to end casualisation, blames banks and oil firms over practice. Anambraa Gubernatorial, 81,778 newly printed PVCs available for collections as INEC. Still on the Daily Independent, Buhari links insecurity to inequalities and unfair policies. Anambraa Gubernatorial election, IGP deploys two DIGs, five AIGs, 14 CPs, 31 DCPs and 48 ACPs. Those are the stories on the Daily Independent. Let's move away from the Daily Independent and check out the leadership newspaper this morning. The board caption says, a meat rising in security. IGP deploys 100 DIGs, AIGs, CSPs for Anambraa Guvernorship poll. It's on page four. President Mohamed Buhari was investors and promised good returns. That's what you find. Another header says, Chief Judge of Nigeria asks judges and lawyers to punish self-overwrought. That's also captioned on page eight. And federal government to harmonise workers' salaries in December. It's on page six. Fails subsidy will be removed in July 2022. That's what the federal government is quoted to say. And women can rescue Nigeria from current challenges. Akira Dulu is quoted on page nine. And explosion rocks or your correctional centre. Find more information on page two. Legal battle dims as PDP's hope of successful convention, you know, comes through. That's what you also find on the leadership newspaper. That's the much we can take on the leadership today. Pick up a copy. I'm sure you get all of the information. Now to the punch. Federal government lists Desyani's buildings, jewellery, bras for sale, values, bodies, mansions, suspect wedding gowns, invisible bras, and 64 pairs of shoes for sale, 1,620 items including cars, houses, phones, laptops, and vessels listed. Poor transportation and poor facilities killing Nigeria's manufacturers, says additional. NNPC, marketer's imported petrol figures under Buhari and Jonathan, says a Sanusi. And we can also find on the punch, 22 governors apply as federal government begins model ranch funds disbursement next week. Ocean police for understanding as protesting retirees, short state secretariat. And Buhari's exit in 2023, solution to Nigeria's problem, says a fennefer. Iketi Headsman bags life imprisonment for grazing on Kassava farm and shooting owner. PDP hints of NNPC meeting if a pill court stops convention. And we can also find there, Rigby Sholashon's, a condays meeting with APC elders, caucus, as a police defuse bomb found at attacked or your prison. Those are the stories on the punch news papers this morning, pretty interesting. And of course, you may have spotted the PDP's national convention discussion all over the papers this morning. It seems like they still haven't, or they dare as a party still haven't been able to settle all the underlying issues that they might have. And of course, that includes which a second is still going to court. I'm not sure how this will really affect their chances in 2023 and also at the state level. But we'll see how it goes. Pretty interesting story with the, what was it called now, the Desiani on the punch news papers this morning. It says there federal government lists Desiani's buildings, jewelry and bras for sale. Those bodies mansions. It says also suspects, wedding gowns, invisible bras, what's an invisible bra? I was going to ask you. I should be asking you. I have no idea. Invisible bras. But, you know, so there's actually a market that means that, you know, people can actually go out there and want to buy. You know how you have, I really. I'm not sure if these are things that, you know, you can point out as proceeds from corruption. These are very personal things. Yes, absolutely. And I understand jewelry and property, you know, maybe even cars, you know, and some of all of that. But, you know, if you go all the way down to shoes and bras, I don't know, you know, if, I really, it's just maybe, of course, you know, if a demon like him, well, you know, he'll be able to explain better, you know, but it's an ongoing conversation concerning the fight against corruption. So, you know, I'm guessing that the federal government understands what they're doing and they understand that some of these things are likely where proceeds from corruption, as she's been accused of. Also, you know, some of the things that I've made headlines this morning, A.K.T. Headsman bags life imprisonment for grazing on Cassava farm and shooting owner, which is, you know, a very interesting story. And the reason is we've had, you know, numerous conversations in the last couple of years concerning what the government really is doing to, you know, end the insecurity, to put its foot down and let, you know, people know that the government will, you know, always and always, you know, fight insecurity, regardless of what, you know, the reason behind it is, you know, farmers had a crisis, you know, tribal, you know, clashes, you know, that you would hear every now and then in some communities, and they're born, you know, in Crossover, you hear about some of these things every now and then you hear that 10 people were killed, you know, in communal clashes, but you never get to hear that people were arrested and people have been sentenced to jail. And so it's important, I believe, that we start to ensure that people who have found guilty, some of these things, houses that were burnt in some communal clash, or maybe, you know, bandits that attacked a village and you have some of them arrested, they should be made to go through the justice system and be sent to jail or to prison, or whatever, if it's a death sentence that, you know, their crimes attract, then they should. And when we continue to, if as a country we fail to prosecute every single crime like this, from arson to communal clashes, anything that has an effect on the value of the Nigerian life and Nigerian property that is not punished, creates space for more and more people to commit those crimes. And that's why you might read in the papers that 22 people were killed in, I don't know, Nigeria is the only place you hear about communal clashes and people just move on on a Monday morning, you know, that 18 people were killed in Eboni or in Cross River or in Aqaibam. And we just move on on a Monday morning as okay. There's never a follow-up to say that, you know, the persons that, you know, were responsible for those that's the villagers, you know, the youths in that community have been arrested, they will be prosecuted, they will be sent to jail, they will be, you know, whatever it is that the law prescribes for those acts. And that's, you know, you're very correct. And that's because we constantly, because we don't have arrest, there's no arrest, no one has been punished. Or however, even if arrest is made, to what extent would you say justice has been served? All of this constantly emboldens all of those committing all of this crime. So, and that's why you constantly find a reputation of it. So with a country until, I feel like sometimes we're not even ready. We're not even ready to, you know, to do the things that we want to do. Because it's not that we don't understand what we should do. But I just feel like we just don't want to do it. There's no will to do it. Because at the end of the day, we have love tea, we have love tea, what's it called, laws, policies of government. We have several, you know, agencies and all what have you. But what happens when you come to the point of implementation? Now, the security, let's even stay with security issues and concern. You would also want to agree with me that the issues of security are encompassing. So, yes, you find peculiar issues. There are issues of boundary dispute. Up until now, I mean, from 1960, up until this time, you want to trace it back. You find out that there are still issues that are still lingering. How come we haven't come out with solutions that we can, you know, I mean, sustainable solutions, solutions that would be long lasting, that can solve the problem once and for all? So, we still have some of these issues lingering. You have the issue of, because now, if you look at some of the crises that were faced with, a lot of persons are marginalized. Some people feel that we're not carried along. Some people feel very agitated. And so, all of that, you also have the issue of unemployment as well. So, they're really encompassing. You have the issues of conflict. You also have, you know, religious issues and all of the clashes. But how come we're not addressing these issues? We're not going to the root of them because that's the only way to solve the problem. So, it feels like we're about the symptoms. These are manifestations of these issues. And so, we just try to see how we can, you know, take care of the symptoms. But the root cause of all of this, we're not paying attention to them. I understand the narrative that the justice system, you know, may not, you know, be as interesting, you know, and as juicy as it should be. And that's why a lot of people don't trust that, you know, if you go to court, you will get a favorable ruling and you would get justice for some of these crimes. But the Nigerian government continuously needs to ensure that it makes it clear that the response to, what you call them, not coming to clashes now, border disputes, the response to farmers and headers, you know, issues with, you know, with feeding their cattle should never be murder. It should never be taking, you know, a Nigerian life simply because a cow was killed. It should never be taking a Nigerian life because you're having border issues between two communities that have existed for a long time. And that's what the government needs to continuously ensure that it makes clear to every single Nigerian, the, you know, unknown gunmen that we've heard about for, you know, in the Southeast and across the country for a very, very long time, you would expect in the same society that the ones who burnt this police station, the ones who burnt that Inek office, the ones who, you know, murdered Dr. Chike Akunyili, you know, somehow have been arrested. You would expect that the government would continuously ensure that those people are found, you know, arrested, they are put through the justice system and they are sentenced to whatever it is that, you know, they deserve. But when you fail to do that, and that's why it's been weeks now, Dr. Chike Akunyili's murderers have still not been found. There's still no news that tells us that, oh, these are the people who committed this act and they have been arrested. And so we, very likely as a country, are going to move on and say, well, it's unfortunate that it happened. Exactly. And so when you, when those type of things happen, it creates, you know, the boldness for other criminals and other criminal groups to say, well, you know, if all these things, if that village was burnt, if those two police officers were killed and nobody was arrested, I might as well do the same thing. Let's also, let's also even talk about, what's it called, the recent attack on the trail, you know, the rail lines, the tracks and the clips. Exactly. How come we're having a pre-handed dose who committed this crime? Because they live in a space. Now, it brings me back to the conversation of saying security, I want us to move beyond. I'm hoping that we can move beyond saying security, you know, as everyone's concerned, it's not about government, when you see something, say something, because it has become a cliché, it has become a phrase for us. And so we just mouth it, but there is no doing to that path. And then that's because the people who commit this crime, the people who commit all of this crime leave with us. This people are not spirit. This people are our brothers, they are our sisters, they are our uncles, aunties. You want to go on with the lease, our neighbors. So it starts from there. Now we understand the fact that some people would say, oh, we cannot report crimes to the police because we do not trust the police. Now, you want to also talk about the fact that, yes, the police also has a responsibility role to play. I'm hoping that with all of this protest and all that's going on, the Nigerian police should sit back to say, how do we redeem our image? How do we now gain the trust of the people? And that's what brings the issue of, I'm sure you would want to agree with me also that sometimes those who commit jungle justice would say, oh, that's because the law would not take its course. We don't trust the justice system. We don't even trust the entire police system. And so let's take the laws into our hands. So the fight against security is encompassing. I'm thinking that we as a people have a role to play as well. We need to begin to say, there are a lot of things we need to begin to say because these people live around us and these things happen and then we keep quiet. You see somebody who is doing something you're not reporting. And then when you report what happens, somebody is snitching on you. They would come back and attack you. So I'm hoping that we get to a point that the sincerity of heart were very sincere and we're ready to tackle this issue. But up until then, I'm not sure we're going to get it because the government has a role to play. We have a role to play. I would say it's a 50-50 if you ask me. I'll say it's a 70-30, anyway. In Anambra State, on the Daily Independent, it says there are a number of argumentary elections. IGP deploys, and listen once again, two DIGs, five AIGs, 14 CPs, 31 DCPs, and 48 ACPs for one election. I'm not sure what we're going to do in 2023, but that's a later conversation. As we get closer, I'm sure that they will have figured out how to spread more of these security and police AIGs, DEIGs, ABCs, XYZs across the country in order to ensure that the 2023 general elections are safe. But here's the thing. We had a conversation yesterday. Unfortunately, it wasn't long enough to understand exactly what needs to be done in Anambra State. When we see stories like this, I feel like as a people, we should be ashamed that this is what is required to have just one election. Just one election requires this number. It says about 30,000 policemen will be sent to Anambra for just one election. And I think that we should be ashamed as a country that this is where we found ourselves. And if over time, I mentioned Dr. Chiquay Akunili, if over time, the Nigerian police was able to arrest every single person, find every single person who's responsible for the crime and for the insecurity in those parts of the country, you wouldn't need to send 100,000 policemen to a state for just one election. Because over time, in the last couple of weeks and last couple of months, you would have been able to gather enough intelligence. You would have been able to at least stop these criminal gangs and these criminal groups, regardless of what they are backing it is, IPOB, ESN, or maybe just mere criminals. You would have been able to do it, but we haven't. And that's why we need 30,000 policemen. We need 18 DIGs and 47 CPs and 98 ACPs and the likes for just one election. The conversation about, I think it was yesterday we were speaking about Saturday schooling in the Nambra State and how, you know, I said it, and I've said it over and over and over that it really has continued to show that the governor and the governance in the Southeast has completely failed. And the only reason that they are still there is because, well, there's nothing, you know, people of the Southeast are not able to vote out people or the State House of Assembly are not able to, you know, kick governors out of office. But it shows that they have failed if the governor is thinking about Saturday schooling because he no longer can control people in Nambra State or Mondays and tell them and assure them that they are safe to come out. He obviously cannot control them also on the election day and tell them that they are safe to come out on election day and vote. It's a really, really sad, sad picture. So it reminds me of, you know, the lyrics in one of Bono Boyce's song. He talks about the monster that we have created, unfortunately, that monster is, we're faced with that monster now. And how we're going to take it off is also another question because we can't kill it. If you kill it, you're killing the people. Now, so one would actually think that because yes, we had this conversation yesterday. And for me, one of the concern is if, a lot of people are saying, let's have conversations, let's come to the table and have a dialogue. But how do you now have a dialogue with someone you have tied an enemy? You have already prescribed a terrorist. But however, government is a very powerful, you know, institution anywhere in the world. Government is very, very powerful. And I'm thinking that it is within their powers, you know, to ensure that there is peace, you know, there is protection of lives and properties, that which obviously they have actually failed. And it calls for a lot of concern. One would expect that with all of these things that's going on, some persons are feeling agitated. Some people are saying, oh, this is what it is. And instead of you to listen to the appeal and listen to the complaint, and say, okay, what exactly are you saying? You're saying we did this and that. Can we find a way to solve this problem? Or rather, we're just thinking that, you know, the fire approach, it's the best way out. It is really, really sad. I mean, look into the number of please. Now, what is the guarantee? Because over time, I'm thinking that for every time we have an election, at the end of every election year, we're supposed to have a review. We're supposed to sit back and say, okay, where did we get it right? Where did we get it wrong? And see on how to, we can improve. Because at the end of the day, if you have all of those analysis and sit back on the table, then it would help you, you know, to take better decisions and improve the next election. Now, one of the things that have actually caused political apathy, the fact that a lot of people don't turn up for elections over the years, is the fact that our elections are totally militarized. Because of that, it scares a lot of people. I mean, sometimes you go out, you see the police officers, you see them with the guns, you see everyone, almost everybody's there, the customs, you see everybody out there. And so that's really, really. So for us to, one would expect that at every time we have an election, government will say, okay, where did we get it wrong? Why did people not come out? Rather than, you know, sit back on the drawing board or sit back on the table and look at the drawing board and ask all of those valid questions, you see how we can improve the elections. We're still doing the same thing, the same thing over and over again. I can't really, you know, pick points, but at the time, the 2017 elections in Anambara State recorded about 400 and something thousand persons that voted. No actual figures right now, but about 400 and something thousand. This is not, we're not talking about number of registered voters. We're talking about number of valid votes casted. We're not even talking about number of votes that were casted, you know, because you have invalid votes and you have, you know, valid casted votes. So I don't know, we're also, you know, via INEC they have said that we have over 2.5 million persons who have registered about that. Now, you know that that number and those who would turn out also would be a different thing. I don't know if we're still going to record, you know, we're going to have that kind of number that we had in 2017 that saw Obeano emerging as the governor of Anambara State. So I don't know when we're going to reduce, you know, the present. And I want to say you can't have, but we need to reduce it because constantly we find that our elections have been, you know, militarized and with all of that numbers and people will ask you, so we have all of these police officers, how come we have not deployed them to all of these areas, you know, that need security attention at this point in time? It's important. Anyway, we'll take a short break when we come back a little bit of history for you. We're telling you something that happened today, really sad day in football, you know, where the helicopter crash led to the loss of life that of course shook the world. And then run after that, our first major conversation for today here on The Breakfast. Good morning.