 Thanks for staying with us on Kaduna Banditry. Justice development and peace characters JDPC is in a bid to cushion pains, restore hope to the victims of bandits attack. Under Kaduna Catholic Provincial Archbishop Darces, JDPC has donated relief items to internally displaced persons in Kaduna. The IDPs were victims of armed bandits attacks that forced them out of their ancestral homes for fear of being killed in the communities. The rising spate of insecurity in Kaduna state over the years has hundreds of families as internally displaced persons due to the activities of armed bandits. The recent attacks on Rubu and Kutura communities in Kadurul local government has rendered many men, women and children to IDPs. These displacements have made life very unbearable for victims despite efforts of the state government through the various emergency management agencies, among others, to support the victims. Distributed some relief items to the internally displaced persons, the JDPC coordinator Reverend Father Joshua Archer says the donation became necessary in order to alleviate hardship the IDPs are passing through without food, clothing, among others. He commanded the unrelenting effort of security agencies in addressing security challenges. He called on well-meaning individuals and organizations to come to the aid of the internally displaced persons. This is not only in cash but to find a lasting way to end insecurity and promote peace. When we get reports that people are no able to stay in their environment because it has become unsafe as a result of banditry and worldview it is a responsibility to come in to see how we are able to question the challenges of these people by providing them with both food and non-food items. Some of the victims who are the beneficiaries spoke in-house. They expressed their gratitude to JDPC for their efforts while lamenting the unfortunate events that forced them to leave their ancestral homes due to fear of attacks. It was in the afternoon and suddenly we saw his men in our community. They started shooting periodically in the air. Many were injured. They looted our food. We are deeply worried about what is happening to us now. Bandits are disturbing us. We cannot sleep. They bond to our houses and all our farm produce. Our cry and prayer is for the government to end insecurity for us to have peace in our nation. Truly we are not finding it easy with bandits. They also killed our parents. It's not an easy thing for one to leave his house and stay somewhere as an internally displaced person. Items donated to the IDPs included adults and baby clothing, rice, gari, cash among other things. Moving on, what have you heard about leprosy and people affected by it? I know right. We've all heard a lot. But did you know that leprosy is curable and persons affected are not to be isolated? Well, a group known as Voice of Humanitarian AIDS Foundation, a support group for the persons affected with leprosy is raising awareness on the need to do away with the old narrative towards people with leprosy. The group spoke in commemoration of the World Leprosy Day 2022. According to Minister of State for Health, Dr. Olorunimbe Mamora, about 18 states in the Federation are still endemic with more than 1,000 new leprosy cases yearly. He explained that a number of new leprosy cases dictated yearly has significantly dropped from over 7,000, 827 in 1994 to less than 2,020 in 2020. The Voice of Humanitarian AIDS Foundation took to the streets to match against the ostracization of people affected by leprosy and loud about changing the narrative. At her office, the National Coordinator of Voice of Humanitarian AIDS, Franca Eme Corbum shared the group's experiences on the field with people affected by leprosy. The people we, that are even speaking up for them, sometimes, you know, it wasn't easy for our families and our friends to even accept, you know, that what we are doing is not, it is not risky. They are even afraid to come close to me. They are scared that we, initially, they say, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, we don't want to hear this, your leprosy people, please. Franca maintained that discriminating against the people with leprosy in itself is a deadly disease. Already they are in pain, already they are in sorrow. We should not add to that sorrow by discriminating against them. Rather, we should, you know, come together as, you know, people of God, one nation, one love, one family. Dr. Yohann Akase is the head of infectious diseases at the Lagos Universitation Hospital in Luth. He confirmed that leprosy is not contagious. With leprosy, the truth of the matter is that over 90% of people, in fact, as a conservative, to be honest, but over 90% of people who get exposed to leprosy are not going to have leprosy. Okay? So, yes, it's not such a contagious infectious disease. In the context of how we look at contagion, that, oh, if somebody has leprosy, it touches you, you're going to get leprosy. In fact, it's well known that there are certain, you know, for lack of a better word, genetic predispositions to getting, not everybody is going to get leprosy, even if they get exposed to that. Picking somebody who has really had a deformity at that time to keep him isolated, it's, I mean, apart from the fact that it's not interrupting the general transmission, it has, you know, like you said, it entrenched the concept of stigma, denies them of being productive, being rehabilitated, and getting on with their lives, living the normal life as possible. And also generally doesn't, you know, doesn't achieve much, to be honest. Jim Mohamed is a survivor of leprosy. He was affected at the age of 19 when he gained admission into Amadou Bello University, but could not continue his studies. After using it, I barely saw any changes. That is why my mom just took me to one abalist, which we are calling Dabalao, and the man just said that this one is leprosy. The father of three recalled how he batted with discrimination. During that time, I have some challenges with some, maybe, neighbors, even in where I'm living with my mom. One of the persons that, the owner of the house, because we rented that house by then, we just say that this one, we have to remove, take it outside, because his father has ours. Then maybe you go to his father's house. Don't let me lie to you. My fate is not solely by then, because I was just thinking, asking God, why me? The survivor is the chairman of the Association of People who are affected with leprosy and the PRO of the national body. He is particular about ensuring that nobody with leprosy ends up as a beggar on the streets. Over now, Tobias has stayed with anti-crude oil theft operations by the Navy. He said to have saved the country about 15 billion naira in less than 11 months. The ad-gun flag officer commanding Central Naval Command, Rio Admiral Ubi Ibushulam, stated this while handing it over to his successor, Rio Admiral Idia Bass, in Yanugua. Just as he said, has the details. Senior officers of the Central Naval Command and sister security agents is gathered as the Navy performed its rituals for a change of command. Rio Admiral Ubi Ibushulam has served the command for 10 months and 17 days before the recent redeployment by the Navy. The Central Naval Command made many arrests of vessels and persons involved in piracy, oil pipeline vandalism and crude oil theft. One recent remarkable arrest by the command was of MTTS-4. Furthermore, the command denied crude oil thieves and operators of illegal refineries, crude and petroleum products worth over 15 billion naira. Worthy of mention 2 is the command's immense contribution to security in Bayelsa, Delta, Kugi, Imo and Anambra states, particularly during the spate of attacks by unknown gunmen and during the last Anambra state elections. The new flag officer command in Central Naval Command, Rio Admiral Idia Bass vowed to build on the successes recorded by his predecessor. I am only going to build on where my predecessor has left. The fight against illegal oil bunker and illegal refineries will continue with more vigor. My word and advice to them is they should desist. There are other means of livelihood, legal means of livelihood they can go after. If they don't desist, we will continue to go after them and we will continue getting them. And finally, River State Command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps and SEDC has said that the command will no longer condone the destruction of aquatic lives and agri-produce as a result of oil spillages orchestrated by acts of illegal bunkering in River State. The state commandant insisted that the fight against vandalism of natural resources was not at the Greeks alone but every identified illegal dumps in the state. The report here. Parading the suspect, the state NSCDC boss Abu Tamboal says the command is taking the war against illegal oil bunkering to all parts of the state. It is close that over 50 illegally refined petroleum sites have been discovered while 400 drums of illegally refined petroleum products have been destroyed in a joint operation. We have succeeded in arresting a number of suspects, trucks, buses, cars as well as boats. They were arrested at various places at illegal refinery locations in the state. 19 suspects today for you on the parade. One Nissan Primera, laden with AGO, suspected to be refined at an illegal location. Tamboal comments Governor Yesom Weke for assisting the command in the fight by delegating the local government authorities to be vigilant and report illegalities. We wish to call on the state government to help the command in intensifying its fight. We have appreciated the level at which His Excellency, Nelson Weke, has joined hands with us to instruct the local government council and the traditional council to join the fight and they are giving us their cooperation in this regard. This suspect now rates their involvement in the criminal act. I was sleeping. They just came to where I was sleeping and covered me. I had no food, but we gave it. That was where they covered me and tagged me a banker. When I'm not a banker, that's just all. I got me from a quiver instead. I'm living by a green new road, bike for the company that I'm living. I just, some people, just a few people come here this year. They just come and rent some place there to do the bunkering. All this has come in. We are still sitting. When they come, they tell all of us to lie down. When we lie down, they chain us and put us for more to take us to here. According to the NSCDC boss, the suspects are currently undergoing interrogation and will be charged to court for possible persecution. And that's all on this edition of Plus Report. But before we go, let's do remind you to please follow us at the Plus TV Africa on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. And do subscribe to our YouTube channel at the Plus TV Africa. I'm Jacinda Ubiugu. Thanks for watching.