 Today, on the breakfast, Nigerian unemployment rate to increase to 40.6% due to continued inflow of job seekers into the job market would definitely have further analysis on the show. Also, on the breakfast, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, says electronic collision of election results not mandatory, citing paragraph 50 to 55 of the regulations and guidelines for the conduct of the 2023 presidential election. And don't forget, we're also looking through today's newspapers analyzing the biggest stories of the day. Good morning, and welcome to The Breakfast in Plustiv, Africa, we're reaching you live from our studios right here in Victoria Island, Lagos. I am Messia Boko. Usually our conversation starts with what Nigerians are talking about, what are the stories, what's of interest to a lot of people. Now, this is quite unfortunate, I'd like that we run the track of this particular fortunate incident that happened between the three o'clock hours of yesterday or about evening of unfortunate a reputation of what had happened, okay? And on the proof, according to the reporters, I'm sure that we can roll that particular tape if we do have it. The report is saying that this building was on the proof seven-floor building under construction collapsed in Banana Island just right here in Lagos in the evening. Now, few actually sustained injury and that's according to the report that they have been treated. The government also said that no one actually lost their life, no one's dead, but this is an unfortunate incident that happened while casting was being done. Now, if you look at that, I mean it really reminds me of 9-11, real-time capturing. You could see people up there and you could see how the building was going down. A lot of people have questioned it, but the Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development put out a statement immediately. He was at the site, however, to assess the situation and flag of investigation. The agency had activated its response plan upon arrival at the scene of the incident and discovered that that seven-story building under construction had collapsed and inspection further revealed that the building was damaged by a cement mix truck which drove into the building columns. That's the report that we're getting. Now, a headcount was also carried out by the CSO who was at the site and said that it was just an adult mill that couldn't be accounted for and he's worried about, you know, you can't tell. If you run back that particular tape, if you look at it, you see, I really don't know but it's quite scary. This is a reputation of what has happened before now. We've had a collapsed structure and it's not the first time buildings were collapsing in Lagos. Another one that happened in 2021, if I'm not mistaken, it was really, really saddening and then just when we thought that we had overcome all of this, we're not going to witness this again, then this happens yesterday. It's unfortunate. But let us cast our minds back to a lot of things. If you remember vividly, if you live in Lagos or you don't live in Lagos, then you might be interested to know that because of the high number of cases of building collapse in Lagos state, the Lagos state government had passed into law the urban and regional planning development law in 2010. That's a long time, 2010. That's the planning law. The law established three physical planning and development agencies under the ministry of physical planning and urban development. You have the Lagos State Physical Planning Permits Authority, which is settled with the responsibility of processing and issuing planning permits in the state. So you ask yourself, who issued the order? This is not possible for you to have this building erected without someone being involved. Someone approve that. Now the Lagos Building Control Agency is another one that is vested with the responsibility of monitoring and enforcing building control regulations. So it's another thing to have a law. You also have a body whose duties to ensure that regulations are respected and respected to the latter. Monitoring and enforcing building control regulation, the Lagos state renewal, urban renewal agency is also another one. The responsibility of this is that it implements the state policy on urban renewal and upgrade of slums in Lagos. So there are procedures. I mean, it is not rocket science because if you behave in a setting where you can actually predict what the outcome will be, and it's just so embarrassing and very saddening. And it's really, really scary that every other time we constantly have these occurrences and what exactly is the actions that we take? Because this building would actually, there are procedures, there are standards. There's everything. You have to go through the entire procedure. There would have been a compromise. It's not possible that, you know, this actually happened for whatever excuses that we're giving down and whatever it is that we're saying. Someone has compromised at a certain level. Not to even think about 2010. So even look at 2010 since the law was actually, I mean, there was a law in place to ensure and the creation of all of this ministry, a ministry with different bodies and agencies. Three of them. How far have we fed in Lagos state with building collapse? Do we still have, you know, these as an occurrence? Yes, of course. Like we said that time in 2021, several buildings collapsed and then we're still going to say in 2023 there will be more buildings that will collapse if we don't do the need for. Now this is entirely not on the government, but all hands must be on deck. Contractors, whatever it is, the owner of the structure, it is just something that is wrong and it's not possible. Look at that. We can't continue like this and expect a different result really. It is very embarrassing and it's saddening to say. Now, however, following that particular report, it's a good thing to say that no one has, there's no casualty in terms of, you know, someone losing their life. However, we're praying that those who have been sustained injury, you know, would actually recover quickly and there should be a proper investigation to a certain proper head count of those who are actually available. If you see that people have asked question, how did this video come real time? Was it that people had anticipated? You could see people trying to run because there's no how a building is going to try to collapse without seeing the signs. So and look at all the structures around. You ask yourself, what is wrong? What exactly is wrong with following the process if there are laws? So yes, it is a failure on government, it is a failure on people, it is failure entirely on the entire system and like I said again, if we don't do the need for, if we don't do the right thing, we will continue to witness buildings collapsing, not just in Lagos, but in the entire country. So yes, this is a wake up call. Hope we can get it right and just reduce all of this incidents. It's totally unfair. Now, the next conversation is also not very exciting because just yesterday we talked about police brutality. I think that has also dominated the conversation for the past weeks and it feels like it's sometimes not going to leave our space recently. This, the fact that the police officer was seen assaulting young people, youth over money in Delta State. So this report, according to the report and investigation that we had, a bright seeking police officer who was film assaulting, he was, I mean the video, if we have that particular track, we can actually run it, where he threatened to kill the young men over 100 in Delta State. Now according to the victims, they say that the policemen had accosted them, you know, searched their vehicles and document demanded for 100 Naira and the youth refused, you know, to pay that money and the officer unleashed, you know, terror. Now in that viral clip, all police officers can be seen, you know, welding a knife, his baton, a gun, while saying, you day, Chris, that's in pigeon English, you day, Chris, are you mad? And we kill you here, you know, to terrify the youth who actually abandoned their car and ran into the bush. This is actually an amateur video. You can see what's going on right there. And I'm almost, you know, tearing at this point in time. And this happened in Delta State, the state capital. But just quickly look at that, I'm not sure we have the audio for that. You could see, you could see this. It brings a lot of tears, you know, to my eyes. But I'll try not to let it drop this morning. Okay. So that's exactly the kind of climate that we're leaving. That's the kind of society that we're leaving. Those who are being paid with taxpayers' money are treating, you know, Nigerians as animals and treating them like they don't even matter in the course of just charging your duty. I'm sure that we can do, you know, better as a people. This is really, really heartbreaking. And honestly, I really don't understand where we're headed as a people. You might also be interested to know that recently, just recently, we talked about the killing that happened of a middle-aged businessman by police officers after the disease, reportedly refused to offer him 100 naira as bribe at the checkpoints. The debt of this young man led to a serious protest in the capital. Residents actually condemned, you know, that particular act. And then again, we're talking about this. We're exactly aware of this. Where is the IGP in all of this? What is the president saying? What are the people saying? What are these governors who actually also resisted the policy of the naira redesign? What exactly are we saying with all of this inhumanity that's going on? All those sort of crude behavior that we have in the police system? I mean, just really look at that. It is so shameful. But that's what happens when you have laws and they lack of implementing. People are not paying for the crime. People, you know, because there's a lot of impunity when people are not punished for what they have done, then it continues to enthrone such behavior. And those police officers think that they can act this way and get away with it. But again, there's no how we're going to say we have laws. Because we do have laws. The problem is not that we don't have laws. We have laws that cater to all of these issues. But exactly who you asked the question, what exactly is the problem? The problem is in the fact that we do not implement the laws. And this is fanning the wings of this man. And, you know, just a reminder, you know, to police officers that your slogan says that police is your friend. But are you really the friend of the people? It's a question you need to ask yourself. In the course of discharging your duty, is it anywhere that is written in, you know, your mode of a parandhi, the guidelines, the letter of offer, whatever it is, the entire training that you have, that you have to carry out your duty in this manner. This is totally, you know, not acceptable. And I'm hoping that the relevant quarters would rise up. And these men involved in this sort of behavior, barbaric behavior, will be apprehended and made to face the law. Now, don't forget that for whatever it is, whether it's a criminal, everyone is innocent until they've been proven guilty. So exactly what exactly could be responsible for this behavior? Let's move away from it, but I will be surprised that, you know, we'll probably come back tomorrow and we're talking about another sort of inhuman treatment by police officers, those who should be maintaining the law and all the, those who should be friends of the people, but in turn have made themselves enemy of the people. Now, and also another one, which is also not interesting. I mean, usually it feels like you probably not have very exciting story every other time to talk about. It's the fact that the Labor Party presidential candidate Peter Abbe has been said to do a report saying that he was held at the Heathrow Airport in the United Kingdom after being approached by immigration officials. So this is actually not something that happened like, okay, happened yesterday and then the reporting. Now, according to a statement that was released by the Obie Darty media office that was yesterday, Obie was purportedly taken aside for copying crime like an imposter, impersonation. Now, according to the Labor Party media office, they suggested that he had an imposter in the nation. So someone apparently is impost, I mean, is impersonating Peter Abbe. Obie Darty media office confirmed that the Labor Party presidential candidate who had arrived the airport in London from Nigeria joined the queue for just necessary airport protocols when he was accosted by immigration official who handed him a detention note and told him to step aside. So this was actually reported on Wednesday, but doesn't mean that it happened on Wednesday by a Professor Ching Chinyer who's also a known mass communication expert and deputy vice chancellor of a popular university, Paul University in Oka. Now, reports say that Peter Abbe had lived in the UK and he described it, I mean, it was said that he described this professor, his ordeal, who had served alongside him as commissioner for information, for economic planning and coordinating commissioner or commission for the development partners in the private sector at the time where he was also governor. He said that Peter Abbe expressed his pain over the ordeal and incident that were intended to, you know, just, I think it's quite embarrassing if you say, but there are too many questions that are seeking for a lot of answers, begging for answers. Now, according to Professor Ching Chinyer, he was in the face of some sort of protest by Nigerians where the immigration officer revealed that someone was impersonating him because apparently if he showed up, people would have seen him. And when they couldn't, they noticed that, you know, the questioning was taking a long time. People became very concerned. It was strange for the fact that he didn't come out immediately. And I think that, you know, arose the interest of a lot of Nigerians that were there at the time. And of course that led to them saying what happened. It was just for the quick intervention of Nigerians who were available. We don't probably know what would have been the issue. But like I said, there are too many things that you want to begin to question and probe. So if you say someone is impersonating, how is that possible? Because it's not possible for you to impersonate me without my biometrics. And I mean, there's a lot of things. It's a person impersonating the name. It's a person using the picture as well. Because if you go, someone has to look at your passport and look at the face. It's the same person are using the name How can that happen without a collaborative effort? What exactly is going on? At what point was this bridge? Too many questions between the Nigerian society and including the United Kingdom. There's several questions that are begging for answers. But fingers across, we see how all of that pans out. It can't be unfortunate. You can only imagine what would happen in other parts of crime. Because if someone impersonates you, it's easy for them. The someone that has impersonated you and the problem might just be in that country committing crime in your name and with your face. So we can't for sure say if this person is like, this person cloned the passport with his face, with all of his details. That's a lot to grapple. That's a lot to wrap our heads around. But we would definitely seek answers to all of this and follow and bring you more updates and development as to this particular story. That's the size of it. We'll just take a quick break. When we return, we'll just like to run through the front pages of our national dailies. We'll call it After Press. Please stick with us.