 Welcome back. It is the breakfast and plus TV Africa of the press and mercy. You have that covered All right, we will start off with the leadership newspaper this morning on The press and of course GD Johnson will join us in no time to make sense of all of the headlines that we do have Looking at the front page of the leadership newspaper this morning. Let's find out what the board caption says Despite military onslaught bandits killed 454 kidnapped 1239 in five months Talking about insecurity. That's the board caption on the leadership. You've got several riders 996 terrorists surrender 258 killed in North East and North West in two weeks Defense headquarters is quoted on that no rest for you until Nigerians enjoy peace President Muhammad of Hari tells security chiefs Away from that Nigerian needs 207 billion Naira for digital sensors and pieces quoted on that you also have I bought Okay, quite not not a service not important But we'll just let that slide corruption in security remain Nigeria's walls. Mogalu has quoted on that and you also have Fashola Malami open completed Chokotu Tamboa Jagar Road This is some of the headlines on the leadership news before this morning All right from the leadership will move on to the daily independent a number up whole confirms 2023 not under threat. That's according to the president Muhammad of Hari With a rider there gives fresh marching order to service chiefs to crush bandits and surgeons Re-alignment below the pictorial there are realignment in a PC favours tinnables Preston show bid Then just below that on a red strip a wall over a zero oil Advocate takes about at any PC above the must-have. There are some stories there That's more than let's see who can take some of them Federal government may apply stifa sanctions against oil firms degrading Niger Delta beside that particular story are you vows to pro PDP past administration over a 11.8 billion Naira Other stories on the daily independence this morning a IG garba booba Omar emerges Interpol vice president from Africa Investigate a lead stealing of allu of worries crown. I hear he tells RGP So I'll do the levers Ibex share a Lagos Holmes project arts 480 homes to house and stork, you know, those are the stories you can find on the front page of the daily independence this Friday morning Let's move away from the daily independence and check out the daily trust news before this morning Bandits occupy Kaduna Abuja Road or prays for four days That's a bold caption on the daily trust still in security Sack more Niger communities Torch from Lance and Zamfara rider the first rider day eight victims rescued. Please neutralize ring leader Buhari direct hot chase as military deploys troops and Away from the banner caption and the security consents prop PDP's missing 11 billion 11.8 billion Naira ex-party chair tells EFCC your Kassai IBM Haruna to Buhari don't pardon canoe That's also another banner captioned this morning and you have 14 million out-of-school children Potential Boko Haram recruits. That's what the former president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Lu Shagun or Bassondra is quoted to say Robert disguised as fuller knee header rested in Ogun and troops kill 128 Bandits in two weeks. This is some of the headlines on the daily trust news before this morning And finally, it will be the punch for Russia this morning the lead story for this morning's subsidy Federal government may deduct 2.5 trillion Naira polity from federation account plans talks There are riders there states provide lists of 42 million beneficiaries of 5,000 Naira Lagesse monthly government most fixed refineries before removing subsidy Pengason insists or the stories on the punch above the must-have we have Boko Haram has Ready to use from today's 14 million out-of-school Children, that's a Bason Joe from a present saying Malami a row head of EFCC's move against Obyano a number alleges Nigeria air federal government to float IPO begins operations with three planes fuel wealth 287 billion Naira lost in seven months According to the NNPC-Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation There's a pictorial there the Lagos housing project at the capture. There is a Lagos plan in 3400 housing units for workers. That's according to the governor Sun Wulu trafficker caught with 2.7 billion Nair cocaine claims one million Naira reward for mothers eye problem Okay comedian the busway buried as family Islamic clerics disagree Also, we are kidnapped or we are kidnapped raped while traveling to Libya says 21-year-old returning another story there Policio mansion super exotic cars how Niger's fake investment gurus leave in luxury while victims Lament there's a roller stories. You can find on the front page of the punch newspaper this morning Alright, we have a GD Johnson Stand-by and together we'll be looking at some of them the stories are making headlines mercy. You want to lead GD Johnson. Thank you so much for joining us It's a pleasure to be with you messian. I'm yours. All right. All right. So just yeah, thank you so much Let's start off with the leadership news before this morning and On the leadership you have the issue of the onslaught despite the onslaught by the military feels like bandits still You know succeeding as they kill 454 kidnapped one thousand two hundred and thirty nine in five months. I mean this is according to the accounts of the leadership If you see the account of the leadership Which is a flagship newspaper and that is story from the Northern perspective and then you lead a story with what we have in a really trust which is a flagship Nearsweeper that gives story from the Northern perspective. You have the story bandits of a bike at Napa Jal road But wait for 40s. I'm not my job. It is touch farmland You you discovered us Insecurity is a major issue affecting us now and desperate all over Parts and parcel of this country. I raised this question that the critical military infrastructure of Nigeria is a cardinal the administrative head of the critical military infrastructure of Nigeria is in Abuja and the critical political infrastructure of Nigeria is in Abuja and if we can not with all of this infrastructure provide the safety corridor between Cardinal and Abuja then something is wrong. We cannot We cannot provide safety corridor for the whole of Nigeria because if all those critical infrastructures are there and here we are having banditry We are having surgeons as far as I'm concerned. Those are terrorists. They are not they are not they are not bandits We are just keeping to the gallery and if you check the writer of the story in the daily process Direct or chase as many to deploy troops now was the president I read I think that in the last six years, there have been complaints and clumsiness in the service teams probably when we change the service team They bring in your hands the fight against the surgeons the fight against bookworm and the rest of you will be able to win the war we Is it until we hold people accountable to the vote of office this war before they are when they are elected And when they make our main promises, we will not make progress in this country We will not make progress the first responsibility of any government is to defend protect his citizen both from internal and external aggression Protect lives and property and defend the territorial integrity. We have a situation in Nigeria where Flags of ice work will be risk your community will be sad and where Taxes are being collected by non-state actors by non-state agents and then you wonder do we have Security agencies do we have intelligence communities and why can and how can government not be able to need this issue in the board? It's it's it's unbelievable that you take every now and then the president the president will Will we will be direct? We struck that you know, no sleep, you know, it's it's just it's just I don't want to use They're really they're really back for the office of the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria because it is not the person It is it is the office which represents us which represent you and you are you and I People should be held accountable and that's my take on this on this issue No, none of us can travel freely as we used to travel across across that people should be a gem of themselves And we should use the proper time to clear these people terrorists They claim them a citizen of no nation unless deal with this particular issue so that International police agencies can arrest now we read the story of a Niger be in a general IGP Being appointed as a vice president of Interpol you must deal with this security We can't deal with it with with key gloves now the Is a general of the British? Allied command during the second world is that there are three forces that you need to win the war He said one you need the physical force you need the moral force and then you need intelligence force Now we want to win the war against insurgency with physical And I ask before these attacks are carried out what are the level of intelligence that we gather? What is the state of intelligence? What is intelligence in the first instance intelligence is process information Information that you have collected that you have distilled and your process and I have interpreted to make sense to make sense to make sense out of it every now and then Is security issues and the tree kidnapping? Maming of Nigerians that that that we have it's it's okay But but Jida Johnson has a follow-up to that the defense headquarters is saying that 996 terrorists have surrendered and we should you know expect some level of reduction with all of the crime and Criminality today surrender or should they be prosecuted? I'm asking you now what they surrender to the military hierarchy They should be handed over to the police for prosecution. We must do things right I mean look You put up an attitude that criminality pays you encourage criminality when you begin to call people that have rendered Nigerians by the Nigerians homeless that are separated family from one another There are sucked communities that have destroyed economic Investment of other Nigerians and you call them repentant. You call them repentant beach link that story with us General over said he said 14 million out of school children is a potential danger is a potential recruitment army For Bukhara and government must wake up to his responsibility If government cannot wake up to his responsibility the options. This is how you resign or you're impeached These are these are these are basic instruments that are provided for in democratic governors Those are democratic principles Can we say that it is safe to travel in Nigeria? I was listening to The plenary of the of the of the National Assembly yesterday when one has owner one has a representative member I'm complaining about a security in the country that they can't travel to their constituency And this is a serious is a serious issue We must have a coordinated approach and people must be accountable Who is the local government chairman of this area? Who is the SSS director of that state? Who is the SSS person in the local government? Who is the ICDC person? Who is the divisional police officer? Nobody has been held accountable. Nobody has been sat. Nobody has been queried. It's just as business as it should They know that we will talk because we love talk shop and they can we will have a say but they will have their way It's unfortunate. All right. All right, Mr. Johnson The talk of fuel subsidy is still gathering more momentum and that most stories are you know the breaking concerning that by disease It's unfortunate that we are still We talk about subsidy in this age and time And And I'll put the blame I'll put the blame on us that works in the media industry Our responsibility according to section 22 of 1999 constitution as amended is that we shall be the watchdog And we shall hold government accountable I want I should report stories of substance. Is there subsidy? The media should investigate whether we actually pay We are told that subsidy has been removed. And that's why the pump prices of petroleum product was taken away from 97 to 145 from 145 to 165 who is fooling who and then if you're going to pay 2.4 palliative is that a subsidy? He's just playing on grammar federal government deduct 2.4 million trillion for federation states I've already compiled the list of the beneficiary I didn't come about the 42 million Where do they compile the list where did they compile the list? How do they compile the list you recall the issue of trader money? Where is trader money? The trader money before the election now we're not having this that they are going to give 5,000 to poor What are the indices that they used to determine? And those that are not poor Now this particular government came into power promising to fix the refinery and they fix the refinery We said the oil in crude form And that's why we have crude thinking They have crude government and we have crude policies because the natural resources that God has given to us Which is crude oil which we need to process We did not process because we have good administrators that have crude policies and crude government and as a result of that the people will suffer the goodness of Ineptitude of people that we have charged with with restaurants Where is this money coming from? Telling that story because it's an economic story Telling that story and a later story with what the National Population Commission is saying that we need two more and seven billion For digital sensors two and seven billion they should share that money to every Nigeria At least at every Nigeria we have we'll have them we'll have them a minimum of one million or two million Naira From these two But two and seven billion dollars to do sensors So they should just put the money in one bank and let people go to the bank and collect the money with their bf Then we know we don't need any to do any digital Nigerians will be direct beneficiary or government spending money That cannot be accounted that cannot be accounted What they mentioned this morning He began to wonder but we said we are taking lose. Where are we going to get all this money to do all of all of all of these things God will help us in Nigeria, but we need to help ourselves by holding them But holding them for holding them accountable because I don't know where they are going to get this 400 million You lead that story with Lagos state story Lagos is planning 3,400 housing units for workers How many workers do they have in work if they are with three thousand four Four thousand housing units for workers. What about the citizens? What about the citizens? I have said is this people are playing to the gallery When Babatakon they build his own house He built his own house in such a way that the poor And the middle-class will access it. There were no computers there Computers were not in existence. You can't have the federal house and have the state house You and you can't buy two you can't you can't buy two of those take on the take on the estate You can't you can only get one There were no computers technology has not developed to what it has developed to now But you know what they do with the housing project of Lagos state. It's a racket. You can quote me on that It's a racket and purchased from for Lagos homes The houses were actually sold It was not done based on what we were told when they want to do it now You have a situation whereby government will use state resources to build the houses and public officials and elected officials Will use state resources to acquire this property and sublet these houses To to to order individuals to order individuals. There's no transparency in any housing policies that you have in Lagos state I can say that very far Then the governor is so proud to say that they are going to do 3,000 housing units These people they have no shame at all. They have no shame at all 3,400 units for workers All right, let's also look at the leadership newspaper I'd like to ask you. Do you agree with Morgan? He says that Corruption and insecurity Remains an injurious war Well, what are what was the campaign team of APC in 2015? that The trust on their campaign in 2015 was to do us to fight corruption And to provide security You see these people when they want to seek election They will use this buzzword to try to convince us and you want you all to understand the fact that the principles of marketing Communication have been taken into political communication. So the way you sell products and services We have also designed and developed means of selling candidates of selling parties of selling of selling illusion And you know what? Madison Avenue makes money from illusion The advertising industry the marketing communication industry Makes money from creating illusion working on your perception through persuasive communication And this political class they develop even better than the marketing communication people that they sell us illusion They sell us different solutions The trust of this administration is that they will fight corruption And that the issue of insecurity will be dealt with. What is the state of this security in Nigeria? Is there the pages of newspaper? What will be the reality of this administration is what we have in the newspaper You do a content analysis of the newspaper in the last in the last six years And let's see the story that dominated the front page of the newspaper. It's a security So it's this core card of the administration and you see the issue of corruption also been there It will be different people now. So history will place this administration in the rightful place And Mogalu that is campaigning that is corruption is corruption and marks people when people are campaigning for election Let them come with the template look at the story That they gave in one of the newspaper that the alignment in apc favors to no boost precedence Is that should that be a story in the front page of a newspaper? That is not a new story. It is an opinion And the opinion was was placed in the front page of the newspaper as a new story What's my business with whether the alignment or no realignment or in the apc favors favors to know The alignment is that's a new story or an opinion And that's one of the areas in which my industry has done the service to this to this country Should you know who you are in himself to be president of Nigeria? This set of 99 politicians, what have they done? And you access that these questions are these characters These are the characters that you want as even declared his intention to be the president Well by the media now becomes the marketplace if you want to write an opinion put your opinion inside the pages And let's know that it's a sweet house. It is opinions and the articles not a new story So it is it is letting declare his intention when he declines intention We deal with that we ask questions What are the 10th? What is economic policy? And then we use this call card of them when you are governor of Kora state and the senate president You you have been the godfather of Lagos state What have you done in Lagos state when it's racing Lagos state whenever you can drive your car? I'll ask you that question Will you accept Westerns we cannot be fooled again and we can't fold our hands We will not be taken to the gallery on the basis of people writing stories Packaging packaging feature articles as news stories All right, Mr. Johnson another story that you know made them front page of Daily Independent is The Niger Delta federal governments may apply stifle sanctions against oil firms degrading the Niger Delta Government does not need to do that. They don't need to say that you go ahead with your policies Why we stifle why what what the the people charge with responsibility of supervision and monitoring dates of monitoring the sector once we get to the point of bringing out the Once you use the counter domestic approach Unless you use the the the sledgehammer approach for public policy When you are when you do what you are supposed to do at the right time you get the result you want to get Government may apply stifle sanctions once you get to the point of applying sanctions before public policies are implemented before enforcement Of public policies are carried out Just in a maximum Must you be sanctioned for you to come to this? um To the studio this morning to come on set to do this program Nobody you are not forced to wake up from your bed. You know, it's a duty. It's your duty You have to be on set same for for messy. You have to be on set You are not pressured to be on set. You are not forced to be on set Sanction was not used against you But it's a call to duty and those that we have charged with the responsibility of public governance Enforcement of public policy should not be pressured to they shouldn't be telling us They are you see the way these people exposes. They are they are ineptitude It's it's unbelievable. It's unbelievable All right, let's also still stay with the daily independent news before this morning Looking at the statement of mr. President That the anambra election confirms 2023 not on the threat of course There's been a lot of talk prior to that time that the what would be the outcome of that election Would be a reflection of what will happen in 2023. What are your thoughts? We can't use up cycle election to introduce the election election took place in an ambra state in 21 local government They're talking election in 97 or so before local government And 36 state of the federation including the federal capital territory We are talking about the heistic election election across the national assembly state as our assembly State as an assembly The president governor election. So this takes a higher than what we have in an ambra state Even the one we had in an ambra state We saw it has took the deployment of massive security agencies across but to get that election The fed and then we saw one issue that came out with inconclusive election And we have said yes, it didn't your strength. There's a trigger strength in inconclusive election May never happen during presidential election in such a way that we have an election that has been conducted on the day of the election And we couldn't announce the result because election couldn't take place in some state of the federation and as a result of that We declared the election in inconclusive And you have this Small margin between the leading candidate between the two leading candidates in that election. What do you think will happen? So as far as An ambra election has come it has gone Was okay the turnout where we can improve on that. We see what happened in Itaewon state in 2022 And we see the preparedness the level of preparedness of ineg and whether ineg is fully prepared concern in the election And when it comes to electoral matters, it's not even the responsibility of the president to talk about the elections You have responsibility of the ineg to talk about the election The president should talk about governance and leave the issue of election into ineg It's anything that would talk about based on what we have seen this word will happen in 2023 That's why it's called independent national electoral commission But some of us have argued that it's not independent because the the the section in the constitution that Made provisions for ineg is under what is called a certain executive body It's a the certain example and that's why some of us have planned more that they should take the The independent national electoral commission should be taken to the judiciary and north And not the executive that should be taken to the judiciary So hopefully we hope and pray like the Probably that what we have in an umbrella where people are turning down money and putting according to conscience and we allow the will of the people to prevail we We actually affect then the 2023 elections so that we have that scenario and Something positive we have on concerning that election relating that story to Another political story is the is the threat up by the national chairman and the newly elected national chairman of PDP in the person abuse Yasha, are you saying that you will you will you will investigate them? You missing 11 billion for spending 11.8 billion and I've said this over time that People don't know the kind of corruption that goes on within the party system If the party system is corrupt, which is the foundation for public governance if the party system is corrupt The comment that the party system will institute with the corrupt When parties don't respect their own constitution where they don't follow their own process and procedure when they get to They will not follow process and procedure Down by the constitutional level. Where do they get their money from they call the money from I fees the collective for nomination. You could see that in apc now you have a contraption You have an unbelievable arrangement whereby a governor is still the character committee committee chairman the power of the national chairman is to path Who said is a federal system of government? It is the responsibility of our chairman on signing who becomes governor of the ghost state That should be for the party people in legal state to decide it should be limited to the voters And the party hierarchy of people in legal state safe or cannot So for my local government should be limited to my local government not for not for the state So we must practice democracy in the way that should be done And you know barista every barista In the barista sang was up. He said let us practice democracy in the way you should be done You need to listen to that music. It's called realities. He said let us practice and he sang that song more than more than 35 35 years ago. He said Nigeria Nigeria, which year are we going? From for us to have a kind of democracy. We want we must practice the democracy. Where should we practice? Now you have a situation now apc has postponed their own Congress till till February next year because the office of national chairman is powerful Why what consumed Adam Soshimale? It was the issue of money or no money Corrosion What would party be collecting 25 million 35 million 55 million for people that want to contest election? You are always preparing them to go and steal money The nomination fee and when they sell the nomination fee you collect money from candidate a candidate a candidate Is that we are going to give you tickets? That's why you have different types of litigation affecting it They will promise five candidates collect money from five candidates and then they will be substituting them doing all manners of Shady and shenanigans. And that's why you have this level point eight billion This level point eight billion digital. I'm giving it to you. Look over or should I go back to government? We hope It's not grand standard That they will look into the into the matter and then those that are coupling should be sent to jail And she face the music and let the judicial process Thanks. All right. Thanks Mr. Johnson an number is still in the news. Aside from the election and of course The state being used as yastic for the 2023 election the case of um the the governor obiano is still Resounding malamy arrowhead of efcc's move against obiano a number alleges People should not for it himself in these off-cycle election. Yes, he went after first Yes, he went after this. I have asked you what kind of judgment as efcc caught him against all these governors they've gone after I'm asking you and then I said that it's economic One of the responsibility of efcc is to prevent some of these things from happening It is not only about prosecution It's about intelligence garden And it's for them to maintain financial intelligence and financial compliance with with them with financial rules and Beyond going and arrest after they've committed the crime. What is efcc? What are the operatives doing to prevent such? You know, uh, we call obi is a question is a uh, madame due process because you have the due process At that talks about how contract can be a word our dead in government Well, are we following that the cfcc keeping his eye on the boss must they come and they come to the They're going after opiano after we go after opiano No, then they will come after uh after the governor of ocean state or come after the governor of The state come after I remember the one in lico state shortly after embody left office. They came after embody and then the The people in nekwin Stopped them from from from from getting from getting across across we must do things right at This naturek approach will not help us. Why can't we prevent them from stealing this money? Through intelligence garden and with all of these agencies the due process The auditor general office and the rest of them doing what they are to do And then I cannot show you We have many full progress All right, again as we round off nigeria air Our federal government to float ipo begins operations with three planes Let's wait and hopefully in nigeria we we start flying and we start flying and if we not just be In the care that it has been but that actually The planes will land and they will take off Nigeria as a nation we must have our national careers at this place if you call us have a The the the kind of african don't have a national career We don't have something which we can relate to and that we can call our home We pray and I hope that it works out this time around and then that Most of what is required with the given to nigeria not that we go abroad to go and design the logo And then we pay for in us that them that that that money that we should retain within within within our domestic national So I I I hope and I pray that they work out as a as I'm talking to you I've been to the airport this morning and I saw what do we have in terms of In terms of our ring maybe it's not it's not it's not a to write on but but we can improve that If you have a national career and they probably big investment in critical infrastructure I hope the minister of aviation and the city can get it right this time around If you get it right it's for the benefit and the good of all Nigerians It's not that when we criticize government or when we come on here We love criticizing government who want Nigeria to be better if it is better for you and I It basically has no respect for god makes his way to fall on everybody. Whether you're a sinner or enough so if government come if government If government Repairs a road construct a new road provide critical infrastructure It affects everything. It doesn't know the color of your party. It doesn't know the color of your tribe It doesn't know the color of your religion water. Then what do we go through it? I saw one one one tweet in the newspaper One tweet on twitter where someone said that um was it was it was a bit comical This thing around 45 It does all affect a PC members a bit and the guy the guy asked quit And for me We want Nigeria to be better. We want to get things right because once it's better It's our nation. We proud of our nation. Not that we love coming on here to criticize to talk about everything Whenever when there is security, I can take my car and travel to Kathmandu and say, you know what? I want to go on a trip to Kathmandu. I want to go on a trip to Yankari game reserve I want to go. I want to go to kalaba. I want to go to godia I want to go to these places. There are no tourist attraction in Nigeria You don't need to go abroad to enjoy yourself in Nigeria. There are beautiful places, but can we go there? We can't I want to go to Mabila plateau We can't go there because of the state of being security and the state of the infrastructure We have you know what Nigeria would gain if we have good security and good infrastructure from tourism Dubai, United Arab Emirates tries on tourism And On tourism and that's what we want our country to be. We want our country to be the best country in the world And that's why it pains us. It touches our heart All right, thank you. All of these things are not in place All right, then thank you so much Indeed that's as much as we can take on of the press that we must say a very big Thank you to G.D. Johnson chief lecturer Nigeria institute of journalism for those analysis this morning. Would you appreciate your time? Thank you and thank you messy. Thank you. I have messy on me Thank you for coming through we do appreciate your time and we step on the brakes right now and tell you What happened today the 26th in history. They stick around Oh Tired one made is tired