 Bandits have struck again this time in Kaduna, Benin, Guari Road in Kaduna State with several reported kidnapped. We have security analysts on the programme this morning as we take a look at this unfortunate incident. And more presidential candidates have emerged this time from the Social Democratic Party and the Progressive's grand alliance. What should we expect from them in Nigeria's forthcoming general elections? And of the press is our daily analysis of newspaper headlines, we have that ahead this morning. Very good morning to you, it's the Breakfast on Plus TV Africa, my name is Kofi Patels, this is a bright, bright morning reaching life from our studios right here on Victoria Island Lagos. We have fantastic analysis of issues of the day on this programme with exciting analysts, I guess analysts lined up for you. Let's start our discussions this morning with a look at what's been trending around Nigeria and indeed around the world of interest to you, you know, bring you what's been talked about, especially in this age of social media. We have a lot to look at as far as that is concerned. Let's start off with a House of Representatives member from Ocean State starting in solidarity with the Kaduna Trade Attacks pictures popped up online of this House of Representatives member walking. This is something that is quite new, we haven't seen this, I haven't. We've probably seen this before. It was trending pictures showing online that this House of Representatives member took a walk barefoot to the National Assembly in solidarity with the Kaduna train attack victims and I hope we can show you the pictures on screen so that you get to see what we are talking about. It was quite interesting, you can have someone take a walk in protest at anything they like to protest about. So when you have them do that barefoot, that is another situation altogether. Now he had on his placard, I'm just going to read what he had on his placard here, he said Muhammad Abu Hari please do more to secure freedom for the Kaduna train abductees and other citizens in captivity and you can see there the write-up and then the picture that he had on the side. There's a picture from the video that was shared online some days ago by the terrorists who abducted this train victims of this train attacks. It's a quite, quite sad one. He's a House of Representatives member from Ocean State and a lot of Nigerians are being talking about this online as far as the responses and reactions are concerned. Basically it's been an outpouring of support, it's saying that they've never seen a government official do something like this, stand up for the people is something that they've never seen before. The Kaduna train attacks, it's touched everyone. It's something that has been the source of serious worry and concern, especially as we're seeing videos coming out that they're still alive. You can see him in the National Assembly Chamber and this is one person who has access to the National Assembly Chamber, can walk in freely, can walk out freely. Ordinary Nigerians can only march to the gates and will be prevented from getting in but he was able to walk in. So the attention that this has generated is a one-man protest. It's very, very interesting to see, new to a lot of Nigerians. He represents Edin North, Edis South, Egedore and Ejibo federal constituency in Ocean State, the House of Representatives and his name is Bami Dele Salam, it's interesting to see. So he dressed in black, walked barefoot from the Unity Fountain in the Metama area of the FCT, the Unity Fountain is a usual protest site in Abuja and he walked all the way to the National Assembly in the three-armed zone in Asokoro. He lamented that terrorists and other criminal gangs are killing and maiming with many abducted Nigerians in captivity while the political elite are busy with lectionary towards the 2023 elections. We will listen to him now as plus if he spoke to him whilst he embarked on that protest. Let's take a listen. Our youthful population who are looking up to us for solutions to the problems of this nation will continually lose hope in this country. It is to avoid this that I've decided this afternoon to join my voice to thus of all the well-meaning citizens of this very great country to appeal to the president of this country to please and please and please in the name of the Almighty Allah, in the name of the God who created the heaven and earth, to arise and redouble his efforts to secure the release of these kidnapped citizens and other fellow citizens of this country who are in the bushes in the forest and in other, you know, other unimaginable places at this hour whose only hope is that they will have a country that will rise up for them. That is why I decided this morning to stage a walk from the unity fountain to this place, holding this placard, asking that the president should please, for the sake of Nigeria, for the sake of posterity, arise and do more to free the kaduna-trained kidnapped victims and all the citizens who are in captivity in various parts of Nigeria. So this is quite an interesting development that a member of the House of Representatives is calling on the president and the government to take action to free those kidnapped kaduna-trained attack passengers and victims and of course he is also saying that we are in election season, we are electioneering, we are commencing for votes and looking at who will become the next governor and the next president, as if nothing is wrong, as if nothing is wrong, a lot is wrong with the country, they attack all over the place and we are not hearing or seeing any concrete move from the government and it's refreshing to see, it's refreshing to see that somebody who is in the corridors of power can speak up and speak out for the people, it's refreshing to see. I mean we've watched the congresses, the primaries of the various political parties hold, some of them you get a sense that the last thing on their mind is what the common man is facing, you get a sense that they are interested in making their dollars, you know like someone said yesterday in a report I read that it was a dollar rain, dollar rain was raining dollars at the PDP primary right there in the same Abuja, it was a dollar rain and you get the sense that people are just interested not in producing the best possible candidate for Nigeria but selling the offices that are up for grabs to the highest bidder and it is this selling the offices that are up for grabs to the highest bidder that has landed Nigeria in this precarious situation, things are not well and we move about to see if everything is okay, the politicians are politicking as if everything is okay, the delegates are delegating as if everything is okay but thank God for honorable salam who has said you know what let's stop deceiving ourselves not everything is okay, we are in a precarious situation, you talk about the south east precarious, you talk about the south west the issue is there, you talk about northern Nigeria from Abuja upwards precarious, precarious, precarious, so how are we moving around moving about activities even as government as politicians and as people as if everything is okay, everything is not okay and these videos and these stories are going around the world, I mean yesterday I saw the article you know of the king and queen of Spain where president Buhari is going to spend some days commissary with the president and the people of Nigeria, you know, so things are not okay and it's about time someone rebelled right there at the national assembly, I think that honorable salam will be seen as a rogue in the national assembly, he'll be seen as an outsider in the national assembly, he'll be seen as someone who has come to spoil the party and he risks you know incurring the wrath of his fellow colleagues, some, let me not say all, but some of his colleagues he's incurring even being ostracized and becoming an outcast because he has decided to be the good one, the one who would say, hey, not all is well but I want to talk to Nigerians because you know, this man is doing what you should be doing, you know, I know that we have to do a nine to five and people have to look at their businesses and you know, take care of their families but I tell you what, if we all continue every day to go and come and go and come and move about our businesses like there is nothing going on that is wrong and everything is okay, one day we won't have any businesses to go to I know we're moving about trying to fend for ourselves and our families but if we continue and we don't speak up and speak out about what's going on, one day there will be no hiding place for us or for our families so the earlier we also become like honorable salam the better it will be for us because at the end of the day everybody wants to live in a safe environment, everyone wants to raise their family in a safe environment, everyone wants to be safe basically and security can guarantee that safety and development and we live in an insecure environment. I do think we remember very clearly what the Methodist Prelate revealed in his press conference some days ago about what's been happening, what happened to him when he was kidnapped. Anyway let's move on from that an unidentified man was on Wednesday and earlier the way we act the better an unidentified man was a Wednesday rescued from committing suicide at Lagoon in Lagos State this again is another sad tale of an attempted suicide in the waters of Lagos State and how many times have we heard about suicide attempts on the Thadmilan Bridge and on other bridges in Lagos State. Now this man had attempted to jump into the Lagoon from the Leki Ikoi Link Bridge of all places and he was fortunately rescued by patrol officers of a Leki concession company this is what LCC tweeted it put up a statement some time ago and they said that this rescue was due to the quick intervention of the LCC patrol officers that that young man was saved from committing suicide a video was shared online a video was shared online and you can see you know what's going on there he's holding onto the the the rail and he's been dragged away from the rail he's been talked to you can see he's in tears right there and you know it's an unfortunate situation really sad one indeed so what they said was a thanks to the quick intervention of LCC patrol officers a young man was saved from committing suicide at Leki Ikoi Link Bridge he had been handed or has been handed over to the police that's what the company said now in that video I see you watching a female patrol officer like you can see held the man alongside passersby pleading with him not to jump into the lagoon all right and you can see what she's doing right there what she says was don't die your future is bright come let me find you work for work for you your future is bright my darling it's okay this police officer uh was seen as saying so um we'll go uh take a little shot break now let's listen to what transpired in that video shared by LCC all right so um of course uh the Nigerian laws have prescribed um uh very very strict penalties for those who involve or attempt suicide and uh this is a case or a test case uh for um for that to see if he will be uh handed over to the police if he will be prosecuted and if he will be uh uh jailed you know charged to court in jail uh but but of course it's a policewoman who arrested or who stopped him she seems to be uh sympathetic all right she seems to be sympathetic to his cause and uh you know she seems to be uh uh understanding of of what he's going through but there are laws there are laws that are prescribed for anyone who attempts suicide and um I don't have the details here but uh you know the law does not allow this and um he may may face possible jail time if um if he is arrested and charged to court he may face possible jail time a lot of people out there are sympathetic to him they feel that um you know uh this is a reflection of the situation in the country they're blaming government um and of course they're blaming uh the authorities for not making sure that the country is working for all you know look at the uh economic issues in this country and the fact that um a lot of people are going through hard times inflation is on the increase you have uh the Naira going down uh like a waterfall you know um you have high and record on employment and of course um all these things have combined uh to make sure that uh people are going through hard times now Nigeria's law makes it a crime to attempt suicide all right and uh of course there are penalties for this like I said earlier there are penalties for this uh any person who attempts to kill himself is guilty of a misdemeanor and is liable to imprisonment for one year all right one year the legal position of the law or the legal position uh is that suicide is uh not a crime all right when you kill yourself it's not a crime but attempted suicide is and um if you check the criminal code and you go through section two or three two seven um this applies to southern Nigeria by the way you see that uh it's one year in jail for anyone who's found guilty of trying to kill themselves now the penal code carries to northern Nigeria and section three two one no two three one of the Nigerian penal code says that whoever attempts to commit suicide uh and does not does any act towards the commission of certain offence shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year or with a fine or both that's section two three one of the penal code earlier we had told you that section three two seven of the criminal code also prescribes to one year as well criminal code three two seven penal code two three one um let's see uh what what pans out for for this man but you know despite the existence of such laws um and the criminalization of attempted suicide in Nigeria the rate of suicide uh is still high considerably high in the country you know um the last year it was put at 6.9 per 100,000 of the Nigerian population so it shows that um you know um the laws are not doing anything to stop people from killing themselves all right in 2009 roughly 7,019 people killed themselves a year if you look at the statistics and look at the percentages that translated to about 7,019 persons a year right and this is um uh less than the average global rate all right what you have in Nigeria the last statistics about seven percent it's less than the average global rate i'm told of a nine percent that's about a hundred thousand people a year so Nigeria isn't doing badly but but it is uh still a bad situation and it seems that the law isn't helping to stop people or prevent them or deter them from killing themselves so probably there should be a social approach to this in looking at the psychological aspect of things educational and public enlightenment aspect of things to ensure that people don't see that as an option when life isn't good for them in previous times people who have psychological issues have been stopped from killing themselves you know um for this man you can hear the lady saying that she'll get him a job and that's the end of the road for him it remains to be seen if it was just about the economy or it was also a bit of a psychological problem as well but some organizations have said that there is a need to decriminalize attempted suicide in the country you know where you have to you know you probably would have to spend one year in prison for trying to kill yourself they're saying that um they're issues they're underlying factors behind attempted suicide or behind suicide and that putting people in prison for one year will not solve the situation um so the conversation is still ongoing and we'll go to uh a last story before we call it a wrap on the training segment uh um President Bahadur Hari yesterday in Madrid um express express Nigeria's readiness to host the global conference this is the first of its kind global conference on tourism culture and the creative industry in November 2022 that's a few months from now all right now a statement signed by his special advice on media and publicity uh Fermi Andeshina stated that President Bahadur Hari spoke during a visit to the United Nations uh World Tourism Organization's headquarters in the Spanish capital Madrid at the beginning of his state visit to that country and the statement said that the president described the granting of the hosting rights to Nigeria as further proof of the country's support for the vision of the organization and also an affirmation of a confidential post in Nigeria by that organization and um a lot of people a lot of people have come out to um to share their views mostly negative views about the countries that Nigerians commented on social media asking why should Nigeria go uh get the rights so agreed to accept to host the first ever global tourism uh conference of this nature a united nations event of this nature where people will be coming from around the world and they are questioning that in the light of the nation's security situation and they are saying that Nigeria is not secure enough to host uh the global tourism event of this magnitude now um the spokesman for the president has come out to say you know what Nigeria is safe and Nigeria is secure to host this this this conference and the president has also said um that in his statement and someone asking what are the tourism credentials of the country how how um seriously has the Muhammad Abu Hari administration taken tourism um what have they done to improve the tourism sector what initiatives have they implemented to make Nigeria a tourist haven for the world indeed Nigeria is blessed with a lot of tourist attraction lots of tourist attraction in the north there are many undiscovered tourist sites in the south there are many undiscovered unexplored and undeveloped tourist potentials but what has been done to exploit explore and develop these tourist potentials into tourist attractions and add value to them to ensure that Nigeria ends foreign exchange from them is what some people are asking they're asking this so um the president has spoken all right he's accepted to host this global event by the world tourism organization and he said that Nigeria is ready Nigeria is safe Nigeria is secure to host such an event this will not be the first time that Nigeria is playing host to the world we've hosted before Miss World but of course the the way that ended is well documented you know I'm sure most of you remember how Miss World was brought to an abrupt end in Nigeria and had to be taken elsewhere but um Calaba is said to be said to be the center of tourism in Nigeria Calaba and cross-strait state isn't exactly that anymore a young man Steven and Dooku who is a youtuber recently visited cross-strait state went to the cattle ranch you know went around Calaba and was able to put together a nice nice documentary showing how Nigeria's uh what was called formally Nigeria's tourism center has now fallen from grace Calaba has come crushing down cross-strait state is a pale shadow of itself so where the tourist attractions in the country you know where the tourist attractions in the country um what initiatives have been put in place or implemented to sell Nigeria to the world um Calaba was was was that you know people came from around the world to cross-strait state not just Calaba but cross-strait state um for the yearly Christmas festival you know the Calaba Carnival and all these things where initiatives put up that you know at least gave us something to look forward to we had the Lagos Carnival we had the Arungo fishing festival you know and so on and so forth we had the Potakit Carnival that died that died you know he just just just died a natural death when Yasomi became governor of river state he said that um they were going to focus on christian activities and only god knows what happened to those christian activities that he talked about in the past uh Potakit Carnival that river state Carnival is dead an event that gave uh you know you know job opportunities and something to young people to to take home Calaba Carnival is dead you know well we can argue that it's not a fault of the state government because COVID came in and they had to you know take a step back but they had already lost its glory um Tinapa business and leisure resort in Calaba dead Ubudakata resort almost dead you know comatose and the video is on youtube you can go watch Steven and Doku's uh uh documentary um so so these are the attractions that you know Nigerians could boast of we have more and what is the state of this you know even in the country some have argued that people can't can travel from city to city you know you want to travel on the road from here to to where do you want to go to you know without without feeling insecure so these are the issues when you tackle security when you tackle you know development issues when you put people in charge of the tourism sector who have at least a fair idea of what to do then you can invite the world to come and witness it so what are they coming to see in the country it's a question that should be asked and that's the size of the package on the trending segment right here on breakfast and plus tv africa we'll be back to look at what the papers have to say please stay with us