 Good morning to you. Thanks for joining us on the Breakfast and Plus TV Africa on the show this morning. Presidency says an end to terrorism and banditry in Northwest is inside, insisting that security architecture is under reformation. What is the true picture? We'll also be looking at a thievery new call for Nigerians to be allowed to carry firearms to protect themselves. Is this the way forward? And we will review the biggest stories making headlines across national dailies. Thanks for staying with us on the Breakfast. I am Justin Akadone. And I am Mr Bokpo. Good morning and thank you for joining us. Happy holiday by the way. As happy as to all Nigerians we trust you had yourself a wonderful celebration and we're sure that you're actually celebrated in moderation because whatever it is you do just try and reach out to the average Nigerian. Today is still a holiday for some people because we are here yet again messy. The story of our lives right? I'm sure that it would be a conversation for another day. Yes let's not dwell on that but whatever it is I just celebrate and try and rise because tomorrow is another day for some people. Tomorrow will be like a Monday for them. Well let's just go straight to what is trending on top trending. Graceland schools is introduced again and right now they have allegedly from what we report and post we are saying on Twitter they have allegedly concealed a rape incident that happened when the students went on trip. Messy the last have not been heard concerning issues of rape of minors and schools colluding having a hand not like having a hand knowing what happened and they're not actually telling the entire picture. So it's a lot to grapple with at this time that's cool Graceland festival it's in my figure that's on the one side I mean that's an aside but most importantly is the fact that there are a lot of you know conversations following it. I don't know if you saw the letter that was written by the school suspending that the 10-year-old for involving in gross misconduct and he still brings us back to the conversation. I'd like to go through that particular letter and he says that in definite suspension it was discovered that your daughter was involved in improper behavior during recently concluded world school games in Dubai and with few with few of her counterparts willingly participating in a game that called truth or dare a game which led her and few other co-learners to carry out immoral act as a lights out instruction was given in line with our core values centered on discipline. Graceland school have zero tolerance for improper behavior and misconduct. A full scale investigation has been done and parents of all of the corporates learners have duly been notified with necessary punishment meted out on the learners. The parent gave their full cooperation realizing they need to work with the school so that the learners can be corrected and be of expected proper behavior henceforth however in the course of the school's effort to see how best we can help who was a major participant in the whole incident every effort to inform you as her parent about the incident and ensure that this improper behavior permanently corrected has proved to be futile and that's what you have I mean that's part of the letter. It continues by saying we cannot as a school condone such consequently is here by is here by placed on indefinite suspension until you as a parent ensure that she is punished adequately canceled and rehabilitated however if you need our assistance in any form to rehabilitate you the school is willing to assist thank you yours faithfully and you have the GI ZK Mrs. Head teacher signing that so I don't know how to feel right here it's it's confusing you have a 10 year old I mean 10 year old so you can imagine whoever is involved these people went to school I remember once upon a time I was in school you know the knowledge school we usually go for this competition you're supposed to have a chaperone that's what it's called right am I correct yes you're right so but how would you you even I don't understand how do 10 year olds get involved in let's even go by the letter that's been written and you said that they're willingly participated do these schools even understand the law do they understand the constitution it breaks my head and it's really sad of course I mean I don't even I can't even imagine what the parent will be going through you're talking about a 10 year old and you need to understand what the constitution says about a child a child is a child up until he or she turns 18 and that's what the constitution guarantees you know so you look at the letter first of all you find the fact that the letter even said that you know they willingly accepted to be part of a game called truth or dare how do you even allow 10 year olds by themselves children those are the those are issues you need to start asking like you have rightly said you know they go out of the country and of course their parents didn't go with them the schools should have shepherds who would actually look and supervise their children you're coming out with a letter to tell us that time they participated in the truth or dare so in all the words whatever had transpired was a consensually was actually for children for a 10 for a 10 year old I know I well it is really alarming some of the things we just see out there some of the defense and people try to give when issues like this happen these children no matter what you see no matter how you try to justify your inaction some there were still remain children they are supposed to be supervised all through the time they went out of the country you know in your name it's your responsibility to take care of the children and are you telling if they were doing truth or dare no one was there no one saw them and them allowed them and allowed them to go with such games is the system the system entirely has failed and so you have schools who have constantly because if you go to the schools there's so much that they pay parents would have to chunk out a lot of money you know to pay for school fees and what have you and it is really not an excuse I mean as a matter of fact looking at that letter it's a lot to you know deal with first you ask you you begin to make some kind of defense in the letter because we've seen we've had a lot of people making comment I haven't seen the video I've been looking out for that video I've been searching to see the video because I have had comments where people say at the end of the day it wasn't really rape so you find out that the child I would use the word a child if she's a 10 year old she's an 11 year old she is a child and that would mean that you expected to have people who are supposed to protect her and protect her interest and help her make decisions and choices up until she gets to that point where she can decide or him or her can decide for themselves so on one hand it's negligent I mean it is total disregard it is ignorance whatever you want to how they're holding their responsibility you actually feel the school did yes how do you even go about to even say oh because if you you had the part of the letter that said they agreed to it how let's look at the age now and at this point in time children cannot even go into agreements legally it's not even binding I mean what would you say they agree they cannot they have not gotten to the age of consent which is 18 like you have rightly said so how would you tell me they agreed I find I read comments on Twitter you know suggesting that it's a breakdown of the family values as in for children of that age to be involved that a whole lot came out of all of this to be involved in such a sexual immorality and so if there's anything to go by Justin family the family has failed and that's not even a conversation but we are also saying that because you have a system you have structures you have a system in place that if you have it's like the Mario game so you have different lives if one fail you have another so you have another stage where so if the family has failed you have the school if the school fails you have another structure the church is there I mean it just goes not in any progression but I'm just saying so the family feels what happens there's a school and if the school feels there's a church right or there's a mox there is another group there's something that should protect these children but rather we constantly take advantage of these children we're very negligent we put out this it is totally unacceptable so that there are two sides of a story this the on the other hand is saying that the video that was put out the video does in circulation you have video of children they were saying oh you just had but how are they recording themselves I mean what was some people say that you know have kids been very stupid and that's why they were engaging in whatever it is that they were doing but let's even look at the ages so it's just a justification for it so you can't even call it rape so you can't say it's rape because the child actually consented to they agreed to be having a truth or dare really and there was nobody in a strange land when your you know parents of this children decided to hand over their kids to you hoping that this children will be saved they will be taken care of the you know they would be protected it just shows us and constantly every other time that we wake up to the news and the reports that we have failed we have failed our children yes we have indeed the government has filled everyone has really failed and it is really saddening that this is even happening for a 10 year old and then you put her on a suspension you're saying it's not rape she was involved in a moral act because you think that she has a right she understands what she was doing at 10 really oh Justin we need to move on yes but I just have to close by saying that a whole this has actually brought a lot of things to the fore you know during that time we were talking about what children content and children consume you know and children playing truth of their and getting to the extent of getting very immoral about things and how did they even get there what are they watching what are we teaching our children how would they even think of them recording all of that but let's just move on like a messy has said or she bad joe is in the news uh just um the other day uh rena or monk reposted um uh tweet uh and that he was asking if i'm the vice president he's actually a judas judas he was trying to relate him to judas and Jesus you know you need to say Justin I like how sometimes you you just want to keep it very low but let's see what it is i mean there are posters that's been making the rounds yes especially in uh the city and we're talking about legos right now so you see these posters of the vice president who it's been put out and then some part of it you know with a very funny picture he has his hand uh his chin and there's a uh right up saying what's he called again judas judas judas and so of course if you talk about the judas story following Easter when that particular season he talks about betrayal betraying the master that's Jesus giving him that keys and he knows that he's going to sell him and take some money for all of that but not necessarily for those who are making that comparison literally there's no connection that's number one i'm not holding brief for the vice president but i'm saying that if you follow the story if you're going to link the story of the vice president and that of judas there's no connection but you want to even call it so we understand the point if you because if you look at it in this literal sense that you follow it from start to finish you will see the entire process it led to a point where he got to the garden hogged and kissed Jesus it was a moment where it was going to be arrested so but like i said it was not part of it but but really maybe necessarily the part is the part of betrayal and feeling like oh you had a master if you're going to betray then that's um uh maybe like um peter to jesus you know if you want to begin to like him peter in this particular part you just say it's a very nigerian kind of character he had to move away the way the way nigerians um played down so many things i know that there is a whole lot of tension but it could be very comical you know but then when i read reactions and when i see things like this you start trying to play down things because first what do i know so for for i think that the issue of the vice president is the fact that a lot of people or however you want to put it you want to look at it in this real sense the former governor of lego state tunable has been very supportive so you would say that the fact that you have the vice president right now being the vice president is because of him yes because of all of that the coverage being carried along however pushed him he got to the point that he has gotten to but let's also understand that everyone has a right i point exactly he has a right yes constitutionally constitutional guaranteed and so it's not such a big deal so for those who are supporting yes or not supporting it's really not an issue because at the end of the day everyone has a right to contest i mean everyone has a right to vote and be voted for so if the vice president has declared his intention to run for um you know to seek for the seat or position of the president of the country then it's okay he's asking within his constitutional right it's okay to have all of this sentiment surrounded but at the end of the day there are several hurdles that you need to overcome and so first of all which political party is he vying for i mean on the first you have to win the primaries you have to become the flag bearer of the party and it's the apc that we're talking about we know how many persons who have actually declared as persons who have come out you have wrote to me i'm a g i mean you have a lot of persons who have come out and say hey we are um going to be we want to become president we're seeking for this position it's also it's a lot there are a lot of hurdles that they need to cross first of all he has to win the primaries and in his party at the party level before he comes out you know to the public and Nigerians would always decide so i don't think it's a big deal it's not an issue i don't know why but i understand the fact that some people will feel like it's a lot of betrayal and that's okay the things that people always talk people have the right to decide whatever they want to do legally he's not done anything right some people would say well man morally anything wrong sorry so morally they're like i uh well tinnitus is principality are we talking about massive for instance for instance for instance now you um are my colleague uh you came out and said that you want to be president you know of so what's wrong with that lost tv africa and that's not even if i'm just i'm just i'm just i'm just trying to make some fun out of it but the fact is that even if i have similar ambition nothing stops me you know at at at worse i could tell you mercy i also have this um uh similar ambition like you but um i really want to pursue the bill let's just um play friendly because uh from constitution from all angles i am also eligible to contest so moral or no moral i feel um we should leave the vice president to learn and he's not a judas if you ask me we'll leave it at that and that's as much as we can take on top trending this easter monday we'll take a quick break and we'll come back and see what uh the front pages of major delis are saying this morning stay with us