 Welcome back, you're still watching Waze on 11th January every year. National Human Trafficking Awareness Day is observed to raise awareness about the plight of the victims and the practices that can be maintained in order to save these lives. This day is dedicated to raising awareness, tightening security and ensuring that people are not trafficked. It also helps us to understand the plights of the victims and empathize with them and help them get back to a regular life. This is definitely applaudable human trafficking day. It's one of the worst crimes in human history and it's been going on for so long that you would imagine that the world evolving, humans evolving with a level of enlightenment that things like this should have been eradicated. But sadly, I mean, this still is so prevalent in some parts of the world, even in cities. It's not just happening in remote places. So yes, I do commend the effort to shed more light on this and then to also most importantly understand that when victims survive this and they come back, it's not the time to shame them or to make them feel less of who they are or to remind them of this sordid experience, rather it is a time to empathize and then bring them back into the fold and show them all the love. And I also think that it is awareness to also let us not imagine that this is not happening because it is happening. It is real, yes. And anytime we find the opportunity or I mean if we're just in some way privy to knowing that I mean this is happening in any quarter, I think we should make it our responsibility to alert the authorities or in many ways help the victims as much as we can without necessarily putting ourselves in arms way. Someone said that until we're able to find poverty that it would almost be impossible to stop human trafficking because most of these things but organ trafficking, human trafficking, it is inspired by need. That's a different angle to it. I mean, absolutely, absolutely. But again, I may not necessarily agree 100% on that because again at the some in some quarters it's business for some people. They just see it as an opportunity, not necessarily, okay, so I would say that for the ones in poverty, they see it as an avenue to say, okay, you know what, if I can do this, then maybe whatever reward I get from that, I can use it to help other people. But there are just some people who do it just for the fun of I can do it. Again to feed your greed. It's a thriving market. It's a black market. It's a thriving market and there is billions of dollars in this worldwide. So some people just do this just because you know what, I can get away with it. Either way, today is dedicated to human trafficking awareness and we're grateful for that and of course we constantly pointed out here or wherever that we can that it is we do not encourage it. Human trafficking is one of the worst crimes you can ever do to a fellow human being. Absolutely. Right. All right. Moving on, we're looking at what we found in the news. Back to you, Dilla. What did you find in the news today? You know, that's fine. I mean, okay, so this one is a story that I woke up to say in my alumni group and of course, I mean, it was just a snippet. So I had to, I was wondering what it was all about and it's an unfortunate news. Very saddening considering the fact that it's just the beginning of a new year. It's a female banker kills herself in Lagos and this she did. She's well, she's a marketing employee of one of the banks, you know, in Nigeria and she committed suicide at her workplace. You know, and the sad thing is, you know, she left a society note and what she said was that nothing was working in her life. Her figures are low. Her brain is clogged up. The economy is getting harder. She has made wrong decisions. Her mind is messed up. The future doesn't seem bright at all. She sees extreme hardship and she can't bear the pain anymore. And then she wrote to apologize to her parents or her family. For me, I truly felt that, you know, over the course of, I mean, this new year and when I was writing what I was great through for, in fact, I think I shared that on my on the way special episode in December to say that one of the things that I was most grateful for in 2023 was that hope spoke for me louder than despair. I get where she's coming. I mean, I get it. It really doesn't seem like there is a light anywhere. I get it. And especially if you don't truly have a support system that can help you see beyond the darkness, it is so easy to just stay under the water and just imagine that it's so peaceful there. But again, I don't know. I as as sad as I feel, I honestly can't say that society is actually the answer. Because I mean, life is so valuable, life is so precious, you know, but again, I mean, I'm not wearing her shoes and, you know, for us on the other side, it's just easy to say, OK, you know what, she shouldn't have done that. But again, you know, sometimes you have to be in that situation to truly and then sometimes you just don't know. You just do the first thing that just yeah. And I think this this reminds me of a certain experience that I was having a conversation. I was in a salon and we were having this conversation about people. And remember the lady, we make someone someone's head said, ah, you put weight in salary, you know, life better, we really do business. And so and I remember I was silently just listening to the conversation. I'm waiting for for my turn because I was deep conditioned in my head. And then the lady said, when she made that statement, the other one said, don't don't think like that. We don't think that because we have a certain amount of money coming in every week, you could be way richer than I am. Absolutely. So the fact that you see all the makeup and all the heels to let you think that life is perfect. Because when you see her working in a bank, you walk in, you came to the deposit, you're thinking, she will have life. Good. She works in a bank. She sits on the AC the entire day and you think life is perfect. But frankly, it is not always like that. So let us be kind and consider it to people, to other humans, because you never really know people's story. And it's really sad. She had to resort to suicide. Absolutely. Absolutely. Really sad. All right. So this is what I found in the news. Now, over the past couple of days, there has been this release that is just very controversial updates on the life of Prophet TV Joshua. Obviously, he died a couple of years ago. And there has been a documentary released by the BBC saying several allegations of allegations of torture rape perpetrated by him. And a lot of people, several women, some former church members, including his daughter, has come out to say, oh, look, this and this is what happened. I'm testifying that this actually happened. So far, the church hasn't exactly given the word. But the news right now is that multi-choice has removed, has given the signal notification that they're going to take away the channel in manual TV from their platform. And it's not just multi-choice, all that cable networks and pay TV networks, cables are going to take out the channel. So people are arguing, isn't that a bit too harsh given that the fact that these are allegations and nothing has, I mean, he's not alive to defend himself. And you can't exactly say he's guilty or not guilty. So. Well, okay, so my own personal, honestly, personal opinion about that is these allegations have been going on for years, as far back as about 24 years ago. And the fact that I really didn't follow any of, you know, the stories as I mean, as far back as then to know if some of them, you know, went to court or, you know, they were just talks, you know, regular. But again, I am mindful of the fact that in Nigeria, it is very hard to get some, sometimes, let me use the word, let me say pardon me, if I use this word to get justice for certain things in Nigeria. And one of the things that I would say is one of the hardest things to prove or to get justice for in Nigeria is rape. I mean, that's, that's because you practically have the least evidence. Exactly. And I think the only time we have such public outcry is probably when it happens to children, really, really minor children, you know, but outside of that, you know, when people talk, we tend to think people are just talking for the sake of talking whether female, whether male, you know, a lot of people have victims that have never seen any light of justice. Now, as for him and, you know, his own organization, church and all that, I know that, I mean, as far back as when I was in uni, you know, there's always been some scandals, some talk, some diss, some that and all that. Now, this coming back to, to the fore now, and for DSTV or multi-choice taking on the decision they made, you must also understand that, again, people are getting very, the voice of the people is very strong. And they're in the business of people, you know, so if they feel like, okay, this thing, this is what their audience is saying. They want to in some way appeal or want to be seen to appeal to their audience. Again, I mean, who knows, it must have been a management decision. So if they feel like they have enough for them to feel, okay, you know what, we need to take this off our channels, it's their decision. I mean, they must have thought about it. I'm guessing no one wants to be associated with scandal. Exactly. So it's barely a religious scandal. Religious scandal, yes. It's always super controversial. Yeah. All right. Those are the news or the stories that we found for you in the news today. We'll go on the rake and when we come back, we'll get into our topic for today. Stay with us.