 Welcome back to the breakfast on a plus to the Africa now Let's move to off the press where we have a quick review of the major stories making headlines across Nigeria today We're starting with the punch newspapers should be in your screen in just a few seconds And of course, I will be introducing our guest to the color only once again the big one on the Pontius morning It's speaking concern in the ransom payment. It says that Kaduna bandits collect 50 million Naira ransom Hold back 87 students and that's a Baptist school students 28 students released proprietor says bandits to free others in batches Ninja pupils spend 54 days in captivity FGC carry students 40 days Also federal government extends and I n sim linkage to October 59.8 million enrolled Also this morning Bakari lampoon's unnamed official says change of button imminent Beans tomatoes rice record 253 percent 123 percent and 50 or 51 percent price hike experts worry as 221 inbound passengers test positive in three weeks Also in the Pontius morning PDP governors meets today on the defections electoral act amendment and others Fiscally challenged girl threatened suicide says parents and cleric call me demon possessed Also APC Claire's chairmanship seats in Ogun last year holds a Lagos results 15 corpses recovered for missing as flood washes away stock boss And the last one on the Pontius morning Buhari's gag order on terror on terror reporting illegal Serap tells court Away from the Pontius go to the nation Newspapers this morning Federal government demands nothing short of Igbo Ho's extradition Nigeria set for diplomatic showdown if Benna Republic declines Also jam remits 2 billion naira to the federal government North lacks leadership says Matawale and also APC sweeps Lagos and Ogun council polls NCDC 69 die of COVID-19 in 11 weeks still on the nation Nigerians economic outlook still slippery and Reps issue bench warrants on the mafia and carry a few others on the nation newspapers this morning resumed Kano trial raises Anxiety Nabooja and 28 freed Kadena Pupils reunites with parents Kinsmen to testify against ex-jam boss a jerry-n-day in 5.2 billion naira fraud trial Away from the nation now Let's go to the daily trust and see what we can quickly also throw in there kidnappers in FCT begin collection of ransom through banks How we're made to make our deposits and that's from victims relatives Banks not helping matters as victims and of course. So what the government is doing also? 25 die in Kano about she road crashes been in court or been a court I beg your pardon decides Igbo host fates today as Kano appears in abuja court counter-insurgency 265 policemen killed in burner an Asu threatened strike over federal government's failure to implement agreement I Think we can have just a few in the daily son newspapers this morning. I neck NSA army and others and seven six billion naira illegal loan scandal Auditor-general's report exposes how agencies borrowed money from government accounts without repayment Tension as Kano's trial begins in abuja lawyers warn against stopping supporters from attending proceedings Igbo host trial Lou Bardon sends delegation to court or new and also Kadena parents of kidnapped schoolchildren narrate or deals on as a flares IPO be IPO is a tack on Edwin Clark. I think we'll stop there and quickly say good morning to our guest Tunde color. Well a good morning. Thanks for joining us Absolutely, there's a very interesting stories. I think we can start from the issue with In Kaduna state where 28 freed students have reunited with their parents There is of course some celebration. But at the same time, there's you know, also a Deadlock with regards that one as some of the students 87 of them are still being held in captivity Honest speaking my brother As I'm looking at the front pages of all the papers Seem the condition in which all those students who have been released are And also the glassing of teeth from the parent Irrelations and the authorities of the school where this hearing has been kidnapped My heart has been bleeding Like I've always said and I will continue to say There's no justification whatsoever for any of our children Not to be able to go to school Without the sale of being kidnapped The technologies are there For us to be able to protect these children furthermore The Nigerian security forces have demonstrated in the recent times That they have the capacity to unravel very noisy security issues Such as we have seen in the kidnap on a medicano the training of person they go all the way to Kotonu and the continuous training of video switch One of the leaders of the Entras movement It is just that the authorities don't appear to be too interested in making this incident kidnapping of our children in the respective schools in the board More indictments should equal or should go to the governor of Kaduna state Madam Naseel Rufai If we as a government say we are not going to be paying ransom for the release of anybody kidnapped in this state then you must have a master plan on gun to ensure that nobody is kidnapped And that if anybody is kidnapped you have a rescue team to be able to bring back whoever may be kidnapped and also bring their kidnappers to justice Madam Naseel Rufai doesn't have any of this and if he insists that the government will not pay ransom we are in a column room I have very some suspicion that this kidnapping is no longer just business enterprise as people have been painting it I strongly suspect that it is the Islamic fundamentalist that behind these kidnappers a way of raising money to buy arms and ammunition and also to enforce their desire their decision and their determination that children will not get from other Nigeria will not get from our education because they have always believed that Western education is around, it's forbidden and shouldn't be tolerated we as Nigerians now all all our children we are duty to put pressure on the Cardinal's government and the federal government to do the needful of life and property of our children we are amazed so that they will not be kidnapped because what is at stake today it is the future of the nation all these children that have been kidnapped that have been traumatized are the ones that are expected to be leaders of tomorrow so if they are not educated I would be able to take on leadership in the future and traumatize what attitude would they have to light if at the very beginning in which they are they see people being killed what attitude would they have to human life when they do growth the country is in a very serious conundrum and the earlier we as a people find solutions to these tragedies the better for us all let's move away from that of course we will have a conversation about that later there is also other stories the price of food items beans, tomatoes and rice record 253% 123% and 51% price hike how are Nigerians dealing with this new increment in food prices well from our partner Syrian I would want to say there was a time in the second republic in which the opposition party which was the unity party of Nigeria cried out that Nigerians were starving and that the economy of the nation was about to hit the rock and that the MP and the national party of Nigeria headed by Alaji Shevshagari I had to do something about all of those things especially to provide food security for our people and I remember Alaji Umar Ujiku one of the strong men of the national party of Nigeria at that period of time and the minister saying that how could anyone have said that when Nigerians have not begun to eat from the dustbin I remember the same old women children rummaging through the dustbin in front of my house on the daily basis to scavenge for what they would eat and I am sure these old people these children are doing this because they can no longer afford to go to the market and buy the staple food that they used to buy or the local prices of gari are almost the prices of gari have almost increased a thousand falls even locally made rice is more expensive now than the imported ones personally I do not remember when last I had bin because we discovered that the prices of bin have dramatically come up The nation that is unable to provide food for itself is sitting on the keg of gunpowder. Because food security is even more important than any other security that you may talk about. Because once the people are hungry, they will be angry. And once they are angry, they are likely to be unruly. And once they are unruly, they might be taking lots into their hands and negating self-harm and criminality. And that is the reason why we must also see a kind of connection, a kind of corollary relationship between the aid security that we have all over the country today and the food insecurity that is prevalent all over Nigeria. And it is a tragedy that a country that is arable, that almost 100% of its land you can use for agriculture that people can still begin to suffer this kind of food security. It's unfortunate. And you could almost expect you could see it coming. When farmers can no longer go to the farm. When farmers have to allow the security people that they want to go and plant. When farmers have to pay taxes to bandits and to Islamic fundamentalists that have littered their place. The truth of the matter is that this government is incompetent. It no longer has the justification to remain in power for any day long. Because according to the Constitution, any government that cannot protect the lives of its citizens and their property, which is the primary responsibility of government has no business and governance. All right. Let's move over to the controversy concerning Sunday Igboho. The nation reports this one and the federal government demands nothing short of Igboho's extradition. And it says the possibility of diplomatic showdown if Benna Republic declines. How do you see this playing out? Well, it's a continuation of the domestic infinity. There we used to see at all that the government in power now wants to take across the border to a foreign nation. Benna Republic may be a tiny country, but I also know that there are countries that are well organized and that have some semblance of respect for the rule of law. The thinking of the Nigerian authorities that immediately Sunday Igboho was arrested in the airport and stopped by the immigration people. The immigration people and the police just deliver him to the Nigerian authorities. Who already put an elbow down gun to fly him back to Nigeria? But the people are saying no. Let's follow the due process of the law. Let's hear his own explanation for coming into our country or for trying to run away to Germany. And that is the basic principle of the airing. And the Nigerian authorities, if they have a case Sunday Igboho, they will go to the peninios court and make their own case. Sunday Igboho will make their own case. And they don't give a ruling whether to extradition back to Nigeria or to align to continue running all the way to Germany. But it's true that they have to admit that they are not ready to do this. I won't be surprised if the Nigerian authorities do the kind of thing that they did when Amrubas allegedly attacked the Yabba of Asrindor and sold some of the when Yabba of Asrindor was in Nigeria. And I think it was the same thing. To remember a passenger immediately closed the boundary between Nigeria and the Republic and some of these other countries and others. And refused to allow most of the things that these people come to Nigeria to buy to go out across the border. A kind of attempt to suffocate them economically. And it was when the suffocation was getting out of hand the man who was mostly responsible for the cross-border Amrubis who comes all the way from the Republic to Europe in Nigeria and take the vehicle back to the Republic who was surrendered to the Nigerian authority. And then without him trying, the man was done in kilikili prison. I don't know what has become me on his face now. Maybe he's here alive or he's dead. So in the very near future, in the few weeks, he might be seen high-handed action on the part of the Nigerian authority to put pressure on the Republican government to surrender from the go-go without following the due process of the law. But you see, I must also say, I am not too happy with the deposition of the Yoruba leaders, with the deposition of the freedom fighters and with the deposition of the Yoruba people in the Republic because I am told 30% of the people in the Republic are Yoruba. The attitudes to this illegal and unlawful detention of people is not too pleasing to me. Alright, Mr. Kolauli, let's take a... Let's put a pause there. Let's put a pause there, Mr. Kolauli. Can you hear me? Yes, I'm hearing you now. Okay, okay. Let's put a pause there. Because of time, I want us to wrap up with talking about the APC sweeping Lagos and Lagoon states in the local government elections on Saturday. Some people, of course, would say congratulations to them, but would you also say same? My brother, the same charity begins at home. The same charity begins at home. I repeat, again, charities begin at home. You and I would know that the so-called Yoruba politicians and leaders have been the most run course on the call for true federalism, self-control, and what have you. In what way have we seen them repeat or do what they are asking the federal government to do with regards to the way of managing their own effective states and their own domestic affairs? Is this possible in any sense of society? For just one political party all the time to win all the local government elections in respect to the jurisdiction? You and I know that there are certain parts of Lagos that is usually the domain of the PPP, for example. If some law will show the area all the way to Lagos, First Arc, and what have you. And some parts of ecology and effect. So those people no longer have voters to vote for them in those places and all that. So the truth of the matter is that these people who are calling for true federalism, who are calling for true democracy, who are calling for the rule of law are themselves even more capable than the federal government. If it concerns the issue of free and fair elections, issue of devolution of power, issue of allowing the local government to function the way a manager should be functioned. Even the issue of allowing the judiciary, issue of allowing the legislator to function the way they should function and to have access to their money as the first line of that which has been squandered or manipulated or in any way squandered. Why does the executive power go in respect of some of these states? The Lagos local government election is even more tragic. Tragic in the sense that I don't know whether this person is still there. Like the local election authorities in Lagos is headed by a former Chief Judge of Lagos State. That is a thing that should be concerned about the rule of law, about fairness, about free and fair elections. So if under a jurisdiction the party in power in Lagos State still fits all the local government seats in Lagos, you will begin to imagine what kind of Chief Judge was this person when he was deciding over the Lagos State judiciary. What kind of attitude of this person have to a free and fair election? What kind of attitude does this person have to have here and here and here? So we're back to Squawang. This people are just not ready for democracy. They want to continue their kleptocasic preoccupation that they are perfected and legalized and are best protected by other parts of the country. I didn't bother to go out to vote because I saw this coming as just a waste of time. It's a full-time effort. Don't even do I monitor the election in some of these places. Nigeria is just more ready for democracy. Alright, so Nikola Wally, thank you so much for your time this Monday morning. Thanks for having me. Always enjoy your analysis and good morning to you. Hope you find yourself a company tomorrow. Hopefully. Alright. Take care of yourself. Stay with us and it's one of the things that we will be talking about today, the relevance of the local government. That comes up sometime during the breakfast this morning. How many people did get to vote over the weekend and what were your reasons for staying away from the electoral process? We'll have that conversation a lot later, but thanks to Nikola Wally. We'll take a short break. When we come back, what happened on this day, July 26th, many, many years ago. I'll be sharing with you.