 Welcome back to the breakfast on Plus TV Africa. Let's say hello to our guest this morning, a political affairs analyst, Mr. Tunde Kuala Wali. Good morning, thank you for joining us. Good morning, my sister, how was your weekend? Fantastic, thanks. On the Daily Trust newspaper, which we're starting with, the headline reads, how police extort victims before tracking kidnappers, thieves. And the writers read, we rely on private firms for tracking. Victims say they pave through the nose to track suspects. Experts say why it's difficult to track kidnappers and carjackers via GPS technology. And the police is asking to report airing offices involved to them. Rao over airport concession deepens as NLC summons aviation unions. Forex, why CBN must consult with BDC operators that's a con into Abcon. Namani, sit at home order, iPod conflicts in more injuries on Igbo people. Terrorism sponsors caught fixes September 17 for arraignment of 400 suspects. Kaduna Poll, APC, PDP protest as electoral body declares four local governments elections inconclusive. Unilag crisis festers as panel and covers three billion Naira tax fraud, contracts splitting. Aviation, FG approves new handling rates 35 years after. All right, now to the daily independent. Big one there says banks may not fare well with E Naira says analysts. It says E Naira could threaten the ability of banks to collect fees from wire transfers, check issuances and other payment services. How lack of consensus is delaying APC national convention date. And the LEA intercepts 24.311 kilograms of heroin and cocaine at Lagos airport in Tincan. Also murder in Italy. Faragaman demands probe into killing of Nigerian by estranged husband. My biggest challenge is what happens when I leave office says Obaseki and also CJN orders disciplinary action against George Obaselludo's criminal summon. At last, federal government approves new rates for ground handling companies. And also Midyubant forum to federal government save Nigeria from another another civil war. Says invasion by Fulani militia assuming ethnic cleansing scale. And also let's take a look at the top stories on the punch news paper this morning. It says 14 months that sharing five northern states to Southwest to South South among top beneficiaries. Top 10 Lagos, Kanu or your reverse Kaduna Katzina Delta, Bouchi, Anambra and Jigawa. And Bornu says not all southern states can generate enough revenues. That's the Borno State government and any LGE wants local government to collect VAT. Idle NNPC refineries sell 463.63 million Naira worth of electricity. COVID-19 seven states shop testing, stop testing as infections hit 5,773 in 10 days. Lamida meets Obasanjo says nobody is safe. Strike continues any already insist after meeting NMA. Nigeria loses 20 actually 247.61 billion Naira in a hundred days of Twitter ban. Saludos assets, CJN orders disciplinary action against FCT George. Agencies traders obstructing Lagos or Tabekuta Expressway project says FG. Mother faints as Lagos sergeants queues a 10-year-old admission sticker. Organized smugglers queue customs officer, agency probes attack. Lagos GPOs missing pistol, police release lady, remove officer overpunched report. Exconvict wears armor uniform, acts police to release suspect. Unilag visitation panel alleges contract splitting procurement act violation. All right, and now on the Guardian newspapers. 100 days after Twitter ban, uncertainty trails federal government's plan. Worry over mass abductions as schools resume today. Over 1,000 children abducted between January and August 2021. And 31 Bethel students still in captivity can cries out. Federal government says lack of funds hampering implementation of safe school initiative. Mobile hunters vigilance groups, retired military and paramilitary officers to protect schools says PTA chief. A few others on the Guardian named terrorism sponsors to clear your name. MBF challenges federal government. Unilag presidential visitation panel clears babalaking on removal of VC. One other federal government spends 364 billion nair on petrol transportation. Mr. Cola, I want us to start with this one on the Guardian that says name terrorism sponsors to clear names and MBF challenges federal government. Let's start with your thoughts on that one and the seeming delay of the federal government to name those who have been found to be sponsoring terrorism in Nigeria. Hello? Yes, Mr. Cola, well, you can hear us. Yes, you're asking me to comment on this story with regards to the sponsors of terrorism. Yes. Well, that's been a really story. It really collects that not too long ago, certain persons who I think are left in Dubai or they are about prosecuted and convicted for emitting money to the Bukwaram and then the banshee that we do have in Nigeria. And here, those people I believe are presently in jail in Dubai. Here at home, what was expected of us is to also go after those whose names were mentioned when some of these, when the Dubai authorities were prosecuted, the sponsors of Bukwaram that are based on their territory. But you will recollect that what they are to me, general, the federation. The first reaction was to say, look, we are going to examine or study the judgment, the division of the Dubai court and affecting whether they are the fair trial. That was the first reaction. If you say we are going to go after the local sponsors of Bukwaram, whose stories are the women whose names are mentioned in Dubai. So to that I say you could say that they are doing of the Nigerian authorities to prosecuting those who say that they mentioned the fatherly of Bukwaram as the lukewarm. And that kind of swell the accusation that the authorities know the people behind this thing, such as they are shielding them. And if you are shielding terrorists, the visual fundamentalists are know that you can be sure that you are undermining the foundation of the Nigerian state. It is not impossible. I marked my words. That what is happening in Afghanistan today, what is happening in Pakistan, what has happened in Iran, in Iraq, in Syria, will most likely happen in Nigeria if we don't have the right attitude. Or if the authorities don't have the political will to go after those who are sponsoring the Bukwaram and then defend it. Because most times, if it's not the army alone that wins any war, political decision will even be more important than winning the war. The Nigerian army are discerning responsibilities, but the political authorities have never had the guts and the balls to do what is needful, to do the right thing with regard to the fight against the Islamic fundamentalists. So what are times to default in the Nigerian nation? All right, Mr. Kolawalee, I want us to take a look at the daily trust newspaper. There's an exclusive story there and it's about what exactly victims of, you know, kidnap and their families have to go through to regain freedom. And it says that... Lara! I'm talking about a story on the daily trust newspaper here that exposes how police extort victims before tracking kidnappers and thieves. And the story explains to us that, you know, people whose family members were kidnapped have to pay as much as 50,000 narrates or 100,000 narrates of police operatives to track down where their family members are. You know, the police was, you know, presented with this finding and they basically said, oh, nothing like that happens and that, you know, you should report any airing officer. But we know that, you know, these official statements are a far cry from what really happens on ground. So what really are your comments regarding this? That Nigerians have to actually pay the police to find their family members and actually essentially do their job, which is, you know, trying to safeguard Nigerians their lives and property. Well, the truth is bitter. But you see, it's a rightful perspective in the nation. Anybody who has had cause to deal with the Nigerian police will know that the allegations that they take money before they track these bandits, it's a basic truth. I am a lawyer and I've been in this business for some decades now and I interact with the police on the regular basis. I have had cause myself personally to ask the police to help me track, track the persons who are using their telephone lines to arrest me. And when I approach the police and know that no one's here, I was asked to go and bring certain amount of money before they would be able to begin to do any tracking. I have also had clients on this behalf who approach the Nigerian police to help us track certain lines and monitor certain people who were kind of harassing in medicine. I'm following our clients. And we have all these things that they ask to bring certain amount of money before they do the job. Also look at the accusations coming from the Saudis and which people that the international police have arrested their relations and what have they done. Look at the demand the police has set to be making from those certain people. Sometimes they ask you to go and bring millions of Naira before they do their regular job. In my own case I was asked to go and bring 500,000 Naira before they would let me to track those who were harassing me. Wow. So, look, let's be honest with ourselves. That's why I say the police authorities, the higher authorities themselves have copied from some of these things. If they are not sharing out of the money that their full soldiers asked for, why would they now deny that the police don't have money? Furthermore, do you think it is possible for somebody like Abaki Ali to have been doing what he was left to have done over the years without the authorities knowing about it? In some other countries of the world, integrity test is usually drawn for the security people, for the police especially. In a place like Britain and Naira, the police authority would deliberately go and put money in certain apartments and Naira and ask a police or a group of policemen to go and do a search in those houses. The money would have been marked and then when they come back, they would expect them to bring an inventory of what they found there. Even when they come back, they didn't disclose that they met the money that the authorities have put there. Then the policemen would be queried and then they are dismissed from the post. They have failed the integrity test. Why is it that here in Nigeria, we don't conduct integrity tests for the Nigerian police officers and men to run campfire? Before now and since then, we are always told that they are free. But can you go to any Nigerian police station and secure these people's beds without paying for a little of this green smoke that I'm talking to you? The answer is no. All right, Mr. Kalawalee. The tragedy of the whole thing means that, no. Yes. Most of the top echelons in the Nigerian police today, they are loyal to what they see behaving this way. It is strange. Mr. Kalawalee, in that same breath, talking about corruption, I want you to still talk about the story that we're seeing across the papers. And on the day he trusts, he reads Unilac Crisis Festers as panel on covers three billion Naira tax fraud and contract splitting. We know that in March, earlier this year, there was a committee that the presidency put together and that's to basically investigate allegations of fraud in the University of Lagos from 2016 to 2020. And they've carried out the investigation. They've submitted their panel report saying that there's actually been fraud in the University of Lagos between 2016 to 2020, contract splitting and all of that. What do you expect the presidency to do or act on regarding this report? Well, I am not to ensure the presidency would have the political will to do what is right. In my humble opinion, the way I manage the crisis in Unilac was handled is very, very, very sharp. That is not the way that kind of completed or to be handled. Mr. Abadlaki's chancellorship was dismissed on the ground that he didn't carry the presidency along before he signed the Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos. He said the substance of the issue, the substance of the issue is that the VC wasn't managing the affairs of the University of Lagos, the way it should be managed. There's still a few more stories. One of them, I believe, which is a huge concern across the country is a story on the daily independent, I believe, that lays fears as schools return, and that is with regards to the fear of kidnapping once again. Something that I believe that we spoke about last week and asked, yes, the Cardenas State Government may have set up a new timetable, of course, excluded third term from these schools, but what exactly is the security situation in those states? You can't be sending kids back to school when you haven't been able to assure parents and assure these students that they're completely safe. And so those are some of the things that are important that have also come up in the news this morning, and we hope, according to reports, it says from January to August, so about 1,000 children were kidnapped in Nigeria just in 2021, which is shocking. The Bethel Baptist School still has 31 children in captivity. That doesn't even make the news anymore. It doesn't even make headlines. Nobody really even is talking about this. There's still 31 Nigerians being held by kidnappers. And so these are things that I believe would be or should make great conversations or important conversations across state houses of assembly and, of course, national assembly across the whole country as we keep it going. Yes, indeed. Thank you very much for staying tuned. It's been off the press on the breakfast and plus TV Africa. We'll take a break here and return with today in history.