  outlook  pan  d yūch  log                                        Regardless, not only the new normal AKA JAKPA A first JAKPA started as a joke but it very quickly became the norm in the past four years Nigerians travel out to search for greener pastures and security families are separating very early on parents are separated from their kids siblings are torn apart more than looking at the pros can we look at the cons? Can we talk about the root cause of this new norm? First, governance. It's no news that we've been unlucky with our choices of leaders this past decade, and we can see that clearly in the current state of the country. If this is one of the major reasons that people jack up, what then should we be looking to hear from incoming government officials? What new promises will convince people to stay put and not consider living this country? Economy. The Nigerian economy is a mess. We are in the dark era. We are pay outstays the same, but the cost of living keeps going higher. The value of a dollar to nera is now at 610 nera per dollar. We are consuming more than we are producing and still heavily dependent on other countries for our finished oil and food, no independence in sight. How will such an economy convince people to stay and not jack up? Value of life. We all know that the value of life in Nigeria is equal to zero. No 911s or emergency response units to come to your aid. In fact, if you do get some good summer returns to come to your aid, there's no assurance that the hospital will have space for you or have oxygen tank. Once you are in a gasly accident, you can see the end in sight with little or no hope. How then will such situation convince someone to stay and not jack up? Security. Insecurity in Nigeria is at an all time high. From mob killing to sars and police officials harming instead of protecting to help robbing and killing their bosses because they know they can get away with it. You can be driving back from work and get stabbed into your car. You can walk down the street and have your bags snatched by little boys no more to older than 14. You have to stay in constant paranoia, otherwise you become a prey. How will such insecurity convince someone to stay and not jack up? Opportunities. After spending years in school and coming out with a first class, what jobs or type of living is available to you? Many times we've seen first class graduates become bond sellers or POS merchants. No opportunity to practice what is studied. No opportunity to earn a living from it. How then will such a situation convince us to stay and not jack up? Well, I'm going to respond to you. I've made your argument and sadly it's true, unfortunately. The only way out of Nigeria, I'm going to point out three major things. Number one, managing diversity. Just like I said before, there is something I discovered in the documentary from the United Arab Emirates. Do you know that the government is intentional about enforcing unity and diversity, managing diversity among Christians and Muslims? There is a mosque in United Arab Emirates within churches that is called maybe the mother of Jesus mosque. They named it because of in honor of the Christians around the area. Because they are trying to tell them that we are different religions, but let's stick together. I made the country work. If Nigeria can manage diversity, I guess our insecurity should be reduced drastically because most of our insecurities are due to ethno-religious problem. We know there are other things along the side and the other one is structure. We need proper structure in the country and our MBAs need to function so that they can have policies that will support local businesses and be an enabling environment for foreign investments that people can come and invest in this country and provide opportunity for young people. It's not wrong for anybody to live in any country if you wish to. After all, people live in America, but to other countries. In Nigeria, it's because we have this mindset that many people have this mindset that if you don't live in Nigeria, you won't make it. I don't know that you've interacted with million years ago. Are they wrong? Are they wrong? Yeah, in a way, it's the peace program. No, it's the peace program. I just said five. I said government insecure. Can you take them one by one? We are going to vote next year, 2023 year. We are going to bring new governance. What are they going to say to us that will make the youth want to stay back and not go like, these are some points that I need you to be able to say to me as a youth that might be considering JAPA. What are they going to bring to the table in security? I could leave here now in my car. Once I get stuck in traffic, I'll be scared for my life because anybody can bust my window. What are you saying to me that would make me stay knowing that that situation can happen? Elijah, I think that your response is so academic. It sounds like it's something that you're supposed to say. No, because you sound very academic. I want you to get to where you're going. I can say what I want to say. The book lies and stops the decks of the government. These people, they go out, they see how outside this country functions and they are happy to go by properties there. When they come back, they leave the country the way it is. Whether you like it or not, build houses and have 10 million houses in London and the U.S. And we have many Nigerians, Jack Perrin. Maybe this is the language. We still have to care for our country because it's our country. Unfortunately, Elijah, actually Nigeria ceases to be their country once they get to that country and they get the right of whatever you call it. Because you see, I'm home and I do not have the right that should be accorded to me as a citizen. And then I go to a foreign place, I am welcomed. I get a job, security is paramount. I can pick up the phone and call 911. I'm sick, I can call the ambulance. Nobody is asking me to pay upfront before they look after me. What is not to japa? That is why I said the structure. The government have to pay attention to the structure. Responding to 911. What government? Government of the day. So in my mind, I don't know who those people that you are talking about I don't know where they are. I don't know whether they've been born yet because I'm thinking in my newspaper I'm reading about some mighty, mighty figures with 1.9 trillion naira. That's somebody just 8. 9.5 billion. 400. I'm thinking my goodness. That's a billion. Oh yes. And then you are saying the government. What government are you talking about? I don't understand. Like I said, let's be hopeful. No, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. When you said all the things that you were listing out, I just felt like just lying down and just crying. That's what I felt like doing. Because and this is me who loves Nigeria. This is me who has been hopeful for my 50-something plus years that Nigeria is going to get better. Everyday I'm thinking Nigeria is going to get better. But now I do not have even a moral justification to tell anybody who wants to live. Not to live. Because what are you, you're talking about the ideal. But there's no ideal. There's no ideal. I can't anybody that wants, I don't even, I call it escaping. Look at the people who are escaping. I don't say they are relocating. They are just escaping. And I'm like, can't I just follow you and just escape with you? And I'm going to give two scenarios that are passing out to me. So I have a cousin. She wasn't good in school at all. She wasn't good at school work. And then no matter how they discipline them, no matter the lesson teacher we brought, that just wasn't at this thing. And then when she finished secondary school, before she got, she wrote jambo before the result and all this thing came. During that interim, she was working for a restaurant in Lagos, doing for an internship or whatnot. They were paying a P-notes but just so she does not sit at home before university result came. But then her mom was able to work something out. She was able to travel abroad. When she got there, she joined a female soccer team. She's doing very well. She wasn't good with education. She was good at soccer. With soccer, she's able to send money home to her parents. With soccer, she's like, if she was here in Nigeria, she's like, that's the opportunity. I can imagine how bad they made her feel here. We don't have that structure. That's the opportunity I'm talking about. Now education didn't work. It's here an opportunity for something else to work. In America, you see a work that I'm an influencer and that's what the person does. And they are making a good living. Is there that opportunity yet? That's one scenario, second scenario. Is this girl going home from work? She was driving, she passed through our eco bridge traffic, held that off. And then these guys said that it was a girl driving all year in the car. They busted her window. They wanted to stab her in the neck, but she was able to put her shoulder just to get a phone that you'd sell for 20,000 euros. Are you telling me if that girl, which we've already told her she should travel, if that girl comes to you and say, what do you think, should I just put all my things together and leave? Are you going to look at her in her eyes and say, no, she'll stay and fight? What's the rationale behind saying that someone like that should stay? And I just don't understand. And I'm bringing this up so that I can be convinced. Or maybe you have something to say that won't paint the picture as bad. Because I have a brother that's finished university that's sitting at home. And getting the job for where he studied political science, getting a job to fit that, it's not happening. So that's another thing. So like, I don't understand. That's another thing. You know, like, so I know for a fact that when you're in a western country, they don't really care about your university degree. Because I have three children that have been to university and all that. Nobody cares. Because whatever job you get, they're going to train you for that job. So in Nigeria, they like, you must be a lawyer, you must be a, you must be a lawyer. My daughter, when she did law and then she decided that she doesn't want to be a lawyer. She's actually doing her masters and is in law school, but she said that she doesn't want to be a lawyer. So she's got a job in compliance. She's had to learn everything from scratch, but she'll soon be like, you know, that is her call. It didn't, the fact that she has a law degree has no bearing on what she's doing now. Well, I wouldn't say education didn't work for your causing. I think it's the kind of education. What I'm saying is that why she was doing her so-called stuff there because that environment, their concept of education is not like our concept of education here. Our education is book. Go and read books, get certificates. Their own education is solving problems and being fixed to where your passion lies. That's education. So you wouldn't say education didn't work for you? No, I'm not. I know, don't get me wrong. I never said, I didn't say education didn't work for her. I said if she was still here, she would be languishing. She will be a shadow of herself. Demoralized. Demoralized with nothing to show for herself. In just four years that she has moved, she would even send me money. The education didn't work for her. I know our problem is the structure. I think the question you were asking is what can somebody say to you to convince you to stay? I personally, like I said, I have no moral. I cannot ask anybody to stay. But that makes me sad. Because I believe in Nigeria. And I love Nigeria. And my fear is what's going to happen to these children who are growing up and even the ones that are unborn. The best of Nigerians' brains. They're just living in droves. Every day you go to the hospital, you ask for your doctor, your doctor has jabbed. Your nurse has jabbed. Only the hospital is still standing. Everybody who works there has left. And it's sad because they're living to better. You can see that they're living to better. So the only area that I'll agree with is until our government gets up and do something. You know, I thought of, can somebody just come like in rolling and just do the rolling. I don't know of Trump. I'm just like, somebody need to go. We need to get your PVC. Let's start with that one first. Yes. Get your PVC. You're right. The only action is Okay, okay, PVC. Get your PVC. Elijah, okay, PVC. Yes, yes. Who, if he's out there has just absconded to another party. He has not yet said that. So who? Okay, who is the PVC? Okay, look at the PVC. And tell me who they're bringing. That even if you had your PVC, you would want to vote for. And that's what she's saying. Who amongst these people are we even going to say, oh, this person can save us. I don't see a messiah. I don't see a messiah. 24 hours is quite a very long time for anything to happen. So let's watch and see what happens. Okay. Why we hope that the parties we bring for credible individuals. Get your PVC. That's only what our advice is. Okay. If you complain about Nigeria, if you are too much, get your PVC. We will, we will. I have my PVC. Let's try. I have my PVC. I have been voting since democracy restarted. I have been voting. Sometimes I have voted for people knowing that this person is going to win. But my conscience would not allow me to vote for someone that I know that he probably cooked and that person is going to come anyway. Yeah. If I, I don't know, I can't tell you not to japa, I'm sorry. I can't. I can't tell. I don't think that anyone can tell anyone right now. Even parents are like, please japa, we get the same food. Yeah. That is why I said this thing has become from reality to England in our mind. We just believe that the country cannot work unless japa. These same people that are causing problems in the country, when they go out there, they respect their system. They respect their system and they don't know why are they causing because the government will not and no, because the government will not enforce any law. I'm talking about the opposing government itself. The constitution authority, which are part of the people, they have their family members abroad. Many of them have a second citizenship. Yeah, absolutely. When they go to those countries, they do very well. Actually. There was a bill but when they come in, they just believe it's Nigeria. There was a bill that somebody was trying to pass recently. I think Sejus Ogons in the House of Representatives where he was saying that they should ban the children of public office holders going abroad to school. Of course, they knocked it down because they know that they have knocked it down. To make sure that their children stay here and that is just as everything else in Nigeria is just that. I'm just at the point where I'm almost, I don't know if we're even allowed to say this on TV because we should at some point be able to encourage people and be like, this is Nigeria but I'm just so sad and I'm getting to the point where I'm just losing hope. In this country because the people that we have elected to build, they seem to not care or want to. What comes to my mind is there's this place in the Bible where God was telling one of the kings and saying that because you did this, this is what I'm going to do to you and the king was like, it's okay, you're going to do it after I'm dead. It's not me who is going to suffer for it. I can't just, it's my children, so it's okay, I won't be here. But you must care about what happens to your children. What they don't say. Politicians think about the next election. We only have politicians in Nigeria, we don't have any leaders. We don't have leaders. We don't have any leaders. We want to become president. We don't have any leaders. You destroy the system and when you are done you carry your family and go to America to go and see. Then the country suffers. That's what happens now. That's what happens. Yeah, I think I brought up this topic because I have my answer. You're about to jack back. No, no, no, because I'm about to jack back because I'm a startup founder and there are other startup founders that are friends with and we are building for this country. So you're staying? Because Are you staying? Because if the government won't do it, if the government won't do it, then we are doing it ourselves. Absolutely. And what we are facing now is that they are bringing up regulations to block what we are trying to do. But still regardless we are doing it because we like jack back, we like move out of this country to go and live in another another country. No. But we like move to we like go to other countries to see what's going on there and then come back to see you build out continue building out my team. Yes, absolutely. That's what I'll be doing. But we like take my siblings out of this country. Of course they are going to live in this country. Will my children be born in this country? No. But will I stay in this country to build out my startup with my fellow startup colleagues? Yes, I will. If they will let you because being an entrepreneur myself I don't know how any government would make it so difficult for humans to thrive and help them. So I am an employer of label and I'm thinking I am helping the government because these are people who otherwise would not have a job and will constitute again to a problem or a nuisance for the society. Is the government helping me to achieve this? Are they helping to make sure that I succeed? No. You cannot do business without diesel. Diesel is not to be hard. It's to be hard at a price that is too high. Is there power? Is there electricity? No. So again, you think to yourself Is there security? No. Our brother is a seat at home. So we are paying taxes and all. Then in where I live we have gates almost at every street. So we are still paying estate dues for our own security again because the government has refused to provide security. So we are providing security when transformers get spoiled. We are buying transformers but it's just too much and it's just wrong. Just imagine what is happening now. I'm just trying to imagine the brilliant ideas that Govnosulu talked about before he became government. Now he's there now. He's trying to make it work. Look at the way they have frustrated him. So are they frustrating him? He's now fighting from seat at home to you know they've beheld it last week. You heard of the law maker. No, I'm not even talking about the law maker that was beheld his head. I think we're in Vikings and they hang this head on his head. Before they killed a woman and she worked. In Anambra State. In Anambra State. Nobody has been brought to Bukong. Nobody has been brought to Bukong. People are scared there. The Govno has brilliant idea but now it can't work now because you see how this is. Now the ebos or the indigies that are outside doing well outside I hope they will come back to settle businesses. When they see that they are not coming back. They will be scared of coming back. They cannot come. So again I think that the psyche is everywhere. The same thing. So our psyche needs to be re-gibbed. I don't know it's like they should just give back to every Nigerian again and put something in us. Let me throw a little bit of humor. So you're about people to the rescue. If the east is burning out and the north is burning out. It's been on your being. It's been on your being. It's been on your being. It's been on your being. We just want to ask we just wanna party. You just want to party. It's still not safe. But let's not be fooled by the fact that you think legal is really the self. No, we don't know. They are just saying they are overly speaking. Because people think is happening in this is happening in us is not consign, this is really not about making our own might it's too close for comfort. When it happens It can happen anytime. To be honest I am looking for someone to just come and Don't forget the advocacy continues on our social media platforms on Facebook plus TV Africa hashtag the advocate NG and on Twitter and Instagram at plus TV Africa hashtag the advocate NG. To catch up with previous broadcast go to plus TV Africa dot com forward slash the advocate NG. Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel plus TV Africa and plus TV Africa lifestyle. Join us next week same time on this station. Let's keep advocating for a better society. See you next time.