 Day of the breakfast, ex-NBA boss Olisa Agbacoba writes AINEC pointed confusion and constitutional provision for election of president was seek to get clarity. Also on the breakfast, Najir recorded an annual headline inflation rate of 18.85% in 2022. In what was a remarkable year, ravaged by several economic headwinds, why did we experience the worst inflation in 21 years? And we will review the biggest stories making headlines across national areas. Welcome to the breakfast on Klaus TV Africa, I am Justin Acadone. I am Messe Boko, it's good to have you join us this morning on the show. Messe, how are you doing this morning? Well, it's a Thursday morning. I don't know, there's something about Thursdays, when I think of Lagos, markets don't open on time and there's a bit of less traffic on the roads on Thursdays coming from the mainland that is because of the so-called sanitation exercise they do around the market, although some people do there as on Wednesday, but I noticed that sometimes you might want to buy stuff, you'd have to wait until 10am. I'm sure you noticed that I'm very surprised at what you said. Oh, you're not a Lagosian, you're not used to environmental on Thursdays. No, that's not the case. No, wait, wait. So I'm surprised that you were talking about environmental on Thursdays and I'm also concerned about the fail queues. Merci, the fail queues. The thing is that I wanted to get water this morning and you can say I'm almost sounding a bit groggy. I wanted to get water this morning, I just couldn't get water either because most shops were not open. Speaking of the fail queues, merci. I spent four hours just the other day to get from Victoria Island to the mainland, leaving Victoria Island took me almost two hours because of fuel queues. So I'm just wondering why we're talking about sanitation and then I'm wondering Thursdays for sanitation. Fantastic. Prior to this time, that's the kind of experience that we've had and asking myself, do people still observe sanitation every other time? Especially now that people have to do it. That's why they do it. No, I'm not in dispute of that, but I want you to hear me out and I hear the point is we have a lot of persons who are queuing for petrol. We wake up before six o'clock and there are five, you have the queue. To move on the island, several filling stations, you have the queue. So at what point, who is going to be observing the sanitation? They still do because, okay, we live around market areas. You find out that you still see lumps of debris brought from the gutters and from the drainages. Most of them they did on Wednesday. They will still constitute another memes on the road because they still block the roads again. And you find that you still have to try to circumvent around the roads. That's on the one hand, but I was just not so happy this morning. I got water. I didn't get water. Do you want to give me water? I do have water on my side. I'll take a break. I think I'll take your water as long as it's very, very chilled. Let's go towards trending this morning. The president, Muhammad Buhari, was in Mauritania the other day just two days ago. And he received an award for peace. And most people are talking about it. And the president talks some stuff concerning religious and ethnicity or religion. All right. So let's see why is it top trending because the president is believed to be a champion of peace in the continent. Let me just give a beat of a background of heart that happened. On Tuesday, President Muhammad Buhari, who was in Nobcha, the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, led us to place a premium on youth development with more seriousness and actionable ideas in promoting skews, accusations, while discouraging idleness. Speaking at the African Conference for Peace in 2023, the president said, the idleness of youth and non-inclusion in discussing issues that shape their lives and the future, pertains liability for that continent, especially in religious fundamentalism and extremism. The president, who was honored by the Abu Dhabi Peace Forum, with the award for strengthening peace in Africa, said there was a need to inculcate values and principles of tolerance and peace in educational institutions, and particularly among the youth. Merci. A lot of things come to my mind right now. The president was honored for strengthening peace in Africa. Some people would say we hardly have relative peace here in our own country. It's also interesting to note that the Forum for Peace was founded in Abu Dhabi in 2015, and it's dedicated to strengthening Islamic narrative of peace building and tolerance in the world of religious pluralism. That's what it is. So that's why you have the award. You need to think about that. The reason why you have this particular foundation. It's a foundation or an organization or association that awarded the president that peace for strengthening peace in this country. It's an African country. But if you also look at the reason why it was established, it was for this particular purpose. That's why we constantly have all of the conspiracy theories that we have about whether or not the sources are shenanigans for, okay, we need to understand that Nigeria is a secular state, secular in the sense that you have Christians and you also have Muslims. So it's not entirely an Islamic country. Then you also need to know that all the African countries are also Islamic. I don't know if you understand. I mean a bigger part in the Christian nation. So you have Africans that are Christian. So it's very disheartening. Others have called that the ICC should be involved in this particular case, where the president would have to answer. It's really, really a big irony. If you're going to look for an example of an irony, remember in English class, they'll tell you what are the example of irony. So you're going to, as part of that speech, you want to look for an irony. This is a typical example of it because it's a situation where you get to ask yourself how do we get to a point where in Nigeria, we don't have peace. And when we talk about peace, the absence of war is not necessarily peace because we don't have the conventional war because people are not having the war just like in Ukraine, which in most case, experts have said that that's not a conventional war. So because we don't have war, we're not experiencing war like a different country and another country and we're engaging and then, you know, there's a combat. Those women that we have peace, right? So it's, I really don't have to describe this, but it's really, it's really, really saddening that we are grappling with a lot, especially in Nigeria, the issue of insecurity that has affected the economy in a very, very, very huge way, massive way. You want to talk about bandits, kidnapping, also the crime of criminality. We're not saying that prior to 2022 or 2023, we've not had crime and criminality. That has always been the case. We've had it for years. We've had it for years. But it feels like this is amplified. You know, it's like it's been emboldened and that's what we're faced with. And yeah, we have a president who has received an award for ensuring peace in a certain African country and, you know, bravo. Well done. I don't, I just feel that before you could actually think of doing great, you should be able to put your own house in order. Let's see. You have highlighted all the issues that have plagued us, you know, in a couple of years. You talked about taking up an insurgency, ban the tree, which are on the rise by the day. We are not at war. Last time we experienced war in this country was between 1967 to 1970, when we had the civil war, Biafra and Nigeria, you know, fighting as it is internally. But we are not at peace. We hear issues in Southern Kaduna, the killings. You hear things in Agatu, in the state where people were killed. And, you know, most people cannot really travel, you know, through the usual expressway because of a scare of being kidnapped, you know, by this bandit. Come down to the south-east there. The issue of kidnapping is also very rampant. I couldn't even travel for Christmas last year. I mean, a lot of people travel. I know a lot of persons who came outside of the country. Because it was, I don't know, because to me, if you have to travel, it should be absolutely necessary because I wouldn't put my life in danger, aside from the woods. But we wouldn't travel now. Absolutely. I mean, what kind of them, you know, who we are in mind, or how killings they are, you know, to have just traveled that way. Let's say I wouldn't have traveled. So I know that in all of this, there's always a reportage. There's always, you know, this news that, yeah, the south-east, the south-east, I feel like there's been over, the insecurity in the south-east, please, please. I'm not saying that we don't have the issue of insecurity in the south-east, all of this attacks. But I'm saying that in most cases, you know how you're about to tell a story, or you're about to give a narration, and there's always an exaggeration. So some things are usually not as it's been said. You know how you say something? It's not as what it is. Like when you get to paint a picture, that's the reality. So I'm about to tell you about a certain experience, trust me. It is what has happened, but it's not as I am, you know, saying it, because in the course of giving you the narration and putting it out to you, it's always like, you know, a picture that's painted, or a perception that's given, and people will begin to think that, hey, you know, you can't step your leg in the south-east, because if you just move an inch, then that's what I'm saying, because that's what a lot of people think, and that's why I just want to ask you a question. Okay, okay. Reason, for instance, I'm from the, you know, a particular sanitary zone in Egypt. Are you from Mbalu? Yes! So you can't imagine! You know, that's my sanitary zone. You don't need to appeal, you don't have justice. Nothing cannot go to his village, because I'm from Mbalu. That's just not true. You need to have, you need to have justice. I know I'm not very Wallo. Oh, that's my thing. I'm not from Mbalu, but I'm from Mbalu, and we are from the sanitary zone. So all of you is stupid. We need to have justice, because it's not fair, totally. You can go back to the village, you know, and relocate to the village. I'm not, I'm relocating. I'm not, I'm relocating. I'm not a family, I'm not a family. The one who's saying all that, but my point is, you know, sometimes we have a perception, I, just in our understanding, there's insecurity everywhere in the country. It is, it is bad. Including Lagos, but you know it's not what it is in all the parts of the country where you have the kidnapping But not to say that you know peasants are not being kidnapped on their way to work and all of that You have all of this miscrans, you know on this criminal element taking advantage of peasants and you know doing Justin has been through a lot, you know when you talk about when you talk about people and there's always a local You know street word that I see Justin have seen Shiggy in the hands of this And in 2023 we pray that you know Justin will not see Shiggy, but quickly let's move on to the next one right here But looking at our next top-running the court summons MFLA over 23 million parry club debt Nigerians actually laments and what have you yeah, okay, so I think that's not even better But it's about a meffily Godwin a meffily of the Central Bank of Nigeria you have to be very precise Because you can go Justing of plus you know you have the Justin of where a lot of Justin's you have to be very empathic right there so He has asked the courts the division of the Court of Appeal to set aside another of the federal High Court Compelling his appearance in a 53 million judgment debt proceedings So yes, that's what it is and that's been got that's gotten a lot of peasants and a lot of tongues wagging Yes, they got one. I like to call it the Godwin a meffily saga. He's been in the news recently mercy Lots of summons security guards Into the office when we appeared from the UK to Nigeria right now 53 million dollars Paris Club debt must see How do we salvage this issue? He has been he although the case has been you know, adjunct so much The 20s, you know the federal High Court summons a meffily of the Central Bank that is you know over that particular debt Paris club reports now the presiding judge in young equal gave the order on October 2022 following an application for Garnishing made by Joe Agui a senior advocate of Nigeria who is the judgment Creditor the court granted the application and all that they may feel to appear in court are just Yesterday, however at the court session it was adjunct to March 20th The background is that the dispute stemmed from an alleged 70 million dollars judgment against Linus International Limited for the lawyer's Assistance with the Paris Club Reformed it may feel it was said to have only released 17 million Leave it at unpaid balance of 53 million dollars. It has got a lot of people talking on Twitter. Merci Well, it's it's this situation. It's what it is and none that's in court You know, you can't talk about the subject is so we definitely allow, you know the law to take its place But, you know, one would say that it's not It's it's not something that is desirable. You have that I mean, it's quite unfortunate that the government of central bank of Nigeria will be involved in all of this and but yeah, you know It's important. Let's see how that pants out All right, the next one is a We talked about to rose that at the show the fuels custody this like the longest in the history of Nigeria last year I remember in 2020 we started with them fuels custody went on to the issue of Adortated fuel or bad fuel as it were, you know, and it was sorted out. They were back and for blue games here and there, you know Appearances at the National Assembly all that went under the carpet But then again much later from like the later part of 2022 we started seeing a resurgence of long Cues at several filling stations The price of PMS was increased and Nigerians have been Scampering to get the commodity. It is actually endless the cues in most of filling stations in Lagos, you know, I've actually searched to the roads and then causing a whole lot of them Greedlock like I said the other day it took me about four hours Just to commute from one part of Lagos to the other and my dreams are suffering the element in Transportation costs Has increased their full prices of course There's a terminal effect when we talk about fuel and fuel scarcity in Nigeria messy So It's unfortunate. Let's even talk about Lagos where we are right here I mean if you talk about scarcity and why you have the long queue this has happened since November and it's so unfortunate that no one seemed to be saying anything, right? no one seemed to be saying anything and I don't know if the situation in order parts of the country I know some people who have talked about the cost of buying petrol which is not at 180 175 world view or 65 or there about now people have to buy petrol at 100 and What bigger parts did I say 100? 260 My sister just got back from the east that two days ago Most filling stations although right now most of them are not even selling the black market wheels Went as high as them 450 in a more states. So like I was saying, I mean it's unfortunate. No one's saying anything. It's totally Saddening it feels like We're just in a space this anarchy and and there's no control There's no there's no order in the system because one would actually anticipate that at this point We probably would have Being said, you know by the many-star petroleum, you know, someone should do something But there's something that there's something that we actually experience and notice I noticed in a sub one of one of it is that I saw tax men of the tax force Arresting, okay. Yeah, the PR. So they were in different felices, especially owned by the NNPC shutting down You know the stations are arresting peasants, you know, if you're selling above a certain Prize, right, but it's not fair to be very honest I really don't know how we can say this the cost of transportation the cost of leaving has increased Everything has moved life has become so brutish. It is becoming so short Life has become, you know, it's like we're in the stone age It's like we've gone back to the time where we had no government. We had no control We had no system and how can people we need in 2020 throw people a pain tax We have a government that we voted for No one seemed to be bothered about, you know, the pain and the anguish that the people are going through really because everything that happens has a trickle down effect and it's It's affecting every other part of the economy. We can't continue to fall their amps and say that we're giant of Africa and in this real sense We're not even showing it. The people who we like to represent our interests are not even interested about the people There's so much hardship and you know suffering But you need to go to the streets and see what's going on people spend, you know, two hours three hours for Johnny of You know, how many minutes? Just less than 20. 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