 Welcome back to the breakfast and plus CV Africa time for off the press Well, we take you through the pages of our national dailies. I mean checking out the big stories We would also have an analyst join the show Chris Wando's and standby. Good morning Chris. It's good to have you join us All right, so let's take a look at the punch newspaper this morning and they're looking at the punch We set up with the banner caption the very board headline and it reads electoral act amendment Buhari returns built a nas and falls direct primaries Sites in security That's what you find Buhari returns built a nas and falls direct primary site insecurity underneath you have riders primary mode against party Constitution too expensive small parties will be marginalized Review direct primaries clause send document back for ascent president tells National assembly. I mean that story's been dominating the conversation Nigeria has recorded 500 percent infection increase in two weeks and CDC is quoted You also have 20 Nasir were farmers headsman killed and 8,175 Kaduna bandits orders arrested Let's check out the riders underneath this caption. You find Headsman attack TV villages or village and kills 20 TV farmers 5,000 displays ACF Lombas Buhari and governors as Kaduna debt though Rises to 40 very very sad. You also have nine hydro power projects to add 2,672 megawatts to the national greed that's according to the federal government and CSOs accused national assembly and top officials of document falsification It's also a caption on the punch newspaper this morning passport applicants patronized touts to get faster services a reg bechela is quoted on that as well Which I got one or two stories or headlines just before we move away from the punch newspaper this morning Lagos issues 1137 billion narrow bond for lekkie road projects and healthcare others and Ogun plans 42 billion our revenue from land administration and Retification Well, that's the much we can take this morning on the punch newspaper. All right, so now to the Nigerian Tribune It says here Electoral Act amendment bill Buhari surrenders to APC governors writes national assembly Explains why he declined assent to bill says exclusion of options for primaries on Democratic OAU VC and others attacked in a lay fair also 45 farmers feared kill in Nassarawa Police arrest two members of kidnaps indicating Ogun Committee of vice chancellor's engages assu over strike threat And also on the Nigerian Tribune this morning state funds being a siphoned to meet kidnappers demands says quara attorney general Because it's 2022 17 PDP aspirants meet for peace talks in Abuja Reps committee grills police service commission officials over one billion naira extra budgetary expenditure and also In the southeast Court voids and you buzz participation in a number of humanitarian election. I will appeal he says Also, I nick needs 305 billion naira to conduct 2023 election says Mahmoud Yacoubo as a senator said to pass 2022 budget today Alright, let's move away from Nigerian Tribune and check out this day newspaper the board caption quite different from what you have on The Tribune Buhari with holes assent to electoral bill says imposing direct primaries on Democratic I mean you have that particular quote underneath When able to take that one now We K National Assembly lacks will power to override president That's what the governor of river state. Yes, a week is quoted to say 45 fiat killed in attacks on Nassarowa communities as Kaduna death toll reaches 40 Lagos right raises 137.3 billion naira throw bone to finance infrastructure projects So I will you it is the largest born ever by a subnational in Nigeria and CDC Begins campaign to cop Omicron Delta variants and order spread. That's what you find this morning on this day newspaper All right, so the leadership newspapers now ball now in National Assembly's court after PMB's rejection of electoral bill President six amendment to direct primary clause. It says also CSO's urged lawmakers to let will of the people prevail National Assembly to pass 2022 budget today 20 250 billion naira so-called proceeds to finance construction of 71 roads says the federal government and Also, I CPC Claire's ex-NIPC boss here one day Sadikou of corruption Asu Flays federal government shifts ground on strike 20 killed and 5000 displaced in Nassarawa and the federal government fixes six weeks for issuance of new passports It's here in security. You can do better ACF tells PMB in governors death toll in Kaduna attack rises to 40. I Think these are the major stories across the papers this morning Chris one do welcome once again. Thanks for joining us I'm not sure which of the stories that you would like to pick up from Obviously has to be the Ask me. I'm not surprised that That's coming from the president because from his body language at from the time that that he was passed by National Assembly He has the time to to be put to a century if in the dead end seeking the Opinion of the GL seeking the opinion of INAG and the rest of them and the end of it all to the extent that the time Lapt I think by Sunday or there about for the president apparently I think it was that twice with Right national said they give me his reasons But first of all, let us look at the water the reasons give me give for reasons one that a it will be very expensive to that if you if you know people Smaller parties three The issue of insecurity Another the third one the fourth one now, but if you're saying is security does all that what what are you saying? You're also saying this is that I say we're good not going to conduct Between t23 generation that is just about to one and happy away from now that to me is not an excuse What I just believe that the president has just it just does it to the tune of the governors The president to me doesn't have your mind of its own as far as this issues consigned So much pressure for me to make sure that this is not signed and some of us have been saying that What the president needs to do is that what he's doing that is doing it with the baby with the bad water because The direct primary is just one out of so many things that were contained in that Electron be so if we are not satisfied with that Why don't you just sign it sign the bill and send an amendment to the National Assembly that hope to look at this The part of it that I mean that is what happens in the room, but the president has practically true Also under the boss as far as this issue is concerned But the question you ask yourself is that does the National Assembly have the political will and the man? Hey, the the the wall it takes to be able to provide the bill and now totally agree with the governor Reversed Let me also tell you This is the fourth time that the president is choosing to sign I'm sure most of them don't know because Elation that was a bit I was also passed that he refused I was always good to Superdise activities of my neck is good to give it get possible. This is the very fourth time for one two three four Also in the the Eighth National Assembly also sent, you know an electoral bill that also wasn't signed when Bukalasaraki was sent president Yes, that's that's what I'm telling you. I said this is the fourth time that he has refused to sign the bill I'm not not going to tell most of us that there might be something more cynical about this than just the mere Reasons given by the president and I don't know why he's doing this because if we're going to get our Electra system, right? We are going to get everything right there with this that bill has to pass Don't forget that the issue of electronic voting is also contained in that view. And that is one of the most vital Vital product and the INEC is trying to make and that is where where I make fear that this is how we can get it Right, some of this thing have been tested in some of the relations. I had and it came a success me So if you're throwing it back at national assembly, what do I want them to do? How will I make a plan? I think I might put About 300 billion mirror that is not insane that it means to conduct a lesson But when they are not hammed with enough law to be able to pursue 2023 election, then I can tell you that problem All right, let's move over to you know Some security concerns now on this day newspaper 45 feet killed in attacks as Nassarro communities and Kaduna debt toll Increases and it gets to 40 Well, we can't continue to cast up talking about this. Yes, 45 in Cassina in Don't also forget that that if you also kid in Gila in a cabinet is Some few days back and then we also be having prayer to that over 25 We are born today to their vehicles in Sokoto I'm sure you are aware of that you also realize that a commissioner was killed in Cassina and under law No maker was killed in a cabinet. These are just the few figures that we've seen There are so many more that have not been reported and that shows the level of insecurity in the land The question we continue to ask this what our security agencies doing to be able to cover this What is the president doing to go to cover this? What are we doing as a nation to be able to make sure that we Nigerians are secured and when you continue to talk about foreign Investments and rest of the president moving all over the place second foreign has to come I invest like that How can you invest the country without? Security that in this have become the challenge for me. So it's so sad and I want to continue to hear is that the president would be given much more dust security agencies Security chiefs make sure that this is nipped in the board make sure that all those perpetrators are caught all those that have Be arrested. I mean have been have been persecuted and that is what we are If the body language of the president is not showing enough capacity to make sure that we deal with it And people continue to take the laws into their hands and it is not happy matter. This is Christmas period. A lot of people cannot travel a Lot of people cannot travel because of high level of insecurity because you don't even know whether if you start For those of us from the South East I supposed to be my village drinking Panwain with my my village But yeah Because what is coming out of the news you coming out of those places is not something palatable You're not going to show that if you if you drive from here to be named and from be need to On a sharp from on a shot to wherever you're going to make it Let us let us even assume that you fly some people say why can't you fly if I fly to where it will be clean Take me to my village That is also the issue. So it is it is a big problem We haven't and and I think that the president will continue to everything as well as the issue of securities concept We put it squarely on the table of the president. He's the president of Nigeria and is the primary Responsibility to measure that every Nigeria is secured wherever they are but the news coming out. It's nothing It's not good to write home. I'm Mr. One dude the north You know, I know you've mentioned the your challenges in the southeast and the other parts of the country Kidnapping and the lights which has become a problem. I know I also, you know, know that you would have loved to be Somewhere in the east now with your palm wine and bushmeats But the north From the stories that we've read this morning 45 dead here 38, you know dead in another state 20 23 we're burnt in a vehicle. The north has really really suffered these insecurity challenges What do you what do you see or what do you think might be the after effects of this in the next 10 years or 15 or 20 years? Is is northern Nigeria just going to move on if at any points all this ends? Too large. Yes Let me tell you first of all most Let me take it from Point that might just not be something that look at this look at a security architecture now See majority of the head of security agencies are from the north the If you look at it from the point the chief of family staff is from the north the IG IG of police is from the north The DG of DSS is from the north the Another top security From the north and you continue to ask yourself how come that we are still having this level of High level of insecurity in the north if our top security agencies are also from that part of it And that is a question that should be They should be disturbing them and also ask myself. What are the governors in states? Surrounding in the north also doing yes, what are they doing to complement the effort of the security agencies? I mean the police DSS addressed of them. I'm most often than not what we here is Oh, they're not the they are not in charge of police. They're not in charge of family They're not I still believe that the governors in the north can still do more than that. You know, the governors in all the states can do more the South Southwest Nigeria Has been a bit crazy with their own thinking and which one they come came up with that And you see whether you like it or not They have a lot in coming the level of this security in the Southwest It might not be total, but you will see the level of impartial and how they're able to say come most part of the Southwest This no the the southeast is having the term challenge Almost going to years now. They have been talking of this issue of a buggy buggy buggy buggy buggy Not have come out of a buggy buggy. They're always giving themselves to Our issue of security and every Monday to today. You see that the whole saddest is A total of people don't go out There in the north what are they doing? They plot it practically So it coming back to what Prosperity we question the current leaders of Nigeria and those of the north or wherever you find it In 10 years time because the question will be asked when we were there, what did you do? Well, you know Mr. Wando siderec Nigerian history has really shown that posterity Doesn't really matter because we still see some of these persons, you know still in government still having a voice today Even if you know, you can say that they were responsible for a lot You know of the chaos that Nigeria has experienced so posterity calmer and some of all of that may not really matter I'm mostly concerned about the the trauma of You know the trauma that would leave with the people of northern Nigeria for many many many years maybe for decades after seeing this level of death and Disaster and killing Every week and every month. It's it's terrible. But because of time let's move away from then go to the southeast And do buys and the news is wanted on the Tribune. It says there the court Voids and do buyers participation in anambra elections And of course he says that he will appeal Is this shocking in any way or did you expect that this would happen like this? Not to shock it to me because prior to the election I've been a lot of Patent intrigues within the ABC prior to the election in anambra state Remember that at the point would even know who's going to be the flight flight bearer of the ABC Just like it's not just the ABC even if he did remember who's Igbo and the other person then even after he said It was almost to the last Some few days before the election that even a soludo was a Confirm satisfied at the genuine candidate of after so the same thing with a PC So what the code has come to say is that I've been issue that and over was an accredited of a PC So he couldn't have even shouldn't he shouldn't have been on the bottom of us So what he misses that he was not part of that election? And he does not have the Lucas to go and challenge the outcome of that relation That is what they call the bet he says is good to go out on that deal. That is his right That is right to appeal at any given time So wait to see what the cutoff of people who stayed on that bet as far as we're concerned presently And over wasn't a candidate of that election and it does not have any right What they're about to challenge the outcome of the nation as it here? All right Let's also take a look at the punch new three for this morning. You also have concerns raised by civil society Organization accusing members of the National Assembly top officials of falsification of document and it calls for a lot of Consent we have seen this event unfold. So usually the question for me is I mean before you get into This position or all of this offices There's a system that verifies. So at what point do we even have persons having fortified document? And then they are holding top or you know Official position in the country Well, it's obvious that our secret agents are not doing what they're supposed to do because they're supposed to be more what we call due diligence in going to the certificates submitted by Public office holders before they even said before they even go into a lesson. I think that is the job of the DSS If you like the stands, I'm not sure but I think this is that normally suppose There is what's called security check not only those in the National Assembly want to become a cancer love want to become a status of assembly member you want to go for National assembly and that's the leaves or even become a government. There's always what is called There's no most of the even ministers once a minister has been picked by the president Have been picked by the president before he can go to the National Assembly for To take a bow at the money due as such questions security. Just a DSS DSS normally have one to post security check There are so many others even those that are pointed into boats or ancestors Most of them are submitted So I Contrary to find difficult to understand why I cannot understand why they cannot be able to find find out Most of these for certificates as it's where because this is Very fine with technology It is very very easy point to find whether somebody have an ego or If I say I think the public colleges must take on this school It is very easy for you to just be able to send a message to the public college or the wire This is what I have is this authentic Don't forget that issues we had even with government of us a key If you do the election you remember vividly, we have some only and And you I came out to say this young man was is our product you finish from the university What if anybody is telling you is wrong so and that is it, but you see that people would have stayed in an office for how many Yes, only for you to not discover that oh he didn't have this that's that was a there's an SEO was an essay to the president That was accused of forging his cousin. He is the lawyer I think was the you remember the person talking about I'm sure you remember who was accused of he was in charge of a Propatial recovery and rest of them was that accused of not having very precise to read law at the University of Just he forged his suicide He passed literature or something like that But over time I simply took it up and realized that yes, this was the situation and he's been persecuted But what I'm saying is that let there be due diligence especially on the part of secret agents that whoever is picking up An appointment make sure that whatever I have presented as certificate is genuine I don't want that is To not only be arrested you'll be persecuted and whatever money has been paid over a year Sitting on that post should be refunded and I think by so do they will be getting it right But the way it is now it's just a no-comers affair. All right On the leadership this morning is a pretty interesting story there for those who have traveled across the country Even if there's a security challenges There's a little bit more good news. It says that 250 billion Naira Sukkot proceeds to finance construction of 71 roads. Mr. Wando is this something to celebrate Well for me, I think Well, look at Difficulties as we have in Nigeria. To me, it can be very very appalling because still especially on a daily basis we continue to vote billiards and billiards of Naira for Infrastructure development and rest of them. I'm not due to show for it, especially the rules. I Am a rebel I apply the Negotiable expressway on the weekly basis on the weekly basis and I know that a massive construction going on But that's not the finish But if you now look at other roads across Nigeria and see the level of Deployable state of the rules then you continue to ask what I will be doing with the billiards and billiards of Naira that Nice Christmas period a lot of people going by the road But you can also see that people be prone to accident a lot of us that will happen on the road this time around Basically, not because I as always say not because the fact that the road is also very bad But also that some people are impatient when on the road But if you have a very good network, then it helped a lot of things It also had the economy because people moving their produce from the villages to town and rest of them The prices of good as services will not be those goods will not be as expensive as they were but I'm billions and billions my brother This is not the first time we're hearing it and the end of it or not be sure but The government say by next I'm going to do the most of the federal rules And I thought about money that I realized from doing this where I'm going to be used to Service the road. I hope that will be true. I hope it will go to same way so many other ones before it went Where people just pocket the money and just disappear There are a lot of questions need to be asked You know, but you know, there's people who have also praised the current administration For the work that they've done on certain roads across the country You know the Benin Lagos Expressway, you know, which is one of them that I have traveled lately There's something that you know has been mentioned every now and then There's also something on COVID-19. I will also share earlier today that the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control NAFDAQ has given Go ahead to Afibabalola University to produce a herbal Medication, you know to help fight COVID-19 in Nigeria So quickly share your thoughts on where we are today with regards to COVID-19 last year, of course We were in a totally different place. There was a lot of testing going on. It doesn't seem like a lot of that is happening But of course that we're still in a pandemic Do you think Nigeria has done well enough in managing the virus and will herbal medication maybe Be a breakthrough here in the country Yeah, good news to Abua. That's a very good one Thanks, sir. Just Where you see the research news makes me happy Because just like they say in the Bible, so many people were expecting Jesus to come from one of the biggest cities in Israel, but he came out from Bethlehem We are nobody new so if you have the big big so called deep in universities and if you understand what I mean Establish universities that I'm there for 50 years addressed of them We're not going to do what and Abua just came out with that and now that they're going to give them a good one Because I've always been an advocate of home-grown solutions to some of these issues that we have Provided Some of this the vaccines ourselves and about how about whichever one I remember that we lost about one million Versions that were sent to Nigeria because it aspired So if we have had it if it was Manifold I don't have other currency but taking it forward My own challenge is that why we are talking about taking first or second job of the city What has moved on the world is not that not the booster What the world is not taking is the boost and not even the second the first or second Because to the largest and the first and second seems not to be Potent enough to be able to handle the issue of the Omicron variant and that is where we should be now We should be talking about taking the booster, but how many of our people are even Bacinated within what we have I that we will have up close to about a five million Nigerians vaccinated after a population of over 200 million So is the half five crime then also put into context that this is this is the first Period Christmas period a lot of our brothers and sisters will be coming in from other parts of the world and we have enough Testing kids at the able to measure that anybody that come into these countries tested And if they are trying to have and this and their quarantine and rested for this time being that is the challenge for me But the government seems to have left every Nigerian to themselves to be able to take care of it And I think that what is happening and every Nigerian is supposed to take care of their own personal interest money Health the government have been trying their best, but whether they are best is a good enough, but my own personal challenge I Please guide the one part taking the two jobs, and I probably go for the booster for my own good Not because of my that's if the booster is available I mean because we're still grappling with having enough vaccine to vaccinate the entire population Just two percent according to the report, but I like also to chipping because you know It's also a follow-up to this one now that we're having reports that we've recorded 500% increase of you know infection Do you think that the government is on the other hand is saying that I mean we're clamping down that's going to be Do you think that it would be you know in the right direction for us to you know? Have another lockdown in the country or in Lagos as it were It will not work whether they lock down a lot of that is you know what we can look people Ninjas are finding difficult to eat so that people that leave their daily lives If they don't go out to look forward to eat they will not be able to make so how do we lock them down? It's not possible. What has just really that we should continue to do is I like my life my problems I'm making sure that we have enough vaccines to go around and Convince you to take this vaccine and as I said and those that are thinking already to go for the booster If they so wish but talk about the lockdown we saw what happened during the the last Mess you know what happened and had a pound that they didn't work out well And it's not going to work out because yeah I was even at a point that we're doing partial lockdown or some local government in Lagos state are locked down And this one I see people moving from push of head to Lagos Island from my land and moving to it But I'm moving I had to be able to do that is not possible to make me to do that So the issue as it were is that let us continue to make sure that all this the necessary Versions are made available for those who want to let them continue to make emphasize that people Who have not gotten themselves fascinated should do so and really we can also checkmate that is what is happening in the federal System we are the government federal government is trying to make sure that anybody that is not fascinated within the federal simple serving We're not able to assess their office But are you going to fall there's no way you can make it to force a lot of people even if you purchase in the world I'm not looking down. You're not taking down being locked down with the eyes When me crown very and even the United States have not locked down So there's no way it's not going to work my sister if anybody's thinking of looking down the part of Lagos or Nigeria definitely to work Okay, and also on the punches one and pretty interesting story bottom left It says their officials siphoned government funds under the cover of pain ransom And that is inquire a state a commission inquire a state is saying that official government officials are siphoning government funds under the guys of pain ransom This I wonder is this, you know, just another day in Nigeria You've said it on I said it I was said it on the program that Nigeria is like Calibur show anything I put on Calibur show it if you guys used to watch a little shit What's this? No, it's a Calibur show as for what you don't know what to do next I don't decide to just buy somebody's ear or something like that. That's a Calibur show and that's it's Nigeria for you I will not be surprised if that is up But when you say pain ransom pain ransom to who through which means for what purpose? But That also forget that my dress have been left to the affiliate most people that are where you are Relative get kidnapped these days are you calling police? You'll be shown by what the police will tell you basically and negotiate opinion and make sure that you're Relative is released That is from security agencies because they don't want the capacity to get police men are being kidnapped by not aware so just a big kid not and It has been gone. So that is how bad and terrible the situation is so If they say they're using it for ransom and rest of them, I wouldn't know. I don't have the food details So I'm not able to speak so well about that but the issue of ransom That was a statistic that came a few weeks ago And then how much Nigerians are paid for ransom for kidnapped business I'm sure you saw that report and they run into billiards and billiards of myra And you continue to act yourself that that in this step have become an industry of his yes So people have made that an industry What they wake up now to do is just be looking for people to give up on the rest of them and collect money and Home and drive so the situation at the point where I say it was poverty. It's not poverty for me It's criminal. It's you cannot just look up and say you are kidnapping somebody and say is because you want to feed You want to kidnap somebody to feed your family or what are you trying to say? Let us continue to do what is needful There are so many laws that have been enacted by various states on kidnapping and the rest of them Until we put our feet down and make sure that we use these laws to be to prosecute most of these people We could continue to remove the way the direction we are going and it's not happy matters at all Okay, um, would you also expect let's go back to talking security now? Would you also expect a response from the president on the killings in Nassarawan Kaduna state has recently reported What would you you know also want, you know, mr. President to be doing at a time like this What's the response that we're going to expect and the issuance of press release by the president Well, that's all the well escape from the president pressure the presidential school person Go to president condemn the ad And he's given a matching of that to security agencies and security mention that all the perpetrators of those ads are arrested and prosecuted And then the president continued to commissure it with the families of the disease Uh for the loss of lives and that the president is on top of it. I'm just giving you a precedent I'll give you an issue and a press statement or a with what I'm saying and that is what we get But the president has to be on top of his game. The president has barely less than two years to go Nigeria have the soul I'll continue to say Nigeria have a very very very Charitable to the president He is one of only two people that have had the opportunities of ruling Nigeria twice the second president to go We have too many Nigeria millions and millions Nigeria's who are never even Aspect to be cancelled as never got to be there So if president does not do the needful and he blows the opportunity Prosperity as I said before we continue to judge him years and years after he must have left office All right Chris one do always a pleasure listen to you and thank you very much for joining us this morning Which are very interesting to use their head Thank you very much. I don't have your wonderful christmas. Thank you. Absolutely All right, stay with us. 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