 Plateau State bleeds from the killing of more than 20 travelers over the weekend. Police arrest 20 suspects and deploy intervention teams to maintain peace. The University of Joss cancels examinations also. Capital of Afghanistan falls to Taliban fighters with President Ashraf Ghani fleeing country. This happened in 20 years after the militants were chased down from the country. And a group of Nigerians insist that they will stage a million-man march at the United Nations headquarters to press for referendum for self-determination. We'll bring in you these and more. And with that we say good morning and welcome to the breakfast on Plus TV Africa. Brand new week and of course a Monday morning. Just a few more steps in the month of August. Good morning to you. Good morning to you. I am Annette Felix. Thanks for joining us on the breakfast and good morning to you. All right. So our top trends stories today. One makes me really sad because of the reality that stares us in face and the fear of what people have regarding what might happen in Nigeria. But before we go into that let's begin on a lighter note. So it's a battle of the pastures, right? Tibi Joshua Vassos, Chris Okote Vassos or Dumeje in the Bosque. Well not Tibi Joshua. Tibi Joshua is late. He is the center of the discussion. Exactly. So this whole started with first of all we know that about 20 years ago Chris Okote put out statements warning Tibi Joshua, the late Tibi Joshua God rest his whole. Warning him basically about his ministry. His style of prophecy, deliverance and all of that. Basically antagonized all of that. And we saw that eventually the sad news that struck most of the religious bodies in Nigeria. The fact that Tibi Joshua passed on June 6th, the burial ceremony held. He was graced by some prominent people, tributes pouring in. His members feeling very sad. Remember even you covered some of the events that came on after that. Well the ball of contention here is that the pastor Chris Okote released a couple of statements. First of all published on Facebook and then in a lengthy over one hour video where he was talking about Tibi Joshua calling him all sorts of names and saying that he was a wizard at Endo. Chris Okote went on to say that Tibi Joshua receives prophecies from familiar spirits that are not of God and that even if the prophecies came to pass it doesn't stop the fact that they are fake prophecies according to Chris Okote. Chris Okote also said that Tibi Joshua has a fake and account of a church. He added that his members are only looking for temporary solutions to the panamanian problems and that they would never get the solution to the problems going to Senagotchi of all nations. Chris Okote also went on to give a warning to fake prophets and prophetess people who misinterpret God's word according to him saying that they are not called by God, they are Jezebel's and that those people's time were up and that God would smite them into dust. Those were his words. Shortly after, Odumeje, who is very popular for his style of preaching, his grammar and all the miracles and deliverances and conducts in his church sharing power, sharing force, physical force in church, how he comes on social media to just bear his mind about things. So he's gotten very popular in Nigeria. So Odumeje came on social media, actually on his church now published on social media to say that Tibi Joshua is a lion, Tibi Joshua is a soldier and that he would not stand and watch Tibi Joshua be insulted by Chris Okote. He also said Chris Okote was a stupid person. He went on to use other words like that. Said he had never seen him perform a miracle in his life and that Chris Okote can never be equaled to Tibi Joshua. So we'll have a video of that, you know, hearing Odumeje speak in his own words as he antagonizes Chris Okote for calling out Tibi Joshua. Take a listen. to rest in peace and allow their family to mourn the general. And this man is Chris Okote. Young man, we have respected you enough and I have never seen you do anything in this life. I have never seen you save any soul. I have never seen you do one miracle that Tibi Joshua have ever done. But you come out and say that Tibi Joshua is a devil and you started to honorize the ways. When I answer you Manuel, that means I am a devil to answer the name of my father. When I name my church Synagogue because you have right to name your son, your name. And there you have it, Odumeje there defending Tibi Joshua and lambasting Chris Okote for calling him a wizard at end all saying his prophecies and miracles are fake. You know, of course, followers of these different churches would always pitch in defend who they want to defend defend who their papa, their daddy in the Lord is and then there you have it. Well, yeah. A lot of times I would always advise pretty much the same thing with huge political figures that stay out of their battles because they eventually would find a way to settle themselves. But I have never heard of Bishop T.D. Jake's attack in Joel Austin or something like that in a different climate entirely. It's only in Andrea that you hear things like this in the news or you get to see videos like this. But regardless of whether these are pastors I still think it is very, very beneath any person to speak ill of the dead. A person who's passed on, who has family and millions of people around the world mourning them is very, very, very low to speak ill of them regardless of what you feel. And it really just shows the character of Christochote because you would never hear and this is well not praising anybody but you would never hear pastor Oedipo any of all those class of people saying these type of things about a person who's late regardless of how their relationship was while the person was alive. It also of course is speaking a lot about what we call Christianity here in Nigeria and what is exactly Christochote's brand of Christianity. And so it's not just Odumeje who spoke I think Pastor Joshua Eginla also spoke and called out Christochote for his statements. But of course I would agree with them that it is a very, very sad thing to see happening and it's very, very low for Pastor Christochote to make those type of statements over someone who is late. Everybody has their own idea of what Christianity is everybody is of course pushing their churches as much as they can to gather more and more congregation every day. Tipi Joshua did what he felt was his calling here on earth and there's too many people who celebrate him across not just in Nigeria across the continent and across the world. Christochote if he's being honest with himself has not in any way been able to pull the effect that Tipi Joshua did pull. That's if that's what their churches are for. And so he really has no rights regardless of whether their pastors are not to make those type of statements and unfortunately we don't get to see church members call out their pastors when they do wrong because there's many, many times when church leaders in Nigeria have heard who have done very, very wrong and the church is still full on Sunday because Nigerians are the type to realize I don't think this guy really is a man of God or I don't think he was directed by God with this thing that he did and maybe I should backtrack a little bit from this church but we don't get to see the church still full on Monday because well maybe they're there for all the reasons of size. I would just say I totally understand Odo Majer and Joshua Aguilar's statements and their reaction to Pasokriso Koti because it's very, very disappointing for a church leader to make those type of statements. A person who supposedly meant to be living in the way of Christ expectedly and preaching peace on top of all of that. Odo Majer and his part said he's not a man of love, he's a man of war so he was ready to bring out the guns. Moving on now what's happening in the world right now is very shocking and I say in the word this is something that affects every one of us no matter how we see it because what's happening in Taliban when other terrorist groups look at what the Taliban is doing they get emboldened in some form so this affects us one way or another. Now they call themselves the Islamic Emirates in Afghanistan it's the Taliban it's a militant terrorist organization that has been militant an Islamic organization that has just been terrorizing the Middle East for quite a while now and it was shocking to see what happened yesterday in that country we obviously know about the instability regarding politics and security in that region especially in Afghanistan with all the United States involvement in having their forces over to put in some peace but what happened yesterday seeing the collapse of the government the presidents fleeing the country the takeover by the Taliban people trying to leave in droves dozens of pilots fleeing the country fleeing Afghanistan to neighboring countries neighboring countries detaining those people different countries recalling their diplomats back from Afghanistan it's just a shame what's happened and when we see former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's response to this in the US basically blaming the Biden administration saying it's the pullouts of this US military forces that have been in Taliban that have been in Afghanistan all these years people begin to pull out receipts from the past to say that this is a deal that is signed in 2018 it's something that the Trump administration has been pushing for to make sure that trying to make sure that there's a deal between the United States Afghanistan and the Taliban saying about 5,000 prisoners had to be released including the supposed new president of Afghanistan his name is Mola Berada asking for his release a release of 5,000 others and so many other concessions saying this is something that the Trump administration set the stage for still lots of discussions about this to really get a clear picture of where this is headed but it's total chaos right now in the country we saw videos of the airports it is overrun people are just getting their droves pilots have left the country the question really needs to ask what is the future of Afghanistan right now what is the new government going to look like how are world powers like Russia and the US going to wade in how is this going to affect neighboring countries in Afghanistan, what's the fate of their people and really lots of questions regarding these things that have happened in the past few hours in the country I just have a couple of lessons that I think I should point out from this pretty obvious one is when the United States steps into any country to say that they are going to rescue their people or they are going to save them from a dictator a lot of times it always ends in disaster and we've seen over time from world politics and from other countries that the United States never really goes in to save anybody which is expected for their own personal interest and at the end war is money and that's one thing that people need to always remember that war is money, it's the biggest war machine ever and when you start war, money trillions of dollars is flowing left and right and that's some of the reasons why some of these wars around the world may never end some of these terrorist groups that you hear about may never just disappear because there's people making billions and billions every day and every month from these groups so once again when the United States says oh this country needs help they're not going there to save anybody they're going there for their own personal interest and when they eventually leave you get to see these things break down so there is that, what is the United States going to say they have gained from 20 years of being in Afghanistan and if you remember also that when this invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq started there was many many countries groups, NGOs, whatever you call it United Nations even who told them to not bother don't go into those countries, it's not in your business but of course George Bush and Dick Cheney at that time felt like they needed to convince the world that you know, Al Qaeda you know, and you know Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction the U.S. needed to get in there to you know, rid them of those things eventually it became worse eventually we then saw the birth of ISIS ISIL and we've seen the Taliban grow from strength to strength who's funding the Taliban, they're not funding themselves solely there's countries who are funding them they are used by certain countries that's you know what the goal is at any time and so we're going to be playing the ostrich if we feel like the U.S. and you know the West doesn't have a hand in what's going on in Afghanistan today that is very very hard to believe they definitely have a hand somehow some way and they of course should take the blame wholeheartedly for what's going on in Afghanistan today how did Afghanistan security forces police army just crumble in three weeks after 20 years of the U.S. presence and for those who are saying that oh this is because the U.S. is pulling out their trips how much longer was the U.S. going to stay in Afghanistan they're going to stay there indefinitely, no the other lesson I'm going to point out here is at what point was Afghanistan itself as a country going to wake up and train its own forces and be able to fight the Taliban by itself Taliban they're not aliens they are inside Afghanistan there so at what point was Afghanistan as a nation and stop being instead of actually fighting they basically were running the country wild and enjoying all the spoils of war and that's what they've done eventually now the U.S. is pulling out we see the effects of all of that so the Afghanistan's government also has a lot of blame here with their failure to equip and train their own security forces enough in 20 years we're not talking of in two weeks here in 20 years this is shameful the third point that I'll point out here is when we are dashing repentant Boko Haram Indomi and Kaftan when we are taking pictures with them and making placards for them on cardboard sheets these are some of the things that we should keep in mind exactly what I said let me finish there's no terrorist there's no true terrorist that wakes up in the morning and says I've repented and no longer want to be a terrorist this is a deeply ideological issue no longer have these beliefs it doesn't happen that way we saw on the news over the weekend 150 have surrendered it does not happen that way because they do not simply change their beliefs in whatever it is that they have interpreted from the Quran or whatever they feel like the prophet has told them to do those things don't disappear so when we are making these mistakes instead of putting a foot down and stamping out completely in every single way not just with the military and the ideologies which education with a better infrastructure in the north when we are continuing to allow these things to not be the forefront of our fight against insurgency we are feeding the dragon that will eventually burn all of us so let's use Afghanistan and not just Nigeria, every other country use Afghanistan as a very very good example of what you should not do there's no other country in the world in the whole of the west that would allow the amount of allow the freedom that the Taliban has had for the last long while China and Russia also have a part to play here because in the last couple of weeks China has had meetings with the Taliban they've put out statements saying that their diplomats and their people are not living in Afghanistan because they have no threat or they are not under any threat so it means that they also have their own personal interests to step into Afghanistan after all this mess that is happening but in China or in Russia you would not hear of any terror groups in Saudi Arabia you wouldn't hear of any of all these things they do not exist they do not let them bring for two hours let's learn our lessons that's really where all this is going let's learn the lessons that we should learn really that is it when I first began speaking I mentioned the impact this will have worldwide because all the terror groups are taking notes right you really said it all regarding the lessons that the Nigerian military need to learn because I think it's really appalling to see a Nigerian military that actually is constituted to protect the territorial integrity of Nigeria defend our sovereignty would basically tolerate these terrorists and go ahead and say that they have repented and give them items, give them food items give them relief items, toiletries and things like that when there are constituted processes that should be followed in giving justice in dispensing justice making sure that these people are prosecuted for their crimes don't we have constitutional provisions that takes care of people who engage in terrorism does it include giving them gift items I really don't understand because I really really hope that the Nigerian military is learning from what's happening in Afghanistan right now to sit up and know exactly what to do when terrorists are apprehended I think it's just the military, I think it's the government itself the government itself another thing that I will mention is the views of people scrambling at the airports in Afghanistan because Kabul had been taken over I just want to quickly also point out that those people that you see in the airports doing all they possibly can to get on a flight out of there there's hundreds, thousands of people at the airports there's just barely amount 10, 15 planes there those people are the I'm just saying those people are the rich they are the upper class they are the upper class people that are scrambling now like ants to get out of Afghanistan the poor don't have those options the poor are going to remain there and choose either death or subjugation that's their only option and so whoever it is that is in Nigeria today that is feeling like these concerns on Boko Haram and Aisop and the rest don't concern them it's not their business God forbid that we ever get to that stage it's not going to be Mama Tayo in Okoko Maiko that will be scrambling at the airport she doesn't care she's okay where she is in the village making her papa and Nakara it is you, the rich, influential so-called upper class person that will be scrambling at the airport trying to get out once again God forbid that's it on top trending quite a sad event there in Kabul, Afghanistan lots of countries are chipping and asking but we get to see how that would end but we'll take a break here and return to analyse the papers on Off The Press