 Welcome back to the breakfast on plus TV Africa We will be checking out the top stories of making the rounds on our national dailies And as usual, we do have our guests and standby who would make sense of all of this And we have a Zickel. Yeah, it took who's a public affairs analyst. Thank you. Mr. Zickel for joining us this morning Thanks for having me. It's a pleasure to be with you. All right. Good morning So I sort of with the daily Sun newspaper this morning and looking at the front page of the Daily Sun newspaper the ball caption reads hashtag and says Legos or should please read riot acts over planned protests Legos or should please read riot acts over planned protests. That's on page four There's a writer saying Delta to pay 102 million Naira compensation Victims that's on page four of the Daily Sun newspaper Now looking at another story on the Daily Sun newspaper. You have tension in Southeast over Cannes Trial tomorrow It's on page six Mass up once federal government and plays a heavy military presence in region. All of that you find on page four and six of the Daily Sun newspaper 2023 Jega predicts doom for APC and PDP Says parties will soon implode once against direct primaries. That's on page 26 and Just before we move away from the Daily Sun newspaper You also have Nigerian youths have right to demand better future the governor of Lagos status quoted on that and page four Outrage over Sokoto market massacre. It's on page 25 Anambra Abdul Salami peace committee calls for peaceful polls Nigeria spent 54 trillion Naira on household consumption in six months the National Bureau of statistics is quoted on all of that and HIV and AIDS Aquabomb River state top charts in new cases details on page three Well, that's the much we can take on the Daily Sun newspaper this morning All right, let's see what we can find on the punch newspapers. It says there and says anniversary police occupy like a tour gate others Activists set for protest protests as security agents may clash as youths insist on commemorative rally Organizers reject indoor anniversary to converge on the bridges hold procession as a police deploy massive Operatives in federal capital territories Strategic locations also air fire hails troops 50 bandits killed in air ground operations Poetry farmers grown as soybean price jumps by 300 percent Defense headquarters seeks not to crush bandits with Tucano jets laments US condition and Also on the punch newspapers this morning 264 million Nigerians and others on the Norrish says the IMF New amendment empowers INEC to use electronic voting machines as Senate and strike alert NNPC to rehabilitate 16 roads with 621 billion Naira a Few others on the punch this morning APC PDP exchange harsh words on fire means three-year performance PCN decries exodus of Nigerian pharmacist to Canada and police threatened to punish inspector for voting at APC Congress Two monarchs killed others unconscious in emo stakeholders meeting attack and Those are the stories on the punch this morning All right moving away from the punch newspaper. Let's check out a daily independent and the board caption reads Buhari faces backlash over declining insecurity statement That's the board story on the daily independence this morning The president is not in touch with reality Pan-deaf is quoted to say and so you're going to have a back-and-forth with the replies Nobody in his right minds will say insecurity has has reduced it is politicization of state of insecurity in Nigeria that's what lawyers are quoted to say and Buhari yet to understand insecurity challenges or Hanayze is also quoted on that this a ride as you find on the daily independent newspaper this morning 2022 budget federal government to spend 71.6 billion error on surveillance on a Buja Kaduna rail line others transport ministry to spend 230 million error on poachers of law Books all of the information you find on page four six of the daily independent newspaper APC Congress a Meiji Abbey renew rivalry as parallel escrow emerges in Revers Biosy government imposes docks to don't cuff you on waterways. That's on page three Gunman kill two monarchs in emo state. It's also on page three. You find Kaduna makes COVID-19 Vaccination compulsory for civil servants. It's also on page three You'd have many reason to ask for better life the governor of Lagos state strong will lose quoted Talking about the hashtag and sars protest. Well, that's so much We can take on the daily independent newspaper this morning and also the leadership newspapers despite 197 varsities admission crisis persists in Nigeria only 500,000 candidates gain admission yearly three million miss out in three years Expand facilities as who tells for the government and also local government autonomy 13 Niger councils can't pay salaries gunmen kill five in emo traditional rulers and abductor others Catereras lament implementation of open grazing ban We can also see national convention called war in APC over zoning and finally customers grown as 12 banks earn 120.5 billion naira from electronic charges Security forces kill 74 terrorists in Borno and Kaduna As you can hear I talk good morning once again I think you can begin with the biggest story that's made headlines and that is the ansar's Memorial and the events for today the Lagos state government Of course the governor is quoted as saying that Nigerians have a right to demand, you know better governance and whatnot But it doesn't seem to be What it looks like at the tour gate this morning and of course seen police presence, you know in certain locations Across the country could be sure your thoughts The very first thing is that we have people I can never say this enough who are in government without understanding what governance is Governance is the people electing you to serve them So what you do is you bend over backwards and do all you can to see how you can solve the problems of the people interfacing with the people seeing them as your employers and not as irritants when you do that a problem like that of the ansar that was a major Divide between the youth and the rest of us is something that six months before the Anniversary you will not treat it as if it does not matter. You start to plan for it You start to engage it. You see is the narrative By so doing you take the wind off the sail But what do you do? Rather than see the youth as people that are the owners of the present state called Nigeria because we in our 50s and 60s not the top of 70s Have had yet our time When you say the youth are the leaders of tomorrow I changed that and it went viral in the social media The youth are not the leaders of tomorrow Children are leaders of tomorrow the youth and leaders of today especially when we have Redefined our own youth to go into 40s and even the 50s are trying to also see themselves as youth I Always say this at 25 hours married. You call me leader of tomorrow at 30 I had had my three children. You call me leader of tomorrow at 37 I became the first Nigerian to get a first leaf to funds shelter free for any state government in this country You call me leader of tomorrow at 50 my three children are graduated from the University What are we talking about? We that are above 50 are sitting on the country of the young people So we must realize that we are we are tenants They are the owners of the present Nigeria state and the least we can do is to treat them as People who are the owners of the state as are today So I had expected that if we had this mindset Six months before today, they would have been conversations around You know issues about the youths this happened and as you are getting to you before you will get to 20th of December Which is today you would have completely, you know kind of in fact the federal government would have had a major conversation Around the future of the young people a dialogue and then when you do that Then the youths don't have any points to prove again if anything they will start to show Appreciation because they feel that they are a part of the system But we just have these people who believe in their 70s that they still own Nigeria and I think it's sad November 1 out of the 58 I'm already I'm already a grandfather How then can I not see my children when I'm already seeing my grandchild? How can I still feel that the seat belongs to me? I mean it is callous. It is irresponsible Yeah, so I want you to you know Share your views on you know the fact that you know one year later There still doesn't seem to be a lot changed with regards the attitude of the Nigerian police There still doesn't seem to be a lot changed or you know any justice really to those lives that were lost on this day And of course in the month of October in 2020 and of course because in their mind in their mind The youths a year ago distop them think about it. It's a mindset thing in their mind The youths a year ago distop them This this this this lezzie youths this recalcitrant youths this Unproduced they call them all sorts of names Stigmatize them just to let them tell them look You don't have the space that is why I keep saying this the young people had to create another country for themselves that they call Niger I Say this all the time The young people don't believe that they belong to Nigeria and the old people don't think that Nigeria belongs to the youth They want to sit on that chair until they drop. That is why you can have a man in his 80s being appointed as an ambassador It's just a mindset that we really need to have a conversation On who really owns Nigeria as of today So that's that's that's the way I look at it. That's why I approach it from the Because it's an ideological thing. It's a mindset thing. We don't think that the youths Own the country we believe that they are our voice. That is why they are only useful when it comes to the times of politics Okay, and we just we just treat them we don't treat them as partners We don't treat them as as people that have anything to offer We treat them as our houseboys as servants our beggars that all you do is just go around Tropinot at them and that is it. All right. Mr. Yeah What is the government position and ideological stance about the future of Nigeria and the youth look at the budget All right, Mr. Yeah, let's move away from that now But still staying with uh the daily sun Newspaper this morning. Legos are not shouldn't please read riot art. Should the please read the riot act I mean against the planned protest It's about the very same thing approach and strategy As long as somebody is an irritant what you do is you crush the person But when the person is a strategic partner, what you do is you dialogue with the person As far as our people are concerned the youth are irritants But as far as our people are concerned The youth are irritant. So they really They are just upset. That's why they go out to crush But when you know that these people that's what I like the statement of the legos Who says that the youth have a reason To demand a better future That is just a mindset that makes you to sit down and engage them And dialogue with them The youth have a reason anybody above 50 55 November one in a few days out of 58 So i'm not trying to talk to include myself Anybody above 55 should know that they are sitting on the least they can do Is to start to interface as I talk in terms of responsibility transfer to the youth That's what our mindset should be we cannot just say okay come and carry take no But we must begin the process of responsibility transfer And it's going to be gradual. That's why the youth also tell the youth don't want to rush to take You know, it's something that is not in your hands You need to be strategic You need to be extremely careful in the way you get about it But let us that believe that we have all you know said for us know that the youth Is your time all right, Mr. I talk let's move on talk about security now It's on the punch this morning says l5 Haos troops as 50 bandits are killed in air and ground operations share thoughts on that and of course with regards our You know Yeah, yeah, this this in security problem Is being attacked from a wrong perspective? I say it again The day we sit down to think and interrogate why do we have insecurity? I think that's a wise thing to do Why is there insecurity? Where is the wind on their sail? Where is the oxygen that fans that they are flames? Where is it? Where do they recruit people from? What emboldens them? The day we sit down to have honest conversation on these questions will solve natural security problem But we have contractors in power They would rather budget billions and billions to buy tukano jets instead of deploying that amount of money to develop the youth Who are their wind? The youth are their oxygen in their flame. They are the wind in their sail Imagine you're devoting the cost of one tukano jet to Integrating developing the youth of the north east Please tell me one government program as are today To develop the youth of the north east Tell me that grand plan where you even bring up hope to them This is coming and you can paint the picture of a better future Tell me who in government is painting the picture of a better future to any of the youth in the north east These are the wind in their sail These are the oxygen in your flame and you want to stop them You don't want to stop them. You want to make money You want different budgets to be this high an education budget to be nothing but this the question is where is the future of Nigeria? These guys know what they are doing They know that they have a little time left So they just want to enjoy their lives and then exit I don't care about this country. That's my very honest opinion the day they do they will sit down and have honest conversation on education Okay, and I'm not talking of you the empowerment again. That's absolute rubbish. I'm talking youth development Where you are a journalist, please tell me that government program that government body That is bringing hope to the young people that they can have a better future Everybody knows that the future is ICT What is going on? The police is clamping down on any young man that has a laptop and a backpack on his back with a laptop Because they don't understand the future They don't understand the youth they live in an alternative world and the youth don't belong there Who is that government policy that says every young natural interiors show must have a laptop Who is creating that ICT world for them and then creating the ecosystem that isolates the bad one? No Instead they want to stigmatize the Nigerian youths. I need to they show us how the EFCC has gone and gotten all this and yahoo boys, yahoo boys painting They know what they are doing painting a picture that The young people are involved in yahoo, yahoo Baby young Nigerians are involved in ICT. They are developing programs They are getting into the blockchain technology. This is the way of the future Please tell me who in government is making a statement that says the youth this is the way you are going That's the way it should be government is coming on hard on you to make sure that they support you and give you all the nursery infrastructure That who is doing that who is talking about subsidizing data? But they are subsidizing petrol and how many young people have anything to do with petrol We're just having a government that just think of themselves and themselves and themselves And we're we're getting so so much into risk because our young people have been abandoned And because they are abandoned they are spending for their lives Sometimes in the wrong way and they are getting wrong mentors to tell them the way to go This thing is hope is all about mindset mindset and these people in government Are not thinking that way. That's why I hope that we will listen to professor Jaeger And we that call ourselves these elites Enlightened people will start. I think it is a topic. I don't know if you'll get to that about professor Jaeger and his statement Because I listened to him with a wrapped attention Okay, let's quickly talk about Vaccination what do you make of the compulsory vaccination? COVID-19 vaccination in Kaduna state for civil servants That's on the daily independent I know I will wish to pass The reason is that at my level My statements should be guarded And where I have some levels of reservation I should be careful not to pass a wrong message um, there's issues of faith on on on the one of the most controversial things I've seen in my whole life Is this issue of this COVID-19? I don't know what to think again But I'm the same. I believe that every responsible government must look at global trends And in their considered opinion the thing it is important that people should get vaccinated I think it is important And um, but to the extent of making it compulsory. I do not know how that works But like I said, I am a public commentator and I'm supposed to be a nation-builder So I should not be any person or somebody that will make statements that would be Emboldened what is the state or the country is trying to encourage So I will encourage everybody to abide by the protocols and then even government takes a decision I think that every citizen should weigh that decision and then government Should also weigh the decisions they make and make sure that they do not Please permit me to pass. All right. All right, Mr. Yatok. Let's move to the southeast. It says on the daily sun Tension in southeast over Canoes trial tomorrow Masab once federal government plays heavy military presence in the region Um, there's also I believe a sit at home order for the southeast tomorrow by the IPOB In respect of the trial and of course, I think I also saw yesterday that I'm not sure who it was and you know asking that federal government should not fail to produce another cano in court It's all this if we have people who think proactively It's a very simple thing People want to see cano. That's number one Number two government is afraid that maybe if they bring him out Something on towards could be done What is the midway? It's so simple government calls For a different program that people don't know, you know Correspondents and then you get into the program and discover that While people are waiting there and making noise People are showing you live Cano being tried They don't know the location but the journalists are there is being done Transparenly is being done free and fair So you can't say cano was not brought can was brought Do you understand me is being tried They're allowing the journalists to have a life speed of the proceedings. You just don't know where So you want to see cano you have seen cano You want him to be tried openly and transparently you can see the process that the government have nothing to hide If they actually have nothing to hide If you so do this brother, what is so difficult in this you've just asked me this question now I probably didn't think about it But the answer just pops up and any reasonable person will say okay that makes sense What's so difficult and see you have government that is just Bent on being confrontational confrontational will start with you. I will deal with you. This is not military era for God's sake This is democracy And one of the things about democracy is that the power belongs to the people They call you and they ask for something and you've got to give it to them So I don't think that you see our governments need to have strategic thinkers that work with them And and it's so easy But we're going to make this to become even by today just let somebody can just leave the secret Cano is going to be brought and there's something you understand. You can change the narrative You can see the conversation But we don't Okay, quickly. Um, so we can wrap up quickly share your thoughts on statement by um for my next chair atahiro jaga It's on the daily sun. It says 2023 jaga predicts doom for apc and pdp Says parties will soon implode once against direct primaries We can wrap up with that. I want to ask you What is so difficult who amongst you people sincerely believe that apc pvp have anything to offer Who sincerely believes that? These are enterprises by my own opinion These are business people who have put in so much money. They've sold their houses Some of them have mortgage their conscience to be able to get into power to them is a game of power But over 70 percent of Nigerians Know that governance is a very serious business that you need the brightest and the best to navigate to handle But you see we are all sitting back and complacent and complaining and whining While the god the politicians are putting their money where their mouth is and you're smiling all the way to the bank Jaga says that a time has come when every man or woman of conscience should stop and step into politics Don't tell me of my vote will not count what they will do is what they will do That's the narrative they want you to drive 70 percent of us you can see I have I have I have I joined a party a dc african democratic congress I've joined the party and I am saying every Nigerian join a party If you want to go into a pc pdp no problem join them It also come to where we have a change come to where we have a system Where we have a progress and be at the beginning and set the rules so that we can set this nation We can continue with just looking at a pc pdp as if we are hopeless as if we are helpless We are not helpless. We just decide not to do what we should do. I have decided I and my household we've decided to come into this Nigeria project and I want to challenge every Nigerian come in Join the national consultancy front join the new order and even the specific join a dc Mahalo has just joined let us create a new paradigm a new platform And together we will be able to rescue Nigeria. I want to help professor Jega for that very bold step And people are coming out. Don't just sit and wait. We can be the change that we want to be We are more than them. We can do it. I believe as a carry on I talk Thank you so much for your analysis and these stories making headlines and always of course for joining us We wish you're very. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Bobby. Thank you All right That's all for the process take a little bit of history just before we go on a short break and we're going back to of course Something that we've spoken a lot about this morning. It is the 20th of October 2020 Just a year ago where some of the very very saddest events that have occurred in Nigeria in a very long time Some people have said that Something died in them on the 20th of October 2020 one year ago It was on this night that the largest gathering of course of protesters at the lekkito gate was eventually, you know, allegedly No longer allegedly but fired at by soldiers of the Nigerian army At about 650 p.m. Members of the army opened fire on the peaceful protesters At the lekkito gate in Lagos The government had sometime around 4 p.m. Imposed a nationwide lockdown from 4 p.m Which had earlier been announced sometime at just around 1 o'clock in the afternoon According to amnesty international shortly before the shooting CCTV cameras were allegedly removed from the toll gate The legacy government subsequently said that there were laser cameras and not CCTV cameras as earlier published on social media 6 29 p.m. In Lagos two military vehicles were filmed leaving bonnie camp in Lagos shared on social media nandrian dj switch Made a live stream and i'm sure that thousands and maybe not just thousands millions of people Got to watch that live stream of the shooting on her instagram account According to one of the witnesses after the lights went out the soldiers arrived and allegedly began shooting directly at the crowd Another witness stated that the shooting continued for 15 to 30 minutes And that after the shooting he observed multiple bodies on the ground Protesters had earlier sat and locked arms singing the nandrian anthem and waving the nandrian flag And of course reports say you know At least 46 people were killed in the you know build up to that day and of course, you know also On that day to date the nandrian government has refused i believe or failed to Show complete accountability for the event of the 20th of october in 2020 And the judicial panel of inquiry that was set up has not been able to actually provide any form of justice Well, you know to those victims or to as many of the victims as possible We've heard every now and then of some level of compensation financial compensation to victims in other states But it's it's a really really sad really really sad story to share In history today Good thing is after the short break we're going to be speaking with additional gunlano who's a lead counsel to the end sars protesters And he will be joining us to share his views on how far we've come and of course updates on the panel sitting