 Welcome to what are you saying hashtag ways where we talk about topics in the news as it affects us all. I'm Uti Elu and I'm joined in studio today by the wonderful, beautiful Miss Dammi. Hi guys. Hello. Hi. I was just saying on the last show on Friday how I hadn't been on set with Gloria and Chinlunu long time. It's been even longer with you. Honestly, if I come into the studio now I'm like, oh my god. I know right, it feels like another world. Yeah, great to see you. Have you been? Happy New Year. Happy New Year to you too actually. We've been seeing this year. I've been alright, I've been good. Trying to rest, trying to work, trying to restrategize. Just trying to be an adult. As you do for the new year, I like that for it's just trying to be an adult. So I'm just trying to be responsible. Obviously at the end of the day because adult too is... It's not the easiest of things but I mean I look at my son sometimes now and his biggest concern is whether he can have cake or whether he can have puff puff. And I'm like, wow. I remember those days and I didn't appreciate them but that's just the irony of life. Because you don't know what you have to. You've lost it's life. Grass is growing on the other side. I mean there's so many different things. You can't. Somebody in all this technology needs to figure out how to rewind time. They need to figure it out. And now I think that as I get older, I'm now even getting to the point where I'm understanding the phrase youth is wasted on the young. I'm understanding that phrase because man when you start to get older, wow. There's a lot of things that you have time to get older. Say a lot of things that you're dealing with. On this old. It's something else. It's really really crazy. No I'm good. I like the way I started the year. Like I was saying last week how I took it easy this year. Started to leave, rolled into 2024 nice and easy. So I'm excited about 2024. I keep telling everybody I'm like everything in me just tells me this year is going to be a great year. So I'm holding on to it. I don't care what the news says. I don't care what the world is saying. I don't care that there's how many wars going on right now. But I'm just holding on to the fact that this year is going to be a great year. Not just for myself. Not just for everyone. For Nigeria. For the world. I don't know how to explain it but that's my gut feeling and I'm sticking with it. That's what we're going to get. That's what we're going to get. So today in partnership with EIE we will touch on the legacy of hashtag occupying Nigeria. Its achievements and unfinished agenda. 12 years ago the abrupt removal of the fuel subsidy by the former president. The Good Lock Jonathan sparked national protests under the hashtag Occupy Nigeria. Leaving an impact on our nation. Today we revisit the origins of this movement. Its impacts and the unfinished agendas of the Occupy Nigeria protests. Notable demands of that protest were the immediate reversal of the removal subsidy. Addressed the corruption in the subsidy regime and the oil sector in general. Request for accountability. And reduction in the cost across all sections of the government. And revamping the dysfunctional refineries sprawled across the country. Okay. So the highlights of the achievements of Occupy Nigeria protests. Where partial subsidies and fuel reduction from 141 Naira per liter to 97 Naira per liter. Relation of outrageous corrupt dealings in the former subsidy regime. And the oil sector in general. Notable demands of the Occupy Nigeria protests. Well just one. So it showcased the power of active citizens. To demand accountability from the government. The unfinished agenda of Occupy Nigeria. Are limited impacts from refineries. And ending corruption in the oil and gas sector. Irresponsible spending amid a rising poverty. Well so I'll just take the highlights of oil increase in Nigeria from 2012 to 2023. So in 2012 it was 65 Naira to... I'm really not sure how to go about seeing all of these figures. But yeah I think it's already displayed on the screen. About it. So the way forward basically. For the government. Address oil industry issues. Before subsidy removal. Revitalize existing refineries to ease hardship. Contrast spending amid rising inflation. The way forward. Initiating for substantial change. Citizens should take action and hold officials accountable for responsible governance. Live platforms such as. ShineYourEye.ng.org rather. Tracker and OOTC chat box. Yeah so I mean that just leads us nicely into. Some of the channels with which you can interact. So we have the office of the Citizen WhatsApp channel. There you can access and engage with the platform. For unique and insightful civic education. And a sprinkle of lightheartedness. So that's the office of the Citizen WhatsApp channel. Also we have the office of Citizen chat box. Which is your new assistance on civic engagement. Which helps you to know your elected officials. That's your governors, your senators, your House of Rep members. State House of Assembly members, local government chairmen and councillors. And you can simply get started on either of those channels. By sending a hello via WhatsApp to 017006381. So I also understand that Noma has joined us online. Hi Noma, can you hear us? Yes I can hear you. Hello everyone. Hi Kitty. Happy New Year. It's a happy new year for me as well. Because I also haven't been on the set with you. This year as well. But how are you doing? Lovely to see you. Lovely to see you both. You guys look amazing. I'm well. We had a blizzard on this side of the planet. I can hear the weather. It really hits real hard. Well we're trying to adjust to the whiteness of the environment. What's the temperature? It came up to minus 10. Minus 10? Alright, so you're not quite at skin freezing temperature yet. Can we switch weather? No, you see someone was saying that to me yesterday. They would rather switch weather with somebody. And I'm like no, if you've been in negative weather, negative degree weather. Trust me. You don't like literally... You know people always think about what it feels like at like 8 degrees, 7 degrees, like single digits. Going into the negatives is a whole different ball game as I'm sure Noma can tell us. But yeah, I mean well done keeping warm. Lovely to have you with us today. So here's what we found as today's quote. What else do Nigerians in Nigeria have to do to be safe? That's a very, very apt quote for our topic today. Noma, I'll come back to you. What are your thoughts on the quote very quickly? Can you hear me, Utee? Yes, we can. Sorry, can you ask the question again? I said what were your thoughts on the quote? So we just read the quote for today. And I was just wondering what your thoughts were on it. Oh, okay. I didn't hear part of the quote. But I believe... I didn't hear a lot about the quote, sorry. Okay. All right, so I mean we'll come back to you. Let's jump into it and then it will probably become clear as we go along. So a young woman named Najiba was allegedly killed by her captors after being abducted on January 9th in Abuja, together with her father and five sisters. The attackers allegedly killed and disposed of her body somewhere for her parents to bury after they were unable to gather the 60 million Naira ransom. Also, a young girl named Floresha Arrio was abducted and killed over failure to pay 50 million Naira ransom in the Duce axis of the federal capital territory. Today we will be discussing the topic, navigating national security in the face of kidnapping with the Dixie Nossaji. But first, let's take a quick break to see what we found in the news. Please stay with us.