 And welcome once again to the breakfast here on Plastiv Africa. Now let's go back in history to the year 2003 in the Maldives, where this day civil unrest broke out across the country after the prisoner was killed in one of the prisons. It was a 19-year-old prisoner called Hassan Evan, who was lawfully killed by correctional officers in prison. It had started a day before when prisoners on two separate cells were having issues with each other and were being violent at each other, throwing items between their cells. Eventually, of course, a report was made, the police officers or the correctional officers came to Evan's prison, or Evan's cell rather, with a list of those who apparently had been causing trouble. His name was not on that list at first, but eventually they came with a list to take out people from the cell. They came the first time, took out a few people and then came the second time with a new list that apparently had his name on it. But since he had originally said that he wasn't a part of the people who was causing trouble, we refused to come out. After a little bit of casualty, he eventually stepped out of his prison and then a few minutes afterwards, because of course he continued to say that he wasn't a part of those who were causing unrest or who were throwing items between cells, then the police officers attacked him and beat him until he was eventually dead. That then caused an unrest in the prison. More correctional officers were sent in. Three prisoners were shot dead, about 17 of them were injured while they were trying to calm the unrest in the prison. Then the news of his death then spread across the city and then it turned out into a whole city-wide protest against his killing in Maldives. It lasted, I think the whole day. It started around 1100 hours on the 20th of September 2003 and spread across the whole city until it eventually was calmed down a few days later. But that basically was the day that Haran Evans was killed, Hassan Evan, I beg your pardon, was killed at the Mahfushi prison in the Maldives. Interesting story. This was really big at that time, 2003, when they even interviewed some people, they said a civil unrest wasn't heard of in the way they were aware. It was not something they had done, but because of the fact that a teenager had allegedly killed, he had been in prison for drug offences. But at the end of the day, the president of the country had to set up a presidential commission to investigate the death of this young man. But people really complained that many important parts of the event and the incident was actually omitted from the report. And also the Maldives is not known for civil unrest or for rioting, it's known as a travel destination, that's where most people see it as. They have a lot of good publicity to invite people and tourists to always visit the Maldives. It's one of the places, as any random person, the top ten travel destinations, most people will mention the Maldives, mostly because of the publicity that it has gotten. And so reading about civil unrest and the death of a prisoner and the level of brutality, it's really, really shocking compared to what any other person would think when they hear from Maldives. And compared to what other people would think of other countries in Africa, for instance, regarding the level of violence we see, prison breaks and all of that. So it's good that generally they have that reputation for being a peace-loving country. Today in history, 2007, it was a very important day in the history of the US, similar to what happened in the Maldives, also like a civil unrest or like a civil rights movement. So what happened was this black guy had gone to ask a white guy if he could sit under a tree, or if this was just for whites only. Just to let you know the level of racial segregation in the US, and this was what, 2007, he went on to say, oh, can I sit under the tree? And there was a scuffle there, and the next day they found nooses on the tree. For the black Americans, the nooses was very symbolic because when the slave trade really gave way, lynching, violence against black people became one of the ways that it changed. They tried to enforce control by the whites over the blacks. So back then, when you see a noose outside your house, at your office, and you're a black person, it just serves as a means to intimidate and harass you. So for the fact that this guy went to ask for permission to sit under that tree, and the next day he found three black nooses. It really was an indicator that these white guys had it out for you. They were trying to intimidate you and be violent. So what they did was these guys came together and they beat up that white guy. Now, guess what? For a beating, for a fight that happened in his school, he didn't die. What happened was just they had a fight over the news that he saw and alleged racial comments that they heard. This guy was sentenced to 10 months in prison. And people wondered, why would someone get sentenced 10 months? Why would a black guy get sentenced 10 months in prison for beating up another child or for putting up a student? And people began to protest. There were talks about people traveling, spending about 21 hours on bus rides to go from city to Jenna Louzerna to make sure that they protested. This really was uncalled for simply because he was black and this guy is white. That's why he's getting 10 months in prison for a school fight. So it really was a big one. Thousands and thousands of people, they said between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters matched to ask for these six guys to be freed from prison. Yeah, they were called the Jenna Six, happened in Louisiana, I believe, in 2007. And yes, there was the racial tension. There was also the news, like you mentioned. They definitely did beat up the white kid, but they didn't deny it. But I think one of the challenges that emerged was, first of all, like you mentioned, this is a fight in school that shouldn't have gone that far. And also because the first charge that was placed on them was attempted second degree murder, which a lot of people thought to be very unfair. Because that happened other times. People had gotten into fights that didn't necessarily need a second degree murder charge. And of course, the kid didn't die. So there were all of those conversations. And two things, if you remember also the movie, When They See Us, that was really, really popular about a year ago. That's one of the things that was also... It's a very, very similar situation of how racial injustice and the legal system in the United States plays out. So yes, that's what happened today in history 2007 and 2003, civil unrest both in the US and in Maldives. When we come back from this break, we're taking a look at the forex regime of CBN governor, Godine Mefile. How that relates to the liquidity in Nigeria's market. How that relates to the depreciation of the Naira and how it's affecting manufacturers in the country. Stay with us.