 the attendance of police during a clash between police and Okada riders. Former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission at Tahirojaga gets set to unveil new political movement on October 1st. We'll be discussing how much of an opposition movement that can be. And also the Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination, NINAS gets set for its rally at the United Nations. Good morning and welcome to a Friday morning here on Clause TV Africa. It is the breakfast and I am Usaugi Ogmore. And I am Anette Felix welcoming you to the last edition of the breakfast for this week in September. Good morning to you as well again. Our first top trending story really brings sad memories of a history of clashes between the police, tax force, basically law enforcement agencies in Nigeria versus the people. And I say the people because whether it's Nigerians who are walking on the streets with dreadlocks, whether it's Nigerians who are driving in flashy cars, using iPhones, or just a bike man and Okada rider trying to earn a living, there always seems to be a clash between law enforcement agencies and the people. Whereas what we've seen other climes is, you know, synergy basically. The people calling on the police for rescue, for help. The police trying to make sure that, you know, everything is working for them. I mean, I have friends who lived in other parts of the country who said they lost their person, the train and the police basically came to knock on their door and gave it to them. So we've had, you know, clashes like this. And one of that is one of our top trending stories this morning. A clash between members of the Lagos state tax force and Okada riders in the Ajao area of Lagos state. Now, the story says that these law enforcement agencies had gone to that place to basically seize motorcycles. This is something I have seen firsthand, especially along the Ajao axis of Lagos. You know, you see them, they bring this big van and it just begins to impound motorcycles. But we must remember that the Lagos state government as a whole has actually banned the use of motorcycles. But it still is in use because obviously the means of transportation and all of that still comes into play. So they came to, you know, basically seize the motorcycles and these people who felt they've had it up to their necks, revolted, they protested and it became violent. We heard that lots of police officers were injured and reports say, it's unverified at the moment, but reports say one police officer has been killed and they basically say that he was a former DPU in charge of Ajao by the station. They also say that this policeman who was killed was CSP Kazim Abonde that he was the one who had led the operation and that he was in charge of a B Ops Lagos command before his death. I mean, we have a video of that situation. It passed by who just brought out his phone recording what has happened. We saw the police vehicle badly, badly damaged, vandalized by these people who had built up anger because of what the police had been doing and, you know, of course the ban on motorcycle riding by the Lagos state government. Well, so, rest in peace to the Chief Superintendent of Police. There's so much, you know, to unpack here, but I think it's really just another example of Nigeria can happen to you at any time, regardless of who you are. Nigeria can happen to you and that is with the, and I'm saying that with regards to dysfunctional society that we currently live in and exist in and we see as normal. That includes those people who argue that Nigeria is a much better place to live in than living in Canada and UK and all of that because, well, there's some level of lawlessness here that people get away with and we're comfortable in this level of dysfunction. But it's just an example of how Nigeria can happen to you. Either you're waking up in the morning telling your wife goodbye as the Chief Superintendent of Police and she's expecting you back later in the evening after a long day at work of police in Lagos state and eventually you get killed by Okada riders or you're driving your way to work or business here in Lagos and a truck container falls on your vehicle and family members are lost and some of all of that. So it's just a perfect example of how Nigeria can happen to anybody at any time if we don't fix the challenges with our society from the Okada riders to the policing system to the way that we enforce laws here because yes, you mentioned the Lagos state government has of course banned Okada riders on major roads you can still see them on minor streets here and there but on major roads I think they've been banned and so there's that law but at the same time it's the enforcement that is a challenge and the fact that there's really no better ways to enforce these there's a lot better ways to enforce these things but we never get to use those means we instead send police officers out there some of them walk on that cover on bikes also and then corner some of those bikes and they absolutely sometimes jump out and pull them out of the bike I entered a bike once in Lagos and guess what? I eventually found that this was a police officer because he was wearing his uniform then a musty on it and I want to believe that thinking he's a police officer I would have assumed that oh, you're trying to help a citizen not any entitlement anything but you won't believe that this man charged me and even much more than I would usually take I would usually pay for a bike from point A to point B so even these police guys who go and seize motorcycles you have bikes that they use for personal business so really you can see the hypocrisy there so with that as long as he's doing it within what the Lagos state government has created you can be a police officer and be an Okada rider the people who have two jobs you can be working in an office and then on your way home doing Uber, yes and be a part of the car hailing services so you have your own bikes and you go out and seize other people's bikes well I don't know if that pass club hasn't carried you he was not on a major road sweetheart that's the same thing I'm saying let's take a look at this my point really is that I'm not going to hit on or push aside that man for carrying you on his bike if he decides that after his police work in the afternoon he wants to be an Okada rider in the evening so there is that I want to link that into cases of the point I'm trying to make is Nigeria and the dysfunction that we live in can definitely affect you any day these Okada riders, yes maybe we might argue have had it up to here because they've continuously been oppressed by these same police officers and my Lagos state tax force even those who are selling corn at the roadside the ones outside the office here you see them every now and then trying to carry their corn and run into a corn so those things aren't seized the enforcement has always been a challenge because a lot of people say that it's unfair simply because there's no other options nobody needed to die yesterday for any reason whatsoever either on the Okada rider side or on the police side but he needed to die and unfortunately at Jawa estate now it's going to be a very tense area because of course you expect the Nigerian police officers to want to revenge every other person might become a victim for this something like that and just to really buttress on the point of the hypocritical nature of our law enforcement you see just like what you mentioned you see people who sell food and corn you know snacks basically by the roadside and you see these law enforcement agencies the tax force they come and seize their stuff but guess what you still see those people on their break time go to patronize those people when they want to eat they do not have enough salaries to afford going to the high end restaurants they actually go to those roadside and buy food from them when their break time is over they come back and they basically impound they are good so really does that make sense well let's take a look at the video that we were talking about at Jawa estate yesterday I beg you if you are around they come to Jawa I beg you no pass to Jawa this night you have to go back now they don't keep police inside Jawa almost see the van tax force tax force versus other people what do you think of that Pantami picture you see see what they do police over here at Jawa estate and I heard they killed the police man I heard they killed the police man that's of course a video that was made at the scene of the incident yesterday at Jawa estate once again recent piece of that chief superintendent of police and we hope that some of these things somehow some way are better enforced and there is really no need for violence a lot of people also bring the fact that a lot of these Okada riders many of them are even Nigerians by the way hmm so our next uptrending story is this we have found disparities in the offer letter and the acceptance letter that was exchanged between minister of communications and digital digital economy Doctor Issa Pantami and the Ferjo University of Technology Oere in Imo State now these letters were exchanged back and forth and when we took a closer look we found this inconsistencies in the dates that the letter was given and received now in the offer letter which will come on your screen in a few seconds it was dated August 20th now but Pantami acceptance letter was dated March 30th and that's five months earlier from the dates that he received a formal offer from the university to take up a professorship role in the Department of Cyber Security at FUTU now when we take a closer look again you'll see that that notice of the offer letter that was dated August 5th said that Pantami had to resume with effects from March so we can see that back date again so Nigerians really have been thinking about a lot of things they've been speculating that the offer letter was possibly made verbally and Pantami accepted that in writing or that someone maybe inside or outside the university connived with Issa Pantami to put up this professorship thing and that the registrar needed to sign later on to just validate everything that he'd done but it really is interesting to note that a minister who just came out of a scandal regarding his links with terrorism and being a terrorist sympathiser all of that is getting into another one regarding the professorship of cyber security at the Federal University of Technology who we're in emo state so even when you look at the letter of acceptance Pantami co-audits who we're in state not even emo state he went on to say that he had the permission of President Mohammed Buhari to go ahead and accept this role and that he would also continue to teach cyber security in the university without receiving any payment that is going to be as part of his civic responsibility it just seems like a mess right now I don't know what Pantami has gotten involved in but we can't wait to see how he gets out so the awful letter you know state that he's going to be paid by 5 million plus annually so I don't know what he's talking about when he says that he's going to be doing it for free which doesn't add up in any way and of course I'm not sure if you can be a minister and earn as a minister and at the same time earn salary from a university in Foto he has the dates and the disparity with the dates has already been pointed out which also makes absolutely no sense and it looks more like somebody tried to cover a face a knee-jerk reaction quickly went to go and write a letter to cover up for the controversy that this had brought up a few weeks ago I would also quickly mention that personally I feel like of all the challenges in Nigeria today if you write the next 100 challenges that Nigeria currently has I don't think this should even make the list this is just for me another distraction from what Nigeria currently should be focused on if he decides to be a professor decides to work in the kitchen department in Foto decides to work in the security department whatever department he chooses to work that's his personal problem and personal business the law would be able to determine whether he would be able to receive salary both as minister and as professor there's still of course the controversy whether he really can be dashed professorship because you have to be an associate professor you have to earn it you do not wake up one morning and somebody likes your face and decides the school said they waived some rights do you remember the statement this morning that they waived some rights to make phantomie professors but I don't think you can just do that you can't just wake any day and decide to dash somebody in professorship there's people who try to cover this up and say oh that he was an associate professor failing to recognize that in earlier letters and you know online details earlier that phantomie himself had put out he was assistant professor in madina university I believe you know so these are just people trying to cover up here and there but still failing at it and I don't know how you as a university can fail so woefully are trying to cover up these little details here and there that you know that people have pointed out but once again it's really not any of the biggest challenges what I also would point out here is how people have forgotten that president Muhammad Ibarra was appointed or was elected president to be president for Nigerian Nigerians to lead to you know be the leader of the country to direct and stare the ship of Nigeria he's not in any way anybody's spiritual or educational father that you know that people can quickly lean to and say exactly mentor and say oh you know he asked me to go ahead and take it photo could have given the same person who wants you to go ahead and professorship they did it so you know I the president has made these things happen he has I keep talking about body language he has made some of all these things continue to happen and that's why we cannot have a better functioning society we can have systems that work because people would quickly lean on to and say oh my spiritual father or my my political godfather told me to go ahead and take it so so it's not a problem when we should be always and always pushing for the right things to be done the president should never let him his name to be used for this type of things as a president who really believes in standing for the right thing you shouldn't let anybody use your name as an excuse for the wrong things but the president has made these things continue to happen and that's why I want some of these incidents in Nigeria a lot of people already just know how it will end a lot of people already knew that Abercarie was not going to be extradited a lot of people knew how Panthenis issue was going to end initially when there was controversy over his statements towards terror and all of that but that is really how the president has positioned himself the way that he has made Nigeria currently to run which is very very very very sad so those are the points that I would make concern in this him saying that president Mamadibwari asked him to go ahead and take it it's very very sad and also whoever it is that is in Foto that feels like they need to honor a pandemic but once again this is really not any of Nigeria's problems currently we have too many issues to be dealing with that are concerned with that Panthenis professorship is not even top 100 our next top trending story this morning it's a video that has gone viral online and it's become a major talking point because it shows offices, naval offices writing an examination and basically why this is such an issue is the way they were so widely spaced on that field so basically people have been joking about this saying this space is just worse than social distancing this is the definition of on your own if you're not intelligent don't come into the navy so it's just really interesting to see how much how far they have gone to make sure that people there's basically some form of integrity in this examination let's take a listen to what that evidence is saying there examination as you can see the spacing very proper the ones that are writing CAPEX the navy you need to be intelligent you need to be very intelligent I'm telling you this my customers are very ready we are very ready in the navy if you want to come to the navy please be very intelligent examination as you can see the spacing very proper yes I don't know if that is the normal way that navy carries out their examinations but maybe that's a facility that they have you would expect that it would be an examination in a hall if that's what they have because of the spacing that they need that's fine but I think it's a good thing because of the importance of having the best foot forward every time the importance once again of having people who really know their onions get to that level and not just having any random person through examination or practice or any other means pass those examinations and become a burden in the Nigerian navy so it's one of the most pristine I believe with security agencies Nigeria has so yes if you are not smart enough then go home, go join the police and agree with everything you said but my own question really and this is something that has been on my mind for a while is what sort of questions have they been asked and they have been asked questions of the 1999 history or things that are relevant when it comes to tackling security in today's society in the 21st century I ask this because I've done exams both for local exams for schools abroad and all of that courses and when I compare the quality of questions I get questions asked about what's happening now you need to write essays about the relevance of setting issues that are going on now contemporary issues but when you have to write exams for example University of Lagos they'll ask you questions like when was NTA founded and I'm like how does this move me forward how does the year that NTA was founded help me be a better journalist the quality of the questions really is something that we need to you don't need to know current affairs it's important but I'm saying that the quality of the questions are they contemporary are they things that put you up to are they things that actually test for your knowledge of today's world and security as that case is that just really is my own cup of tea what is the quality of the questions that have been asked I don't think we know much about what Navy examinations are like what their syllabus is what it contains I think what you're referring to is an improvement on the syllabus for teaching Nigerian students from the 80s to the 90s and to where we currently are there's a lot of schools who still have the same marking scheme or the same syllabus that they've been using since the school started in 1990 in Nigeria which hasn't been improved on science has improved art has improved technology has improved mathematics I believe has also improved so there's many of all these things that should have the syllabus should have been improving with the time that hasn't changed but with the current that video we showed we have no idea what the Navy question is like or what the examinations are like my point once again is that whatever it is even if they're asking you the number of grains of rice in the bag the most important thing is that for you to be able to make it to that to the next stage in every level of being a Navy officer you must be the best and you should be able to the best in knowing how many grains of rice are in the bag yes the number of grains of beans how many days it took for this Yam Tuber to be like this you know random those type of questions but you have to they have to always put their best foot forward and their best students every single time nobody who oh my god alright that's where we draw the curtains on top trending this morning let's improve our school curriculum and the quality of the question we ask our students shouldn't we let's take a break here and we'll be back bye