 That's the breakfast and plus severe Africa is time for us to check out the papers this morning We call it off the press. We have Chris Cain in Wando who's on standby. He joins the conversation in no time Good morning, Chris. It's good to have you join us Thank you very much for having me. Good morning. Good morning to you Chris All right, let's take a look at the leadership news paper this morning and We'll pay attention to the top stories on the leadership the banner caption reads Terrorist bomb Kaduna rail Take that again. Terrorist bomb Kaduna rail tracks 970 passengers stranded Underneath our tackers over 50 in number That's what the victim is quoted to say and travelers feared kidnapped very unfortunate incident PDP presidential race not for 70 year old or Tom is quoted and You have Niger Applies for oppression license notice fies and CAA 2023 I want to help Buhari finish strong the central bank the CBN governor Godwin in Mephili is quoted to say and 12 coups in Africa in five years unacceptable the vice president orders the court to Say that this is not acceptable and talking about the ASU. You have the NIT D a says the Uttas failed 156 out of 687 tests So I feel like this is going to go on for a very long time between the federal government and ASU Federal government orders short down of offices for Nigeria and Ghana match today There's also a video that made it You know the surface on the internet and the video talked about, you know having the black stars that's Ghana Training in in in darkness yesterday the Abuja stadium I mean, we don't know what the issues but one would think that it is going to be a match Whatever it takes if it takes us getting all of the generators to be working Because people are already feeling that this is a reprisal attack of what happened with the boys But even though it's not necessarily the effort but we'll move away from that National Convention PDP suits against APC act of desperation That's what the federal government's good as I say. This is some of the headlines on the leadership Away from the leadership. Next is the punch newspaper National Convention is the late story. I read by Scholler lies allies aggrieved chieftain supporters dump APC Crisis lingers in quarrel ocean Zamfara orders despite Buhari's plea a griff party members refused to withdraw court cases in states At the most peace panel fails to beat deadline on report Submission that said the lead story on the punch in this paper Other stories are making headlines are making front page train the rails as terrorists Bomb Abuja Kaduna rail track eight killed in Ascultus engage in supremacy battle in Oregon state Nalgay plans protest as State assemblies get Constitution amendment bill today are the stories on the front page of the punch 1.8 million candidates register for UTME jam partner CBT centers on diesel costs Kaduna airport not attacked 12 terrorists eliminated Military is quoted on that one 2023 and building strong financial system supporting Buhari Says a may filly. That's the governor of the central bank of Nigeria Both the must-have. There are some stories there marketers blame oil price Forex as cooking gas price Rises again Cooking gas again LPG I'm moving on abacare others transferred to prison court denies DCP Bill All right, those are the stories most of the stars you can find on the punch newspaper on the front page this morning Away from the punch newspaper. We take a look at a daily independent the top story here says Stakeholders differ over 92 billion are for a butcher airport second runway Say amount outrageous for four kilometer runway. No need for another tax federal government on details of approval to further boost Transparency these are riders underneath the caption Increase in price of food stuff petrol not limited to Niger Increase in price of food stuff and petrol not limited to Niger I mean this is what the federal government is quoted to say Lyme Mohammed, you know putting all of that Uncertainty over resumption date of Adamu led APC working committee Interesting commercial activities paralyzed in Oweri Oka Onicha and Enugu government and for seated home order and shoot passengers And you also have alleged 2.9 billion fraud caught threatened strike Court threatens to strike out EFCC suit against Oka Onicha My focus is on building strong financial system. Help Buhari finish strong says Godwin Emethili the CBN governor's quoted on that Nigerian community decries Delayed justice over killing of compatriots in South Africa. These are the headlines on the daily independent on the last paper we Review in this morning is the nation the late story that Tidibu has set standard and leadership says Buhari President's law one by Javier Miller others hail former Lagos governor at 70 Wiki on him say in South's deserves PDP Preston show T cat tell come blackout likely in a Booja on dough a kitty others No destruction, please. Emethili tells Campaign as those are the stories that most of the stories on the front page of the nation newspaper this morning Well, let's have Chris K. They joined the conversation now once again. Thank you for joining us. We appreciate your time always Thank you for having me once again So let's go through the pages of a national dailies and looking at the leadership newspaper this morning It talks about the attack on the train yesterday or last night in Kaduna Yes, the attack on the train Abudia Karnaband tree is a another my stone the terrorist attacks in Nigeria Don't forget this is not the first I think this is the second time this year. That was it one that also happened few months back and But it goes to show that No, we are in safe any longer. And this is coming on the heel of another attack barely four or five days ago at the Kaduna international airport We are an evasion worker was also killed when some terrorist Evaded the airport and also Blood the wrong way stopping a place from taking off This is another dimension to the insecurity across the land and I've said it and with them on by again Except we're going to need this in the board and make sure that those of this corporate approach to prove Then we're going to have a bigger challenge and after that attack at the airport And I've said it and go for it. What are we looking at again? You might be shocked that before we know it We might just have some of the terrorist hijacking planes and doing some of these things that we are across other groups other parts of the world best It is a quite unfortunate The what it was to blow up the ray track making it impossible for the for the plane to Try to move a train with over 970 passengers at night and Let me tell you the reason why most people use that rail is because the Abuja expressway is no longer safe We have been kidnapped on the daily basis. We have been killed in daily business that route has become one of the most dangerous Roads in Nigeria and for that people now resort to train But the Soviets that the train is safe is even not getting is not even safe And that is even the worst if you know the large volume of number of people that for three this one was 970 close to 1000 people If they're able to make their way to those trains and they have the people or a lot of a lot of things that happen But we heard that security agencies were able to move in strictly and get them dislodged and And that was it but since they are tempted this and it won't become the rest I'm sure there is a possibility that they are going to attempt it again. And this to me is a very dangerous dimension to Terrorism banditry or whatever you call it in Nigeria Okay, but just before I mean Justin, you know comes in down on any of the headlines In 2015, I mean we can't forget to ignore 2015 because the president at the time when he was campaigning before he became president He'd made promises and he was on this. He said Boko Haram will be crushed He wouldn't show that you know lives and properties of Nigerians are secured We're seeing things that Didn't I mean we're not saying that security or insecurity was not an issue prior to this time But this is so much, you know boldness First you have bandits getting to the airport. I mean to they even disrupted, you know the flight movement and You also again just a few days after you have this bandits also attacking the train track and therefore You know costing a lot of persons to be stranded and we saw the pictures from that incident really really sad What is really emboldening or you know enhancing and making this? Security, I mean some of these elements. I like to call them elements bandits Boko Haram. What's what's giving them this moral? What's Finding their wings and making them very bold with all of these moves First of all, let's correct the notion. These are not bandits that terrorists You should just continue but they haven't but they haven't been prescribed bandits there. They're still called bandits I mean no one has prescribed them as bandits There's a court order to that regrets. There's a court order to that but has it been affected It's not for me. It's for the executive to do. I cannot do in that But the fact is that these are not bandits that terrorists and we should score them what they are And that is part of the problem we are having because of infinity or do we start getting these people and make sure that they face The the the full rot of the law this will continue because they believe that they'll get away some of those that were arrested the Boko Haram Member that we arrested what I put to them they granted them in minutes and they said they have rehabilitated Some of them went back to what they are doing. These are people that have been killing innocent Nigerians Destroying Nigeria in all aspects of it, but what happens when you look at the south east and which is why most of time some of us look at this and say Is there any correlation between the government and what is happening? They will be when the Agitators in the south east cut themselves high for isn't or even those in the south west Agitating the full rot of the law is bring down on them The soldiers are sending to the street to kill or main or to arrest most of them And these are people that practically at least any stages of the agitation. We are not violent at all Let's see what is happening in the north on the daily basis people are being kidnapped people have been killed a vision of tracks a version of Airport killing of people like the airport and not to seem to so until we wake up the body language of the Issue of terrorism as it were for me. It's not good enough Once we started with the needful make sure that most of it. What are those are all those that have been arrested for? Don't forget that sometime ago we had the HGF telling us who we are Some people have been arrested for terrorist art. They'll be that they'll be already caught This is good to months and years now. Nobody has something happened in Dubai And Sometime ago where some people were figured at this one source of Boko Haram in Nigeria You are you quickly run your door tried and jibbed, but so if you continue to play Issue of security we keep love This is what we get because the guys we continue to get But if you know you fully whether nobody's equal to touch them if we are there any arrest After this attack at the airport if they are there when are they going to be tried for terrorism? Terrorism carries the capital punishment, which most often is either dissenters or life imprisonment But you just see that most of these guys are just Twitter we keep up and that is what is up on to we start with the needful. All right. What is this? All right, Chris. So let's move away from that. We will still discuss Kaduna, Abuja Train attack much later on the show, but let's talk about other stories are making headlines. Let's move on to The punch in this paper this morning and the National Convention the ABC National Convention is leading on the punch and The main story there I read Beshella Ly Mohamed some ally a grieved chieftain supporters Dump a PC. It's as though it is not yet. Oh, who are for the all-progressive's Congress? Despite Sam. They are so-called successful Congress on Saturday Sunday. What do you think Chris? Expectedly is expected. We are so new that I don't have any portion in the room party once after the that convention that's what you get when you impose people and You are green on a sense of that day candidate contestors candidate and the rest of them There's no way that some certain people won't be agreed by what happened if you look at the The way and manner the EPC conventions are held. You see that so many barblers were drawn most of the candidates So some of them practically cry when they were asked to step down when they pick up the mic You see what they were saying was that I say they wanted to contest where they are being forced even a former minister Came out to say that I wanted to contest I think for the post of National Secretary and was told how he's paid his book on how he was forced to get seen his ambition to become the National Secretary of Of the EPC Well, the fact was able to rally around the self by holding that convention and the president was able to step in to make sure that Certainties we are doing so that there won't be so much rank of within the ranks of a PC members But if you take a long time for that to totally hear and that is where some of us have said that The way we are going about our democracy is this truly a democracy because the mission of democracy is government of people by the people What have we are seeing now is the government or if a few who sit down pick People and just throw them to the national arena as well we don't give it any huge to the aspirations and Desires of most members of the political parties the way I manner the consensus We are big the APC that is going to leave so much to be desired Don't forget that there were six seven people that contest We wanted to contest for that's national action machine of a PC the six we are asked to start on for the eventual And what is more even Lovable to me is that this is a party that came in In 2015 I say one of the reason why they want to take over boys PDP destroyed Nigeria that for 16 years PDP destroyed my dad I go and look at the hierarchy of the new members of the National Executive Council of a PC all of them Particular or at least the top the top ones We are members of the PDP the national chairman was a governor of a national state two time PDP national governor of National State also went to the Senate as a member of the PDP before he moved to the DC today Is a renewed and a born again the National Secretary of Missionary was a PDP also today So but I expect that the APC have set up a reconciliation committee Which was initially also headed by the current chairman that was better, but there are reports of that committee I don't think I've been submitted and I think they would do everything possible to make sure that Everybody's recognized so that they can get ready Relation okay away from that. Let's let's look at the daily independence newspaper and the federal executive council has approved 92 billionaire for Abuja Airport second runway and now stakeholders are saying that this is not necessary There's a lot of you know back-and-forth mixed reaction if you want to say some people are saying the amount is outrageous for a 4-kilometer runway. There's no need for another one You also have all the saying that the federal government should be taxed on the details of approval to further boost the transparency this project or construction of this One way it's in you know different faces. I mean the approval. What are your thoughts? Do you think that we need a second runway? The airports or and do you think this amount is outrageous? I'm sure before the government came up with that budget for that. There must have been due and there must have also consulted in several Operators within the industry and we want to get the best out of them whether it is too much or not too much I'm not in a position to say because I don't I've never consulted a runway before I don't know how much it is to consult a runway. So but whether that we should have a second Yes, we should Each of us especially the most important Beggars and the Abuja intentional but you have a second runway the essence of that is that if anything happens There's only there would be an alternative runway Go for being the descent happening within a particular runway That's wrong. We'll be shut down for as many hours as possible or even days or until that has been that has been done Don't forget that when the recon when we are having a reconstruction of the a footer runway for some weeks I think for some weeks or even way for weeks Flight were diverted to some other stages, which I think I do not international airport People come into Abuja from all parts of the world. We are using the cardinal airport You can see how unsafe the cardinal airport now. So if there's anything that happened to the only wrong way we have And you start diverting a flight putting attention on local flights to I put them to cardinal there. We're going to have problem. The road is not safe as we said earlier on the rail Is not also safe. So so many countries across the globe you go to major cities in the airport in the world We always have a second or some people have as many as two three four Runway, so I think there's a need for us to have a second runway So that we don't get ourselves a cage into a particular situation. We cannot go best as to the cost The the house and the national assembly have oversight functions on issues like this And I believe that is able to look at it and make sure that we don't get an overbluted Contra for the runway As I said, I don't know how much The reason for for that is because prior to this time, they were looking at 67 billionaire and all of a sudden There's a jump from, you know, 67 billionaire, you know to 92 billionaire inflationary to also sexy inflation rate setting. So it's a I don't know when that budget was made So inflation rate, but I'm not as I said, I am not in any way Say that I approve the amount. I don't have not in a position to say I think we should be able to call a vision as part maybe to the program And one of these days to talk to them. Let that give us a break and mess with your life in the fact I don't I don't like speculating on what I don't know if you ask me other issues that I know about But for me, we need the second runway, but the national assembly should do their oversight function on issues like this It wasn't budgeted for if it was budgeted for how much was budgeted if there have been variation? Why the variation and why why is it this expensive? So if they were to do that, they can be able to Be able to control that but if they if they shy away from their Responsibilities, then it becomes a problem, but I still believe that we need to go there We need a second runway both in Lagos and that's if we don't have a second runway in Lagos ahead All right, Chris Integrity is still plaguing different parts of the country as we speak yesterday in the news On the on the point. It was um that um eight people were killed as um Court is a battle for supremacy. We also heard what happened in Keduna state, you know, Keduna abuja You know train attack, but then the daily dependent also has another one there are commercial activities and paralyzing Or a orka on each hand a nougu as a gunman in force seated home or there shoot Passengers, Chris. What do we have in our hand? This issue of insecurity is just continuing on the baited across board all over the geographical locations of the country It's not just over there. How can they know the police station in my local government? Our the headquarter Our police station was attacked and And policemen were injured Properties destroyed And those pictures got me last night and then that shows you the level of insecurity So it's not just it has it has gotten to me too So my local government police station in obu local government of in most states was attacked also and the policemen Were injured that shows the level of The height of it and the security across land few weeks ago I think it was last week or there about the president invited My governor governor who who's a demon to uh asura where the discourse issue of security and I learned and We are told that most security agents will be posted to in most states on the case and The civil defense but it seems that that is is not That's all they're moving to other part of them the start is governor Charles soludo said that acts or workers federal government and state government workers to resume work every monday and all markets should be open And is that nothing we have to where from the report we're getting now isn't that that's fell on death here because practically The whole of the service and an umbrella was we are shot down yesterday and Those that made attempt to come out and from the reports we're getting we are shot So that is the high level of insecurity in the south is especially this monday monday We think that and that in itself is killing all sorts of economic activities In southeastern and to me that is self-inflating when I continue to hear it. Oh, it is output No output I put out come out to category categorically say that they have nothing to do With the seat at home that they've not given any order for anybody to sit at home The only time that the attack will state at home is when a ban nam decal is going to cut But as of today it seems that some people are benefiting from this action as of And that is why I also blame our security agencies how come they have not been able to arrest Some of these people and make each other the best so Everything's simple down to our security agents. Just as it's happening in kaduna as example in zaria as it's happening in other parts of north Those in the south are not open in kids. Good enough. Yes, the the 82nd day of the nigerian army Move to some places in an umbrella stage where they were able to Dislodge some so-called esm members and I saw the rap over 32 rifles We are recovered from that that shows you that is just from one camp 32 rifles is all over the All over the people to our page you see it as well That shows you the level of security and the arms in the hands of so many people And we are not doing anything possible to be able to take out and take out these arms And as we're moving to 2023 i'm telling you that it's going to be worse Well, thank you so much chris k and a uh one do for being part of the show this morning We do appreciate your thoughts Always Thank you very much for having me and do have a nice day All right, you too dude Well, that's the size of it for off the press and we will definitely return with off the press tomorrow In the meantime, let's tell you what happened today in history when we return It will be time for a fast major conversation. 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