 On the breakfast we take a look at the bills seeking to stop landlords in the federal capital territory, FCT from demanding yearly advance rent payment from tenants that has also passed a second reading in the Senate. The bill is sponsored by Senator Smart Hadeh Ali. Also the breakfast this morning the past two years have witnessed rather a new wave of coup d'etats in Africa with the conflict that is brewing in the central in the West African nation of Guinea-Bissau where the government has now claimed that it has survived a coup attempt. I would take a look at the recent surge in the militarization of politics in Africa. Don't forget we would also look through the papers this morning analyzing the big stories of the day. Welcome to the breakfast I'm Kofi Bartels and I am Messier Bopu. It's good to have you join us this beautiful Wednesday morning and it feels really great to be back on your screen. Yes indeed, I promise this would be a very interesting day mercy. Good morning to you. Good morning for what Kim once said. You're looking very very spoofing. Thank you. Yes yes yes indeed. I mean it's an interesting day you know a lot to talk about especially I can't wait for the conversation on the rise of militarism or militarization of politics like we put it in in West Africa you know it's it's worrying it's worrying and something in Sweden so we will get to understand you know the the details and the background of what's happening with our guests. But let's let's get things running with our training story segment. I love the training story segment. Yesterday someone got tweeting on 2023 politics after a long time and that was the former governor of Lagos State, Akiwumi Ambode. How Ambode was was sent packing from government house, permit my use of of the term, is well documented you know permit my word so it's well documented but this is what he put out yesterday sort of a cryptic tweet some will call it. He says after all we've been through God has been faithful thank you for the overwhelming endorsement of Ambode's contributions to the growth of Lagos State. I mean this this has got people analyzing it can only get better for Lagos and indeed Nigeria but he started by saying he also went on to say the youth are coming the youth are coming the par is in their hands go get your PVC permanent voter cards ready your future is now now when when a former governor who did only one term in Lagos State puts up such a tweet everyone is gonna start analyzing what's he saying what's happening is it coming back you know. So I have actually seen a lot of reactions as regard as regards the posts by the former governor Akiwumi Ambode and some people are saying oh you don't just go away you have been in asylum you haven't really been anywhere and really there's been a lot of jest and joke about it but let's even look at the real message because sometimes we we don't pay attention to the real message the real message here is let's forget about the messenger at some point sometimes you need to ignore whoever I sent in. You are saying the real message right? Yeah let's look at the content you know that's it of the tweet of the message okay which is the tweet now but let's not also pay attention you know because I think a lot of what people did was yesterday you know pay attention to the messenger and the kind of message that was put out the message that the people are looking at who sent the message and all of that that's not the case the case here is that youths are coming in coming back but to be very why do I feel like that's some kind of sarcasm coming from you but whatever it is this is what I'm saying I'm saying that the message is very important over time we have been very we have been described as very docile people we have been described as people that are not very active generally the entire you know the country Nigerians are not very but really you want to agree with me that there's a lot of change people are waking up and getting involved in in the activities that's going on the country governance political issues whether or not they have been elected to represent on Twitter right no not necessarily on Twitter because you can't also describe the hashtag and says protest which is big as well so you want us to see that youths have decided you know to move away from what it is we know that I mean for me I would not want to limit it to youths I would say Nigerians need to wake up and part of the system because when you look at the entire country 211 million people according to United Nations is not just a population of according to echoes you're looking at 15 to 18 to about 35 or the United Nations 15 to 24 so you're saying look at the message message message message is that messy we cannot look at this week can you allow me to not the other message wait wait wait I'm going to learn you know I'm moving I'm moving to the airport you know yeah you know sometimes you could have where I should so allow me just go go around it why so the point here is this is what it is Nigerians have not been very very involved in politics and governance issue it's a good thing that we're seeing a change that's number one and some people will say that that's not commendable we need to get involved and one of it what he has said you would actually see that the biggest in the history so far I don't know I would like to be corrected hashtag answers soar a lot of Nigerians I mean come out especially the youth come out coffee wait let me learn the entire way coming out you know to actually say hey we are dissatisfied with it's a policy of government governance and the activities and police brutality is a major issue whether we want to agree with it or not and you would have seen the youths making a statement also you could also see part of this time the issue of not too young to run Bill and amongst all the issues which is very commendable so yes the youths are waking up the youths are coming in but we want Nigerians to be like I'll be like how we do in Nigeria before the plane stops we stand up so I'm standing up and you say we should take we should take we should not look at the messenger so I said I would look at the message and not the message yeah okay you look at the message and not the messenger good but we cannot look not look at the messenger in the message no you cannot look at the message the message the message is getting you know is trending this message of the youth are coming you get your PVC is trending on account of the messenger and the message would not have trended won't be talking about it here so what's your point no for the message so what's your point the point of this seron of mine this morning is that the messenger is very important as important even more important than the message in a way in a way in a way and so we cannot say oh we look at the message not the messenger we have to we're looking at it is already been looked at now this for me this for me I get your point okay but this for me is people are saying is he intending to come back as governor is this a he has he can't he can't why can't he know he can't come back what no why can't he you already know that I don't think that that I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm just saying that I'm not holding this is what I'm saying I'm just saying that to be let's look at it sometimes I think that it's okay for us to drop all of the sentiment and the issues that we have and just look at the issues the way there I don't think I'm not holding brief for him but I don't think that he has maybe he's making any plans to come back but I'm not he was a come back so this is what I was saying yeah and people are have been having a conversation around the governorship of Lagos state in the next few years in the next election sorry and then because of the the the recent statement by the current governor of Lagos state Babaji they saw more loop you know he said last week that him he was going to consult negotiations to decide before he decides whether to run for office or not and that got people speaking you know I haven't asked the question online what do you do when he consults you so I got people speaking and then there were conversations around well what has embodied on and then I'm sorry a song who done and then some people started mentioning embody that I'm buddy did ABC DE and the comparing in what song who did you know they're doing a comparison so so because of what Sam Olu said that I will consult with legosians before deciding whether to come back and what his name came back into the conversation of the governorship of Lagos state you know people started talking about it so and the suspicion people are suspecting or asking is he coming back is he going to make a second one he can the reason he can is because the Nigerian constitutional force him the right to do so he's a one-term governor and it means he can run for a second term after a second term he's done so so that's why he can and so you can understand why people are suspicious and there's a lot of room if he had already concluded his eight years right before leaving Laosa government house there won't be any fuss about this tweet I can guarantee you the reason why there is fuss about this tweet is that and some women not be the most popular governor right now in Lagos state because of his role or alleged role let me say perceived role better put in whole answers thing so that has not cast him in in in light of the public most people as as popular and and also and you know that the performances in certain areas you know has brought up the debate who was better Ambo Day or someone so so this is what I think down you actually wanted me to get to that point so I'm here already now this is what it is looking at the comments and that's why I said for me it's my you know decision and of course I'm entitled to think about what I want to think the the focus here for me should be about the content of the message and not the messenger in a sense that we understand the politics that have actually played you know the things that have actually happened over time especially with Ambo Day where he lost the elections I mean the second time beat and all of that and not getting the support originally you would have some quotas saying he didn't have the support forward structures to coming but you have a Siwaju Ahmed Bollet Tinnimbu saying we support him he supported him that's why he was governor at the time and that's what this quotas are saying and then some people are saying hey we want to see your tweets it feels like this tweet is actually to shade you have your boss you can't take out the fact that he supported you to be governor whether it's for one time or not you need to give him the support of course it's at the time where he has declared his intention to become president especially to the president but not to Nigerians I mean he's yet to declare his intention to Nigerians that's what it is so people are coming from that premise and that's why I'm saying let's not get involved with you know all of that but just be attentive to the message you're coming out you're again to grab power what exactly is and I think that you said you know they're trying what doing well my just a really trying we're moving away from being docile and we're getting involved in the politics and issue of governance and one of it you would see is the hashtag and sons the hashtag and stars where a lot of people express their you know the grievances and how they feel about police brutality but then again you know all of this is in the realm of speculation it might just means some of the house against us is not in the room about the governor's statement but we have to move on let's see what happens you know we might just be reading him wrong but but another you know thing that caught our attention there was a Senate passing a bill for second reading rather a bill to regulate the the way rental system is is operated in Abuja that's the federal capital territory so this is the Senate passing for second reading second reading you know bill has to go through the first reading second reading and so on and so forth and and people have been talking about this whole idea of paying monthly rent you know it was first said about it in Lagos state when the idea was put for that thing something was passed or it's been worked on in Lagos state but but this is quite an interesting one to see how it can work such a model can work in the FCT which has one of the highest costs in terms of rent you know in Nigeria I once had one of my landlords in in the times past you know telling the security man the may God we had because he was being funny he was not doing his job well you know you know these may God houses this small one you know that you have at the gate he called him and said oh boy come here you have to behave yourself I hope you know that this your room in Abuja the rent for this room is 700,000 and we bust into laughter you know so I haven't forgotten that episode in renting Abuja is expensive it's quite expensive and if you want to make a move to Abuja for work you have to factor that in it personally I've had to reject job offers because I factored in the course of renting Abuja and I saw that that my salary and you know go rich anywhere it's no thank you but no thanks but this is not the first time we've had this conversation I'm sure I had this conversation with Justin Khadouyeh right here on this platform and we talked about the fact that yeah at the time the Lagos state government that was last year towards December had intentions of saying yeah we're working towards ensuring that residents in Lagos paid a rent monthly and which I think that fantastic it's a brilliant idea before me the major concern is how do you explain because some people are salary earners a lot of people work with organization parasitism what have you including government and you have the fact that salaries are being owed you can't take that away so what happens if I'm supposed to be my rent the next month and I don't have my seller hasn't come because my previous salary I have probably had used it I'm expecting that it will come on a certain date and it doesn't come so what happens so I just think that a lot of people will be slipping on you know under the bridges and what have you people would just be stranded as brilliant as that sound yeah we know we're actually emulating because this didn't come originally from Mars we've seen other developed climbs practice this and then we're trying to emulate but we need to also understand that these countries have gone ahead of us there are certain things that they have put in place to ensure what are you saying that we should we shouldn't consider this I don't know what do you think I'm thinking that if for instance a lot of people who pay so let's assume that you're supposed to pay your rent the next month and you get to the next month and you haven't been paid your salary and your salary is your major source of income what happens you're going to be thrown out because the land problem and I have you know the patience so the reason I would say that for the monthly I'm also hoping that we can have that negotiations where this land will take it is that you have you have a time where people can plan yes you can put out moneys together and then you don't have to worry about paying rent monthly you know you have a fantastic point you know smarter than me smarter than me is that senator who came out you know that viral video where he was shouting and the Senate he was basically almost at the point of tears I think he shed a tear to the Nigerians are suffering the country is hard Nigerians are dying remember that that video you know so he's cast himself as a sort of Robin Hood no not Robin Hood because it's not taking anything from anyone but I'm sort of like a defender of the people a defender of them of popular causes in a defender of the people's rights you know I hope our viewers remember that video of smarter than me so what he's saying what he said in his his lead debate you know is that the bill was meant is meant to cushion the effect of the outrageous what they call the outrageous rents on properties on residents of the nation's capital now thank you smarter than me he said many properties in a buja were empty because of the outrageous rents placed on them now thank you smarter than me but I have a problem the same way I felt when I heard the state governor was working on something like that too and there's you know we have market dynamics government doesn't control his market and and you know these these agents I don't know what I'd call them I would have called them greedy but I can't call them really because that would be a nice word I'll look for another way but it's agents are very ambitious I think the agencies or the agents so-called agents and real estate agents have have have pushed the market up the prices up I think it's it's better for the government to wait and the market would naturally come crashing down let let those houses remain empty so should should there be money no that's not what you stand in all of them saying monthly rental would even push the prices prices further up monthly rental would even push the prices further up because a landlord who was used to getting maybe he says he's charging one million Naira maybe you've been for one bedroom for me to stand somewhere not nothing in the maybe goose up goose up it or son or somewhere like they're not a so-called or or or we will say or maybe goose up it for instance yeah and and you have to not break down in that into 12 all right that's gonna be less than a hundred thousand Naira a month that's gonna be less than 100,000 a month will he want to be getting that amount of money that's number one number two this yearly rental thing forces people forces people to to plan to prepare and have the money set aside so they can play pay what obtains in other parts of the world especially in the West Europe and America is they live in the houses they sleep there at the end of the month the pay so when the when the the monthly what he called the the salary comes in the pay now that means that we operation what we call a credit system just like we have credit cards in that part of the world where people get the credit card and then they can just go and shop and at the end of the month they pay with some sort of interest now we have a lot of uncertainty in economy people are in jobs and businesses and they don't know if they are going to make the the the the expected income at the end of the month you know so it will be if we're using that system we at the end of the month you now pay something it would be like having a credit card system in Nigeria and we're not just that kind of life is not good you understand over there they know how they do here that kind of life is not good you know imagine people living on credit cards how many people are able to pay the loans to take from these are online loan companies but that's not the case but that's not the case here I mean that's why I'm saying I'm perceiving that the amount of people being kicked out of houses will increase if you get into a monthly rental system okay and that monthly rental system is and pay after you use it will be a problem you know this the yearly thing and then secondly the price is going to shoot up this yearly thing forces us to to plan so at the end of the day I mean it really feels very good that we probably might just be on the same page yeah yeah yeah yeah you buy me some lunch after now but the market prices will come down let the houses remain empty yeah I don't know how that will pan out for us but you know fingers are very crossed I think that it's a brilliant idea but you know one want to copy we're not copying the original so we just get a copy we don't look at so you could say that you are dressed in a certain way I need to understand why you're dressed in a certain way your body structure and every other thing we're not considering all of that before we we copy okay moving away from that quickly let's look at the issue of Mason Greenwood who is a superstar with the Manchester United he's a fantastic player your football club by the way no that's not my football club you are my just like netted fan really told me yesterday you said to me why you deny your club oh and Peter deny Jesus does not aid but you remember a time when you said I support Liverpool I mean I have a thing for Liverpool whatever the case might be it could probably be would be more seller but however I do support that club so this is really really sad Mason Greenwood faces consequence of rape allegation and some people say oh the woman doesn't really love this man and the story is endless so I have actually been very speechless about this particular situation but I see a young man who's very fantastic I mean I'm friends with my United if you want to say yes no no bias and he looks very cute see your player there's not my player and such a player that has a lot of potential I really don't know if he will have any impact on his career moving forward but you know the laws and you look at the climbs right if you were to be in Nigeria we don't know how this would actually pan out if he would even make the light of day because of the systems and the structure that we have but moving away from this climb you understand the other climb and how things actually work I just think that you know you can get any woman you don't need to be very forceful yes indeed it's quite unfortunate it's quite unfortunate for such a career of that started you know 19 years old you know 18 this is 2022 so about 18 years old they're about to 19 you get to be playing week-in week out for one of the biggest clubs in the world I think they'll make you happy and I said that so united and it's an opportunity that not many many people get and if I want to go back to what do you call it some year last year I think a year or two ago the last walk-up or so one of the missing Greenwood and the young man from Manchester City I'm trying to remember his name now they were they were sent home from the England camp I think they broke some rules and they went out patting or something like that and they sent them home from the England camp now the young chap who plays some man city was invited back to the team but Greenwood wasn't invited back to the team and the English English coach Southgate was asked why he had not been calling Greenwood but he called the man city youngster I'm trying to remember his name and and he said he wants a Greenwood to develop and progress and all that but I'm looking at what's happened now it's clear that probably those in the England camp had yeah Foden Foden is his name yeah you know thank you producers it's clear that the the them have seen something about the young man in his attitude you know because I mean there's no reason why Southgate should invite Foden to the Euros that was hosted by England take a soccer to the Euros and then not a Greenwood who was scoring fantastically for for England and there are some players who are taking who for Manchester United sorry players were taking who and not doing as well as Foden as a Greenwood sorry so so that first episode you know we want to link it to this one it's clear that the young man is a troubled young man and it's really sad really really sad but you know a message has to be passed you know that this kind of attitude and behavior is not acceptable there were videos emanating on social media of a recording audio recording that was done when he was shouting at the his girlfriend you know his lady friend he was trying to force her you know into into a sexual so I just wasn't really like and one mother I saw who put up a statement said her son he's a he's a footballer and he doesn't want she doesn't want the son to learn from this we have to go we have to go and move on to a next step mercy while Greenwood has actually been dropped from the FIFA 2022 game I mean all of that active live game is no longer gonna be there very sad but that's the much we can take on top trending when we return we head straight to looking at the papers this morning and analyzing the big stories on the front pages of a national deal is please stay with us