 All right, you are still watching Ways on Commonwealth Day 2023, also marks the 10th anniversary of the signing of the Commonwealth Carter, which was signed by her late Royal Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II on March 11, 2013. The Commonwealth flag for peace features a white dove of peace in the bottom right-hand corner of the Commonwealth flag, symbolizing the shared values and principle of the Commonwealth, including cooperation on the economic and social development, diversity, respect, friendship, and promotion of peace around the world. So, happy Commonwealth Day. Happy Commonwealth Day. What are the benefits of being part of the Commonwealth? Okay. The way they do it. I don't know. I mean, well, maybe I don't know. It's not the right thing. I don't see it. Really? Oh, okay, maybe. I mean, if you want to go very professional or very patriotic and they will say, okay, all the bilateral trades and all that, I mean, to the average person in the street. I don't say it. So you don't think there's peace? Well, there is peace, I mean. And well, I mean, if you put it like that, there is peace and there is peace. Well, for me- Within the Commonwealth? Yeah. I think the Commonwealth nations are actually trying to be honest, right? Because they're beginning to not embrace the whole diversity. Everybody's looking at each other and okay, willing to have, you know, do business in quotes. You know, have people in their countries, study and things like that. Is it free? I don't like it. I don't want it. It's not for me. Oh, that's another dimension. Okay. So what did we find in the news? Okay. Okay. Yeah, go ahead. Okay, all right. Okay. So Man Lamence shredded owner notes in viral video. And I think we have this video to play. He has identified Man has lamented the heap of shredded owner notes amidst the Naira scarcity in the country. In the video shared on social media today, the voice behind the camera was just raising. How old Naira notes are shredded and disposed of. And he spoke in Pidgin English. He said, if you look closer, you will go see say na moni, then grind moni, see moni, all this one na moni, then grind down. You. You. And here I am. This makes me so sad. Looking for 200 Naira to buy a bottle of water when I'm outside. This just. Okay. So did an individual do this? I mean, I have many questions. Where is this place? Where is this place? First of all. I wish he went ahead to tell us. Because I have a feeling that the CBN, right? What would they do with the old Naira notes? If they don't, if they don't shred it, they would destroy it, you know? Yeah. Genocide I'm saying. So we need to know first of all where this site is located, you know, and again. We need to also know if this 9G where we are in lots of moni. In lots of moni. And here we are crying. Looking for cash here and there. I can imagine. We'll have to find where the source of this is then we can then tell maybe it was a government authority that, because again, I mean all the notes that they are collecting definitely they are supposed to dispose of it. I don't know if you ever watched that movie that was it three women working in like something that is like the CBN where they were stealing the old damage notes. I can't remember the name of that movie. It was such a beautiful movie to watch. How they were moving the money. I think with Latifah was one of them. I need to find the name of that movie. That old movie. That old movie. All right, so what do you find for us? Okay, so this headline is CBN has directed banks to dispense old Naira notes, says Soludo. An Umbra state governor to Comar Soludo said the central bank of Nigeria has directed banks to dispense old Naira notes. Soludo said CBN governor Godwin he may fail, he may be disclosure to him in a phone conversation on Sunday night. Commercial banks have been directed by the CBN to dispense old currency notes and also receive same as deposits from customers. Tell us that the commercial banks are to generate the codes for deposits and there is no limit to the number of times an individual or company can make deposit. So I mean, this for me is just all shades of, there are no words for this because I mean, you're saying that if this is by the central bank, I mean, I would expect that their corporate communications department should have done a press release. I mean, in considering the agitation in the country, considering that there's a lot of news flying up and down, you don't know what is real, what is not real, you would want to make sure that the people are hearing directly from you. So you have a communicate, a press conference doing loud so it is clear to everyone. So we have a situation where somebody is saying this another person is saying that you can't even verify the authenticity of it. So again, I mean, last week I was speaking to a couple of people and even up to this money, they were very emphatic on the fact that they were not going to trade on old notes. They would not collect it, they would not spend it. So you have Governor's writing, I saw a press release or a letter by Governor Son Waluu just before I came in now that said that people should transact business, people should go about their daily business using 200, 500, 1,000 hour old notes, you know? So again, Governor's is almost as if they're all trying to be, I don't know, is it nice? Is it politically correct? I don't even know what is going on, you know? So, okay, so what happens if this story or this is not even, if CBN is still adamant on the fact that they will let them curious to know where Chinelo's story is linked to, because if Chinelo's story is linked to, that it is, so for instance, the only person that has the audacity to do so would be a public like a CBN. So if that money is being shredded, they have no plans to take the money back. So, and again, I think MFLE and the CBN, they should go on their official handle. Twitter, their website, post it and say, because there's so much confusion. That Kua Beodong today to was giving ultimatum, Sung Wulu has given ultimatum, everybody has. Now, someone was telling me that they actually went to the bank, they said no problem, they will give you old Nera note, but you cannot return it back to the bank. You know? And so, I mean, it's a bit tricky because now we, you are leaving, you know they say when two elephants fight, it's in the bank. Citizens are the ones suffering now, with this talk of war of who will, let me see who will laugh last, you understand, between CBN and the Supreme Court and the governors, right? It is the people that are suffering because we don't even know what's happening anymore, right? So how do we even verify what to do? Because we are at loss, we don't know what to do, you know? But on the flip side, on the flip side, the queues in supermarkets are getting longer. Oh yeah. But guess what, market women are suffering. Someone sent me a picture of a poultry, the entire, what's it called, production, because the transactions that they deal with, they deal in, but I'm just wondering, is a company, why can't you do transfers, right? You know, the other lady, there was a video of a woman, I think, selling plantain or something that everything was just complete. I mean, people are actually suffering, people that deal with cash and trade. They are suffering, they are. It's sad. They are, yeah. Because, okay, so someone was saying to me that I also raised this question, I mean, what is the issue? You have a bank account, you can transfer. And she said that, so it's easy for her to transfer. But the people she's transferring to, they don't do that kind of, they're rural people because it's a farm and they're very small scale. So that's why I'm saying to you that, because the poultry picture that I saw, this is a big, huge farm. I'm saying to you that, see, there's a downside to all of this and there's no doubt. But you see, even in the sense of it, because I have been in business for a very long time and I know that part of what helped me to be able to get access to some of the fundings and all of that is because my transactions are documented through a bank statement. You understand? Most of these people, they deal in a lot of transactions. But when it comes to time to upscale their businesses, they can't upscale because they don't have a transaction history. So I think this is just a time to rethink. It's tough. There's no doubt about it. What I even think is people are even suffering from more is, and I wish that I can talk, ask, Sao Wulu, how does he plan to, what's he called, how does he plan to incorporate this curry system that he's doing to the buses? Do you understand? So the way you have your Oyster card, I had not been to the UK in like seven years or how many years. My card was working. I just went, I just topped it up and I was able to go to everywhere I was going to. I mean, that's how the curry card should be. Do you get? So it's not just enough for us to use it for fancy trains and all of that. Let us be able to transact with the curry with our downfall buses. And guess what? It just helps to reduce a lot of, all the fight or the whatever and all of that. It reduces it. It even removes the admiral. It removes it. It just removes all those things. So if you know that you are paying taxes already to be deducted from source, they can even trap their tax more. All the traffic that we have on the roads, we need to get those people off the roads. And their data, you know, I mean, this is just data. All this is, you know. So my story is actually very interesting. I found it very interesting. I said, wow, this is not a funny thing. So they said about another 25 Nigerian nurses face forgery charges in the US. So according to the report that they're following a very high end investigation that the Texas Board of Nursing in the United States had announced that it had charged no fewer than 75 nurses to cut over issues bordering around falsification of certificates that on the list, right, posted on the website of the board, at least 43 of those names were identified nurses of Nigerian descent or Nigerian origin. Do you understand? And they had reported that 18 Nigerian nurses in the US were charged with certificate forgery. So I mean, you see all of these things that people are doing. The reason I'm taking this story, because I know that they say, my aunt was, I have a lot of people in the nursing and my aunt, she was a nurse, God bless her, so until she passed. Part of what they actually look for, one of our best products outside of Nigeria and Nigerian trained nurses. So I don't understand why. And the cost to go and get your nursing certificate is not a big deal. Do you understand? So the cost is not a big deal. Why? Because I remember she even started very late. She had finished life, she didn't know what to do with her life. She was in her late 20s, she didn't know. And she just took a course in nursing and she relocated somebody. She married and relocated to the, and she was doing well before she passed. Do you understand what I'm saying? Like, nursing is one of the easiest thing to get. So why do we have to get to that point where we are forging certificates to go and work? Is it that we think that we can get away with some things? We like short courses. Okay, oh. We like short courses. On that note, they catch you. On your own. Yeah, on your own. We'll take a break now when we come back from the break. Let's discuss the gubernatorial race. Stay with us, we'll be right back.