 Today, on the breakfast, all marketers right federal government proposed to build about 30,000 gas stations to cushion the effect of subsidy removal and petrol would have in-depth analysis as we proceed on the show. Also on the breakfast, the federal government has bad state, local government from operating security votes with commercial banks. And don't forget, we'll also be looking through today's newspapers, analyzing the biggest stories of the day. Good morning and welcome to the Breakfast in Plustivia Africa. My name is Messia Bokbo, we're broadcasting live from our studios right here in Victoria Island in Lagos and the holidays over. Welcome back to work. Hopefully you're on your way to work. You're probably seated. Then it promises to be an amazing time. Sit back and we will run through the entire show this morning with you. As always, we start off with our top trending conversation and the first on the list. We probably do have, you know, attracted this effect. Let's quickly run this. The police officer was famed assaulting a young man in Port Harcourt. Let's quickly take this one. Well, that's a very sad one. You saw the video of a police officer who was filmed assaulting a young man. That happened in Port Harcourt. Now, if you were not able to hear what happened on the conversation, what he was saying, the guy who was on white, he had his white attire. He was saying, why are you flogging me? Did I steal? And these are the questions, I mean, some of the questions that he was asking. So the issue of police brutality actually continues. That statement was actually made in Persian English where the man, you know, collected the cane from the officer who then proceeded to slap him twice on the face. And then he orders him to walk into his car. You could also see him walking to his car. The second police officer is also seeing rough handling the man's female companion. They can't actually, for sure, tell whether that's the wife or whatever it is, but you could see that and they looked very frightened. So well, it's still unfortunate that two years after young Nigerians held a nationwide protest denouncing the years of extrajudicial killings, torture, and other ill-treatment by police officers, especially the anti-Robbie squad or unit of the Nigerian police force, as well as the police officers, all of the brutality that's going on over the years. The story of police brutality is still rampant in Nigeria. So two years and counting, nothing has actually happened. For Africa's largest democracy, and that's really, really a big shame, honestly. It's very disgraceful because over time we're very quick to begin to compare countries and countries. We travel, we all have a lot of us, especially the elites, still on this list where you get to travel, go to other parts of the world, and then you see how things are done. But there are too many questions that are begging for answers, and one of it for me is that what are the lessons? What lessons did we learn in October? As justice has been served, the 2020 October incident where, I mean, it was a mass movement. Why is police brutality still very common? So every other day you still have police officers treating our citizens, people that they should be friends with as animals. So where are we exactly with the police reforms? These are some of the questions. We have legal frameworks to all of these behaviors and practices, but it's important to note that the Nigerian constitution or Nigerian constitution prohibits torture or any sort of, you know, that would not be the mode of a Prandi. And so the Anti-Torture Act imposes a penalty of up to 25 years imprisonment for perpetrators. Meanwhile, the Torture Act is an inherent part of, you know, the functioning of the Nigerian police has been documented. So this is not a hearsay. There's an extensive documentation by local civil society organizations, international organization, media investigations, including the United Nations human rights mechanisms, all of this. On a regular basis, you have police officers who use torture as a means to extort. Now this is not a means of extorting for whatever it is, whether he disobeyed, he did something different. But you could see that while you're hitting him, even if he's a thief. And he had asked the question that, did I steal anything? Thinking that, okay, if you're a thief, then you should be treated that way. That's the only reason. That's at the time. But let's also not forget that the constitution would say that you're innocent until being proven guilty. And so if we have laws and specification to this, and I'm sure that the rule of engagement for the Nigerian police is not that, despite all of the substantial evidence that it is, all of the substantial evidence that you have implicating police officers, you know, very, very rare occasions have you found police officers being prosecuted, not in the recent cases. You have the several human rights consent that have been put out. Human rights abuses by SAS, where you have recent report on human rights abuses by SAS, Amnesty International had documented about 82 cases of torture, ill treatment over three years, and found no instance of police officers being prosecuted. So this brings us to the crux, I mean, some of the questions that we've been asking. Because the movement for the end SAS was a major in 2022, where people came out to say, hey, we're denouncing the years of police brutality. And so how come you don't have, you know, officers, how many times do we have these officers prosecuted? Do we look at, you know, the laws that we have? The constitution prohibits all of that. You also have the Torture Act, but hey, even with all of that, when you have a lot of evidences where police officers are involved and, you know, they are maltreating the people and treating them like animals, whatever the case is, we need to understand what the law says, that everyone is innocent until being proven guilty. But this has been a strategy that they have, you know, always engage. And you know, at times you could see this as such an, you know, harassment. It is so unfortunate that the police that should be friends of the people, you know, in turn, a terrorist that wants terrorizing the people, terrorizing in that sense of, I mean, there's also another video that pops up yesterday of a lady who filmed and there was a young man who was actually offering to pick her up. But even when the guy said, oh, I'm a police officer, what exactly was even the lady's confidence, there was no trust, there was no confidence to say, OK, a police officer is, you know, about to give me a lift and then I should, you know, listen to him. The trust deficit has been lost. And that's because if you follow the reports and all of the investigation, we haven't been big on, you know, prosecution, implementing the laws. We have a lot of laws. But then we act like, you know, what's going on? What happened to reforming the police sectors? Because if people understand that these officers understand that what they're doing is not, you know, best practices, is not, you know, in accordance with the laws and the rule of engagement of the police, including the Constitution. And then, you know, there will be a deterrent. But that's not the case. Now, instead, you have police officers who were transferred to other units, allowed to retire or even appointed to the position in state government. For instance, you remember the address situation where this lady who was just returning from a church service was shot. And what did we hear that this officer was transferred to another unit? Really, does that solve the problem? I mean, it's just like you're saying you're postponing the issue. You're just moving it to another point. But the thing is, we can't continue like this and expect a different result. It is so saddening. It is totally inhuman that every other time you have the police officers, men of the Nigerian police officers and all the security personnel who should be protecting the interests of the people, taking advantage of them, abusing them and treating them like animals for whatever it is. Like the law would say you are guilty. I mean, you're still innocent until you've been proven guilty by a court of competence jurisdiction. Now, there's also another conversation that's making the rounds. I mean, yesterday, Nigerians talked about that on different social media spaces. But this is also a big one. And so there's too many of what Eve and what could have been. The government of the United Kingdom has placed Nigeria on its red list of countries not to be not to be targeted for international recruitment by health and social care employers. I mean, if you're looking for a health job across, you know, that might not just be the case now, because the United Kingdom said that this development is coming as the World Bank, beg your pardon, not the World Bank now. The World Health Organization, WHO, as a last month, at least 54 countries, including Nigeria, as facing the most pressing health workforce challenges related to primary and universal health coverage. And that is actually true if you look at it, because, I mean, we are grappling with all of this issue. Now, the implication is that the United Kingdom government would accept Nigeria and all the countries on the red list for health and social media care jobs only based on government and government agreement. The information was contained in the United Kingdom's official website, which is titled Code of Practice for the International Retirement. I mean, Recruitment of Health and Social Care Personnel. That's in England. Now, they also say that this is inconsistent. I mean, it's consistent with the WHO Global Code of Practice Principles and articles as explicitly called by the WHO Global Code of Practice, 10 years review that listed countries that should be prioritized for health, personal development and health system related support provided with safeguarding and also discouraging active international recruiters of health personnel. So that's actually what the document states. These are some of the thoughts of the United Kingdom, but it leaves a lot of question. Don't forget that the House of Representatives recently passed a second reading with six to tie down Nigerian trained medical or dental practitioners for a minimum of five years in Nigeria before being granted a full license. So it leaves a lot of questioning. Could this be a collaboration? Don't forget that, hey, they're saying that if we are going to consider, you're on the red list, we're going to consider there are a lot of factors that have been put why you're on the red list. I mean, for whatever it is, these countries are sovereign countries and then it's suspected that their sovereignty, whatever they decide to do in their country, is their country. But at the end of the day, don't forget that these are some countries that are big on human rights. They are big on global peace and prosperity. Again, you begin to see some policies and then you begin to question what exactly happens to some of these treaties and agreement and all of the mounting that we say, does this really not infringe on the human right as much as the sovereignty of a nation, especially for the United Kingdom, which colonized Nigeria. Too many questions begging for all of these answers. But it leaves a lot of people wondering if there's a connection between the bill that has skilled second reading trying to trap everyone. OK, sounds like trap. But that's exactly what it is. Grant medical license to medical or dental practitioners for a minimum of five years. You have to practice for five years before you're being granted a full license. And then if you look at the other parts of the conversation from the United Kingdom, they are saying that if we're going to consider health practitioners or medical practitioners from this country, especially from Nigeria, then there has to be a government-to-government agreement. And some people are saying, hey, this might just be the Nigerian government getting in talks or in bed with the United Kingdom, trying to ensure that this becomes a reality. But fingers across, there's no proof to all of that. It's just a theory of conspiracy. That's what it is. Now, the next one, I think that those were very big on borrowing on these loan apps. There's apparently nothing wrong in borrowing. The only problem is when you do not pay. And on the other hand, people begin to question what you borrow for. For instance, if it's a government, are you boring for free volatiles? Or are you boring for infrastructure? Do we see what you're boring for? However, the Nigerian government has announced that the loan apps on the Play Store will no longer be able to access their users' contact or photos from May the 31st, or still in April right here 2023. This policy is in line with the government's recent effort to prevent loan app firms from invading customers previously. And I know that there's been a lot of outcry. Because sometimes you have a party. So let's even say Mr. B decides to take visit one of these loan apps. And then he takes credit. And at the end of the day, I am the one who is receiving all of the information. They have my number. They're sending pictures and random messages. And that can be very, very scary. I mean, there was a time I saw someone, I saw a text message saying a certain person is a criminal. Do you know I was really worried because I knew this person. I'm like, oh, is a criminal? Is this for a certain company? And what have you? So the federal competition, that was actually a very scary one. And a lot of people are not very confident. I mean, confident with the fact that you are invading the people's privacy. And there's a lot to grapple with. But then the federal government has done this one. And I think it's worthy of commendation. So yes, we say, bravo to the federal government. The federal government's competition and consumer protection commission had recently signed register that I beg your pardon, 170 loan apps out of the 200 operating in Nigeria. However, Google also, it's in collaboration with this one. Because in April recently, there's a policy update that states a new policy would provide a way for loan apps users in Nigeria and other places where crude loan retrieval methods have been a common practice. So the updated policy prohibits personal loan apps from accessing users' contact of photos. The policy also introduces additional requirement for personal loan apps targeting users in Pakistan, including the submission of country-specific licensing and other issues right there. As the documents prove that the ability to provide or facilitate personal loans is very apt. I think that Google is also doing her best to protect consumers or customers' privacy. So the policy follows Google's recent announcement of update on the developer's program policy. And this update mandates digital money lenders in Nigeria, not just Nigeria, but we have India, Indonesia, Philippines, and Kenya to confirm to regulate the rules of face removal from the play store by January the 31st. But we are already here, and this is April. So how far has Google fed? How many loan apps have been yanked off? The play store is another thing. And what's the government doing? Because in most cases, we have too many laws, but implementation is the case. And so if we follow to the letter, then it's suspected that we get a different result. We understand that when people subscribe to these loan apps, there are a lot of conditions. But in most cases, people don't like to pay what they have taken. And that's why these apps have decided to just take it extra, extra mile, which has been described as crude, which is inhuman. It violates the customer's privacy, however you want to look at it. But hey, this is to YouTube. If you take money from a loan app, please, also have the same energy, keep it 100, try and pay back, because it doesn't make any sense for you to behave in that way. It's not fair. You think about it. So for the next time you subscribe to taking cash from a loan app, whatever it is, you don't need these loan apps to begin to take pictures of you and have access to your contacts and begin to distribute it across saying that you're a criminal, that you're a thief. Because the last time I saw that, I mean, it took me some months before I realized this was what was going on, because I was like, oh my God, so this person is a thief? How come he deferred at the company? It was so scary. And then I tried to reach out, but the number wasn't connected. And then there's a lot of confusion in my head, but it's a good one. And we also say that, hey, you need to do better. Leave up to your responsibility, take responsibility for your actions. That's the size of it this morning on our top trending. We'll just take a quick breathe out when we return. Chris Cain de Wando will be joining us this morning for After Press. Good morning.