 Alright so when we say one is power drunk we simply mean the person is having a strong and unreasonable feeling of being able to control other people. Now words like self-importance, conceit, egotism, delusion of grandeur, grandiosity can be used to describe such a person. Now whilst condemnations you know trail the reported arrest of Mohammed over a tweet on the first lady. Notable Nigerians including our social media activist Aisha Yesufu knocked Aisha for allegedly using her power against the student. Now while initial reports were that Mohammed was arrested by the Department of State Service that Nance also revealed that he was rather arrested by the like I mentioned in my what's in the news in the federal capital territory police command who traced him to Jigawa where he was picked up. Now on the basis of this not really focusing on Aisha Buhari right alone because but as us as Nigerians right we can't help but say something on the subject of power drunkenness right we can't say we have to say something about the power drunkenness and it's very very much prevalent in our client so we are asking is it possible for it to be curbed or curtailed in this great country of ours. Now that's the question now please let's hear what you have to say remember you can join the conversation send us an SMS or what happens where it's 1 803 4663 you can also tweet at us at ratio AFK 1 with the hashtag ratio. So now I like this topic and I know people will be going to just jump because again Nigerians are very easy if you're politician your president your whatever does something we are so quick to but let us really look at the subject of power drunkenness on its own take away the the actors that played in this I always look for teachable moments so if something happens in the news I'm not talking about it because I just feel like attacking the person or whoever did it is for us to learn it's like this is a moment for us to now reflect and teach ourselves. Power drunkenness lives and breathes in every single Nigerian it's not something that is unique to just only people that are in positions of noticeable authority that you can see them. Your gate man he has you know say Oga wants to secretary wants to see a PA is standing in the way of you saying the Oga you owe your file like these things are something that it leaves and it breathes within us so it's not something so that's why I'm trying to set this foundation well so that when we're talking we're not just focusing on Aisha Bwari yes you know whatever it is that she's been alleged to do is a show of power drunkenness right but she's not she's not alone in that because if everybody was given the opportunity to exact power we will and we will do it with so much you know rigor and excellence we won't even mix words right everybody looks for that opportunity where like you are in charge right so I mean let's first of all dissect the conversation when you saw the post about the young man that was detained and all of that what came to your mind right and then we can then go around to discuss power drunkenness if it is actually possible to curtail it if it had been a country like France where they are slapping their presidents I wonder what would have happened as in amputated on on the sports you governments even America where they are throwing sure presidents just to show that we're upset with your policies or whatever is going on nobody has died nobody has gone to go and meet them without using legal you know presidents to justify that they're picking up their arrest or whatever as an assault not even because it's presidential it's just a grievous bodily harm kind of assault that they're picking them for so when you because somebody made a statement you send people please I can't separate it just yet you send people to go and pick them up the same you who somebody said something about the other day and you got on Twitter and said you don't go this do you remember when she said that that she she our advice our first lady talking as if she forgets that she has an office telling someone that me and me don't go well she's a public figure yeah she has a role she has a role she's a public figure she represents something yeah and she should represent class when she's in that seat coming on Twitter to say such a thing what should your faith be in that kind of instance we like you said we have everybody trying to show power the people are pressing us are us one another we don't even get to see the people in the positions of power to oppress us the security at the estate gates they know your residence but if you don't bring your code you are not coming you have to have dropped me a few times when I'll be calling them give a rock bar access access access they'll be looking at me as if they don't know that I live there that's authority misuse of power because I mean you're not robots you can use your gunshot same thing that's all attendance when there's Cassidy next thing is to move to somebody else so let us move on to you in this town hall meeting this happens everywhere it's happening in the office and that's the reason why even the system is almost like service providers are like when you requesting for service from a service provider is almost like they are doing your favor because everyone feels like they're going out of their way to do something that they're already being paid for and that's even coming from the payment you know from the service delivery kind of point so everyone feels like they're doing your favor when they are do actually doing something that they are paid to do so this runs through all areas of our life is not just because we are seeing this story and is because the person in question is a popular figure and but it happens on a daily basis from the low anyone who has power over you even at that let have an issue with the police have an issue with last man then you know they would they would act like they don't like the driving range over see what this man will insist I'm doing my job I'm doing my job almost like they want to everyone wants to carry out that frustration from home from people from the world from the country from the president from the way things are happening globally everyone wants to carry out that aggression to someone else I like I like where you let let's note that point because we need to know why because for everybody that is giving aggression I mean I don't want to say that if maybe I'm put in such position I will be pushed to but I think it's unnecessary every I think every human has the capacity to actually be that way but because of training and you know self-control you have to you know curtail it the same thing you have a house girl I used to tell my mom why are you shouting you don't need to shout but then she insists that if you don't shout the person no one to listen to you because over time some people have just proven dumb so you just feel like the only way to communicate is shouting but there are better ways to talk to a person you get you don't have to downplay them or maybe you know give them house girl clothes you know so they're different from you I mean it's sad what people do but it's like saying would you not be a good person because there's so many bad people out there because you've been done so many bad so you're going to now be a bad person I think that's where the the hassle is so I like that point of course you also emphasize on it that this is coming from somewhere right because I don't understand and this is not just I mean the bank person at the at the bank the bank teller you are supposed to be a customer so that means so when I say that you see when I say that this thing cause we were arguing in the makeup room and I say to you that I can beat my chest to say that power drunkenness can be curtailed right it just takes you know it can it can it can but you see it takes the willpower and it I mean it takes a level of maturity you know what it means and you can actually talk the world you can see you can and the entire place you have the power you have the weapon I remember when Michelle Obama was giving her speech about you know why it is important to pick the right person as the president of the United States because from the fingertip you just have one button to press and you can actually crush the entire you understand because of the amount of power that they wield in terms of like nuclear weapons and all of that but you see them they have got into that level where there's some level of maturity and control right so this now just tells me that the reason we have a lot of power drunken people all over the place especially in this country is because we have a lot of recklessly emotionally lose people because people are but no people do not have stable emotions in this country the reason why we have power drunkenness in this country is because nobody faces consequences for over exerting their power there's no system in place there's no system to give the checks and balances we see people that do something wrong and they retire immediately because they've embalased the office so do you understand we don't have those consequences here I get you for the part of consequence and that is another another reason why we have power drunkenness on the rise because again nobody's held accountable everybody just does what they feel like and it's both you see I am emotionally stable right and you come and you give me a slap I would choose to look at you and just not even if I have the to remove you know I don't think yes I have seen it happen I've seen it happen right I have the power to completely take you away from the surface of the earth I understand what you say what the president of France did that is let me tell you something it takes a level of maturity and emotional stability to do that somebody that acts irrational you can never do that that's what is some but you don't have the power to like end his entire line age and then you decide too far you must die if somebody so there's some people that you can't even attempt to want to do these things too I mean bigger we don't have that's what I say immaturity maybe is the better word yeah you see bigger people are the ones that says when Michelle Obama was talking about when they go to you take the highway how many of people in Nigeria can truly take the highway somebody does something to you and you know you have the capacity to really really destroy and just finish the person but you choose not to that is a whole new level it takes a lot of self-control but Nigerians survive unoppression I oppress you you oppress me everything about us let me show you a different level I see rotate in my status in Nigeria nobody practices all animals are equal but more in some are more equal than others than in Nigeria that being an animal farm that statement nobody practices more in this world than Nigerians do they want you to know I'm not on your level if this we've under you did now if I ask which one it is you would tell me it is this brand the cheap one that we buy in the trenches so I want you to know that my own is not your type I'm on another level when people are making the statement of do you know who I am who the hell are you who the hell are you that you think you can talk to anybody or when they will use sirens in here that's part of it when they use the ambulance in here because you're not even giving a voice if you're not that way exactly most times so everybody just we are mad people in Nigeria you know how they say in Nigeria before you ask anybody any question you say hello sorry excuse me please are you already coming them because everybody's on a charge level in this country we are charged he's on the road the guys you know try you can't pass me my driver in the office is so I tell him you're not kind you're not kind right yeah good driver you're not kind I mean because I sit in front with him and I can feel the anger I say calm down I love him now he should you should beg me I say calm down good driver boy I always know and I'm always calling you too I say calm down be kind be kind it's not what you put in your fight it goes back to what I said it was just a hard question there's a lot going on there's a lot going on out there people are going through a lot in their home from work from everything they not just come out and you just meet someone you say excuse me yes yes and the response is like so you have to that's where I understand you you can't say sorry please excuse me for some things you should you know technically when you're driving on the road right technically once you put on your indicator that you're going left the right because you just allow you no no no I've noticed guess what that indicator thing only works in some parts of Lagos let's use Lagos as an example which parts if you go no some situations if you go to it depends on the mood of the driver if you go to those in your magia side you want to bring out your hand and you must do like this it was like an expressway because it used to work it used to work before but now it's like strangers have come there ah he didn't use to you are but we need to go on a break right when we come back on the break I want to open our phone like yes I want us to because I want us to talk about practical solutions right how we can start to curtail it because this is not helping us it's not helping other people it will need to really put it on on it like we need to check it somebody that you have worked so hard you've worked so hard you have done the job you have submitted your invoice and just because somebody feels like I have the power to hold on to the funds yeah so you have to drink my palm it's not even about greasing palm at some point is this female officers in like immigration they are like that I want us to talk practical solutions right we need to find solutions to this because I know it is possible stay with us we'll right back