 Welcome back to the YouTube channel it's your favorite village boy Mr Ghana baby and I'm back again with another eye opening video I know I've been surprising you all these days that's what I'm telling you don't be stingy with the content make sure you like the video because it's very important for others to see the video like share and subscribe and be part of this awesome family this is actually the continuation of the previous video that I did with the CEO of the biggest airline in West Africa you all were complaining that that video was shot know that your favorite village boy always got you you all know that barista alan onyama was instrumental during the evacuation of Nigerians in South Africa during that xenophobia attack and I asked him that question why he did yeah just this episode I was saying the South Africans were fighting fellow Africans killing some of them in the process and they have come to take their jobs what kind of jobs did these fellow African countries brothers you know take from them the people were taking the billions the multinational companies they look at them and they are talking about people who are artisans painters even helping the economy helping them to do some of the poor jobs they couldn't dirty jobs they couldn't do there's those that you want they were killing and in order to kill somebody you stigmatize that person they call the names are criminals that they for example Nigeria my country is heavily stigmatized if you're a Nigerian and you pass a crime scene abroad they look look oh you're Nigerian you must be the one and so many Nigerians are in prison in jail for what what they don't know about that is the truth so that stigma played out in South Africa too they were killing these boys going to their shops burning loot in their shops for nothing and the some members of their governments were making statements that were so un-diplomatic making people suspect there may be some connivance official connivance so as I said why must we as a nation take this I decided to stop xenophobia itself I'm a non-violence expert I knew what I would do to stop xenophobia there are two things that led me to South Africa one to bring respect to my country Nigeria no three things two to save the lives of both Nigerians and those of South Africans the third one was for me to stop that xenophobic attacks so I decided that the best thing to do was to send in my jets to evacuate Nigerians evacuation is not a good thing for any country if every country starts sending planes to Nigeria to evacuate their citizens because of insecurity or whatever it sends a wrong signal all over the world and that wrong signal will affect that country adversely and that will make the country to have everything about what they've been doing so that was what I tried to achieve to save my national dignity to save our honor to bring back our people and save their lives and ultimately to stop xenophobia so when I sent in my jets my white body planes the triple sevens to go and bring Nigerians back free of charge South Africa knew there was problem they didn't want that plane to land they didn't want to give us permits at first so it took a lot of diplomatic thoughts before that happened and they told the Nigerians if you're going to go back we're going to stamp your passport for 10 years you will not come back to this country again yes they tried to intimidate them not to go meanwhile you wanted them to go before now I've come to take my people away and because you know the adverse effects of that evacuation but we end up taking them away I went there twice two times to evacuate Nigerians and that was when their government stood up to stop xenophobia so I've succeeded in not only bringing you know honor and prestige to our people but also I have succeeded in saving the lives of our people and the lives of South Africans who may have been involved in the victims of counter attack and of course to bring stop the xenophobia so xenophobic attacks itself so so that was the motivating I mean fact of behind it I love my country I I love Africa and I've nothing against the South Africans only what I did was to save the African continent and that was when nearly I did evacuation everything stopped because the government the government of South Africa decided to sit up to stop it you know what about the names on the aircraft yeah all my planes are what what inspired that I've seen your say names yeah yeah I believe in family you see a lot of decadence in the in society happens because of lack of family life you know when you believe in family you will be wary you you'll be careful about the things you do not to solve the name of your family you think of what your family members will think of you so I believe so much in family that was why my first plans were named after my wife my four children my mother and my dad's that was already then when I bought a subsequent was I named them after my uncles my father had about five siblings when I bought five more planes I named them after my uncles and my aunties when I my mother had five children nine children we are nine I'm number one so when I finished my children my wife my father my mother and my uncles and aunties I went after my siblings the nine of them so each and every one of them has an aircraft when I finished my nice I went into causes so we are now causes my first causes so this is yeah maybe grand children how do you balance family demands family and occupational demands I've not been able to balance I have to be truthful here my family is suffering my absence my children sometimes feel that they don't know their father because and sometimes recently they accuse me of doing more for the public and doing more for everybody other than them I spent my life I start from here I close maybe midnight and I go I don't have any social life in my young age when I was supposed to be enjoying my youth in 2004 2005 2007 and 2008 it was when I was in the streets of Niger Delta helping my country for one year my young family didn't see me so my children some guys say one of my children have not been there one day they said that's begino we don't know you and when he left I was shedding tears because that's the truth you see for all the things I do there's always a prize for everything my family is paying a price for what I do for this country and what I brought myself to do for the larger society as a person so what where do you draw inspiration from and all the things you do from God Almighty I fear God I thought I think of God I think of what God maybe something I feel the presence of God in my life I feel that God loves me and you know for God maybe and maybe no more now even when it seems everything is upside down God always comes to my rescue there should be one thing that keeps you moving from being a lawyer to a very listed developer and now we might not know maybe in five years you can even exactly so what is that one thing that keeps you moving that keeps me moving is the desire the unflinching desire to touch the lives of people because you're surrounded by object for poverty you are surrounded by people who believe there was nothing there left for them so that that is my drive there are so many other businesses I'm going into or I'm already into and there are some now I'm trying to explore oh because I want to touch humanity that's all it's not to make money aviation doesn't make you richer it can give you fame it doesn't make you have more money there are businesses I do that are giving me money I have but aviation can only give you fame but it gives jobs well paid jobs good well paid jobs that's your biggest wish for your country sir the biggest biggest wish for your country unity that's my biggest wish you see Nigeria is a country of 378 ethnic nationalities that make up this country that diversity is supposed to be our source of strength however it has become an albatross of a kind it shouldn't be we need each and every one of those ethnic nationalities to bring to the table their individual attributes and now we make the country blossom for instance look at america for instance america is the main team quarter of all ethnic nationalities in the world you have guzzo americans from russia you have anglo americans from england you have franco americans from france you have austral americans from austria you have ibo americans you have ashanti americans you have uh uh uh uh outside americans you have europea america all over the world the moment they get that passport the only thing they profess because i'm american in nigeria what we profess is our ethnicities a mouser and ibo and iroba and ijot and gwari and nupe that's the only thing we profess and another in nigeria we see a fellow nigerian abroad who just chose his face because they have noticed that we are not of the same tribe i want nigerians to be able to fight for each other as against fighting against each other for example if you are an ibo man i want to see an ibo man fighting for a full animal fighting the fragment say look fragment this full animal means they need this they need that it comes from ibo man for the full animal the full animal means we love the ibo i want to see full animal i was a fighting for the ibo man say look all the federal roads in southeast are dilapidated why should we do so we go to national assembly and we fight it except and only when we fight for each other we become a nation i'm so happy that i met the CEO of i'm the biggest airline here in west africa but you don't think establishing the biggest airline in west africa is his greatest achievement ever it isn't it isn't at all is it anything you know you think i need to know yes i knew wow continue and speak to him about more but he was very instrumental in bringing about peace in the nelda delta region of nigeria wow where there was havoc you know like kidnapping the militants were overruling there he came around and cleaned that up so the nigeria you see today might not be the best nigeria but it's a way better than jure that we had before amazing will he be able to tell me that trust me he will what you've done in nigeria is something that the whole africa is talking about so we want to know apart from the aviation industry what has been your greatest achievement apart from the aviation industry i don't know the grand aviation as my greatest achievement in this country to date i think my greatest achievement was bringing peace to the nigeria delta uh being instrumental to the peace we're enjoying today you know the nigeria delta region of nigeria is the it's like the economic powerhouse of the country and if anything happens to nigeria delta to affect the entire country the economy of this country is dependent on all the production in the nigeria delta so at a time when the youths of nigeria delta took to arms feeling that that was the best way to address the issues of marginalization as i said the country was in trouble they started in 1998 by 2004 oil production had come down from three million barrels of kudos to the oil per day to about a mega 500 000 barrels per day for a population of about 180 million people then so that was disaster and beckoning and waiting to happen the militants we actually in control the military couldn't contain them foreign oil workers were being kidnapped americans were being kidnapped the british people were being kidnapped chevron and shell and the rest of them couldn't operate peacefully oil installations were being bombed and in fact most of the oil companies stopped prospecting um unsure the omens offshore there will be 100 nautical miles into the sea to prospect for the boys still went there to destroy the facility and took some people hostage as as evidence to show that they had what it takes to disrupt nigeria so nigeria was being disrupted the economy of the country was being disrupted and businesses were taking flights out of the nigeria delta region and a lot of people non-nigerians were scared to come to nigeria the american state department issued a warning to traveling u.s citizens not to come to nigeria so it was um another civil war was facing us that was the time i stepped out and started thinking how do i help my country i'm a friend believer of what can you do for your country of your nation not what your nation can do for you so i stepped out and i decided to address the issues one thing with me is that i do not look down on myself and nobody should look down on me or herself i mean i don't look down on anybody either god has given all of us powers you just have to explore yours so so i believed in myself i believe what i could do and my sincerity led me and i started thinking what do i contribute to address the issues of violent militancy in the united states and i was when i remembered that non-violence education was the best way to go if military had failed that's violence for violence what else i decided to bring in non-violence education but then i was not trained in non-violence i remembered that uh mahatma ghandi used non-violence education and non-violence transformation to bring down british rule in india without having to you know encourage his people to take to guns and they got what they wanted what was the issue in the naja delta the naja delta people felt that they were the ones producing the wealth of the country yet nothing came to them so they took off arms believing that that was the best way because nobody listened to them but i decided to bring another another option a more positive option an option that is all loving an option that will bring about a win-win situation that was exactly what i did so because i was not trained and because i knew that non-violence education is so powerful it works with the soul is the so power i remember that dr. marty ludaking used it in america to bring down official official segregation in the u.s without having to encourage his followers to kill anybody less of a answer of poland used it in poland in 1981 which is a solidarity group to bring down the all-powerful communism communist government in poland so history is replete with examples where non-violence worked and worked effectively so i decided to do the same thing for nature first thing i did was to write to the university of rhodeland center for non-violence and pistol this rhodeland in the u.s is the center for non-violence and i decided that they should give us admission to train me and train my staff about 22 of us so that i could have the expertise to be able to come down to nigeria and go to the nigeria data and confront the valent militants but the united states wouldn't give us visas we didn't get visas we tried a couple of times they didn't give us visas so i wrote to the university i said look bring down your faculty to nigeria and we formed it for the sake of my country it's not about going to america come down to nigeria and train me train my people so that we're able to help in bringing down militancy remember the director of that center then was dr. bernard lafayette jr i'll show you some of his books here he was matrimon the king's number one aid during the civil rights days in the 60s so i didn't know i would be able to attract that kind of international figure but god has his ways of doing things yeah so he answered he wrote me he said look you've been very persistent and very persevering i would like to go to nigeria to go and see this matrimon the king of nigeria that was what he was calling me so because of my persistence and my interest and seriousness of what i wanted to achieve he brought the entire faculty of the university of rhodaland center for non-violence of peace studies to nigeria i founded it solely no government gave me money nobody gave me money i used my hard-earned money for peace to rent in my country so they came after the initial training they trained me and i went to sarah africa king utili transmission center got some training then i came back to nigeria and i went into the creeks of the nigeria better and started pulling out these boys i don't want to bore you about how we got to know some of them to use some of them to get others because those are things we always want to use next so we don't want people to spotlight but i started pulling them out from the creeks bringing them to lego's we never did any of the transformational program in the nigeria data because um the militant leaders and their people and their followers could kill us or scottlate so i was bringing them to ecotourist beach results in lego's here in lego's i was training them then from here we moved them to sarah africa to further their transformation it's all about changing their mindset from believing in the efficacy of violence as a tool and that was what we achieved and once you see let me tell you something anybody who is involved in violence wants out of violence they don't like it the bomber the suicide bomber doesn't like what he's doing the terrorist doesn't like what he's doing the armed robber the kidnappers of this world they don't like what they are doing but they don't know how to live it they don't know how to stop that kind of life but non-violence education provides the routes to liberation from the clashes of violence for them so when they get it they become so happy if you give them a billion they could trade it for a billion that happiness they get they could trade for a billion dollars they don't want to have anything to do with violence again so that was what i did that was in 2005 i started in 2005 doing this so after some time the oil companies discovered that what i was doing was paid off share was the first to contract me in order to enlarge the scope of the program so when share started doing it bankrolling me it became non-violence became my household name in the nagia letter it wasn't long share from joint so they bankrolling me too then some other oil companies then in 2007 a new government took over in Nigeria president nera do i mean so rest in peace and they sent for me but he got he got the security report about me what i was doing and they asked me how did you achieve this i told them it was all about my interest just sincerity and then the leaders were looking for me to kill and share used to put me in different hotels you know for one year i couldn't see my young family because of this nation called nigeria so long and short of the story that was what led to the granting of amnesty to the militants and when i started remember i said oil production in nigeria was dived to our favorite asam baras per day by the time i finished it went to about three million two point five to three million baras per day the country again is source of income that that was not ideal for this country that remains my greatest achievement not a mr allen before i let it go if you have a chance to change one thing in nigeria or the entire africa or would that be our perception of ourselves thank you so much for talking to me i really appreciate your time thank you