 Welcome back to the Breakfast on Floss TV Africa. It's now time for Off the Press. And we're taking a look at some stories here on the papers. Let's begin with the Daily Trust. The headline reads, why NDA's security was compromised. Bandits leave peacefully near academy. Majority of troops posted elsewhere. Soldiers on guard mysteriously fell asleep. And experts say the invasion is a huge embarrassment. Above that headline on the Daily Trust, group asked Buhari to declare state of emergency in Zanfara state. Fear of closure as FG begins inspection of 54 car assembly plants. Over 100,000 people killed. 2,600 Burkara members surrendered in Bono state. That's according to Governor Zulum. Also on the Daily Trust, PDP crisis after court order two deputies claim seconded seats. Team Nigeria dazzles at Tokyo Paralympics opening ceremony. Southeast no longer safe to hold delegates' conference. NUJ cries out. Dengote Cement announces 150 billion Naira commercial paper. All right, to the punch. Newspapers. Big one on your screen says outrage as uniform wearing gunmen invade NDA errant officers to face trial. Terrorists in army uniform, subdued military officers, killed two, abduct one. Our security architecture was compromised, says the Nigerian Defense Academy. It's terrible, a big embarrassment to the nation. ACF, Sukapu, others lament. Still on the Pontus Monin, consultants and other senior doctors storm Saudi Arabia recruitment center. Another holds on Thursday. Soldiers die in army detention. Widow, soldier rather dies in army detention. Widow demands probe. Buhari, Abiyadu, others, Mon-Duro Jaya, say ex-Senator Fort Dictators. Ex-soldier with eight wives, 50 children arrested with three kilograms of skunk. Still on the punch, commuters stranded as Lakers drivers protest against alleged task force extortion. 28 states with storage facilities get those vaccine doses. And just a few others. PDP splits as two chairmen emerge. Weak air seconders, divide party officers. Also this morning, South Africa, Namibia, Nigeria, top global unemployment rates, says a report. I think I'm just going to throw in the final one. On the PIA, government can sell NNPC shares to individuals, says Kiarri. Those are the big ones on the Pontus Monin. Let's take a look at the Guardian newspaper. Headline reads, NDA attacks, slap on military, Yoruba, northern elders fume. Bandits contact NDA, demand 200 million a year ransom for abducted major, that's according to a source. Our leader says, Nigeria security on reverse gear. Group demands immediate overhaul of security architecture. And the PDP says Nigerians have lost hope in Puhari. AFCC orders banks to probe income sources of customers. Six Tagina pupils die in captivity. Kaby assembly speaker, deputy impeached. Court strikes out DSS suit, seeking further detention of four Iboho's aides. PDP in a mess, has two acting chairmen to face. Akim Umi Nazif claim chairmanship position. Nazif fixes emergency NEC meeting for Friday. Akim Umi postpones NWC meeting indefinitely. And now on the Daily Sun. Fury over terror attack at NDA. ACF, YCE, or NESA, others express outrages. Two officers are killed, major abducted. Our security architecture was compromised, says the NDA spokesman. CDS says it's not banditry, but a robbery attack. Also on the Daily Sun, Anambra Gubernatorial. Police plan crackdown on ESN and IPOB. And still confusion in PDP's two acting chairmen emerge. Akim Umi suspends NWC indefinitely. Nazif summons NEC meeting on Friday. Governors, Lawan Kalu agreed Sultan at 65. Over 100,000 killed in the northeast, says Zulum. Says not all surrendered insurgents are criminals. Iboho's associates still in detention after bill. DSS heads to Pew Court. Also gunman kills six in reverse communities. Military neutralizes six kidnappers, recovers weapons in platoon. Finally, secessionist groups, Cameroon, align to destabilize West Africa, says the NSA. Mr. Kolawele, good morning. Once again, thanks for joining us. Good morning. My brother, thanks for having me. Yeah, we're gonna start with the biggest story, I guess, in the country today. And that is the attack on the NDA. Quickly show your thoughts on this one. Some people have said it's embarrassing, you know, to the Nigerian security agencies and whatnot. What are your thoughts? Well, if any Nigerians say they attack on the NDA, it's embarrassing. It would be that the passe has not been following the trajectory of the banditry that we have in our hands. You will recollect that these so-called bandits have for about two occasions now shot down Nigerian Pami planes. Before then, when Bukwaram first started, they invaded the NIA first base, set some of the airplanes, some of the attackers that were put on the Tama fire, and they escaped without any interception. Army generals have been abducted and killed. DSS officials have been abducted and killed. MMS and big people in the society have also been abducted and killed. I am personally not surprised. It is a progression of the non-state terror activities of this bandit that we are beginning to see. And why I am not so surprised is this. I take my king from history, between 1979 and 1983, when we had the civilian rule. That was how urban banditry, and then also urban banditry, began in Nigeria, even though it was not around this scale. It wasn't on this magnitude. Simply because politics have not become as monetized as they and then occupation of political offices, or holding of political offices, wasn't this as juicy. The better truth is that when the state sponsors terrorism, such as we have continued to see in Nigeria, and the different political parties and different political leaders have private armies, who carry guns openly, who killing people and maim openly, without any interception. Sooner than later, such people would develop and begin to act in such a manner and with a dignity, knowing that there will be no consequences. What we are seeing today is that the politicians who have formed private armies, and who have also been colluding with urban banditries are not at the people that they have been using, are now coming of age, and beginning to assert themselves, because they know there will be no consequences. Look at the PDP Congress in Osu! State, look at the APC Congress in Lincoln State, I just took this, look at the Waterfall in New York State, not too long ago, in which the private armies of the politician were carrying arms and ammunition, openly and killing people, without any consequences. No arrests have been made whatsoever. So it is natural for these people to develop and graduate to the level in which they have been formed, in which they think that they can do anything and get away with it, because their sponsors will always be there to protect them. So what we require to do, like I've been saying, is that we have identified the sources of our problems today, which is the politicians who have private armies, which is the political party also have a private army, which is certain persons in certain communities who are sponsoring URAPA and the tree, because it is a very, very rich, it's a very convenient and comfortable arena to make a politics, I mean to make money, even more juicy than engaging, less risky than engaging in armed robbery. Ultimately we have disarmed the private armies of the politicians, and that's of their political parties. And we go after, even security men who are aiding and abetting these bandwagon, because go to any of our police stations today, they are being governed, they are being ruled, they are being presided. It is the non-state actors that are dictating what is happening more to the police station. Go to the offices of the TSS, it is the non-state actors that are dictating what is happening in those places. You will recall it not too long ago, somebody wrote in the newspaper, how people will give money to the Nigerian police, how people will give money to the Nigerian TSS, to go and arrest, intimidate and detain whatever people they have to face this week. And they get away with it. So for me I'm not surprised, and I do know that this political, this president of this government doesn't have the political way to deal with this pan-district that we are having both at the rural level and at the urban level. Simply because they are also beneficiaries of the activities of these non-state actors. If President Wadi would do like he did in 1983, when he came into power, in which one of the forces he did to arrest all the private armies of the politicians, all the private armies of the political parties and all the other rural pandemics that the Potea were using to enforce and win elections by all, by hoops and crooks, I mean, by hoops and crooks, then we'll begin to have sanity in our environment. Okay, Mr. Kalawalee, I want us to talk more about politics and it's what's really happening in the People's Democratic Party right now. The Guardian puts it this way, it says PDP in a mess as two acting chairmen surface. So we saw in the papers yesterday that a river state high court had barred Uche Secundus, the national chairman of the PDP, from parading himself as such. And then just a few hours later, Mr. Akinwumi, deputy national chairman of the party, South, actually said that he is now the national chairman of the People's Democratic Party. And then hours later, Mr. Nazif, a former senator from Bauchi and deputy national chairman North, declared himself a national chairman of the People's Democratic Party. So what we have now are two self-declared national chairmen of the People's Democratic Party with Secundus vowing to go to court. What do you make of this situation? Well, two greetings. First of all, for most, my suspicion is that it is not impossible that the Nigerian state or the people at the end of affairs today, the people at the center, want to castrate the PDP before the 2020 elections. You and I will remember that they have been saying they want to cover for the next 60 years. And part of the strategy might be to destabilize the PDP. And like I said on your program here before, we saw what happened in Kuala Strait. When certain people were leaving the APC, they left their modes within the same APC. And the modes that they left in the APC is now causing crisis in the APC in Kuala Strait, destabilizing that political party. I also gave an example of what happened in Lagos before, in which certain persons went on their ground and started lobbying and wooing and bribing the key people in the PDP to come and join the APC. And by the time they succeeded in taking all the key actors in the PDP and they joined the APC, the PDP in Lagos collapsed. So it's not impossible that the APC doesn't want the PDP to remain a formidable alternative and political party before 2020 today. The second one is that this shows us that, look, there's no difference between the PDP and the APC. The policy is not based on any ideology. It is not based on solving the nuclear problem. It is not based on ensuring that we have both food security. All that the politicians are concerned with is how they will capture political power to enrich themselves as far as they are concerned. Politics is just a mere very good thing. More importantly, it would appear to me that the PDP is not thinking at all about the interests of the Nigerian people. It's all about their own political ambition. And for cause sake, this country has suffered for too much and too long under the presidential ruling party that it will be tragic that we wouldn't have any alternative to the APC come to 2023 elections. I am personally sad and depressed by what is happening in the PDP. The people are not thinking about settlement. They are not thinking like settlement at all. Let them bury the ashes. Let them resolve whatever differences that might be between them so that we could at least have some semblance of mortality. All right, Mr. Kalaulie. The PDP is too close and they are now squabbling like two housewives. All right, Mr. Kalaulie, let's move away from that. Now I hope that we can come back to talking security before we go, but there's something on the punch that says consultants and other senior doctors storm Saudi Arabia Recruitment Center. Another holds today. Reports have it that Saudi Arabia itself seems to be recuting dozens or maybe even hundreds of Nigerian doctors to that country. What are your thoughts on that? That is another very tragic story that you have on the front pages of all the newspapers. As of today, we don't have enough doctors, nurses and laboratory technologies in Nigeria. Now that the few that are remaining, the few that have persevered, who have endured, are also now going to Saudi Arabia. They must become more force as a nation. You will remember that when the COVID-19 was at its peak, the British people equally sent a plane to Nigeria to come as big doctors and nurses who were willing to work in Britain. And they gave them special visas to move over there. It's not impossible that the Saudi authorities is sending the same case to Nigerian doctors. What the government is to blame for all of this, when you leave people to work for eight months, 10 months without paying their salaries and these people do have the responsibility to also have a position as a leader. You should expect them to react one way or the other. Eight months, people are not paid. And they ask the police to pay, they have a chance to pay. And it's a tragic, tragic because I remember that there was a moment where he won't say that he doesn't know how the governors are able to sleep when they have not paid the workers in their respective state. But here at the federal level, here at the federal level, the same president moment where he is not paying salaries for 10, eight months. So what moral justification does he have to start impacting and condemning the governors? I would not blame the doctors. I mean the doctors, the nurses also decide to immigrate. I wouldn't blame them. The government must pay the salaries and wages of the health worker. They must also equate all the hospitals that we do have in Nigeria. Most of those hospitals, they are nice for when you go in there. There was a so-called glorified clinic that, for example, Wally described them in 1983. What was it that Wally described them as a glorified clinic? No needles, not really parasitized, but you can get. Even the wife of the president has said they have so-called clinic that there is nothing in there. Other than equipping those hospitals, the president goes on medical tourism. The wife goes on medical tourism. The son goes on medical tourism. All the daughters go on medical tourism. Most of the governors that were in Nigeria today are friends, private guests. Look at what happened on the marriage of the folk, the son of the president, Kano. More than 40-year-old aircraft, private guests, who are parked on the Tamakindya, when daughters are not being paid, when children are in the bushes and being held by bandits. It is in the comments, the doctors are not to blame for any of this. It is the political actors, those who call themselves governors, president, vice-president, local government chairman, that we should hold accountable for some of these things. And like I said, that number has been saying that Nigerian people have been too tolerant of their leaders. We've been too tolerant. We've been doing them for too long. In some other societies and countries, when things like this are happening, the streets will be flooded with protesters and demonstrators to call the government attention to what is happening in the different, in the health sectors. There are also in the universities and the higher institutions. Remember that Nigerian people are also threatened to go back on their slide. So when the hospitals are shut down, when the universities and other institutions are shut down, what becomes of our children? Where will the future leaders come from? Why would the children not do yahuya? Why would the children not concentrate more attention on people in Nigeria? So Mr. Kolawale, I want you to relate that to the story we're seeing on the Ponshni's paper that said South Africa, Namibia and Nigeria now top global unemployment rates. That Nigeria has a third highest unemployment rate at 33.3%. Yes, that is the bitter truth. The indicators from the ILO, International Labor Organization, says that Nigeria has about 33% unemployment rate. That is one of the highest in the world. Maybe it's all highest? And the reasons are not perfect. Most times we are told that you are building infrastructure. Are you asking yourself, when you build infrastructure that people are hungry, people are not paid salaries, people cannot pay their house rent, they cannot feed themselves. Of what use is those infrastructure? Human base are the most primal sets in any society. We should rather invest in human capital and then the human capital will now develop the infrastructure that we want to put in place. Very soon, I said this before and go and mark my words. And it's even already beginning to happen. It's a bit difficult very soon. Most of the cities and rural communities in Nigeria, for any Nigeria to move about the 100 meters without being robbed, without being mocked, or without being dispossessed of its private property. I think... If you go to any post office by 5 a.m. or 6 a.m. in Nigeria today, you are not saving there. The boys who are unemployed, the boys who are hungry and angry are waiting for you there with pistols, with axes, with knives, to dispossess you of your property. And why is this so? Because they are hungry and angry and they are hungry and hungry because they are unemployed. And nobody is talking about creating jobs. Where a job is one of the easiest thing to create in our kind of environment. Say for example, sports and entertainment. I can create millions of jobs from sports and entertainment as an individual. I also know what could be done in the area of agriculture. Yeah, well, Mr. Kolewile, I think, you know... And my team... Both on the federal and on the state level, you know, there is lapses with regards to employment. You know, we spoke about this yesterday with regards to Bainway State. But at the same time, you know, I think there can also be investment in infrastructure and in human capital. You know, one doesn't have to come before the other. You know, and building great infrastructure can also assist... In the infrastructure that we are... The infrastructure that we are investing in, does it have a multiplier effect, the capacity to create jobs? Well, most of the investors are based on political decisions. Yeah, but I want to... ...from a budget to Kajuna. Of what a multiplier effect in terms of jobs is that creative. This has built a range between neighbors and non-sharps. All right, Mr. Kolewile. Mr. Kolewile. That range will be able to pay for itself So Mr. Kolewile, we need to end here. I would like if we can squeeze into just an extra 30 seconds. Can you please just quickly share your thoughts on the silence of the president himself after Nigerian Army officers were killed yesterday? Is it disappointing that we still do not have President Mohammad Ubarri speak with Nigerians when these things happen, including when Air Force jets are shot down and when students are kidnapped? As quickly as possible, please. If a man has responsibilities to provide guarantee and ensure that the lives and property of Nigerians are secured and safe, and he has faith, hopefully, in that respect, what do you expect him to say? All right. The president has no respite, he has no defense, but what is happening? All right, let's end it. The reason why he's keeping his mouth shut. Let's end it. Tunde Kolewile, thank you very much for your time. Thanks for having me. Thank you. Have a good day. We shall start this in Nigeria. Start this in Nigeria. All right. We'll take a short break. When we come back, we're going back in history. I'm going to be sharing something with regards to security once again. You know, something that happened in 2015 that is very, very much related to what we're currently dealing with in the country. Yes, and I'm going to the year 2001 to talk about a shining star caught shot.