 Thanks for staying with us, you're still watching Ways. The International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade at its Abolition is an International Day celebrated on the 23rd of August each year. It was proclaimed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO in 1998 to commemorate the transatlantic slave trade and its abolition. The date of 23rd of August was chosen to mark the beginning of the Haitian Revolution on 22nd August 1791. The Haitian Revolution was a major turning point in the history of the transatlantic slave trade as it was the first successful slave revolt that led to the establishment of an independent Black Republic slavery. I stumbled on a documentary on I think it was Netflix where it was talking about the proliferation of European language to South America, so Brazil, Cuba, there was somewhere else as well and then they showed this entire village in South Carolina and America called Oyotunji which apparently so during the civil rights movement in the time of Martin Luther King and all of that there was also like a corresponding movement of Black Americans wanting to connect with Africa and so they created this village. It literally looks like the scene out of a Nollywood movie where they had a so the first man African American that started it was the oba so now his son is the oba so I think the man has now passed but the son is now you know so it was all his royal highness you know and all of that and then they had all these really old women so they have like a ruling council like a council of elders and like when I watched it so when they first started the documentary they don't tell you that what you're looking at is not Africa so they're just talking you know they show what's it called WIDA the point of no return bringing the show in all these aspects but Agri and you know talking about the history of slavery and the impact on West Africa and you know they're interjecting the scenes of you know people dancing in traditional Yoruba you know Yorambuba and all of that and then they go do you think this is Africa? No it's not this is South Carolina and I was like eh and the guy who is the oba now actually speaks with a slight like African lilts in terms of in fact most of them that they they interviewed so it's very interesting how people particularly African Americans seeking out their roots we that we're here we don't send right but I mean the slavery is is something that I mean one we should never forget because it's such a symbolic part of of history and it's not just I don't want to say just black history but the history of the world and it's important that there are days like this to commemorate it so I think Issy has joined us Hi Issy! Hello Uti! Hi how are you? I think it's a yoga recap of the story about the slavery and everything. Honestly I just happened to stumble on the documentary and it was so good it was so good I love your glasses. I like to watch you. How's your day going? How's it been? Thank you and you? I'm very well like we said it's a lot but you know we move. Absolutely absolutely my take on that aspect is that today we have another type of slavery which has to do with our mental state of mind so we need to you know when I saw that except what came to my mind the first thing that actually came to my mind was the fact that we should listen to Bob Marley's song again we need to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery and transcend beyond what we are today basically that's what actually came to my mind so it's not just about the abolition of slavery yes it has been abolished but it has come in another way where we are the ones actually putting ourselves in a box and we are enslaving ourselves in a different way and it's interesting that you do mention that I think that some of the strategies that was applied in those days right of making us feel that what was foreign was superior and what we had was inferior has actually stuck over the generations we still see it play out and time and time again so that's such an important point to make Issy thank you for that what did you find for us in the news? Okay this story actually resonated with me because it had to do with a young girl committing suicide and the title of the caption is 14-year-old girl committing suicide for fear of continuous torture by her father and stepmother okay I need to just give you the synopsis of what is all about instead of 14-year-old girl identified as Desola Deoye yesterday committed suicide in Shogunle community community in Lagos state now when the thing happened the father the wife of the father actually stated that she was going to be punished and this young girl who is 14 year old 14 year old was was scared so it was stated that in the story that she had already been going through some sort of domestic violence is is kind of coincidental that we actually talked about domestic violence yesterday Jennifer if you can recall it was the violence day or something and when she was told this based on the fact that she has gone through so many things in the hands of her stepmom and her father she was scared and decided to take insecticide and when she took the insecticide she was rushed to the hospital and that was where she gave up her ghost but the father took her home thinking that he could bury her secretly and the neighbors were the ones that actually raised the alarm and called the police in to step in now I this story actually resonated with me because we're talking about mental health today mental health is not just about the state of mind of the adults it's also the state of mind of the children and teenagers and I would like to ask our guest today a thing or two about her experiences interacting when she stated that she's catching them young what her experiences has been while she's interacting with them because my in my interaction with them I have come to understand that these young ones are dealing with a lot and they don't have anybody to you know confide in this little girl would have had some sort of anxiety or depression in the process and she didn't have anybody to you know step in and help her so she just looked for the right next motive or next way to you know exit the problem she found she found her own solution even though it's the worst possible and saddest possible scenario that could happen to lose a life so young absolutely may she rest in peace absolutely Jennifer what did you find for us that's so sad I know right all right um so for me gunmen abduct eight graduates traveling to nyc camp in sam far so had a couple of graduates who were going from uyo to um susukoto and while in transit while in transit they got attacked about three of them were able to escape but the remaining eight were were caught so according to the news they were traveling at night but however um the dg has already started working with um with security to try to locate where they are and um but then there was something that he made mention of and they said oh that he had talked about how risky it is to travel at night right and that um I mean for corpus typically when you're going to camp you are actually advised that once it gets too dark you need to stay where you are and then move in the morning right so I don't know what the urgency is by really really hope that they get found and they are saved because I don't know with the state of things in the country eight graduates you know when you're leaving home the hope that you're going to end your whole life is ahead of you yeah you've made it through the hurdle of you know education yeah I'm really excited you know the more we hear about these stories I feel I mean we almost become desensitized to the kidnap situation because it's every other in fact it's every day um and you know it hurts when I don't want to say it's preventable but something like this that is um is the nyc process that has such or had such positive foundation yeah right um to find that we see periodically from time to time these stories about the different challenges corpus have to go through to be part of the country that is no longer safe for them to you know be be sent to to serve perhaps time to to revisit the program I don't I think that it's a very valuable program just in terms of even getting us to interact more as ourselves between ourselves as Nigerians so the core crux of what that program was supposed to achieve is still so important but the safety and security of of you know people of young people in particular um who essentially are you know the future of the country tomorrow cannot be put at risk so we hope that they found you know sometimes when you hear the amounts that are asked are requested by the you know these ransoms they can be so so disheartening but we hope that they return they found um safe and sound and returned um so my story very quickly my headline says corn sellers cause insecurity in abuja and this was um from the new minister of the federal capital territory um nissan wiki and he has prohibited street vending in abuja saying that street traders including those selling corn contribute to crime and instability um he mentioned this at a meeting with the management staff of the fct administration and fct develop um federal capital development authority um urging them to prioritize doing what is right now i mean this story is not new neither is it unique to this concept of street trading and the battle between street trading i mean here in legos as well we see the government going toe to toe with it from time to time we have the um what's that um cso uh cai kick against the discipline as well you see them from time to time with their trucks rounding up these traders now i look at both sides of the coin i see that these people um yes they shouldn't be trading on the streets yes at night um people take advantage of it or scrupless people take advantage of it to then you know rob rob motorist and passengers so i understand the sentiment behind it i also understand of course from an aesthetic you know view of a city you don't want to see people you know in traffic hooking and selling things and things like that um but the question always is these people are doing it for survival right so if you say i shouldn't do it then you have to have a exactly an option so because there's so many people who are actually just hanging about doing nothing these people have proactively sought a way to sustain themselves you know so if we take away one opportunity then there is a responsibility to say you know what it's a different thing if i say i provided you a market in abc and you choose not to go there and then i'm picking you up on the streets but a lot of these people are just looking for you know ways to survive you see did you want to add something no you practically nailed everything in terms of survival it's that's the whole essence of this these people are trying to look for look for a way to survive in this hash economy that they found themselves and this is a way to you know um take food out of their mouth if they do not have some sort of sucker like they have a place where they can go to to sell that was not provided for them so it's important that while we are working we're doing something right with one hand we should actually um sort them out with the other hand yeah yeah absolutely all right um i think now we can take a quick break um and when we come back we'll um talk mental health and bring in our guests please stay with us