 Welcome back to the Breakfast on Flots TV Africa. So earlier on top trending we had mentioned about how EFCC boss Abdu Rashid Bauer had mentioned that a particular female minister by the name of Desyani Alice Madduke had laundered money and actually paid about twenty million dollars in cash. We had it run as he said two million Naira, but that actually is twenty million dollars in cash that Desyani Alice Madduke, according to Bauer, had paid for that property. Yes, it's now time for Off The Press with Mr D. D. Johnson. Good morning. Thanks for joining us sir. Thanks for joining us. Good morning. Good morning Justin. Good morning to all of you as well. Yeah, good morning to you and we will kick off from the nation newspaper the band headline for this morning at the EFCC. We recovered six billion Naira, two hundred and sixty one million dollars houses in one hundred days. With the right that there are rise in cases of cyber crime, a worrisome, one thousand five hundred and two Yahoo boys held in six months. Above the must head of the nation newspaper, APC awaits presidents not to fix convention dates. Buhari orders troops to intensify Boko Haram battle. NPO calls for hold to press council bill consideration. Buhari praises Kaunda as ex-Zambian leader dies at 97. Other stories on the nation newspaper this morning, teachers pupils abducted in Kebbi for Chinese in Oregon state. Okay, just below the pictorial there on the red strip, reps to amend the IC Act, Nigeria earned thirty four point two two billion dollars from oil and gas in 2019. And those are the stories are making headlines on the nation newspaper this morning. All right, moving on now to the next newspaper. Let's take a look at the Daily Independent. And the headline reads MNPRA 2021 guba poll. Obia not six alliance with APC as abgac crisis festers. And PDP says they're unholy alliance wouldn't produce any results. Above the headline on the Daily Independent and Sars Zitini gives birth in prison. IMF says Nigeria's real GDP recovering unemployment inflation still elevated. Also on the Daily Independent, you can't sack chief judge. Court tells Governor Akiri Dulu, as Jusson strike ends, EFCC storms court with 800 litigations. Don't allow terrorist Britain space. Buhari charges troops. Air peace aircraft to arrive Nigeria end of 2022. That's according to O'Neill Ma. Also bandits kick attack Kirby College kidnap scores of students and teachers. Gone men abduct four Chinese Q Policeman in Oregon State. Now APC Governors pass vote of confidence in bunny led committee. Zambia's founding president Ken Carunda dies at 97. Those are the stories on the Daily Independent. All right. Our next support of all is the punch newspaper making banner headline this morning. NBA or your Ford Buhari's grazing roots. Gazette with the riders land on the state governor's control, not president say NBA and senior advocate of Nigeria. Western region created farm settlements, not cow roots. That's according to the governor of your state marking day. Beside that the must head two stories, the EFCC goes after Oji Carlo again sleeps on Shema or Hakim or those cases. Don't give terrorists or those breathing space Buhari tells troops above the must head of the punch newspaper this morning. We have some more stories there. A peak 2023 presidential candidate from the south. Shikarao tells the APC new electricity law underway says Senate return of fuel subsidies disturbing IMF tells federal government above those stories and Nigeria made 34.22 billion dollars from oil in 2019. That's according to an 80 just below the pictorial there. Bandit of a power policeman kill cop abducts calls in KB federal schools. NPO stakeholders tackle reps over a press regulation bill. Colorado cases rising in seven states says NC, DC. Aquabomb general oversea beats wife to death over alleged infidelity. Ghani Adams writes U.N. U.S. others over rising in security in southwest. Now suspected hurt man kill police escort kidnapped four Chinese contractors. 18 year old and SARS protester gives best in prison custody. Those are the stories on the punch this morning. All right let's look at the Nigerian Tribune. The headline reads money laundering. AFCC eyes real estate car jewelry businesses on covers newly looted 6 billion Naira from state government. Above the headline on the Nigerian Tribune, bandits abducts teachers, students, kill policemen in KB kidnapped four Chinese working on Legosi but on rail. Electricity reforms federal government unveils plan to transfer equity to state. World Bank four Nigeria's inconsistent electricity tariff policy says country may incur 3 trillion Naira shut fall by 2023. Zambia's founding father Kenneth Kaunder dies at 97. Presidency doesn't feel the impact of Naira devaluation, PDP governors. If by done violence, Maki says we'll review park management system. Read Iwo Road of courtest. Allege sex for max. Aquabomb varsity sex 14 lecturers. Stakeholders won NAS over proposed draconian law against social media says 5 million Naira fine, three years imprisonment, two punitive. Buhari in Borno tells security chiefs to be harder on terrorists. Court stops Akira Deleu from sacking on Doe Chief George. And lastly, Hashim Bajo says reps to review NSAS judicial panel reports on public brutality. All right from the Nigerian Tribune to the Guardian. Nigerian business is shown IPOs raised 3.09 trillion Naira via commercial papers. CP's dominance may worsen drought of new issues in stock market. Operators of blame weak macroeconomy and others. Edge government to tackle insecurity provide tax incentives, reduce issuance costs. Our most stories on the Guardian this morning. Nigeria ranks 146th on global peace index. Eighth list peaceful in Africa. COVID-19 causes global rise in civil unrest. Violence costs 14.96 trillion dollars to global economy. Could take poorest countries a decade to recover from COVID-19 impact. All right, just beside that one, subscribers may pay more as government moves to levy airtime. And Zambia's first president dies at the age of 97. Just below the paper down the blue strip, Abuja court stops Akira Deleu from sacking on Doe CJ. And on the red strip, there are seven students, four teachers of federal government college burning Yari kidnapped. A gunman abducted four Chinese kill police officer in Ogun state. And those are the stories on the Guardian newspaper this morning. Okay, let's begin with those. Good morning, once more, Mr. Jilly Johnson. Good morning. It's a pleasure to be with you. Fantastic. Let's start with the story of ESTC and that they recovered over 60 billion Naira in 100 billion dollars. Every time we have flooded with stories of money recovered with no accountability for the money recovered, with no justification or proof to justify the money recovered. If we take the stories we have read in the newspaper with respect to ESTC since 2015 to date, I'm sure we must have recovered over 600 billion Naira in terms of recovery. Yes, Naira has recovered money, stolen funds, and yet we are borrowing money to do projects from compensation funds from Chinese from left right to center. I don't seem to be able to conduct the dots with ESTC claim on fund recovery from corruption and Naira inability to get funds to do projects. So, we just come on the pages, we just release figures, figures that are not validated by the account. A general office, either by the ministry of finance or water. If they recover the money, who do they give the money to? Where do they return the money to? What measure of accountability? What process do we put in place so that recovered money are not re-uploaded? So, these are we already taken and then every ESTC chairman will always make reference. There's a reference point for them. Every river says always make reference to designing. If die and zoning could make such a amount of money from government debt. Was he the only minister in government debt? Was he the only minister? That means that a lot of people must have looked at this condition. Dishonour has become their cash cow to use put on code for them to see they are doing, they are fighting, they are fighting corruption or they are making recovery. Any fight against corruption with a prosecution. I have said it, let APC do what is APC? Arrest, prosecute and convict. Not only arrest and recover. Arrest, which is a prosecute and convict. Criminals and people that have looted this country. Let them do the needful. Not beyond calling press conferences and telling them we recover $600 billion, we sold $200 million cash, we sold this, we sold that. There's no corresponding effect from the office of their country general or the ministry of finance. If they recover the money, I think the money will turn back to expression, then there should be coordination between ERCC, central bank and the ministry of finance with respect to whatever. Other than that, all we just see is just fighting corruption and recovery of money on the prisoners of mystery. And I've said that over and over again. It's evidences. Only fools argue with truth and evidences are proof. Evidences making. All right. All right, Mr. Jileh Johnson. All right, because let's quickly go to this other story in KGB State. It said, bandit strike abducts students and teachers. We don't know just the amount of students and teachers away. We were dealing with Boko Harami, the North East. We are not solved that problem. Then we moved to Edas Farmer's crisis. It was the tale of the last time of the president in play through being with Nasalawazis. Then now we have come to the North West as we come the bastion of banditry from Zamfara to Kassina, Kassina to Kaduna, Kaduna to Niger. Niger now to KGB. KGB used to be extremely peaceful. We never had anything concerning that concerning KGB. And schools have been, when you have a system that lower criminality, when you negotiate with bandit, instead of calling them terrorists, this is what you have. Because it is easier to make money now when people are abducted and a lot of people have resorted to self-help because state institutions are filled in dealing with the issue. Let me link this to you with a particular story. An exas protester gave birth in prison in 18 year old and 18 year old was detained in prison just last year until she gave birth and she was pregnant. And here we have a system whereby you negotiate with bandit. You even see Govno with their security detail talking to bandit. Those ones are now arrested and he's a protester calling for good governors that is arrested and detained to the point that the protester gave birth in prison. It tells you the security architecture and it tells you what and the way we treat criminals in this particular country. Four Chinese were abducted in one state. The police orderly was killed and the four Chinese were abducted and then you want people to come and invest in your country. You must provide security. So there's a lot of things that cause concern with respect to our approach towards security, approach towards development of our security architecture. Everybody is now resorted to self-help. You want to travel now. You have to look at the security situation, go on your knees and pray and then hope that the roads are safe. Another story I want to talk about is the NPU and stick order rejection of the backdoor draconian policies in the NBC amendment act that the government is trying to pass when the physician. One thing I tell people is and I will link this story as well. I will link it with the date of Kenai Kaulda. Where's Kenai Kaulda is gone? But I'll tell you that what is later part of his life compared to the earlier part of his life. When we are growing up, Sambia was synonymous with we thought Sambia could never exist without Kenai Kaulda. Kenai Kaulda with his white anchor ship. Every time he goes to stadium, you know in the 80s and in the 80s Nigeria played Sambia a lot in a lot of football games. Just as they denied us in Colify for 1986, Nishosko, I still remember him. Kenai Kaulda would go away to work and she would go away to work for Kenai Kaulda. We thought Kenai Kaulda would have lived in Uganda. He made a lot of laws, draconian laws to affect the system. But when he died, he died quietly. Why? We have thought that Sambia would be money in everything. So it's a lesson for those that are empowered today that whatever laws they make today to stifle or position might come to them in the future. Nobody owns the world forever, nobody is ever, is only God and is forever. So that law, it's like some stakeholders have said is passing the antisocial media be through the back door, through the back, in posting files, democracies have opened up a lot of people. I said it's a function of censorship. Censorship versus guilt keeping. Government has no control over the flow of information except you infringe on the right of others to privacy, infringe on their right and their external brother can deal with that. The law, the law of life and slander and sedition can give you talk of this issue. You don't even need to set up a committee to be stifling people's access to the media space. In democracy, democracy is about access. It's about participation of the largest number of the people in this side. So let's wait and see, let's wait and see, but they should be careful that whatever law they are trying to put in place, they might be the first victim of that law they are putting in place because nobody no party and nobody remains in power forever. They should understand, they should understand that. All right, Mr. Johnson. And I support what the stakeholders are doing and I'm speaking against, in totality, against that attempt to stifle the public domain and people access to the public sphere. All right, Mr. Johnson, let's cross over to the puncher. The Obama headline for this morning, NBA or your Ford's Buhari's Grazing Roots Gazette. Some writers there say land under state governor's control, not president. That's the NBA and the senior advocates are saying, how do you react to that? You know, on the literature, it's a common structure. But if we look at the, this land juice decree of 1977, which has become the component part of our laws in Nigeria, which was written by the former B.C. of, former B.C. of Inappurasa Deliyo Motala, Wanda Abbasadu administration in 1977. The exclusive right to who gives land resides with the children of the South State. In Abuja, it is the minister of federal capital territory. So the president does not have powers to give, to give, to give land to people. And like the young governor said, that those who are farm settlement, farm settlement were created, not grazing roads. If you, if you recall, we go to the campus of federal, federal legal state polytechnic in Khorotu. It used to be a farm settlement, farm settlement of, of western, of western region in the past. The one we have, you know, here, in, in where you have the, the largest abatio in, in northern west Africa, used to be a farm settlement of western region. So then I don't know why the president would be concerned about the businesses of just one sector in the agricultural sector. One sector, which is animal husbandry. It's not the one animal husbandry, it's cow hearing. We are not talking about poultry farmers. We are not even talking about people that are into fish farming. We are not even talking about people that are into, into pigry. We are only talking about cows. It's just, it's just one of the value chain, even in the animal husbandry. So why is the president much more bothered about people's private, private business that a lot of energy is put into that and a lot of resources and a lot of state, state, state effort are put into that. You put that effort into, into Ikeja industrial estate, into Ikeja industrial estate, to Agbara industrial estate. All the companies that, if you put that effort into power generation, you know, most of the companies that have left Nigeria will stay in Nigeria. Most small and medium-skilled enterprise will develop. A lot of small and medium-skilled enterprise spend a lot of resources on power, buying diesel for their generator to power their business, which increases their overhead, which reduces their turnover and limits their capacity to, to, to, to recruit more people to expand their business beyond what they are doing. So by should look at ways of improving the economy, not trying to take political decisions to please some certain group or segment of, of the nation. So I agree with the NB. The president does not have right over the lands of, over the land. It's the governor that gives us the right of land, the certificate of compassion, signing it belongs to the governor. So any attempt by the governor to give that, any attempt by the president to do that, we challenge the governor. And we saw what the court has done in Abuja, saying that the governor of undue still does not have the power to send the judge. I thought that the supreme court should have done that too. When the president made that attempt, some of us said the president does not have wants, he wants an appointment that has been made. You don't have the right to suck because the judiciary becomes independent of the, there are three organs of government. Look, who swears in the governor himself. The governor himself cannot become a governor until he takes an oath of office administered by the chief justice of the federation, a chief judge of the state street or any other judge assigned to that duty by the chief judge of the state. That's what democracy is interdependence between checks and balances. And the governor would not wake up to serve the president, so he's in, into office. It's, it's, it's antithetical to democratic spirit and it's not limited to those things. So governors have done that and on to this institution, which is the institution of the judiciary, which is the institution of order, bringing about order in the chaotic democratic system. That's where you have the judiciary and you must wake up to your responsibility. That's why I saw, I saw a little bit of the courage of that judge in Abuja taking that decision. You should not be limited to those things. You should be a standard to other things. We saw what happened in, in course reverse, in the Ayati, where, where the, we've seen in many cases in the most states across Nigeria where governors would just wake up one day and they say they have sucked their, their, their chief judge. I see the chief judge is their pointy. Once you have nominated a chief judge and then the, the, the, the, the, the legislature has screened the chief judge and he has been appointed. Every other thing is left on the judicial council and not on the president or the governor to undo. So I salute that courage. And we must do that to deepen democracy. The judiciary must, our way to his responsibility belongs to deepening, to deepen. All right. Thank you, Mr. Johnson. Yeah. All right. So still much more interesting stories to look at, but I think that's the much we can take on of the press for today. Thank you very much, Mr. G.D. Johnson, chief lecturer at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism. Have a great day. It's a pleasure to be with you. I've been blessed a weekend. You too. All right. We'll take a quick break and well return. I learn your face. Thank you very much. Thanks. All right. We'll take a quick break. And when we return, we'll be looking at what happened today in history. In a moment, don't go away.