 Salvation Governors take far-reaching decisions at their second meeting this year. The next president has to come from South. Open Grails and remains banned and Governors have to be notified of any security operation in the states. And more than 100 students kidnapped at a secondary school in Cardenas State a day after another abduction at a medical facility. What's going on? And how can these mass abductions in the state be stopped? Also coming up this morning, Islamic State in West Africa province reportedly takes over a part of Bournemouth State appoints a governor and taxes residence. Welcome to the breakfast and pot-stv Africa. I am Annette Felix. And I am Musaugi Ogmoa. Great to have you join us again this morning. We hope we have the best of Tuesdays all the way through today. Interesting. Wow, big stories today when we look at our top trending. Let's begin first of all with the Southern Governors. We'll talk about this in detail with some analysts representing different groups in Nigeria, the North and the Middle Belts. But for our top trending stories, we know this was one of the highly anticipated meetings coming eight weeks after the May 11th meeting in Asaba Delta State where Southern Governors had reached a couple of resolutions. They met again in Alasa Lagos. It was about four hours of deliberations, you know, with these Governors representing Southern Nigeria. A few Governors were absent, notably. But then, I mean, some of the resolutions reached here. I don't know how you would see it, but they've said first of all that the anti-open-grazen law would come into effect on the 1st of September this year. They also agreed, amongst other things, that they must be notified of any security operation before it's conducted in this state. They reached a consensus that the next president of Nigeria must come from the Southern part of the country. They've also fixed Lagos as its secretariat to headquarters of the Southern Governors of Furum and their meeting. Reached a couple of other resolutions, congratulated. Nigeria security agencies for their work so far and went on and on and on and on and on. Some things, they're quite predictable. We expect them to have spoken about these things. They also talked about the PIB, the industry bill. They said they stand against the 3% for host communities and are speaking up for the 5% saying host communities deserve more. And they just went on, listening their points of views on some of these national issues. How do you see it? Well, like you said, we would have an extended conversation about this. This morning's one of the things that we're talking about. But from the reactions that I've also seen to this, a lot of people commend them. You know, also one person that I saw an interview who I think his name is Sani Yabagi, the chairman of ADP, who said that the Southern Governors meeting is a gang up against the North and a gang up against President Bwari. Which of course is, you know, it's not a strange response. You know, we've seen things like this even during the Ansar's protests. You know, certain people who said it was a motive to topple the Buhari government. There's always, you know, people who throw out those type of statements, you know, they're like dog whistles, you know, to try and rile up a certain part of the country or to, you know, just completely move off course, you know, with regards to what these discussions are about. But there's more people who have commanded the Southern Governors for taking these decisions. There's also people who have questioned with regards to PIB why the House of Representatives members, you know, had a different opinion from what the Governors are saying. The House of Representatives members from the Southern States, why did they have a totally different opinion with regards to PIB, why did they allow for the 30, the 3% or 5% and also for the 30% for frontier states as that's been named. And then the Governors are having, you know, their own decision. So these are things that we will open up a little bit more. Sometimes this morning on the show we're going to be having two, you know, very interesting persons joining us, the Southern Elders Forum, I believe, joining us to have discussions in this and see where we go from here. But I will, of course, once again, like I said yesterday, commend the Southern Governors for coming together at least for these decisions, for these resolutions. And I think that they are taking steps that they believe are a lot better for their states and for the people, you know, that they govern over. The next story, security, this one shook me to my core. And we know about the state of insecurity in Nigeria and how it seemed to be taking a turn for the worse with Boko Haram members pledging allegiance to ISSWAP, right? The news we've heard that broke out yesterday is that ISSWAP has appointed administrators for bonus states. Now, listen to this. Boko Haram and Islamic State of West African province have appointed a governor for parts of bonus states. Now, this obviously goes against claims by the federal government that you know, totally eliminated Boko Haram. Boko Haram has been decimated and that no terrorist controls any parts of Nigeria. But we're seeing breaking news here that ISSWAP has appointed a governor and administrator for bonus states. And according to a report by PR Nigeria, the name of this governor is ABAKAKA. Now this ABAKAKA will work with other people who were appointed by ISSWAP and that this ABAKAKA's government has the structure of a normal functioning government, right? It's an imposed taxes, it's an imposed levies, it has its own judiciary and I'm sure definitely it's the Sharia law maybe even an extremist form of that that they will practice. You know, basically they have banned, you know, fishing farming in some of these communities in bonus state. But this new government of terrorism imposed in bonus state would now begin, listen to this, collecting 5000 Naira monthly and that's from traders and farmers while people who fish, fishermen will have to pay 2000 Naira per bag of fish among other levies. Is this not just weird that there's a whole structure, a whole government of terrorism functioning, leaving and breathing in bonus state. And this is happening right under the nose of the bonus state governor and APC governor Baba Ganazulu. I mean, does this also just mean that there are lots of questions that should be asked, especially about how an APC governor you know, with all the claims of what defeating Boko Ram, I mean look at all our track record of all our achievements in power and then can you just imagine what this is like. A separate government of terrorism in bonus state. For me, first of all, it doesn't really matter what political party the governor is, APC PDP ABGA, YPP, whatever it is you know, the fact that his political party doesn't matter to me at this point. What I'm more concerned about is how true this is and we hope that there would be a response from the bonus state government and from the Nigerian government to these claims. It's also not shocking. For me, we've come from a place where there were claims in 2014 that Boko Ram was in control of numerous local government areas. There were also claims that they had been decimated, defeated the time that the flag was taken to presented to President Madhubari as a sign that the terrorist group had been defeated and those regions had been taken back. But over time we've gotten to see that that's not entirely true because these groups have continued to terrorize Nigerians have continued to kidnap, continue to kill and wipe out families, villages and the likes. So it's obvious that we still haven't gotten really really far from where we were in 2014 or even in 2012 or 2010. It's still not very, very different. There are still these terrorist groups, there are still these persons, these animals, you know, walking around in those parts of Nigeria in control. I'm really, I personally only feel bad for the people and I don't even know what the reaction of the people of the bonus state will be at a time like this. It says that they're in charge of about five local governments. I don't know what those people and their lives are like currently. What their stance is really also on these groups and these persons in their communities who have decided to appoint a governor and start to tax them have they completely and these Nigerian citizens now have they completely given up on the Nigerian government's ability to rescue them from these persons or have they accepted that maybe this isn't part of their new reality and they will pay their taxes and continue to live with these persons. Have they accepted it as a new normal because they've experienced these things for more than a decade now. They've been in terrorist control areas for more than a decade now so I'm not sure what exactly their lives are like and how they can ever recover from this. For a long time I've always spoken about what their reaction is towards governments failure to protect them and I've always criticized them and I would always continue to say it. I feel bad for them but I've always criticized their reaction towards a failure of government obviously and when there's some of all these fake Islamist teachings, how do they react? It doesn't seem like they counter it in any way. It also doesn't seem like they actively, this is the same for no state, it wasn't two weeks or three weeks ago that the president visited and there was a large crowd of people that came up to visit him. People eventually said that the crowd was rented but whatever, doesn't matter what it was. Have you forgotten that we practice a government of criticize and go to jail? No, but it shouldn't stop the people from still being able to voice their concerns and be able to say that this state government has failed us with regard to security. So I feel bad for them. I don't know what next we will see. I don't know how much worse it might get but there's no government spokesperson that would be able to boldly come out and say oh we've done very well with security they keep saying it. I don't know if they believe the things that they say but they keep saying it that they've done exceptionally well with security my heart really just goes out to those people in those areas and including Zamfara and southern Kaduna and every other place that is still currently being terrorized. We will be talking about another kidnap again this morning in Kaduna state which is one of many many many of these incidents that have taken place in just 2021 alone. Imagine what has happened in the last six, five years. So we're not in a good place these conversations will continue until there's a change and there is something different and if those northern governors do not decide that oh now the southern governors are made their own resolutions maybe we should make our own resolutions we should come together and make our resolutions with regards our security and with regards being able to protect the lives and property of people and indigens of our states. They probably should do that. They should and maybe also push for their own state police and see what they are able to achieve that. Alright, so our final top trending story this morning is about Namdi Kanu. There's a group called the United Nations Watch and they say they're the only accredited non-governmental organization by the UN. So they're basically asking questions and this is all about the arrest of Aipop leader Namdi Kanu. So they went on to say on their Twitter account that they refuse to the Nigerian government has refused to provide any details about the arrest of Namdi Kanu and pointed out the contradiction that Nigeria is one of the countries that sits on the committee that oversees human rights and all that issue. So it seems like a point where people need clarity. I mean even the British High Commissioner in Abuja made statements about this. They have said that they will provide consular assistance to Namdi Kanu because of his British citizenship. They also clarified that they did not have anything to do with the arrest of Namdi Kanu. He was not arrested on UK soil. He wasn't extradited from that country. They have no idea how that happened and they asked questions as well. They're saying that there are questions to be asked regarding the legality of Namdi Kanu's arrest and that they're seeking for the clarification from the Nigerian government. Also saying that that's the UK now that they expect that the trial of Namdi Kanu would be free, would be fair and would go through every legal process and follow due process. So that's basically where we are. Still questions about Namdi Kanu. The government has refused to say specifically how exactly Namdi Kanu was arrested. His family members say he was abducted. Even IPOB members say Namdi Kanu was abducted from Kenya that there was no legal process. Even no like Mohammed came out to say it's one of the most classy security operation that has ever been done in the country of Nigeria. But these questions still arise and I feel that the government owes it to us. How exactly was Namdi Kanu arrested? Well good luck with expecting an actual explanation from the current administration. And also good luck with hearing anything different from Mohammed. But you know for me maybe there's people that these type of things will excite, the UN watch, I think that's what they're called. When they put out statements after the N-SARS protest, you know that hasn't really been able to achieve much. So I expect that they will put out their statements but what power they have I'm not sure. And how much influence they also have with regards to Namdi Kanu's case or any other case in Nigeria I'm not really really sure. These are things that they are expected to put out. Same thing with Amnesty International, put out a statement every now and then they don't have any powers to influence so much. So there is that. There's also it's only you know this has also gotten publicity to there's a guy, the minister of justice and so it's a general of the government of Arbeta, Canada. His name is Kelechi Madu who also put out a statement yesterday and completely blasted the Nigerian government and there's a statement online, really really really blasted, didn't hold back any words expressing his disgust with the way that the government has acted and you know reacted towards the Namdi Kanu issue and said Malami is a disgrace to the court of law or to the whole judicial process and some of all of that. So yes it's gotten us as usual very very bad publicity from the international community but I'm sure that Nigeria doesn't care or the current administration doesn't really care much about what those people outside say they only would be bothered when it has to do with loans you know that's when the international community is relevant. The international community is not relevant when it shares its views on misrule or shares its views on disrespect or abuse of human rights and privileges it's not relevant at that point you know but when we are seeking loans and when we are seeking international support for one thing or the other we reach out to them so once again it's gotten us bad publicity as always but I don't really hold those statements too hard I just see them as expected that they will put out statements like that they don't really have that much influence on these cases or any other case that the Nigerian government decides to take action. Yes they might not be able to wield any strong influence regarding the outcome of the decisions but we know that information is power to force or you know the hand of the government to take a stand on security situations but the fact that we're talking about these things raising our voices and leaning our voices to these things does have some power does have some weight in stirring the cause of conversations towards justice, fairness and equity so yes. Absolutely anyway we'll take a short break when we come back Mr Chris Wandoo publisher of CKN News will be joining us to go through the papers this morning and the major stories have made the headlines we'll be back