 On the breakfast, World Health Organization Max October 10th as World Mental Health Day to raise awareness about mental health issues, we'll be speaking with the next spot. Also on the breakfast, the Chief of Defence Staff, General Locky Rabo and Chief Executive Officer of the Niger National Petroleum Company, Lt. Millar Kari, vowed to investigate The illegal incestions are the pipeline in your Kori area of Delta State. Don't forget, we'll also be looking through today's newspapers and analyzing the biggest stories of the day. We call it off the price. Welcome to the breakfast in Plahsi, the Africa. It's a beautiful Monday morning, a happy holiday and that's because it's Adel Maluj, so happy celebration to everyone right here. Well of course we have to be here to keep you up to date with what's making the rounds and different parts of the world and in the country. I am Messi Boko and as always we're set off with our top trending conversation. First on the list is that the chairman of the Lagos State Parks and Garage Management Committee, MCO Luomo, led a five million man rally in Lagos State yesterday that was Sunday. So the march actually commenced with a crowd at the Teslin Balogon Stadium which ended at Oshodi. Hopefully it ended because yesterday in Lagos State we actually experienced a downpour. But if you look at the reaction, that also generated a lot of reaction. Let's not forget this period of campaigning. Politics has actually started according to the calendar and the laws governing elections and so we had withness, first of October, supporters of the Pitaobe presidential candidate, I mean those who were supporting his presidential candidate, hoping that he becomes a president come 2023, took to the streets, the trunk out for the rally. So it feels like it's going to be a culture. We hope to see other presidential members or those who were supporting different presidential candidates trunk out to the streets. Yesterday it was that of the AAPC and MCO Luomo, very popular in Lagos State. He led a five million man rally and that was it. You can see the pictures already. That's a very huge crowd. But let's talk about the conversations that made it to the social media space, especially Twitter and other spaces. One of it is that people talked about the difference between the police injunction. Let's not forget that there was some press release that was made at the time that those who were going to be rallying for Pitaobe expected to go through a particular route or expected to behave in a certain way and what have you. And so a lot of persons have raised question why we did not have the same press release or press statement put out saying, hey, you are supposed to start from here and stop here. You're not supposed to stop here. You're supposed to move to this other part of the divide. That was a conversation that made it on social media and some people think that a certain kind of bias. And I saw a tweet really because looking at it, I saw a certain tweet that talked about, hey, you shouldn't be talking about this, because when the hashtag, I mean, the end says happened, we saw what emanated, we saw the behavior. Well, it seemed to me and it seemed to almost everyone that there seemed to be a comparison between the protests that happened in October 2020 and those who were supporting Pitaobe, I really do not understand why that is. But in terms of presence of security operatives, it was seen and those who actually monitored and from the reports that we got from our reporters, we had the presence of Arthur and Adrian please across, ensuring that there was decorum, if you want to say, and that people actually respected the law and what have you. But those who were out also complained that it wasn't really easy because movement, if you see this crowd, it wasn't just a child's play, it was a lot at the end of the day. And I said, one move away. Another issue that has made a lot of Nigerians talk is the issue of Aragbe Shola, seeking the release of 30% of prison inmates nationwide. The Minister of Interior, Raoufa Aragbe Shola, says that he will meet with state governments to agree on the mass release of about 30% of inmates from custodial centers across the country. Well, according to him, he said the reason for the interface was necessary as that you have 90% of inmates being held for contravening various state laws and 70% of the 75,635 inmates are present were awaiting trial. The Minister also said that the federal government offenders in the system were far less than 10%. I think that the bulk of the people in the custody were those who had you know, run foul of state laws. He added that the essence for all of this, because this is also a very sensitive issue really, that the reason for this is that there's need for us to decongest prisons. And so the congestion of 253 custodial centers nationwide was necessary. As some of the inmates had no reason to remain in custody, better structure of criminal justice is what I would always advocate for. Otherwise, you know, he said that the prison would be left congested, overcrowded. Some people didn't take this lightly, but he's actually moved further down because he's written a letter to the governor's forum. He's written a letter to the Nigerian governor's forum to allow him come and address them on how to support the process of decongestion or however the release of about 30% of those prisoners. So there's need for this governor's to support the process. Let's not forget that the release is actually a national issue across the entire states of the Federation. And that's not sitting well. The reason for the back and forth, some people have gone on Twitter and Facebook and whatever you say, hey, this is also another ploy. The election is actually closed. We're getting to a period where there will be elections. And so this might just be another political move, you know, by the elite or the ruling class to actually act their interest, those who would help them read the election. There's a lot of thoughts that you would see on the social media space. But this is happening because there's a trust deficit in the system. And that's what happens when people no longer trust, you know, the government. Every other time, I don't know if you're actually in the know of when the government puts out a statement and say, hey, we're going to do XYZ. People just, you know, begin to doubt the government. There's a lot of doubts that's been cast. And there's a lot of stats in the statement that's been put out. People no longer trust the system. And it's really, really unfortunate to have, you know, a system where the people have lost confidence. You would say a vote of no confidence has been, you know, imposed on this government. And that's why you're having all of these thoughts. People no longer trust the system. So whether or not this is true or not true. So you have people having different thoughts and the thing that this is biased. I feel like there's a lot to this that the government is hiding. Why would you, you know, go ahead to say you want to release prisoners because of, you know, the fact that the prisons are decongested. But if you look at, you know, the entire conversation, however, you want to ask yourself, wouldn't it be necessary for us to have a legislation if we look at the administrative justice or justice or the judicial system of our country? And we understand that cases are being delayed and there's a lot going on. And over time, you have those who are actually innocent being kept or being held down there for a period of time. One would think that it would be important that there should be some legislative, you know, concerns or move at this point to address the judicial process of our country. But what business? If this is actually a state issue, because those who are held on trial and what have you, it's within different states of the federation. Should this really be the concern, you know, of the Minister of Interior? We understand the need to decongest our prison, but this also a lot of persons have thought that it should be an act of our legislation. And so the conversation would definitely continue. Some people think that it's because we're closer to the elections 2023. And this is also another political strategy for the ruling class, you know, to go ahead and mastermind whatever artists that they have in mind. These are the thoughts. But I would say this is premise on the fact that people have lost confidence and trust in the government of the day. We're hoping that the government would do better, not also forgetting the fact that over time, we have the release of the remaining captives, those who were victims of the Abuja Kaduna attack. They've been released. And so you have people saying, oh, this has been a lot of negotiations. Of course, the government will say we don't negotiate with terrorists, but how did we get the release of these persons? There's a lot. And I want to believe that, you know, the government of the day will step up and redeem herself, you know, from all of these issues that have been put out by the people of Niger. We also have another issue that's making the rounds. President Mohammed Buhari on Friday had presented the 2023 budget as a proposal, 20.5 trillionaire to the National Assembly. And so if you look at this, the federal government is set to borrow 8.8 trillionaire to fund the budget. Now, what's costing a lot of people to talk is the fact that there's a plan, you know, for the president and the vice president to spend about 11.9 trillionaire. Let's go through the breakdown now. Buhari and his vice will spend 3.3 billionaire on local and foreign trips. The president himself is expected to spend about 301 millionaire on food stuff. The vice president will spend 156 millionaire on food stuff. But at a time where we talk about, you know, cutting the excesses of government, reducing the cost, because Nigeria is at the point where we're seeing we don't have resources. Finance is a major issue for us. Let's take a look at the capital expenditure for the 2023 proposal. A lot of the economic experts will say, hey, it's just a proposal. And so capital expenditure has been pegged at 5.35 trillionaire. And I remember once upon a time when this government came on board and he said that, you know, we were really big on, you know, reducing the cost of governance. And so the presidential air fleet so far at the time cost, you know, taxpayers a lot. Remember in 2015, prior to 2015, when this government came on board, the administration of President Mohammed Buhari, and they were really against, you know, the cost of governance, especially the presidential air fleet that was costing a lot. And so they promised that we were going to sell a lot of, you know, aircraft or this plane just to reduce cost. Because the more you have them, the more it would be expensive to maintain them. But it would interest you to know that in 2015, the presidential air fleet so far cost taxpayers a total of 41.9 billionaire, contrary to the promise made by the president in 2015, during his presidential campaign to reduce waste in our system. And I'm asking myself, if you look at the entire budget that's been put out, how do we even say that we're going to spending that amount 11.92 billionaire on local and foreign trips? I'm not even sure if that's a calculation. I mean, if we're talking about feeding and what have you there. So are we really understanding that we're really sincere in our thoughts and our plans? Are we really saying that we don't have money? One would expect that this government would reduce the cost of governance. We are going to be boring about 8.8 trillionaire at the fund, the budget of 20 point. And then we're also projecting to spend for feeding and, you know, the expenses, what have you of the president and his vice 11.92 trillionaire, that's a lot. I really, I have been trying to understand and, you know, understand the rationale behind this thought and this behavior or this proposal. But that's where, you know, we call it a wrap this morning on our top trending. We take a break and when we return, it will be time for us to go through the front pages of National Daily. So we'll call it off the press. Ukpanabon Katariya will join the conversation. Please stay with us.