 Welcome back to The Breakfast here on Plaw Stevie Africa. Let's take you back in history and share with you some things that happened on this day, 20th of April, many years ago. I'm going back not too far away, 2018, and it's all about the Commonwealth of Nations. On this day, Prince Charles was nominated to succeed the current Queen Elizabeth as the head of the Commonwealth of Nations. It was on this day that he was nominated to replace Queen Elizabeth as the head of the Commonwealth. There had been calls for the role to be rotated among the 53 nations that make up the Commonwealth, but eventually that wasn't done with regards to Prince Charles. This had been going on since 1931. Of course, the Commonwealth started in 1931 and it is a combination of all the nations that were former British colonies and eventually became friends of the British Empire and nations that decided to work together for one common good, for economic sustainability and for growth and all of that. It has been going on since 1931. I think when Elizabeth eventually was made head of the Commonwealth in 1952 when she became head of the British Empire and Queen. In 2018, after she had been there for decades, they decided instead of rotating it among members it was going to be Prince Charles that would be taken over. She was 91 at that time, Prince Charles was 69 at that time. It should be about early 70s now, I believe. My March is not so good this morning. Off the top of my head. But it was on this day that he was nominated to succeed Queen Elizabeth as the head of the Commonwealth. Fantastic. Let's go today in history as well. Just 2012 here, April 20th, 2012. It was a very sad incident that shook the world. It was a Borgia Air Flight 213. There was a plane crash near Islamabad in Pakistan. It killed 127 people. Now that Borgia Air Flight 213, it was a domestic shadowed passenger flight operated by the Pakistani airline Borgia Air and it was traveling from Karachi to Islamabad and on this day in history it crashed while it was on that route due to bad weather as it approached final landing. Airline operators say this possibly was caused by a lightning. I mean, when we saw animations of this crash, it was so graphic because we saw the airline descending attempting to land and something like lightning just came out and struck the airline and we saw debris flying all over the place, body parts scattered miles away from the scene. It was just such a gory sight. Family members who had gone to the airport to wait for their loved ones broke down in tears. Some people lost two daughters. People lost loved ones and it was just such a very sad, sad thing. It was the airline's first evening flight. In almost 12 years that flight occurred. It actually took off at around 5 p.m. and we saw this crash about one hour 30 minutes later at around 6.30 p.m. on that day of April 20th, 2012. On April 30th, the Borgia Air announced a compensation of 500,000 rupees to the legal heirs of the victims of Flight 213. Borgia's air license was revoked by the CAA because it had failed to comply with the requirement of the Pakistani civil aviation and investigations were opened into this crash and the owner of the Borgia Air, Mr. Borgia, denied exit from Pakistan until investigations were conducted. It's just such a very sad day in history when the Borgia Air Flight 213 crashed, killing all 121 passengers on board and six crew members. So two things from this story. First of all is the part where yes, they say that air travel is the safest means of transportation, but it hasn't in any way, those facts haven't in any way reduced my fear of flying. I still have that fear till tomorrow. And then the second one is, you just mentioned the order of the airline was banned from leaving Pakistan until investigations were done and whatnot. I always like to refer to how we do things here in Nigeria because the reason we have these conversations and sometimes we talk about things that have happened in history is because we hope that we can learn as a country. Many times we've had failures of companies, we've had failures in our system because of the lapses from particular persons, maybe because of management, maybe because of staff, maybe because of corruption, but we barely have a system that helps people accountable. If you remember also there's been times here decades ago, many, many years ago where there was an airline that caught fire just after landing and led to the death of dozens of school children, till date. I don't remember anybody being held accountable for lack of fire equipment or lack of proper facilities that would have saved those lives. We've had also the one that crashed into a building in Iju or I can't remember where that was in Lagos here. Still no answers, still no questions, still nobody who was held accountable and it's something that I feel bad about for us here in Nigeria. Whenever disaster strikes, who is held accountable? Who should have taken responsibility for the failure of the system that should have protected those lives and property? It happens in every sector of our country in healthcare and security and education, every single direction, nobody is held accountable. We instead see a situation where we almost reward failure. You reward negative behaviour instead and that's something that I believe should change. Yes, we need to change that. Today in history, the CED won in 2012 and you went back. And also the commonwealth of nations that were colonised by the British that were on the British continent for a long time. Nigeria eventually joined the Commonwealth in 1960. South Africa pulled out and then joined back after Appetite in 1994. But for me, I'm also sensing that a lot of these nations that the British empire has still had a lot of control over them. So yes, you gain independence from the British, but there's still a lot of influence that the British has had on many of these nations. Many, many, many years after they gained independence, nothing much has changed. Is that, you know, you don't see it. Even though we can argue that these African countries have what it takes to free themselves from the shackles of neocolonialism. Absolutely. We had a conversation. We had a conversation to get aid in billions of narrations. In the news, there's a story about an investigation into the Rwanda and genocide and the road that France played. Even though France was cleared from all the investigations and indictment. But I've also seen reports that have shown that they kind of played some role in it. You know, it's not something that is spoken about a lot. And these are just private investigations. These are just reports that have been carried out. The investigation was carried out in France by French people. When you were presenting the reports to the president, I was like, did you think I was going to implicate myself? We need to go. We'll be back after the short break and of course we're going into our first major conversation for today. It's all about the communications and digital economy Issa Pantami. Should he resign? Or is he, you know, okay that he holds that position as minister even further? We're going to be speaking with the executive director of Muslim Rights Concern, Miriq, Professor Issa Kaqintola and the lawyer in Behef Young. We'll both be joining us. Yes, and big question to you. Have you voted? Our poll is up at PLOS TV Africa. Let's know what you think about this. Should Pantami or not, or are you undecided at PLOS TV Africa? We'll be right back.