 and welcome to what are you saying hashtag where we talk about topics in the news as it affects us all I am so you are Ms. Sally and today we're looking bright and colorful for a Monday. I think I planned Uti. Uti will wear some kind of colors you know so let me let me just match her energy how are you Uti? I'm consistent with the bring in the brightness and the colors. I'm good I'm good. Typical Monday lots of work to do time flies by on a Monday but it's been a good day. Yeah it's been a very good day. I've had a long day but it's still long because I have like two more meetings with some clients after the show but hey we move now we look for work so today in partnership with enough is enough as always as our Monday we will be bringing to you because as you know enough is enough has partnered with us every single Monday to educate you know you out there and we also learning you know educate ourselves on our expectations the roles of citizens in especially when it pertains to governance and educate ourselves on how governance should run and today we'll be looking at the arms of government right and the arms of government we have there are three government arms of government in Nigeria and they play different roles so the legislature the executive and the judiciary so in case you didn't know that now you know the legislature as the national at the national level the legislature is called the National Assembly it comprises of the Senate and the House of Representatives representatives headed by the Senate president and the speaker respectively also some of the role such as primarily concerned with passing the national annual budget also called appropriation making laws to promote peace order and good governance representing their constituencies ensuring that executive arm of government delivers on projects and infrastructure consenting to high level appointments e.g. ministers ambassadors the central bank governor etc. Only the Senate does that now so the executive as you all know we have a new president the head of the National Executive of the federal government is the president and as of today as a rock or as a villa is where he's supposed to be residing and his name is Bola Ahmed Tenubu also some of the roles of the executive are irresponsible for implementing laws controlling the arms rather the armed forces and declaring war of state of emergencies leading the national government and supplementing states government performing ceremonial duties and representing the nation appointing important leaders in government such as ministers ambassadors and judges that's the role of or some of the roles of the executive so what's the word to you yes for me I'm taking the judiciary so the head of the judiciary is the chief justice of Nigeria that's the CJN and some of the expected roles of the judiciary are to interpret laws made by the legislature serving as a caretaker of the constitution safeguarding the rights and liberties of citizens delivering judgments and settling disputes so those are some of the roles of the judiciary and as always we come to the part of being an active citizen so we say despite having specific roles each arm of government is accountable to the other and to the people so the active citizen must call to order whenever they feel must call them to order whenever they feel to act responsibly so we understand what our role is and of course in knowing your elected officials it is important for citizens to know them and their corresponding responsibilities as we've just read them out for us there we have the governors the senators the House of Rep the State House of Assembly members local government chairmen and councillors of course all of this information is available absolutely on the office of the citizen chat bot which is your new assistant on civic engagement so to chat with the bot it's so easy just go on WhatsApp and send a hello to 017006381 that's hello via WhatsApp to 017006381 and you can start to learn more about these different arms of government and your elected officials and a better way to actually engage yes again some people actually have this information but I don't know how to engage them so it's very important yeah well so today we want to discuss the the state of the nation as of course in line with our theme for our Mondays that has to do with nation-building governance leadership you know and politics right and today we're having a special guest to discuss the state of the nation and here's what we found yesterday's quote if a country is to be corrupt shun free and become a nation of beautiful minds I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference they are the father the mother and the teacher is Abdul Kalam now Nigerian recently transitioned from Muhammad Abu Hari's presidency to the presidency of Bola Ahmed to Numbu a change which came with the removal of huge subsidy amongst other policy reforms and a set of the nation and its citizen on what can be considered and a more a rather economic roller coaster very very emotional now today pastor Etoah Igodalo is here to discuss the topic nation-building and the state of the nation but first let's run off on a break when we come back from that break we want to breeze through what we found in the news now you're still watching ways Nikola Tesla day is celebrated every year on July 10 to honor the life and achievement of Nikola Tesla the seven American that vendor electrician engineer mechanical engineer and futurist who is the best or inventor rather right who is the best who is best known for his contribution to design of the modern or alternating current electrical supply system that's the AC you know this we are waiting for you go meet electrical people for car I want to add that today is actually my sister's birthday oh yeah thank you it's also your birthday so what do you know about AC kind of funny technologies you remember you sort of try to remember these things from from physics but I'm not gonna go into that my darling I'm not probably say that some things are not shifted from the brain but hey it's a good day to remember like you see people yes absolutely like I see all right so quickly what did five percent is just more of a quality public service announcement because I ran into it and I also didn't know my headline says FG reopens equal bridge after 15 months of closure of course 15 months ago there was a fire outbreak around the upon one section of equal bridge which essentially was due to the illegal trading under the bridge the market there where the fires sort of started from and that led to a portion of the bridge being shut down and the work that has been ongoing so the bridges opened on Saturday by the governor governor Babajid Somolu and the federal comptroller of works engineer Oluqori Kisha who were there on Saturday to open the bridge so I thought I'd just mention it's if you're anybody if you if you live in Lagos and you're like me I've avoided the area because I just didn't want to go through all the rerouting and all of that so I'm great that the bridges open it will cut down journey times absolutely and just to also do a quick follow-up on taxes right traders mechanics pay 167 billion Nair they decry multiple taxation remember we talked about taxes you know last week so it was important for me to take the story so it says that Nigerians engaged in wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles paid a total of 167.45 billion Nair between the first quarter of 2022 and the Q1 of 2023 now according to the findings this was by the punch newspaper it says this company income tax right according to the federal inland revenue service is a 30% tax imposed on the profit of companies and VAT is a 7.5% consumption tax paid when goods are purchased and the services rendered are borne by the final consumer so people are crying that some of these tax taxes that have been levied on people they are multiple and this is what I was saying when I when they talked about you know you coming back to say okay proof of what's he called ownership for the for the vehicle right that you have to pay an annual renewal fee I already own the car why are you coming are you asking me to come back to tell you that I still own the car and pay a thousand Nair it might seem like it's small but now check on companies that maybe ride hailing services are the is their business I mean I was already telling my producers that we need to we need to reach out to companies like shutters all those people that do the ride hitting service that do the big buses that have like fleet of buses now how would that impact you know their bottom line as a business when you're already paying all these other taxes why do we have why do we have to have you know why can't we clean up our tax system it's just really something that yeah I guess not to not to belabor the conversation we have a lot of gaps in the system we have a lot of issues around the numbers of taxes that are collected and sometimes I feel that these taxes are collected in that manner to sort of work around an inefficient system or an ineffective system but I mean when you talk about this 1000 air car registration I think that we also have a problem a lot of the problems that we have around not being able to properly manage our roads and bad behavior on roads is also because you don't know where cars are so if you commit a fight if you commit a an infraction on the road today typically you get away with it apart no hang on you get away with it I know in Lagos today now Lagos it has they've deployed cameras so even when they've deployed the cameras you don't actually get the notification of the fines until you want to renew your vehicle paper no then they tell yeah my sister in law they actually sent the bill because they knew where she was right so a lot of people today you don't register cars at your location so when you do KYC when you open an account today there's an address verification so the bank knows where you live today we can't do the same with your car because we don't know where you are so that process for me is that if they know where your car is it's actually paying on 1000 there does not see guaranteed that there was still no way I leave well so from what I understand in terms of our it's now basically almost like having a cab for the cars right so we can check and say this is the cost of us being able to verify that your car is at your address and it's not just that you've used a phantom address or your family house or whatever it is that it is so that if there's an infraction on the car I can find your car and I can find your car I can tow your car we already do that with our annual registration but let's not that's a good point the annual registration is not validated but anyway you know that if you want to do anything for instance all these estated places they need to tie your location on that annual registration to where you say you want to probably guess for the few people that live in a state okay on that note let's take a break let's bring our kids what about to argue with you no I'm not even going to argue like I said we'll be right back