 Welcome to the Advocate. Your Sunday reminded that important conversations are among the necessary tools for a sooner society. I am talking today on a new dawn, in a new year, early lessons from 20 to 23 events. Huzin Ola Rwaju will be talking about our focus in 20 to 23 should be on taking responsibility. Why Mikey Oguchi is going to be asking where are the jobs? Today, expect a miss of seriousness and laughter will be back after this break. A new dawn in a new year, early lessons from 20 to 23 events. Over the last few days, a myriad of notable events as occurred globally and nationally, these events have been viewed as a catalyst to a new dispensation. As we ponder and analyze their impact on national and global scale, they are from the purple front, the death of Pope Benedict the Sistine on December 31, 2022, has been trending news in the world scene as we remember the pope's life and time in the papacy. Pope Benedict the Sistine was the first pope in 600 years to resign from office on February 11, 2013 on the grounds of e-health, an act of responsible leadership. On the Russia-Ukrainian War scene, 1 January, 2023 was attack and counterattack from both sides with Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky, hopeful for victory. Why Russia's president Vladimir Putin reinforcing for more assault strike on Ukraine? This begs the question, how long would humanity suffer? The first time since 1923 the U.S. House of Representatives failed to elect its speaker after first round of vote and even up to the seventh ballot. This chaotic scenario however was managed in a collected transparent electoral process indicating that politics may not be easy but should be inclusive and transparent and violence free. Nationally, the awareness of political inclusiveness is spreading fast. The need to get it right by putting service to the people first is overshadowing the tribal sentiment. Recently the South-South and South-West political titans are endorsing the Obidati campaign for president seeing that they embody the need for the vast majority of Nigerians which is fairness, empathy and development. From the Russia-Ukrainian War to the flood in Pakistan to COVID-19 spread in China to the U.S. House representative in conclusive election and the clamor for a better Nigeria it could be inferred that the world is changing and new solutions are needed to solve problems for the desired change. On this note, Nigeria as a nation needs to understand the necessity of fairness, intentionality and handling national issues on a political scale. The youth are aware of the rules, the play and are not ready for any sabotage coming to entry-general elections in February. My fellow advocates, what are your thoughts on the recent incidents that just occurred over the last one week from the last year to the beginning of this year like the killing of Bonanli Rahim? Uzain, what do you think about police brutality? This case has been lingering long to now. Thank you, Felix. On the issue of police brutality, I have once said some things about it. It is wrong and there are a lot of things that we need to look into. Now, orientation is needed. You have, welfare of these police officers also is very important because when you look at a police officer that stays under the sun, hand, and this same set of person is being paid at the end of the month like say 40,000 or 50,000 naira, do you understand? Considering the economic situation of things, how things are expensive, you see them trying to survive, trying to collect 50 naira, they are aggressive because they are paint as everybody is. And when you have somebody who is hungry, who is paint, one has to be very careful. However, there should be a constant orientation of an ideology to ensure that these police people are expected to protect the interests and secure the civilians. But it is absurd that it is the other way around. I have a series of experiences from Legals to Binni, to Potakot, a lot of crazy things. You see the police pointing a flashlight inside your hide at the middle of the night and you are driving. So if you accidentally, probably in March, because you lost vision, they say you killed a police officer, you could call that one. I once said what the police IGP said about if a police officer slap you. Not his story at least. Issues like these are actually not things that should be encouraged in public space. What is wrong is wrong, no matter who is involved. You seem to like ideology a lot. When you talk about ideology, the purpose of people doing things, so I am going to go to Uche. Uche, what do you think about God rest his soul? According to reports, he was pregnant with twins, a lawyer, Legals based lawyer and a real talk. Successful and she was not quite with us. She did not commit any crime. The only thing she committed was that she was in Nigeria on Christmas day coming from church. And the professional policemen wanted to stop. The next thing was to release the bullets. Poor handling of weapons. After serving 33 years in the police force, so I want to hear your thoughts on this. Thank you Felix. Police brutality is something that has been occurring. What I can say is that when we talk about the issue of police brutality, we can look far back as how many years ago. These things are things that have been really occurring. But what I can say is that a quick fix to that is not something that can happen in one year, two years. If you look at our national culture, you will find out that there are gaps everywhere because the people that are recruited into the Nigerian police force, they are not from Marx. They are among our people. And they are fed with different stories. Oh, if you get into the police force, you can do everything. Even some people within their family, they look forward to having a police officer as their relative because they know they have upon to oppress other people. So I think it's quite unfortunate the debt of violence is one of many. We can correct that by just talking about the welfare of the Nigerian police force. I think we have to start looking at it from our natural culture as a people because so many things we tend to allow to go in the name of being civilized are things that we need to really check back and see in terms of our natural culture. What is it when we talk about having mutual respect for people? Because the first thing we have to look at is I want respect to be on the basis of who you are, what you have or what you can give to me. I want respect to be about you being woman in the first place. Giving respect to you because I see you as woman you deserve to be respected. Now, let's go to the issue of how we get to these crops of police officer who have armed weapons. The point is we have to look at how are they recruited into the system. We had to spend six months, one year in the police college. What kind of training are these people? What kind of training do they go through? It's important because the acculturation that they go through also form the basis for how they are going to live their life when they have goals or they have advantage over other people which should not be in the first place the focus should be to protect life and property not oppressing people but the reverse is the case here where people oppress the masses. So, I think we need to look at how are people recruited into the Nigeria police force. What kind of training goes on? What is their curriculum like? So, I think these are fundamental issues. It should be considered as a review. More of courses that encourage empathy, leadership, citizens' relationship and other things. So, I'm speaking about insecurity. A week to Christmas there was just an attack in Kaduna. If you just go on the Internet and just type Kaduna, Kaduna killing or something, you see so many videos uncountable, it's rather sad. Over 31 persons were massacred, majorly Christians in Kaduna on a week to Christmas in that particular community. Of course, there are instances where they kill Muslims too but that particular incident, some persons think it was like a religious targeted incident. So, I don't know, whatever it is, religion or no religion, Muslims and Christians are killed daily. What can be done about this? Can this just stop? So, I'm going to go back to Yokuche before going back to Yokuche. Well, I think this issue of people being killed at different intervals without people, without, we have gotten to that point where we are used to them, we are no longer in quote surprise because these things happen every day. I think I don't see it as something that is going to stop because people are protesting. I rather think we need to look at it from the point of view one, the leadership. The leadership. I know most times we tend to drive everything towards the presidency, which is fine. But the point is, as a governor, what are the parameters, what kind of awareness? We have national retention agency, what are they doing? We really hear about these people and see maybe there is an outbreak of a disease or something. What are they doing? What kind of information are they passing across? Now, we know that the security agencies have huge responsibility to get things fixed. But the point is, what kind of information, what kind of awareness are people passing because if you look at it at the end of the day, you cannot totally exonerate the leadership either the federal or the state level because somehow these things are not happening. If you look at it, they are not up to recently. There are not things that you can say they are professional kind of massacre. Yeah, just sabishly don't. Yeah, so it tells you that there are people within the same locality. So I think you can't say you don't know these people. You can't just tell us you don't know these people. These people, they don't just appear from nowhere. So I think that point of view where people are leaders need to take responsibility to, you know, one, create awareness of what it means. When you kill someone and you are caught, what it means, what the consequences are. If I have my own way, I don't think you should keep, what is it called? If you are caught murdering someone, I don't think they should keep you for how long? Let there be a justice system that allow people three weeks, two months, be executed. Let people know the consequences. Yes, let people know what the consequences are because a lot of people say, they are arrested, they are taken to prison. One way or the other, they break him or her out of the prison. So I think the issue lies with two people, the leadership and also the security agencies. Wow, so Hussein. Yeah, my argument will not be far from what is said, responsibility, right? Take responsibility from the leadership aspect. Beyond the responsibility, let us live to the facts. Today it is a lazy hand. So before now you have, I'll just take an example. Before now, we have Katoeras applying to a treaty road channel. These same road channel are today. We will build a house with contributed farms and what have you to all this kind of thing now. They want to move on normal routes, they know. They saw houses there or they saw farm, the heat of the farmland. What do you have in retaliation? Fight. It causes insecurity, right? Before now, these Katoeras don't have a phone, but today they can actually communicate with themselves and say, see, this thing is happening here, I need backup. It's easy to attack communication aspects. So it still takes back to because we as a people, we don't respect ourselves. So if you have a tribe, you have this, you should respect individuals as an entity just before the tribe, before the religion, we should respect ourselves as human being. Then we start protecting ourselves. Then the leadership I spoke about just to cap it up is the community leadership. Just like you said, there is nothing that happens that we don't know. So if the community leaders, the mayanguas, the magajis, the villagers and stuff like that are at their feet and doing what is necessary and communicating with the government agency, I think we will cope with this thing very fast. Alright, thank you very much. So quickly, before the brand of this section, I just wanted to promote my own party squabbles. If you watch what's going on in the U.S., inconclusive house speaker election, no trouble. Yes, politics is difficult there. It's not easy, but no fights, no violence. They try to communicate. Then when it comes to Nigeria here, you see the back and forth bashing this one. Okay, so let me quickly say something on that. I think it's not far from what we always see. In Nigeria, in the United States, you have a democratic ideology as a party. In the same United States, you have the public ideology. When you want to fund a party election, it is not an individual that funds it. It is the party based on your ideology. They pick their candidates that work in line with the policies of the ideology or the political party. The party does the funding and what have you. But reverse is the case in Nigeria. I repeat, there is no political party in Nigeria that has a specific ideology. You see, you have people of different interests. So if my interest is not met at this party, that's why you see somebody lose a primary election and move to another party. The party just to get his personal interest. Do you understand? So we need to begin to agree on do we want to work for things to work or want to remain the way we are. So what do you think about endosin or not endosin candidates? Should it cause rank or should it distract the electorate? What do you think? Okay, I think in terms of politics is a game and everything matters in politics. Now it has to do with two things. Who is endosin and who are the endosin. So endosin, whether you know, I've read some response from certain camps about the endosin that last late or recent. But what I can say is in politics who is endosin and who they are endosin is very important. So endosin matters. Whether the endosin will give you victory or not is a different thing entirely. But it matters. It's important. There are certain people who are sitting on the fence at the moment trying to understand where to go. But when certain endorsement comes you definitely see some people making adjustment. But I know for the political every weight before time they already know where their loyalty lies and all of that. So it also depends on who is endosin and who they are endosin. Thank you very much for your input. As we conclude, let us ponder on this quote by Najib Razak, the sixth prime minister of Malaysia from April 2009 to May 2018. The world is changing quickly and we must be ready to change with it or risk being left behind. Nigeria cannot be left behind. Upness is who's end. Do stay with us.