 You're still watching Waze, celebrating National Religious Freedom Day. Religious and religious organizations have been responsible for a great deal of good being done in the world, from the founding of worldwide charitable organizations to simply inspiring people to be kinder and humbler on a daily basis as well as encouraging humans to be more sympathetic to the plight of their fellow man. I mean there really is a day for everything at this rate. I mean it helps to place focus, religion particularly in this here part of our world is a very, very touchy subject but whether you believe or not, it's important to acknowledge the good work that is done by different faiths. I think almost every faith has some aspect of charitable giving, so I think it's a good day to celebrate and acknowledge but everybody regardless of religion I guess is where I'll leave it. You can be kinder, you can pay it forward, you can do something nice today so great that we're celebrating this but I think the spirit of the day should go along with us every single day of the year. But let's move quickly into what's in the news stories. So Deela what do you have for us? Okay so this is the general story about Amnesty International stays to the federal government to treat kidnapping as an epidemic and this is of course in response to the increasing number of kidnappings we've been seeing and the most recent one which is the demand of about 600 million has ran some from kidnappers that you know I think kidnapped some sisters in Abuja and one of them has been killed and this was very baffling for me because it almost feels like this is an industry, the kidnapping and I was going through some research and I came across some figures that are quite I mean alarming. So there's this report that says that between July 2022 and June 2023 the SBM intelligence found that at least about 3620 people were kidnapped in 582 kidnapped related incidents in Nigeria and at that same period kidnappers have requested at least five billion as ransom between that period but I've gotten 302 million. Now that is for funds they can trace you know and it's so baffling that this is happening so I'm asking myself okay yes I know there is the insecurity part of it which is well there's so much insecurity in the country and but is there more to it is it now a case of the greed or the evilness of people or because I really don't understand initially you know I mean this was very synonymous with another part of the country we can easily say that's okay because of all the terrorism happening and all that but I mean this is moving closer to cities. No I mean it's here I mean we talked about it on the show with with our guest Dixie Nosadje yesterday and I mean it's sad it's shocking it's not actually it's not shocking it's become a very profitable industry so I remember reading the story first thing this morning and so it's a follow-up story to this where Issa Pantami had then come out in fact he'd gotten a lot of backlash because he had spoken on the story yesterday and then he then said a friend of his had volunteered to pay 50 million out of the 60 million and we're like well if this is happening I mean on the family side you know if this is your family member somebody that you know you want to rescue the person in the face of one of these girls already being killed right so that family has already lost two family members in this in the in the cause of this situation I can understand somebody wanting to be charitable and say I'm going to pay this money but the we don't negotiate with terrorists we don't negotiate with kidnappers I mean these these are some of the things that we need to look at if we continue to pay and nothing else is done to curb it it is already a full-fledged industry it's already a booming industry it's one that has low barriers to entry because you get a few weapons you get a bike you find a rough patch of road and you're good to go right so it really is the solution has to be different if we continue with this method where people are I mean I had someone who had a similar incident with a family member insisted that they would never pay ransom until they were advised gently by the people that should be helping solve the problem that they should find a way to pay so the stories are on ending I mean you know and it is really really sad and I see that no matter how high profile it is these cases have gone around the world and it's still not solving it so that definitely is very for any of our viewers who didn't watch the show yesterday please do Dixon was able to share some some clarity and ideas around what it could be but it is is very very very sad situation I jump right into my story my story is very very short and it's quite sad so there was a video circulating today on social media about a lady who killed her two children and herself apparently or allegedly after a fight with her husband I mean it was just a video clip showing her obviously in happier times dancing and all but for me why it stood out to me was because of course last week we had the story of the lady who killed herself and in her situation you know actually wrote a note about the tough times and how nothing is working I mean we've talked about mental health issues several times on the show and this one just sort of caught my attention I mean if you read the comments as there was almost I think almost 8,000 comments as at the time I checked there was all sorts of people positing or investigate further was she was it was she you know is there foul play you know how could a mother kill her kids it's never that deep with your husband you know all sorts and to be honest we don't know what the circumstances or situations are in any situation where life is lost it's always very sad not able to imagine at this point what the man is going through you know regardless but the reason like I said why it stood out for me is how much one of your goals in 2024 no matter how tough it is has to be protecting your mental health has to to you know to be able to identify you know the triggers and even the signs even for yourself if you're doing well your loved ones the people around you you know being present to notice when there's a shift in a person is this person usually bubbly and now they quiet is this person you know those types of things where you can just sort of help people be better you know or you can even notice and some people just need someone to talk to or someone to even notice that they're going through something so I think at this point in time we need to pay additional attention to what people around us may be facing and if we ourselves are facing find ourselves in that kind of situation please speak up please ask for help there's a lot of resources today but even just finding a trusted loved one to speak to a lot of the time can also help Mary did you want to add anything to that before we go on we're good we're good awesome so we're gonna take a quick break now and when we come back we will jump right into the topic for today please stay with us