 Welcome back to The Breakfast on Plus TV Africa. It's a beautiful Thursday morning and it's time for Today in History. Yesterday we shared with you of course events that took place on the 5th of April in 2010. And of course today of course it's a follow-up to that story. We are still in 2010, but it was on this day, the 6th of April, that Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in as president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. It was 52 years at the time, and of course these were the events that followed the death of Umaru Bousa Yaradoa. Yesterday we spoke about that. He was sworn in as president of Nigeria hours after the death of incumbent Umaru Yaradoa in accordance with the order of succession in the Nigerian constitution, following Yaradoa's death on 5th of May. Acting president at that time was sworn in as the substantive president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria becoming Nigeria's 14th head of state. He of course cited anti-corruption power and electoral reforms as the focus of his administration. Of course they also stated that he came into office under very sad and unusual circumstances. He eventually then lost the 2015 presidential elections to current President Mahmoud Bawari, making it the first time in history that an incumbent in Nigeria's presidential space general has lost his chance at re-election. He before becoming president was vice president from 2007 to 2010 and of course was also deputy governor in Bios' state from 2005 to 2007. And that is a very, very short story concerning Goodluck Jonathan. From 2010 to 2015 is a longer story of so much that happened and I think the last year of Goodluck Jonathan's administration packs most of the drama that he had as a president. The first couple of years, yeah, you know, he did, you know, run the ship or run the Nigerian ship as president but the last year, the whole of the 2014 year really was where all the drama concerning his presidency emerged. So yes, it was on this day that he was sworn as president in 2010. Also, I'm going back to the year 2016. It was on this day in history May 6 that three women who were kidnapped were rescued after years in captivity. So three women, Michelle Knight, Amanda Barry and Gina de Jesus, they went missing separately even though from the same streets, Lorraine Avenue, between the year 2002 and 2004. You know, one of them got missing just after she finished her shift at Burger King restaurant. Another one got missing just after she stopped at a pay phone, you know, to call her friend's mom. Another one when she got missing, her parents thought she ran away because she had lost custody of her son. So these three women got missing separately between the year 2002 and 2004. And no one found them until many years later in 2013 when one of them, Amanda Barry, she screamed through the crack of a door to basically scream for help and neighbors came around and kicked the door open and rescued them. But the story is having that, these three girls, they were aged 14, aged 16 and age 21 when they went missing. And it was found that there's a bus driver, his name is Castro, Ariel Castro. He was 52 years old, he was a bus driver. You know, he would drive the bus in the neighborhood, he would play in the band, he was friendly, people loved him. He would post on his Facebook, he was active on social media. Nobody knew that he lived a double life and that he used to abduct girls and just take them to his house. He locked them up in chains, he would starve them, he would rape them, sexually assault them. I mean, one of them, Amanda Barry, even gave birth to a child and at the time when she screamed for help through the crack in that door her child was already aged six years old. And when the police came to arrest Ariel Castro, they found two of his brothers in the house but they later acquitted them of being non-involved in the kidnap of those three girls. But the great thing is that like I mentioned in 2013 the girls were freed, Ariel Castro was charged with eventually about 977 charges including kidnapping, rape and aggravated murder. Murder because one of the girls who was kidnapped, her name is Michelle Knight, she got pregnant about five times but this man, her kidnapper, would punch her, kick her and she would have a miscarriage about five different times but when Barry got pregnant, Amanda Barry got pregnant he asked Knights to make sure that the baby was delivered successfully they were in that house for many years, he only let them go out to the backyard wearing wigs and sunglasses. You know, it was just such a sad story and after he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole plus an additional 1,000 years in prison and one month after his sentence he committed suicide with a sheet one of the bed sheets, he killed himself in prison and you know, great thing that these girls were freed they began to document the experiences in captivity you know, one of, two of them actually Knights Michelle Knight and their Gina de Jesus they both published a book about the experiences in captivity that was in 2015 and in the year 2018 Michelle Knight published a second book talking about her you know, her experience, you know, being in captivity with the man Ariel Castro also a movie about her abductions called Abductions in Cleveland or Ohio was published as well so it was on this same history that these three girls Amanda, Barry, Michelle Knight and Gina de Jesus were freed, rescued from the hands of this bus driver and seeming friendly neighbor Ariel Castro after being kidnapped between 2002 and 2004 It's a wild story and remember when this broke a couple of years ago, it was all over CNN and it was just too shocking to believe that people could be in captivity for more than a decade and nobody knew, nobody heard, nobody had any idea where these people are, they were declared missing almost never to be found again and you know, shocking they were just in the basement of someone's house who was very popular in the community as a regular person, a bus driver that everyone knew as just a friendly neighbor not knowing that he was an animal and you know, I don't even think and this is where some people would say death can never be enough punishment for certain crimes you know, if he easily was able to take his own life one month after being in prison he was meant to spend life imprisonment and of course an extra thousand years which he would never have gotten out of jail that's what it means and then suddenly of course kills himself you know, some people would argue that death would never really be enough punishment for some people I remember seeing a very funny interaction on Twitter some months ago where a woman had been domestically, physically assaulted by a husband you know, and she died and he then killed himself and one person was asking you that there has to be justice and they were trying to convince her that the man is dead and she said no, no, no, even if he's dead there has to be some way of... Some way of punishment There has to be some other way that she can get justice so anyway, here's an animal Arial, what's his name? Arial Castro a complete animal and good thing that they got that lucky break on that day where, you know, she was able to scream and get people to rescue her because you can never tell who would have been the next victim you can never tell if they would have died in captivity you can never tell how much, you know, more they would have suffered and their family members would have suffered just not knowing whatever happened to them again I can't just imagine, you know, you wake up a 16-year-old girl, you wake up here and change Yes, all friends to his kids you kidnap them on the same street, Lorraine Avenue between 2002 and 2004 waking up in chains how do you use the bathroom, how... they were starved, deprived of freedom it's just such a sad experience Sexually assaulted multiple times for four years Bitten to miscarry It's... wow Death really can never be enough punishment for certain crimes I don't know Anyway, that's what we have for you today That's why some people argue about an afterlife and punishment thereafter Yeah, some people deserve it That's all we have for you today in history, 2010 and... 2013 The day of the rescue All right, and of course we spoke about Goodluck, Jonathan and this day he became president of course Ariel Castro, the animal who kidnapped three girls and kept them in captivity for decades That's all we have for you today We'll be back after this short break when we come back we're moving into our first major discussion for today Congratulations to the parents of the 27 students of the Forestry Recognization who have been set free We're getting into that when we come back