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Thank you Let's begin with a punch new spraper this morning the headline reads cash crunch NNPC rights governors bloated revenue bloated subsidy eats up revenue Corruption or corporation projects zero allocations for April May 12.9 billion Naira for June state governments Intentify IGR drive float industries and new airlines Above the headline Nigeria six others accounts for 65 percent global gas flaring That's according to the World Bank Senate's demands explanation on 7.5 billion Naira withdrawals from NSA Amit federal government World Bank meet over NBS confusing employment statistics NAFTA any RC others opt for self funding below the headlines on the punch newspaper Slain Kaduna of versity students buried colleagues narrates a night of horror Osimba Joe chairs panel to address worsening poverty assassins kill Lagos socialite month after chief 20 case victory Or your hotel your wife seven victims settled kidnappers and secures freedom for your sacks registrar over indictments for irregular recruitment Lagos hands-over amputee water whole cats the NGO 25 million era raised and we see a picture here of a funeral ceremony and that must be of the slain Kaduna versity students And the night of horror here on the punch newspaper Right now to the nation Newspapers the big one there on your screen says Nigeria can't afford another civil war or shimba Joe wands Arnie salt and caution again secession calls a Barry Bay says government creating room for disintegration Also this morning I neck delay of electoral bill passage threatens 2023 elections Also gunmen hit more police assets in attacks to policemen killed hotel and wife murdered Lagos withdraws 25 million naira donation to amputee trader over false claims. That's a really sad story We can also find on the nation this morning and the LA seizes drugs worth 80 billion naira in 80 in a hundred days And we can also see here ends as panel asked on door to pay 755 million naira Abbas and Joe is in the news this morning saying in security will end soon Those are the big ones that we can find on the nation newspapers this morning on the Guardian growing concern as Correctional facilities risk more jail breaks Over 3,000 escaped inmates on the loose overcrowding fueling jailbreak attempts experts link incidents to spike in crime rates and We see a story here saying again Unknown gunmen who raise Abya police station Q2 cops in aqua bomb and below the headline on the Guardian newspaper Nigeria will overcome its challenges says a bass on Joe a beard Macindy Senate empowers amcon to confiscate on Uncended assets as collateral FEC debates worsening poverty okay's policy to mitigate menace and NSIA saves 350 million dollars from presidential fertilizer initiative All right and now on the daily independent Inaq troubled over electoral act amendment bill passage fixes general elections for February 18 2023 We can also see here Senate and powers amcon to seize assets not used as collateral Still on the daily independent bandits attack a dose Senators convoy twice in your policemen on as X Buhari to probe attacks in Southeast and also FEC approves new policy framework to tackle poverty I think these are the stories that we would share on the daily independent. Good morning once again Mr. Isaac early. I talk there's a couple of very very interesting ones Yes, please go ahead I'll say there's a couple of very interesting stories. You can go ahead. Let's hear from you Several stories have come out Concerning what I next say a few days, but there was a round that I next say there will be no electronic voting And I was really concerned So I happen to be privileged to have direct access to the chairman of Inaq and a lot of other Very important people so I tried to get across to the chairman Which I couldn't but I was able to get across to Mr. Jimmy Which I hold in very high esteem and he did it very very reassuring promises that such promises Have to be within the antics of the law So he did tell me that the effort that I net was making to ensure that we have Extremely credible election and there's anything that we need to know at this point in time One is that Mr. Mahmood is not seeking a third term is not seeking a re-election so he has his name on the line he has his reputation on the line as an individual because a time comes when you need to draw a line between your your representing an Institution and you as an individual today, Mr. Jagat has turned as an individual Whatever with the seeds that he sold during office Those are the things he's reaping now And I think that the current chairman of Inaq has come to realize that he has his name his reputation his family and God has divinely given him a place to write his name in history so he can either just bumble that opportunity or H his name as the man that gave Nigeria the Three years period and most credible elections and he started it took the first step at the you know confirmation at the Senate He could have played politics with a very heated head on and I was quite impressed when he said look Who also have credible elections? We need to go electronic that's it and please He was going to head followed it up by giving the input and everything for the Senate National Assembly as it's where to pass a deal that will empower him to give a free fair credible election And he is concerned that there is a delay in this process Because like you said when you were making your introductory remarks at the beginning Mr. President had said that oh we can't Consign this electoral deal right now because it is too close, you know to two elections But then he's coming to office to two years of fast And we are inching towards the next two years of the election And I think that Mr. President just like we did on the portrait can call the National Assembly and said please This is one legacy. I can't quit this nation for him as an individual again because mister The miss a mammoth has a limit to which he can go so for now. They are Extremely reassuring. I won't tell Nigeria's You know, I wish we had the time better. We really don't have time, but you see this this this this there's something that politicians do They know that They can't afford to compete with the best a lot of them most of them because I know there's some fine excellent politicians Senators National Assembly members even to governors, but the generality. I said it with every sense of responsibility can't Play on that level playing field So what they're trying to do is hold on to a point and bring up narratives when the good people because good people were starting to come out They were starting to say whoa, this makes sense. It's like we're gonna have good elections All of a sudden they are saying are we really and as a result they are starting to go back and the moment they start to retreat The bad people would have won so I want to tell all Nigerians are not number one from what I've heard from Mr. Guinea and I can I can take his words to the bank if somebody have a lot of respect from what I've heard from Mr. Guinea we are going to have not just critical elections, but they are introducing element that he's told me I cannot say it for now that is going to make the elections free fair credible Okay, you know, there are seven things I can't bring out now But I want to tell Nigerians don't be flustered. They want you to lose hope. Don't lose hope. I'm happy that Okay, all right me saying yeah took moving away from election matters We're seeing a story here on the punch in his paper which reads Senate demands explanation on 7.5 billion narrow withdrawals from the NSA and Amit and Looking at the story, you know, the Senate says it discovered What it called? secrets withdrawals, you know from the accounts of you know the CBN and it says that they withdrew 3.7 billion narrow as loan to NAF con we do 3.8 billion narrow for security personnel car loan scheme We drew another 2.3 billion narrow Loan to stairs Nigeria limited. We know the Senate had asked his, you know agencies, you know Some of them last week or two weeks ago, but they refused to you know show up and We're seeing now that the Senate is you know demanding an explanation Into these withdrawals and saying that the money must be returned What do you make of this story? I? Would not go into the substance of the story because it's absolutely unnecessary I would look at the kernel. I would look at the foundation the backbone of the story is the Senate a Toothless bulldog Occasions what you realize that Senate invites the executive and like excuse me, you know On several occasions they pass it in resolutions, and they're like excuse me, so the Senate is seemingly incapacitated And you know what happens is that if you go to a dog and it barks you understand me the first instance is for you to run away Won't you discover that? Oh, this dog is actually tied to a tree So there's an extent to which you can go so you can actually and then you you you kind of Examine the integrity of the chain and you discover that is a big tree and is a real strong chain You can actually go as close as possible to play with a lion Because that lion can't do more than a dead rat Okay I think that the executive have them, you know tested the waters with the Senate and discovered that oh We pocketed his Senate so we can we can we can run away with blue mother You know because the Senate that that with a fear Is a Senate that looks the executive in the eye and says I we gotta do the right thing if you do the wrong thing I'm going to beat you I'm gonna bring you to home When the executive knows that he can be impeached He will send a body language to all his subordinates and know that you guys better sit up But when he knows that even if he does anything they'll say sasa say Baba say Baba Then the guy doesn't have and when the Lieutenant discover that the boss cannot be taught of course. It's like a child who is next to his father He's gonna tell you come come come because he knows he's standing by the father All right, let's go to The nation this morning the vice president is quoted there saying Nigeria can't afford another civil war Of course, I think there was a rider to that story that Yes, and that's from a Naya Barry Bay saying government creating room for disintegration Onion Sultan caution against secession calls. So I want your reaction to what the vice president is saying Nigeria can't afford another civil war And of course that you know, you can see the blame game going left and right as to who exactly is Coursing the divisions and you know creating the possibilities of a breakout of war So quickly react to that Yes, let me say this as as as frankly as I could number one Nigerians wants to stay together Number two, no Nigerian part of this country is willing to be taken for granted The North respect the South The South respect the North. It's a union of it was Nobody is inferior. Nobody is subordinate. That's point number one number two is that People have woken up to realize that if we don't do something You know, like one of my friends say you don't do something something good doing, okay? And as a result they've realized that let me you see if you get into the night Delta And you see this pile of arms and munitions Heavy weapons. What do you like weapons? I'm told You know, the the elders Within the Niger Delta Realizing that if something happens, they need a backup. They need a protection The same thing is happening in the southeast The same thing is happening in the southwest because they think that there's a strategic plan for them to become second-class citizens for them to be overrun the moment that the president can step up and say No, Nigeria is more Nigeria than any Nigeria like my sister. I shall say That moment you realize that people will start to cool down Before as long as this threat of being overrun by a certain ethnic nationality for so long are we going to have each person waiting for the eventuality and To that extent what mr. Vice president should say is look at any Vocation from the north from the south from the east from the west and get the elders to sit together And talk and have a certain agreement as of today No part of this country can Overrun the others Do you say or what would you say has led to the Divisive and you know the the chaos, you know that you know, we're seen between different tribes across the country What would you say has has created all of that? People coming from outside this country thinking that Nigeria is a place that they can stay You know each time I have so many Fulani friends and these guys Nigerian Fulani's have become the victims I'm very careful to say Nigerian Fulani's have become the victims because they have allowed Silence of come ready, you know tribesmen who are not Nigerians to call in and these guys are ruthless Nigerian Fulani's have been with us from Kylie Memorial. They are there in my village They are there everywhere. They are there shining soon. They are nice guys. They are my God. We trust them We believe them, but there is another breed of Fulani's that are overrunning this country And they are not Nigerian Fulani's and what the Nigerian Fulani's led by mr. President should do is to draw a line between tribesmen from other nations and nationality Nigerians the moment he does that he will protect his Nigerian Fulani's if not So this Nigerian Fulani's will be the worst victim because in the South East those who are coming the South Easterns We contain them in the Southwest they will contain them in the south side They will contain them it is in the north That the Nigerian Fulani's are going to be internally displaced. So the time has come for them to wake up and put their nation first And make that the Nigerian Fulani's for instance, if I was the governor of acquired home state I'll be an IBIB human I'm not going to extend the budget of acquired home to IBIB use in cross river I'm not gonna do that or to IBIB use in up here or to IBIB use in in in in in rivers I'm not gonna do that. I'm gonna say baby brother and big guy. This is for acquired home in IBIB use and mr. President needs to draw that line between Nigerian Fulani's and other Fulani's and shot the door against other Fulani's in Nigeria and protect Nigerian Fulani's and I am one of them that will stand up and say a Nigerian brethren that are Fulani's must be accommodated must be protected because at the end of the day mark my word there will be the worst Victims because the arms and everything in south is they are ready South south they are ready South ways they are ready. It is them that are calling. You know, it's like it's like bringing a snake as a pet One and then give you with your child and explain with it One day the snake gets hungry the next you come in you discover that the snake has swallowed your child All right, Mr. Eidhoek. Is a snake. All right So the last story we'll be talking on today is from the punchnace paper and it's a big story We'll also be discussing later on on the breakfast. It says cash crunch NNPC rights governors bloated subsidy its revenue So basically the NNPC here is saying that they may not be able to meet up with their revenue remittance for the month of May And that you know, they've been investing a lot into fuel subsidy and the petrol pellets I should actually cost, you know over 200 Naira, but they're doing a lot to subsidize that to just about a hundred sixty Naira You know they're about so now we know that when we talk about the federal allocation committee The federal inland revenue service the NNPC, you know, these are the agencies that contribute much to this You know monies are now eventually disbursed to state government But they're saying for the month of May the remittance to the FACC might be zero How would this, you know, how is this likely to affect the economy? You see, I'm one person that holds a very strong view on this question of subsidy because You know those who know my background I came from nowhere. I understand poverty. I live with poverty I live with my grandmother in the village. That's where I was brought up when you go to be brought up from by your grandmother That's like the last question my parents tried but they just I understand what it means to wake up at 5 a.m To go to the stream before you can go to the primary school I understand what it means to sleep on the bare floor. I understand poverty Let me tell you this that subsidy is a scam against the poor. I will say this any day any time Why do I say so? Architected in Yaito, God has elevated him and blessed him to have 5-10 SUVs because of the company that I run Each of them is consuming over 20 liters of fuel on even a journey at the end of the day I alone consume nothing less than 50 times the volume of fuel that the whole of my village consumes Now you tell me about all that guy that has to, you know, empower him in another way Give him power and he doesn't need to run his generator Give him power. Imagine when they tell you that they are spending over a billion on a daily basis I can't remember the exact figure. On a daily basis Do you know what one billion can do to my village? Now we have 360, you know, 65 days We have 700 that's like putting half a billion in each local government on a daily basis Forget this rubbish called subsidy I will tell you days for you to get the difference on the poor people And then do target subsidy Things that will benefit the poor Look into what I call the fourth tier of government When you make the world's standards of development And you have direct allocation to the world And a set of world governments that is not paid for, but voluntary And then let development take part in all the world at the same time That is where the poor is That is where the poor reside That is where the poor will benefit And then you are spending trillions on subsidizing the affluence And the luxuries of the rich Because how much work does a bike take in a day Relative to what SUV consumes in a day Who are you subsidizing? You are subsidizing the rich You are creating business for the rich at the expense of the poor That's why you can't give them wealth care You can't give them education You can't give them anything And you are telling me that you are subsidizing the poor Thank you very much for joining us this morning And for spending your Thursday morning with us Yes, thank you All right, stay with us here on the breakfast There's a little bit more coming You're actually a lot more coming your way But after this short break, we're telling you what happened today in history We're back to the year 2006 And telling you about the Niger Delta militants And something that they decided to claim today Stay with us And then something light about a royal wedding in 2011