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Oct 22, 2020 Olabisi Deji Commentary 1
“Our security forces are afraid of confronting bandits, insurgents, kidnappers and other criminal elements in the society but eager to kill the weak and innocent.”





Olabisi Deji-Folutile
This is a moment of sadness in Nigeria’s history. Eyes are filled with tears. And the hearts of many concerned citizens are heavy with grief. I had silently prayed for things not to degenerate to this level. But here we are. Today, I bemoan my nation, Nigeria, the country that wastes its best and pampers its criminals.
For the first time, I saw fear in my children. They just couldn’t believe it. I had tried my best to explain to them how unreasonable people holding trust for us in this country could be but apparently they didn’t get my point. Their reaction to the shooting at Lagos Lekki Toll Gate on Tuesday night showed that they didn’t get my earlier admonition. They kept asking me, as they saw different videos of security operatives opening fire on youths, if what they were seeing were indeed true. At the end of the day, everybody kept to themselves. They just couldn’t imagine living in a country that is being run like a zoo. I soon realised that my children were not the only set of youths in shock over the happenings in the country in the last few days. As a matter of fact, a report by Franktalknow.com shows that many Nigerian youths are having a similar experience. You can’t blame them. Many of them belong to either the Z generation or are millennials. It is probably their first time of experiencing a thing like this in their country.
Why are we this brutal to ourselves? And how do we explain our own contradictions as a nation? A country that can be so forgiving and generous to the extent of proposing a bill to send Boko Haram insurgents abroad for foreign study with taxpayers’ money even when it is obvious that such venture may end up being a waste of resources. This is a country that treats bandits with kid gloves and begs them to have mercies on their victims- a country where governors negotiate with bandits. This is a country where an Inspector General of Police could flagrantly disobey the President’s order to move to a state to restore order and forestall further attacks on villagers by suspected herdsmen. Yet the same country does not see anything wrong in deploying soldiers to fight peaceful protesters who were merely protesting against police brutality. Our security forces are afraid of confronting bandits, insurgents, kidnappers and other criminal elements in the society but eager to kill the weak and innocent. I have read accounts of people that claim the protesters were stretching their luck too far and that government could not afford to keep watching them. Probably, such people should be reminded of the ongoing protest in Hong Kong which has been on for more than a year. The country is yet to open fire on these protesters.
For me, the events of the past few days have further proved the ineptitude of our leaders. It seems all that goes on in their brains is how to remain in power. They view all actions as being political, so they take rash decisions in their desperation to retain their positions. Unfortunately for us as a nation, we have a culture of subservience to our leaders. The leaders think they are too big to be questioned and the led have grown accustomed to swallowing everything they are served no matter how unpalatable. This is the culture that the protesting youths were trying to challenge.

It is a pity that deaths and bloodshed were all these youths could get for daring to challenge our culture of silence in the face of repression. The preponderance of opinion among these protesters is that this is their first time of asking government for anything. They said they never bothered government when they had to buy their own generators for power supply, construct borehole for water or provide other infrastructural facilities for themselves. They said they have not even forced government to provide seats for them to sit in classes or toilet facilities or libraries. They have learnt how to cope without these basic amenities. To them, all they wanted was to feel safe in their own country and all they got was massacre.
I am more concerned about the mental health of these youths. One of the characteristics of the Z generation is that they are easily stressed and depressed. Already, the Coalition of Mental Health Professionals in Nigeria is circulating contact details of counsellors and therapists that youths could reach to protect their mental health. Many of these youths are probably in their mid 20s and early 30s. They’ve not seen a major uprising against government before. Their idea of protest is most likely what they see in organised countries. And since they don’t see these countries killing their youths, they can’t imagine that their own government sending soldiers to kill them. The last major bloody national protest in Nigeria happened in the 90s over the annulment of June 12, 1993 election. Many of these youths were not born then and the ones born were probably too young to participate in the protest. Unfortunately for them, the Federal Government has removed history from the school curriculum. The subject was replaced with social studies and government. Meanwhile, these subjects cannot replace History as they teach things of the present whereas history is about studying events of the past in order to build our today and prepare us for tomorrow. Many of these youths don’t even know anything about the June 12 struggle. Can you imagine one of them telling me that the Lekki massacre was the worst thing that had ever happened in Nigeria? That tells you their level of ignorance of historical matters in this country.
One can only imagine the mental stress many of these youths are going through now, especially with stories like that of a Computer Science undergraduate of a federal university killed in this melee. This was someone who had written his final exam as far back as January and who should have gone for his mandatory one-year National Youth Corps Service but for the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). He was only waiting for the union to call off its strike so that he could complete his clearance. He was reportedly killed while sitting inside his compound on Wednesday. A few hours before his death, he had tweeted, “Nigeria will not end me”.

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How can a government hate its people with so much passion? The soldiers in Sambisa Forest are complaining of lack of equipment to fight insurgents; they are being killed daily. Some of them are committing su***de in frustration. There are kidnappers all over the country terrorising, abducting, ra**ng, killing and collecting ransom from their victims. Our security operatives are too weak in dealing with such; but very strong in rolling out military tank against peaceful protesters. This was after the government had deceived them that they had the right to protest. They opened fire on protesters and described them as miscreants. Now, what on earth could make a government fighting miscreants send people to switch off the cameras, wiring and lighting at the Lekki toll gate before sending gunmen to kill peaceful protesters? And the same government still has the effrontery to tell the citizens that the shootings were measures beyond his control!

Is it not ironical that the youths’ agitation is centred round ending brutality and part of the reasons why they refused to leave the streets was because they were not convinced that government was serious about the few pronouncements it made. The youths asked the government to end brutality and government showed them the kind of brutality that they couldn’t imagine in their lives. Even if the protests have been hijacked as claimed by government and its sympathisers, where is it written in our law books that miscreants should be killed extra judicially?
Now, hoodlums have hijacked the protest from the organised youths. Interestingly, we didn’t see this level of chaos and destruction before the so-called security operatives were called in to restore order. Yes, the real miscreants have taken over-the miscreants that come out of state vehicles to attack peaceful protesters. And as usual, our leaders will soon start negotiating with them. The miscreants needed to open the prison doors for their colleagues; they must unleash terror and arson. After all, they too have a right to protest. They are Nigerians and the creation of our system.

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Nonetheless, it is worth emphasising that what we have seen in the last few days in Lagos especially is a clear case of poor leadership. One of the attributes of good leadership is the ability to predict the outcome of actions before they happen. This helps in determining the decisions to take and the ones to avoid. That is the essence of critical analysis. Anyway, there is no point crying over split milk. The deed has been done; we can only hope that our leaders will have the humility to learn from their misdeeds.
To the Nigerian youths, I salute your courage, hope and trust in this country. Let’s continue to be optimistic that the blood of the innocent would not be shed in vain and that we will all see a better Nigeria of our dream.

Olabisi Deji-Folutile is the Editor-in-Chief, Franktalknow.com and member, Nigerian Guild of Editors. Email: [email protected]

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Between Madagascar’s lollypop ex-minister and Nigeria’s Kilishi technology DG

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A few days ago, Madagascar fired its education minister, Rijasoa Andriamanana, for attempted embezzlement. The minister had indicated plans to order more than $2.2m worth of sweets for schoolchildren to mask the bitter aftertaste of the herbal remedy for coronavirus. Explaining how the money would be utilised, the minister had explained that pupils would be given three lollipops each to take after they drink the bitter COVID-Organics concoction that the country developed to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately for the minister, Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina felt that she was looking for ways to embezzle funds in the education ministry, so he dismissed her. Some could argue that the President’s decision was pre-emptive since the minister had not even stolen any money. But, I guess the President was probably miffed by the fact that a minister could think of doing such a ridiculous thing.

Coincidentally, almost at the same time, here in Nigeria, a professor and Director General of the Raw Materials Research and Development Council, the agency in charge of developing raw materials for the nation’s industries, Hussain Ibrahim, listed Kilishi as the main breakthrough of the 33-year-old body. The only difference is that up till now, no higher authority has rebuked or punished our own DG for making such a terrible blunder. In fact, except for the shocking reaction of some Nigerians to the news report, everywhere has been quiet. As a matter of fact, there is nothing to suggest that the DG goofed. And what can Nigerians do? They too have moved on. By the way, Kilishi is a dried form of meat. It could be made from deboned cow, sheep or goat.

While it may be difficult to categorically state which is a more grievous offence between a minister ordering $2.2m worth of sweet for school children and a DG in charge of producing raw materials that cannot define raw material, one thing is clear-our own DG’s offence is unpardonable. To start with, describing “Kilishi” as a “technology” is weird. For such definition to now come from a professor and supposedly head of an agency that should be producing raw materials for the nation’s industries makes the matter worse. The situation is further compounded by the fact all this is happening in a country that has spent N19.5trn in seven years to import raw materials that could have been locally produced. It is inconceivable that a director general of raw materials agency won’t know the meaning of raw materials.
For those who probably missed the news item, Ibrahim had appeared before the Senate Committee on Science and Technology to brief lawmakers on the activities of the research agency. The Chairman of the Senate panel, Senator Uche Ekwunife, had asked him to tell Nigerians the specific raw materials that the agency had successfully produced in the area of health, brewery, construction, science, technology, or agriculture in partnership with other research institutes. In his response, the DG reportedly listed the “Kilishi technology”, which according to him, has enabled the agency to produce the dry meat for commercial use, as the agency’s only major breakthrough in 33 years. He went further to say that the agency was able to perform the feat despite not having a laboratory.

A simple definition of raw material is anything used to produce goods and finished products. To hear that the chief executive officer of an agency that is supposed to produce raw materials could describe Kilishi as a technological feat is something that should make any reasonable Nigerian cry. This is a nation that has been funding the economy of other countries spending N2.79trn yearly to import things that we can easily produce at home. We develop other countries’ economies at the expense of ours. We import raw materials that we can easily produce at our backyard and we don’t see anything wrong in paying some people for doing nothing. We do not only waste our scarce foreign exchange in importing raw materials from all kinds of places, we also deny our people employment opportunities. Meanwhile, the labour minister, Chris Ngige, has told us that unemployment rate would hit 33.5 per cent in 2020. If we had more people working, we would have grown the economy and this would have drastically reduced the nation’s poverty level which the National Bureau of Statistics says is currently at 40 per cent. The raw materials that this agency is supposed to develop are the things we need for producing almost all the food products we use in this country. Across the globe, smart countries strive to produce the basic materials needed for their industries and even try to have surplus for export. But, we don’t mind importing everything- This is shameful!
Let’s even assume that Kilishi is a raw material, how much can Nigeria earn from this dry meat that could make a senior government official like the DG to be so excited talking about it? How big is the total meat produce market in Nigeria in terms of foreign exchange income? In 2018, Nigeria’s total meat production was 1.45 million tonnes. Compare this to US’s approximately 23.6 million tonnes of meat produce in 2017. And it is not as if our meat production figure has been growing at any fantastic rate. In fact, the figure in 1969 was 406,963 tonnes. It has only been growing at an average annual rate of 2.79%. Meanwhile what is referred to meat produce often covers both the edible and inedible parts of an animal including the head, offers, skin, hides, the legs and several other parts. You now wonder the quantity of meat that will be available for Kilishi after we remove beef consumption in homes, hotels, restaurants, etc. How much can that add to the nation’s GDP at the end of the day. Besides, which countries is Nigeria exporting Kilishi to? Are we exporting meat to countries that produce more meat than us? Personally, I don’t know the technology involved in producing kilishi that is so special. The other time I was in Turkey, I practically had to throw away the country’s version of Kilishi, that I bought, not because it was not tasty, but because the quantity was much more than I expected for the price.

Perhaps, the DG would have performed better if he had limited his response to the information posted on the agency’s website. At least, there is nothing like “Kilishi technology” among the projects listed on the website. Besides, the projects listed are things in line with the agency’s mandate, though they are all at the pilot stage. The agency is working on things like the development of waterborne paints, automotive brake pad and lining from palm kernel shell and adhesives for the paper industry among others. These are the raw materials that can help in growing and developing Nigerian industries. If not that Nigerian leaders take the people for granted, the DG would have just talked about these projects and saved the rest of us from unnecessary anguish. After all, nobody will ask him if he understands what he’s saying or not.

It is not as if reprimanding this DG will bring any outstanding change to Nigeria, but at least, it will send the right signal to public office holders to be more circumspect in making public statements. We all know that the DG is a product of the cumulative rot in our system and a reflection of everything anti-merit. Unfortunately, this country will continue to
wallow in darkness if we continue to follow our usual barbaric way of doing things.

I know that the Federal Government has not been fair in its budgetary allocation to the ministry of science and technology, the supervisory ministry for this agency. For example, the ministry with 17 agencies under it, had a budget of N66.8bn in the 2019 Appropriation Bill while the office of the secretary to government of the federation had N65bn. But this is not an excuse for a research agency not to have a single product to show for its 33 years of existence. And of course, citing the production of kilishi as an innovation is a complete aberration.


Olabisi Deji-Folutile is the Editor-in-Chief of Franktalknow.com and member, Nigerian Guild of Editors. Email: [email protected]







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How the north can truly end the almajiri system

By Olabisi Deji-Folutile

“The time has come for northern governors to lead the campaign on population control. Religious leaders should stop preaching that men should marry more than one wife. “

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"13 Tips on How to Deliver a Pitch Investors Simply Can't Turn Down" (Part 2)
__Be laser-focused.

Many of you asked me this week to say a bit more about "pitching," including what the word really means. For an entrepreneur, a "pitch" is what you say and present to potential investors to market yourself, your idea and your business concept -- not just to inspire them to invest, but to rush to be first in the queue!

Like I said before, our great reality shows on Kwesé Inc are now the best place for African entrepreneurs to see and hear from the best of the best in the world on this topic... and also watch people who "fail" to get investment (which is the majority). You can learn a lot from them, too!

Today though, in response to your requests, let me share the first of three parts of an excellent article from Entrepreneur magazine, written by Neil Patel, a young entrepreneur who gave me permission to republish it (remember the importance of intellectual property). It's called: "13 Tips on How to Deliver a Pitch Investors Simply Can't Turn Down." Today I'll share #1 thru #4.

I urge you to study and discuss each of these tips with your friends. You can also use them to assess the pitches and business approaches made by others on Kwesé Inc shows like Shark Tank, Adventure Capitalist and The Profit, because it will help you understand what it takes to secure funding from investors, when you get your chance. It's important not to treat such shows as mere entertainment because they're there to help you sharpen your skills!

Neil Patel's "13 Tips" are excellent, and I will republish them all. But let me give you the most important tip of all: Securing funding from investors who require you to make a pitch, is won or lost long before you arrive to make your pitch!

__It's going to be decided by the PREPARATIONS you make in the months and weeks leading up to that pitch.

In his article, Neil writes:

"Your pitch is the single thing that could either get your business off the ground or plunge your idea into eternal oblivion. It matters.

The rule of thumb for investors is that for every 100 investments they make, only 10 will go big.

Let me take that rule of thumb a step further. For every 1,000 pitches an investor hears, he or she will fund only 100 of them. Statistically, the odds for success are not great. You can beat the statistics, however, by crafting a pitch that turns heads and gets funded.

What are the ingredients of an ultra-compelling, irresistible, outstanding, and unforgettable pitch?

1. Take only ten minutes.
Timing is critical. The less time your pitch takes, the better.

A brilliant idea means nothing unless you can distill it to a few moments of sheer power. The more concise you can be, the more effective you will be. Here are a few timing pointers:

# If you say that you’ll take “only X minutes,” then take at least one minute less.

# If you are told, “You only have X minutes to pitch,” then take at least five minutes less.

# If you say, “One last thing” or something similar, then make sure it’s truly the
one last thing.

# Move at a good pace. Don’t rush at the end.

# If you’re using slides, don’t get stuck on one slide for more than three minutes.

Here’s the great thing about taking ten minutes. If the investors are really interested, they’ll ask questions. If they’re not interested, then you will have saved them (and yourself) some time.

2. Turn your pitch into a story.
Storytelling is a scientifically-proven way to capture a listener’s attention and hold it. Besides, it makes your pitch unforgettable.

Investors are bored with spreadsheets, valuations and numbers. If they want that information, they can get it. What you can offer that no term sheet can convey is the story and pathos behind your startup. Everyone loves a good story, even the most data-driven investor.

So, tell your story and tell it right. You're bound to gain attention, and the funding will follow.

3. Be laser-focused.
Investors' time is their most valuable asset. If you convey a respect for their time, they will interpret that respect as your ability to treat their funding with respect.

Because time is important, you need to develop an absolute focus on the core components of your pitch. What are those core components? They're detailed in the following tips.

4. Explain EXACTLY what your product or service is.
Show your potential investors a picture of, or give them the actual product to handle.

Be careful not to drone endlessly on about your product. Honestly, investors don’t really care about your product as much as they care about the money that your product will make. The sooner you get to the good stuff -- the money -- the better. . ."

To be continued. . .

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Bail Part 2
There have been deluge of questions raised on this topic bail and we will like to expatiate. In this regard, we shall be looking again at the issue of bail and try to answer the numerous questions.
Black Law Dictionary defined “bail” as, to set at liberty a person arrested or imprisoned, on security of being taken for his appearance on a day and place certain , which security is called “bail” because the party arrested or imprisoned is delivered into the hands of those who bind themselves for its forthcoming.
Grant of Bail
Whether accused will be granted bail or not depends on the nature of the offence.
Offences are classified under three categories:
1. Minor offences: for example stealing, burglary etc. These are offences punishable for a term not exceeding 3 years. The accused is entitled to bail as of right unless the court decides otherwise.
2. Serious offences e.g. fraud, drug offences, r**e. Term of imprisonment exceeding three years shall not ordinarily be granted bail unless the court exercises its discretion to grant. Police detain those arrested for serious offence beyond the constitutional time limit without granting bail on the condition that investigations are incomplete.
3. Capital offences: e.g. murder, treasonable felony armed robbery. In the northern part of Nigeria, we criminal procedures code (CPC) regulating criminal procedure and in the south we have Criminal Procedure Administration and Lagos state has Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos. I do not want to bore our readers with too many laws since this is intended for citizens to know their basic rights but lawyers have asked questions on not citing relevant laws, so we will minimise our legal jargons to the least.
Section 341(1) of the criminal procedures code provides that a person charged with a capital offence shall not be granted bail. But section 341(3) also provides that notwithstanding subsection (1), if it appears to the court that there are sufficient grounds, then the accused may be released on bail. This is to say that magistrate in northern Nigeria may grant bail to accused charged with capital offence. Meanwhile in the southern part of Nigeria, section 118(1) CPA, bail is not granted to a person charged with a capital offence except by a high court. Magistrates in southern part of Nigeria cannot grant bail to an accused charged with capital offence unlike their counterparts in the North.
Factors to be considered in granting or refusing bail:
Police Bail: Police ought to offer bail to any one arrested alleged to have committed a non-capital offence if they fail to arraign him in court within stipulated time limit. This is a duty imposed upon them. Unlike the court, police have no discretion in the issue of bail. They must compulsorily grant bail as long as the suspect complies with the conditions of bail before being released by the police. Where the suspect is not offered bail by the police officer in charge of the station, the suspect or his counsel or relation may apply for this bail in writing.
Sometimes police detain those arrested for serious non capital offences (fraud, r**e, drug offences) before the constitutional time limit without granting bail on the ground that investigations are ongoing or incomplete. This situation ought not to be so. Many people have complained of being held by the police for months without being taken to court. A person held for non-capital offence and cannot be brought to court as stipulated by the constitution within 24hrs to 48hrs time limit must be granted bail by the police. No ground is sufficient whether investigation is incomplete or not. As long as the suspect enters into a bond with sureties to appear at the police station at the time specified in the bond.
Consideration for Bail in Court
1. Nature of the offence will determine whether it is a simple offence, serious offence or capital offence.
2. The severity of the punishment; how many years imprisonment is it likely to attract?
3. The criminal records of the accused: is the accused a known criminal? This is likely to affect his grant of bail. He must be able to show good character.
4. The likelihood of the accused committing further offences while on bail will be looked at by the court.
5. Is the accused likely to interfere with investigation of the offence?
6. The most important consideration is if the accused will jump bail or run away and not face his trial. Bail shall be denied.
Sometimes bail is denied for the protection of the accused if it appears his freedom might lead to other offences.
Although all the factors mentioned above are not strictly adhered in granting bail, all or many of these factors must apply in any given case. One factor may be applied in a particular case to guide a trial court. The terms of bail are fixed with regards to the circumstance of the case.
Both the police and court may admit to bail a person alleged to have committed an offence in such terms and conditions as they deem fit.
Terms of Bail
1. Bail on Self Recognizance: A person may be granted bail on his own recognizance. The accused is not required to execute any bond nor bring any surety being a reputable member of the society, a high standing person in the society and the court is satisfied that he would appear to stand his trial.
2. A person may be admitted to bail on condition that he executes a bond for the fixed sum. A bond is a written undertaken executed by a person to be admitted to bail that if he default on the bail arrangement, does not appear to face trial, he will forfeit a particular amount to court.
3. Bail with bond and surety: the accused executes a bond personally at the same time provide surety to guarantee his attendance in court. The number and qualification of sureties may be fixed by the court.
4. Deposit of money in lieu of bond or surety: This is a situation where the accused may apply to deposit money in lieu of bond/surety. If he is finding it difficult to get required surety, then he can ask for deposit of money. This can also be done for personal reasons by the accused. In the north, the court can ask the accused to deposit money in lieu of bond but not so in the south. The new law in Lagos 116(2) ACJL 2011 empowers the court to ask the accused to deposit money in lieu.
Consequences of Jumping Bail
Jumping bail simply means running away, absconding, and not coming for trial.
The court will do the following in case such happens;
1. The court may revoke the bail
2. Court may issue a bench warrant for his arrest and that he be brought to court subsequently.
3. If he entered into a bond, the court will require him to show cause why the bond should not be forfeited and if he is unable to show cause (give reason), he will forfeit the bond and he will be liable to pay the amount stated to the court. If bail was granted with surety, the surety will be invited to show cause on why his bond should not be forfeited though this is not automatic. The surety will be brought to trial if the surety is unable to give good reasons why the bail should not be forfeited, he shall pay the sum forfeited or have his property taken and sometimes sent to prison.
So surety must be careful and be sure to be familiar with the accused before standing as surety and signing a bond. An order of forfeiture made by a court(loss of surety’s property) is subject to appeal.

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