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00:00:00inviting people to come so that they can set up industries that
00:00:04will do this mining properly and that is why was emphasizing on the
00:00:07responsible mining regime where you have companies that
00:00:11will come and do the property, give
00:00:13of gears, protective gears to people, employ the right set
00:00:16of of people, take the data
00:00:18of the people and also be able to promote people to go to school,
00:00:21even if you are mining you be able to go to school and they promote you, if you have
00:00:25a
00:00:26of child and you
00:00:26are a minor, your children will go to school, so many other things. accommodations
00:00:30will be provided, portable drinking water will be given, medical assistance will be
00:00:35of given, scholarships will be given like in oil, like oil mining,
00:00:39like the way the oil companies are doing in Niger delta, this is what we are looking
00:00:42for, are you able
00:00:43of to make any money, are you making any money from mining yet, based on
00:00:47investment
00:00:47of your state is having
00:00:50of in, not serious money, no serious money
00:00:53yet, we're only putting the infrastructures right
00:00:58of of now, infrastructure, let me tell you the investment in duty machineries
00:01:02of alone is capital intensive, you need bulldozers, you need
00:01:06graders, you need excavators, you need
00:01:09of t pass, not just ordinary t pass, heavy duty t pass, you
00:01:13need power, you need so much energy, you need drilling machines, you
00:01:17need cranes, you need, so these things are major
00:01:20components of mining that will make it safer and
00:01:24we will give people, but you see if you go one foot in Niger
00:01:27state anywhere in Niger state, you will pick. gold
00:01:30one foot, one foot,
00:01:33but they are alluvian gold, the real rock gold you need to
00:01:37go 30, 40 meters down to get solid rock
00:01:41gold, and that is what we are trying to attract people and companies
00:01:44of and international partners to come in so that that solid
00:01:48rock gold that is on beneath the earth can be brought out and
00:01:52can be used for development our people. all right, quickly,
00:01:56just before we wrap up governor, beyond commiss.
00:02:00nation and all what we are looking a situation where 37
00:02:03people entered a government custody alive
00:02:07and they came
00:02:08of out
00:02:09of dead. what else are you
00:02:10a going to be doing for the people? i see that you've gone to commisserate with some
00:02:14of the family members, but they would
00:02:17in definitely of need beyond
00:02:18me this. what are the other commitment, what are the things that the government is
00:02:21immediately uh taking to action?
00:02:25first and foremost we want to thank uh the general
00:02:28society
00:02:29you know for the... empathy for the show of concern, some civil
00:02:33organizations, some
00:02:34of private individuals have come in,
00:02:36you know, some have
00:02:37of even offer scholarship to some
00:02:38of the families for those that had children, and also as
00:02:42a state definitely we are going to find some kind of palliatives and kind
00:02:46of relief for this family
00:02:48of these people, we trying to see how we can best
00:02:51redirect their thinking from mining to other ventures, even farming,
00:02:55of you know, and we are going to support them by the grace of God, but the the report
00:02:59of the committee. very very important for
00:03:01a us me to be able to know exactly where we are and where we are
00:03:04a heading to. governor Balgo, just before
00:03:08of allow you go tonight. what can
00:03:11of Nigerians hold your accountable for tonight?
00:03:15what should we hold you to as the governor of
00:03:19Niger state personally accountable for in ensuring that
00:03:23the truth is established and this never happens
00:03:26again? so I can only...
00:03:30promise you that the truth must be established, we are
00:03:34going to follow it tit and nail to make sure that it is
00:03:37everywhere and we're going to follow the truth to
00:03:39of the in latter, but the issue of it happening again, it may happen
00:03:43of in another state, because no governor has control
00:03:47of the f government custody, no governor has a control
00:03:50of the police cell or
00:03:52of DSS
00:03:53in cell or civil defense cell or even army cell, so I cannot take
00:03:57an out for what I cannot control, but what I'm sure... is that
00:04:01we
00:04:01of are working on this report, we are investigating it, we get to the cross of this
00:04:04matter and we will make it public. what in your own
00:04:08view will constitute
00:04:10of justice? uh,
00:04:13justice is the law, what the law will has
00:04:17defined for different categories of crimes, so if
00:04:21somebody is found with man
00:04:23of slaughter, the law is exploitly clear, if somebody is found guilty of
00:04:27murder, the law is very very clear, if somebody is found guilty
00:04:30of complacency, the law is very, very clear, but I'm not a lawyer and I'm not a
00:04:34judge, but I know that uh, as as a
00:04:37parliamentarian, I know that the constitution has defined every
00:04:41responsibility and has also defined sanctions for those kind
00:04:45of irresponsibilities. Is your attorney general active on this
00:04:48matter? very well. Thank you
00:04:52so much, honorable,
00:04:55of farmer Mohamed Omarubago, the executive governor of
00:04:59Niger. Many thanks for your time tonight uh on this issue and
00:05:03we out goes out to those who have
00:05:05of lost their lives and the families of uh uh those who died in
00:05:09that sad incident. Thank you so much indeed governor for your time.
00:05:13Thank you for having me, I appreciate it. Up next, President
00:05:17Bolatu keeps the United Nations General Assembly for a third
00:05:21consecutive year, handing the diplomatic assignment once
00:05:25again to Vice President Kashim Shetima, but
00:05:28after Nigeria's UN envoy and earlier said
00:05:32Chunubu would attend and sit close to President Donald
00:05:36Trump. What has changed, does the president's absence
00:05:39matter for Nigeria's diplomatic influence? critical
00:05:43bilateral engagements and relations with Washington and what
00:05:46becomes the anticipated high-level meetings in
00:05:50New York. President Balatino
00:05:53Bush senior special assistant on foreign affairs and protocol, Mr. Demola
00:05:57ushudi will be joining me next to explain these issues
00:06:00and shed some
00:06:01light.
00:11:54welcome back! President Bolatinu will not
00:11:57attend the 81st United Nations General
00:12:01Assembly in New York with Vice President Kashim Shatima
00:12:05designated to lead Nigeria's delegation and
00:12:09to deliver the country's national settlement and participate
00:12:13in high-level bilateral and multilateral engagements making
00:12:17the third consecutive UN general assembly at which
00:12:20Shetima will represent the president since Dunubu's attendance in
00:12:242023. "the development comes after Nigeria's
00:12:28permanent representative to the United Nations ambassador
00:12:31Jim Ibrahim the earlier indicated that
00:12:35President Tinable will attend this year's gathering and will
00:12:39be seated close to United State President Donald Trump. Let
00:12:43allow you to take uh listen to what he said about two months
00:12:47ago when he visited President Bolatinu at the presidential
00:12:50villa.
00:12:55can tell you uh has generously agreed to attend the onger
00:12:58meeting the United Nations, it's significant
00:13:02because Mr. President has a speech to give to the whole
00:13:06world about this reform success in
00:13:09Nigeria and that's have been stated for
00:13:13uh for September so Nigeria will be
00:13:16effectively in longer uh there are side meetings
00:13:20side event meetings for Mr. President to attend which
00:13:22includes uh general. of power, power
00:13:26issues that have to do with energy, side
00:13:29you know, so there event
00:13:29is meeting, there's another side event meeting on education
00:13:33as well as hospital management which you put in place
00:13:37for, but we don't want to crowd itinaries, so we
00:13:41discussed that and graciously the president was able to give
00:13:44us this world that he will come to her
00:13:48this this september, that's very
00:13:51amazing, how fast things?
00:13:55change in the last two months and
00:13:57now that has changed from thunu's
00:14:01presidency and what the plan is
00:14:04and for what we know the vice president has now been
00:14:08dispatched to lead the delegation and we saw them
00:14:11earlier today leave with some governors, some ministers
00:14:15and some senior members the cabinet, although no
00:14:19formal bilateral meeting between the two leaders had been
00:14:22confirmed that is between the president of Nigeria and that the
00:14:26United States. Butinu's latest absence is expected to
00:14:30renew debate over the significance of presidential level
00:14:34participation at one the world's biggest diplomatic gatherings,
00:14:38particularly at the time when Nigeria is seeking stronger
00:14:41international cooperation and security, investment,
00:14:45trade, climate, finance and reform the global
00:14:49finance system. However, ambassador Ibrahim maintains that Niger
00:14:52remains fully represented. that several countries are
00:14:56also being represented
00:14:58at the assembly by vice president, foreign ministers and other
00:15:02senior officials. let's get some more clarity on these, i'm
00:15:06being joined by president, senior special assistant on foreign affairs
00:15:10and protocol, mr. demal with line for us virtually,
00:15:13thanks so much indeed for the time tonight, good evening
00:15:17sir, give us an understanding on the workings the
00:15:21this presidency, is this deliberate, because th time
00:15:25and the those who say that presidentubu is depriving
00:15:29Nigerians the huge huge diplomatic
00:15:32opportunities of putting icing on the cake a
00:15:36festival of world unity and world leaders
00:15:39meeting to foster development in their countries, but the president's
00:15:43absence, the diplomats to have said, it is
00:15:46injurious to the nation. thank
00:15:50you, first of all, i like to congratulate the mediance
00:15:53the nigerian permanent ambassador to the united
00:15:57nations, ambassador jimo
00:16:00ibrahim, excellent man,
00:16:04brilliant, he's been given the... heads
00:16:08of major committees, which is the budget and
00:16:11administration, very, very significant, and also the
00:16:15C34 committee, very pivot committee
00:16:19for the general workings the United Nations peacekeeping
00:16:23work around the globe, so it's very important, Nigeria is taking
00:16:27a good central stage at the United Nations, and it
00:16:31shows the fact that our presence there is extremely important, and we
00:16:35now have a United. nation's
00:16:37ambassador that will be able to push our
00:16:41agenda with or without the
00:16:44president you steping foot in new
00:16:47york, but so I think
00:16:51we you know if I could say this is very important time
00:16:55in Nigeria's political
00:16:58journey, we have major economic
00:17:02reform taking place in Nigeria and it's been taken, it's
00:17:06taking fruit. is really really changing the
00:17:10economic perspective of Nigeria locally and
00:17:14globally, the Nigerian economy has grown to over
00:17:174.4% annually, this
00:17:20is this is good, this is like one the it is the Africa's largest
00:17:24economic performer by any mile, so that's something that the reforms
00:17:28of president has achieved, but
00:17:31president was also also is
00:17:35focused on the security challenges. in Nigeria, we just heard
00:17:39about the death of miners, illegal
00:17:42miners in in Niger state, we've heard about some kidnapping that have been
00:17:46successfully resolved, the victims have
00:17:50been have been rescued, so these are
00:17:54major issues that the president is dealing with, if I could say those are the
00:17:58issues that are more important than his presidents of United
00:18:02Nations, whether this year or last year, and I can
00:18:06also tell you that... 'we have major election coming
00:18:09taking place next year
00:18:11uh you know
00:18:12and you of course every candidate has to take these things
00:18:16very serious so these are things that may be going through the president's
00:18:20consideration as as he
00:18:23president representing there quickly is this
00:18:27coincidence third time three consecutive
00:18:30absences at onga is this a policy
00:18:34or a coincidence well
00:18:37"Nigeria has diverse interest in
00:18:40all regional, regional groups, continental groups
00:18:44and even groups the south south like the bricks, so
00:18:48but for my own recollection, the United Nations is not the
00:18:51only group that we are member of,
00:18:55so President Yubu focusing issues of domestic
00:18:59concerns like economy, security and even on other
00:19:03issues of international forums is, I
00:19:06believe..." equally is important um with or
00:19:10without his presence there would not change Nigeria's major role
00:19:14as a giant of Africa, the leader the
00:19:18you know economic resurgence of Africa and and and showing that
00:19:21Nigeria is equally represented with the presence of
00:19:25ambassador Jimo Ibrahim, our new United Nations
00:19:28ambassador, so well taking the explanation
00:19:32from the government and the presidency, why is President
00:19:36Tunobu not attending this year's onger, what
00:19:40changed, what happened? i
00:19:44touched on it, i want to believe it's really domestic
00:19:47concerns, economic reforms, our security challenges
00:19:51and in many cases may be the upcoming elections that we're
00:19:55dealing with, nigeria is also focused on areas
00:19:59all the in regional bodies like echoas, african union,
00:20:03the bricks and even the African
00:20:06continental. trade agreement, very important for trade, these are bread and
00:20:10butter issues. Nigerians want to have respite from
00:20:13the, from cost of living crisis we're dealing with. These are issues
00:20:17that are going to affect people, the security moving from lagos
00:20:21to or your or from plateau to Nasarawa,
00:20:25these are issues that we are concerned about. The UN is very important
00:20:29and all due respect, but we need to ensure that are day to day
00:20:33issues, this is concerns that concern the average Nigeria is taken
00:20:37important. and that is why i believe our
00:20:39priorities diverse as it is not
00:20:43just on the united nations right now is
00:20:45there a problem and i'm very certain that you must have been hearing what
00:20:49the critic. of this government is saying, which brings to the question, is
00:20:53there a problem between tunubu and Washington?
00:20:57tonight, can you stay to us
00:21:00unequivocally tonight that President Tunobu can
00:21:03enter the United States, move beyond the United Nation
00:21:07headquarters district for ordinary presidential engagements,
00:21:11meet American officials and leave the country without any legal
00:21:15or immigration impediment? oh,
00:21:19this is the - whole chest not uh as your b will say
00:21:23and gig is saying we're dribbling backwards i was
00:21:27with the president when he went for the united nations physically i was there it
00:21:31was everything we saw it it's all over social media he went to the
00:21:34the the the stock exchange he run the bell he had
00:21:38meetings on the side even in more recent times i think
00:21:42about last year we transited los angeles on our way
00:21:45to japan for the attack the japanese you
00:21:49know uh development agency, we in Los Angeles
00:21:53for few days before we we flew down to uh Tokyo or
00:21:57Yokohama, Japan, we were in America, I was was there with
00:22:01him, so it is really just politics and
00:22:05we can talk about this every single election issue,
00:22:08every single election cycle, and it is just
00:22:11politics,
00:22:16the article's camp is now openly asking:
00:22:20whether President Tunuubu's history with US law
00:22:23enforcement agencies explains his third
00:22:26consecutive hunger absence what will be your facul
00:22:30response? not the political one that we here to
00:22:34perhaps late the matter to rest as to
00:22:38what the artikubakar's camp are saying about the
00:22:42re-entering or the ability of our president to
00:22:45move around in the United State? is there any impediment that we need to know?
00:22:50or their constraints, there's absolutely no
00:22:53impediment, there you go, for absolutely no reason, i it's
00:22:57it is pure politics, it's election season is silly
00:23:01season of people saying things for electoral advantage, it
00:23:04is that simple, the you know any situation they would
00:23:08not, repeat, america would not in any
00:23:12case arrest any heads
00:23:14of state, muhammad gaddafi, of
00:23:18Libya, the guy Cuba you know
00:23:21castro, the tomini, there's so
00:23:25many people that touch the grounds the united nations that the Americans did
00:23:29not want, you know, the president
00:23:32has been in America, I was there with him twice, you
00:23:36know I was even there with him prior to that, before he was president,
00:23:40so this is pure nonsense and his politics, but again you
00:23:44in politics
00:23:45you know they say that you everything goes, so this is just give
00:23:49a moment, I need to take another break, but when we come back, we
00:23:53conclude the conversation, what could it be the gains and what
00:23:56exactly VP shetima will be representing
00:23:59president on, well Paris is not too far
00:24:03from the United States, he's halfway to the United States,
00:24:07maybe last minute the president might change his mind, we'll find out after this
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00:27:55thanks so much everyone, our concluding moment with Mr. demola
00:27:59oshed
00:28:00is the senior special assistant to pres on foreign affairs
00:28:04and protocol. Mr. Osody, do we
00:28:07have an idea of precisely uh some
00:28:11the biggest expectations from Hunga? And by the way, there are
00:28:15those who say the president is out the country anyways, is
00:28:19it prioritizing ally day in above matters of
00:28:22state? He's prioritizing the affairs
00:28:26of Nigeria. I can promise you, Mr. Kimbaly, and
00:28:30there's also issues of you. their
00:28:33security and economic concerns not to talk of
00:28:37election strategy and preparation so that is
00:28:41very very important and it's you know it's nigerians i'm sure
00:28:45fully aware of this regarding the vice
00:28:48presidents representing president
00:28:52at the united nations i think
00:28:54we we has this theme there which is going to be speaking on behalf the president
00:28:58restoring trust managing transformation in
00:29:03as as for United Nations that delivers for all,
00:29:07this is very, very generic, general topic,
00:29:11but when he speaks, he's going to talk about the challenges the
00:29:14Sahel, issues of security, our economic
00:29:18reforms, that is big, that is big on the table, it's going
00:29:21to make sure the international community understands the fact that
00:29:25Nigeria is very serious about
00:29:28uplifting people out of poverty uh with his reforms, even
00:29:32things are pretty tough right now, but the international community does
00:29:36accept the fact that Nigeria is on the right path for bringing
00:29:39a large economy of one trillion and
00:29:43prosperity for not just for Nigeria for the West African sub
00:29:46region, he is a senior special
00:29:49assistant to the president on foreign affairs and protocol, thanks so
00:29:53much indeed for speaking with us tonight, thank you very much
00:29:57mr. king appreciate, that's our show for tonight everyone, many thanks for
00:30:01watching, I'm sure. God bless
00:30:03Nigeria.