As always is a delight to have you join us on this uh program road to edu 2024 now this is a forum that gives us the opportunity to bring on board oneon-one you have the opportunity to see all the aspirants or I mean when I mean all the aspir those that have actually
Subscribed to be on the platform to share their dreams share their aspirations tell you edite what they have for you if they have the mandate to represent you at o Avenue my name is Daniel prise o your host and of course today on the show we have our guest he’s
Been here and of course he is still here I like to refer to him as one of the youngest among the asir so far he’s in person of Paula good evening compliment of the say Merry Christmas see you same thank you for having me well now take us through
You’ve been here uh for a while now would like to take this conversation to the Grassroots there seems to be a disconnection to an extent some stakeholders are saying uh it’s been a while we have a governor who have a direct touch with the people at the
Grassroots is there anything you can do differently to sustain that momentum well um at some point it would seem like a statement that is also shreded with hypocrisy uh because I find it that yes I find it that those there are some class of persons who scream for
Grassroot development and as such they scream for someone who is is within the grassroot structure but when it comes to support they give the support to strangers and they give support to those who have been able to monetize the process of our politics so that’s for me just screams hypocrisy however it is
Only fair and natural that when you live in Ado State you will be able to understand the people of Ado State you’ll be able you are part of the people of Ado State and I don’t need to start screaming whether or not I understand the grassroot because my
Middle name is grassroot I don’t know any other thing I have not I don’t live among the high and mighty I don’t live among the wealthy ones if I organize a birthday for example today it is my Carpenters my mechanics and then every other person who works around me that
Will attend such birthday you will not hear of the names of the high and mighty because I don’t Frolic around the high and mighty I do not belong belong to the class of the high and mighty as much as people Envy to be in that class I don’t
Because I understand that for me peace is something I CT more than anything I like to be incognit at some point some young persons will scra stardom you know this idea of being a musical icon and being all that I I I I prefer my calmness I prefer my peace I prefer
Being Incognito so as far as grassroot goes we are the Grassroots and that’s why we are interested in developing the grassroot that’s why we’re interested in developing the people that’s why we have formulated our policy programs and ideas to engage the people with and it is our hope and expectation that perhaps for
The first time in a long time in ad those State there will not be the it w be the politics of business as usual where the high and mighty names come up occupy the BBS occupy the radios and TVs and then they are not actually talking
To the people we want talk with the people we want to be able to sell our mandate to the people like for example when I keep saying that without ideas in leadership spaces business as usual because there is nothing else you coming there with you’re not going to come with
Your money it is the people’s money so naturally money naturally your resume for coming there should not should not even be the number of PhD or degrees you have or how well you speak English language it is the common sense I been able to put together the people that the
People can relate with and tell themselves if this is done then we can push ahead like when I keep saying that some of the things that got us into the r is like a go pushed you know to the worldall it had no option to turn and
Face the process uh we have always screamed ideas in in in leers space I remember there was a local government one time in AO uh he’s late now Victor he secretary Joshua can attest to what I’m about to say when we pushed an idea behind the build up with Sol Market but
What we had in our thoughts in the Sol Market were gigantic structure as a matter of TR what we had in mind was a structure that can generate its own electricity via its own waste and then I had gone as far as bringing an investment banker from the US inviting
One to come have a meeting with the local government chairman on how to go about this that’s to tell you that we for a long time be thinking beyond our age and Thinking Beyond yes he a well about that now at the same I remember I I I suggested to the late local
Government chairman then that the public school children and their uniforms are just looks a reflection of poor governance and as such he should do a uniform reting for the student he thankfully did it and not only did he do it he wore the uniform of the schools as
SP of engaging with the students of this school these were ideas we brought to the local government chairman and we are saying that we are yet to bring even more staggering ideas to governance for example I I look at the structure in a do state and all I see is just
Surface first of all just like the plaster of par PO is a magnificent uh you know pillars are magnificent ideas by France to give a a gigant impression of buildings so it is with every institution students are supposed to go to schools and feel the pride of place
In going to government owned schools I dare to say that currently those is ranked eight among the uh States in Nigeria according to Federal locations what they get and on Revenue those state is ching A Lot in terms of Revenue but do you know this public schools that
Were built by the governor of B state which in fact is a b Haram RAV State a state that needs more security vote of course you know put into security the schools in B State Google them public schools in B State Google them and you’ll be ashamed to tell yourself that
This is a and this is school this is education are you saying we are going to have better education better um environments for learning for acents is that what you’re saying de is it going to be a priority for your government you know why I’m happy the reason I’m happy
Is that we young we are the ones you will describe as the underdog the big names will come here and speak as to the extent to which they know we will be talking on real substance and real issues now let me say this in the C of
Corona I did a project analysis and the project analysis was how to create wealth with education so that teachers will begin to live above their little minger means that way you bring the scholars into the teaching profession do you know that no matter the training you conduct in public government schools
Today you don’t have Smart egg heads teaching in public school share with us some of these tips how teachers because the truth is poor working condition poor remuneration is some of the problem some of the problems teachers are facing and those in particular do you think you can
Quickly share some of these ideas now like I said ideas is what we came to engage people with now let put this very simply put it on education sometime in the course of Corona I crafted I saw an opportunity because everybody was indoors I saw an opportunity to bring
Education to people’s homes because they were not allowed to come outside so I built a program there um X brain axyz it was running on the Internet space I’m on brain axyz you can literally hire just buy a new teacher so what we were doing then we created a a
Pter space where if deba was a teacher and he’s good at what he teaches de will teach prepare his video slides and upload we give you a URL you upload into our system and people will go to the different classes select the sort of tutor they want and then they pick the
Best tutor and and get engaged by the best tutor now of course brain axyz wasn’t free with a little um a mega SU token you assess the pter now think in this direction if a state government were to be as intentional as we were to create education in that pattern and
Then make it more participatory what you do is first of all you are creating rooms for Scholars to come in people who are passionate about teaching who perhaps wouldn’t want to teach because they me some they end from teaching and then I remember in that we got teachers
Even as far as India who are teaching on our portter brain ar. XYZ we got teachers as as far as Indian who are teaching subject like math physics chemistry on that pter now I simply asked the question as a state government look at what we call education today
Students still go to classrooms I’m not talking of infrastructure which for me is zero I’m not even talking infrastructure which is zero because if I compare States in ad do state schools in ad do state with schools in Bon State the evidence is what you find when you
Google schools in B State and when you go around ad do state and see the schools there so I’m not even talking about infrastructure we’re talking about cerebral content that is capable of improving the landscape the process of learning and then bringing wealth to the teachers okay so now you are saying you
Are saying if given the privilege to get to oad Avenue as the number one citizen of this state we’re going to have a better learning environment the first thing I shall do de okay the first thing I shall do is to completely animate the curriculum of the entirety of the of of
The teaching process from preschool basic schools junior secondary schools and senior secondary schools and even there to animate that of ter institutions because here’s what happens but talk is cheap imagine no it’s not cheap this is this is practicable now let me explain why because I’ve done it
Before now let me let tell you this if you were to be a biology student and you are of course taught by a teacher the stomach of a named ruminant animal for example because you do not see a ruminant animal you create a mental picture of what a rant anim because
You’ve been told that rant animals are animals that feeds on grass examples are goat cattle and the rest now every other thing that leads from the process of chewing mastication and all down to excretion you are made to imagine them because you don’t know them you have not
Seen them so when they tell you that when the C pick up the grasses for example that certain enzymes in the saliva act on the complex molecules of the of the of the grasses and then breaks them into simpler molecules and when the Cs begin to begins to chew
Perista movement will move down the musle the certain muscles will move down the esophagus get to the omom abom rectum and when it’s in these different chambers different things act on it to break it down before mineralized by the body then goes down to defecation as waste you are creating mental picture
But if I was able to inspire the Ministry of Education for example to animate everything we have been discussing since assuming I was teaching you be watching them You’ be listening to them that way such mental picture that you were naturally supposed to create her Ben you has been created for you
So the process of learning has become improved just now that way even if you do not read you can form a note okay I I would like us to push a little bit further um the issue of Court killings is a major problem in Ado State
It’s a major problem uh this is this has been a kind of reoccurrence that we’ve been for ages ad do state is known for having serious serious Court activities that leads to killing taking off lives now do you think you can help sanitize the state and get rid of these
Guys now um is it possible can you do it de it’s as though you are reading my mind when I was driving here just now I got to I got through plot Road I wanted to go through earlier to connect with TV Road I saw Boys in their numbers in the
Streets with sticks cutlasses and knives matching and then every car was reversing running as just few minutes ago as I was coming here and every car to take you know intersecting roads to go navigate I was calling some th to tell him this is what I what is happen
On the in case I come late this is to tell you that I’m not only speaking of this thing these are the things we experience and we live it every now and then but here’s the reality how do we come out of it here’s the reality I am not against fraternities and Brotherhood
What I have a problem with is cism to the extent that you and I must also be very trial and factual here so that God will forgive us the political class have eared cism to the extent that these people who fi enabled to keep perpetuating this dastardly actart are
Sponsored by the political class because when it’s time for election it is this sort of people they used to commit Mayhem in pulling units and ping because sensible people who want stay alive or who are aved to crime or violence will not perpetrate this sort of thing so
Will can under your watch come out of this activities by God’s grace I’m not a member of any confraternity the only confraternity I belong to is Jesus Christ confraternity and because I’m not a member of any confraternity it’s easier for me to follic around with every single confraternity the
Underlining principle for me remains survival every single person you have attached just now as ctist and then we have seen so much blood shedding in a do state for me the first thing that is on the line is Survivor what I intend to do is to come up with youthful engagement
To the extent that even if you were to indulge in cism you would’t even have the time to indulge in cism see it is an idol mind that they say still the devil’s workshop if we have serious engagements for our youth we may not have ctis in proliferates to this extent
Yes we may not be able to stamp it out completely it may remain as fraternity as Brotherhood the primary reason upon which the founding fathers founded it in the first instant but it has translate to youthful exuberance wherein it not takes a coloration of of violence and
Matting and killings for me it is the upper political class that has enabled this process that has encouraged this process because most of your politicians in your those state are patrons of confraternities yeah I did not drink water when I just said this one I am not
Afraid to say it so how do you stand part confrm confraternity when those who are speaking against the vices are the back door sponsors of same vices so sanity will only return on one condition but you do not have the man at the top as the one who is giving power to one
Side to oppress the other side but rather you have a man at the top of the office who is concentrating and focused on how to make life better for everybody you see the body language of he who occupies that seat will naturally resonates if your body language does not
Support violence violence itself is a spirit it begins to give way because it has no beding ground and let me say this for example the political scbl that areed in a do for the past nearly 12 years or what have you has also encouraged cism we find out that the political CLS
Are constantly battling and of course while they are battling they are wasting the people’s resources once upon a time we saw in this state where boys will hijack a process even hit a Serv senator in on his head and remove his C on the airport we see boys marching in the
Street and of course they have the backings of those in the political class so you’re saying your government if you have the privilege to lead at those State won’t uh associate with those guys and uh you are saying you will get rid of them headlong out of the state you
See the language get rid of then let’s not misconstrue it as to killing them they part of society okay are you getting my point my focus will be to engage them of course I’ve read to the tenants of some fraternities and what formed and how they form them they are
Mostly brotherhoods I have no place in that that’s I have no right to to speak on that but what I have a right to speak on if I have the office as the chief security officer of the state is why should Brotherhood Cascade to violence erupting into killings these areas will will be
Intentional on solving them we’ll be intentional on nipping them on the board and of course when we improve prove on security when we digit digitalize operations of security it naturally will also help us fight such insurgencies okay now let’s now look at it this way uh so many people feel when
Uh a particular person get to office they don’t Checkmate what the previous administration has done uh and that comes in a way they just try to focus on uh delivering uh good governance to the people and shying away from whatever shady deals the previous administration has done if
You get to office will you probe your predecessor the the language the language probe as we are used to sounds like troubleshooting now the reason why I said it sounds like troubleshooting is that it is only natural that you check your past will you bring them to book let me let me
Theyve done Shady deals let me say this for almost 16 years it is friends of friends that have ruled a those state friends of friends and at the end they are all sharing from the spores so a lot of Secrets have been contained within the that have of course not been fine
Tuned over the time I remember there was a time a certain Bishop in the bishop which I think petition an XY governor and nothing was done about it because you and I understand the power of incub at the federal level and the roles could play at the at the state level but what
I want to do as a person is a fresh start I I tell you the honest truth the best option will be a fresh start because when you bring in Honey the ants will naturally come there is a way you have trouble and seek to move the people
Forward other than to to spend the time of creativity battling and fighting because for those days these friends of friends what they’ve literally done over a long of time is fight with the people’s commonweal and the people’s resources I’m not in interested in fighting I’m only interested in solving
Problems by Nature have a natural incling for problems for for solving problems other than accentuating problems I find the problem of poverty some ravaging lives in ad do state I’m interested in solving that I find the problem of insecurity wastefulness of lives and properties in a those state
I’m interested in solving that I see poor architecture in terms of infrastructure I’m interested in solving that I noticed for the past 16 years friend of friends who once attracted 30 billion to avert the storm water project we still have erosion ravaging the length and bread reduced state I’m very
Interested in solving that I would rather spend my god-given intellect and ideas on solving finances that were released or borrowed for that project not done will just be swept under the carpet for the past for the past 16 years who has proved them who has asked question does the state have an auditor
General what has your aor General be doing who has asked theor general questions as to what have you audited from the previous accounts you see when I say that we they trumped democracy they mutilated democracy when they turn local government elections to crowning that asset are structure for them it’s
All part of the mutilation of democracy it’s where when they get to office what they literally do is continuation you see you can still unabated when the structure that should ask you questions are loyal to you in you said will give local government autonomy you’ve said that on this platform several times uh
But most Governors when they get to War Phase uh we see different thing from what they say during the campaign period and all that and will you interfere in the business of the House of Assembly you see six governments in in Nigeria so far has granted Financial autonomy to uh
The legislature and I believe so strong in my heart that if you not interested in power and the emony of power and if you’re not interested in the Looting and the process of of En reaching yourself and your friends you should not be afraid to be accountable so so the the
Legislative arm will be given free hands yes to do their work here’s the reason why I interference here’s why I said they’ll be giv a free hands to do their work first of all when there’s so much money in one location everybody tend to be concentrating on that location right
What I intend to do is to sign a local government financial autonomy so the monies can go to the local government so you see the legislature naturally has so much work to do to enforce and to follow and have side function and legislate so when the money is not at the state level
Why do why would you have problem with me what I intend to do at the state level is aut create wealth push policies that can make life better then use ideas to stimulate the economy not the IG the federal location they will go to local government so you go and have your
Battles at the local government level okay uh well I think we have to stop now with uh extended beyond our time thank you so much Paul for coming and we sincerely wish you all the best congratulations in advance and have yourself a beautiful Merry Christmas people okay this is where we’ll be
Drawing the court we’ll be seeing you again on Friday for another edition of the program road to Edo 2024 my name is Daniel PR o de do have yourself a fine season ahead bye for now
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