A knee jerk often by so were not coming to. A very good morning from moscow with just gone 9 am here are very happy and joined us. Well to start off this hour with the horrific murder of a french history teacher last week has left many in the profession traumatized with teachers now fearful that the freedom to speak on instruct is a risk in this teacher gabriele the towns are told us the impact of the gruesome attack has hot. Tragedy that happened last week to discuss a colleague of mine is many many things its a tale of terror teachers in france are expected to do a lot and it sounds like we will be expected to even more presents many ills in society and i know my colleagues and i are ready to take on many challenges that ish teachers are really under the threats of islamic terrorism and we should not ask ourselves heres how you will teach kids should ask ourselves serious how we will protect the school itself and the surroundings of the school samuel patz he was beheaded in a terror
Truth to power all the more coming up in todays going underground but 1st nigerias largest city lagos has been the central hub of 2 weeks of mass protests that have turned global after a viral video allegedly showed a man being killed at the hands of an officer from the Nigerian Police force unit the special anti robbery squad joining me now from ogun state in the area is 4 times Grammy Nominated artist and political activist femi kuti son of afro beat by mia and colonial firebrand fela kuti thank you so much for coming on i know the situation is moving quite quickly different figures being given for the violence in lagos i know you were protesting the saw as Police Squads way you are what is the situation been in recent days. And my area has been very well i stay very calm but to them the reason i can was the protest passed in front of my house and then i had gone shots and i was i was like wow this will erupt into a war in this area so i quickly got dressed and ran to the medical tes
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Matthew Blaise has first-hand experience of the notorious police unit that in October sparked the powerful #EndSARS protest in Nigeria. On 10 July, as he made his way to Victoria Island beach, he was arrested by men from the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) unit.
“They pushed me into their van and drove me away,” Blaise says. At the police station, officers badgered him with questions, trying to get him to change his legal statement. They wanted him to declare that he was homosexual and say that he had just had sex.
The 21-year-old gay rights activist says he was arrested for “effeminacy and perceived homosexuality”. Though being gay or effeminate is not a crime in Nigeria, it becomes one if you’re caught engaging in gay sex.