Tlo, what's poppin? We are on twitch. We are not live, but you can leave a like comment subscribe turn on your post notification bells Man, let's continue to grow the family from Chicago to the UK um, I Just ran into this channel last night, man. I left a comment on one of the videos It's called this channel is called the taboo room I'm guessing it gives life stories about what's going on in the streets and around the world But there's only UK stuff from what I see these are UK stories like Which is you know fitting I like what's going on here I left a comment asking can I do reactions on the channels right here? So if y'all can go like this comment up man So you can see it And he also this is a new channel so he needs the support because he rents the studio time At Universal Technical Institute He actually pays people to come on here and you know as he should you know pay for their story until people wants to come on It or tell a story themselves He does have a go fund me page if y'all want to go help Go fund it's right above my head Or you know just leave a sub sub sub up watch help that helps the most man Anyway, let's get into this man. Don't forget we are partnered with the blueprint mastermind man links down in the description We did the group chat and this was here we go. This is the one I wanted This was I was shot in the face by two London gangsters and survived Yo That's what we starting off at Hey, I did not glorify some socialize or condone any of these act stories told I'm here simply to educate myself And heathers of the history or current issues Around the world. This is a mature audiences It contains graphic descriptions of crying scenes and adult dialogue. Maybe some strong language, man Simple Let's get into this man. I must start doing a lot of these a lot of a podcast type because it's easy to Say easy to navigate on Tube of you I Need a door on the trolley Somebody's dying outside. Somebody's dying outside. I've got somebody dying outside Somebody that you forgot crazy you see blood Is that the actual Recording or oh my god Tablo is a word that stays something of obscure nature something perhaps misunderstood born in West London The London Borough of Eileen My childhood was quite good. I was raised by two Ghanaian parents My mom was really religious. My dad was kind of strict I went to a school called Cardinal Weisman. She was like a Catholic school. Good school at the time. I Completely with a few GCSEs. I lasted the whole way didn't get kicked out I was really into sports at the time basketball special That's an achievement in itself lasted through school Stay in school, man. I got kicked out of high school my senior year I had to go to an alternative school, but I still graduated with the diploma of my original school, but you know, I missed that last year in high school and I regret getting kicked out I Don't regret it, but I'm just like dang. I should have been there to enjoy my last year Actually, so I was really into sports at the time basketball, especially so I Went to I went college after school for a year. Then I went to America for a year Okay, and they're not coming back after like six months or so Then I kind of lost the passion for the sports and basketball and started like focusing on You know that what 18 year old folks on money girls or whatever It's like messing around with the wrong crowd ended up going to get a mixed up in the county lines thing I'm going trouble for that ended up getting a prison sentence for conspiracy for that County lines. We all know what county lines mean. It's when they go out of town and they get to And they get to you know Trapping out of town county lines Bringing it from the big town to the small town then When I came out Joe kind of reformed myself got a job started working on the railways like Turning to a railway engineer for a few years Then I moved back to London So then Jarvis tell me about the night where you were shot. Tell me about the morning the whole day So the morning I got shot woke up. I met a trainer reseller I got some yellow Jordans went Westfields got an outfit because it was that Halloween weekend Okay, I didn't want to wear outfit. So I've just got a mask. I went to one club in central London that evening That was good vibes had a good time Obviously after I just felt like I could party I could carry on party And so I met with a friend of mine and went to a part a house party to the first That's mistake number one 2020 whatever you was in the 2000s going to house parties in London In Chicago we stopped going to house parties in 2015 it was over with First party was in a club. The second was a house party Got there about Two o'clock in the night or whatever Was there for about an hour a house party? So the first party was in a club. The second was a house party Got there about Two o'clock in the night or whatever in the morning. It's there for about an hour But I have been having a little drink and then All of a sudden I was approached by some some people who asked me what area I was from When they asked me what area I was from they wasn't really waiting for my Response they already had made up their mind. They already believed that he knew me and they knew where I was from Which they was wrong? They then started to move a bit aggressive Hands down the chargers and stuff. So I kind of knew what was what to happen So my instincts just told me to get out of there The party was happening in the canopy like in the back garden So instead of me going through the house, I ran straight through the canopy. You wasn't even inside, bro There's so many red flags first Halloween in Chicago, I know but this is you know, I do the comparison trust in Chicago. We don't really even party in this house parties There's still a thing, but we don't go to those We barely even go outside on Halloween like for what? I'm good. Unless I'm going downtown in somebody's Club you can't Down the side of the house as I go down the side of the house That's when the gunshot started going off Bam bam, I've had like two gunshots go off and in this time It's kind of like threw me off balance and I've slipped at the time. I've slipped I've got up But as I've slipped and I'm getting up I can still hear the gunshots going off I've tried to run because I could see my car inside So I've tried to run towards my car as I try to run towards my car.  Okay, hold on So I spun around and I asked like What the reason for them shooting me was you asked so as they're shooting you Ask them why and yes, I have been in this situation. So yes, I can comment on it. I have full Yes, I have been in this situation if anybody was wondering. Yes It's a man. Okay. So your mind is not completely there when you getting you know shot at so I can kind of see like Especially for the first time you don't really know what's happening But that's OD that's why that is when I felt like I can't outrun bullets So you're right. Let me find out what's going to see if I could resolve it even though it was too late because about Five six gunshots. I've really gone off At this point I've turned around to try and ask like what the reasoning was for What I've done wrong basically and then they just carried on shooting shooting shooting bam, bam Bullets then hit me in my stomach kind of winded me. I Tried to turn around and bullet it hit me in my bum cheek the one of my bum cheek sent me off balance I hit the ground as I hit the ground.  What did I I'm trying to party I came up for Halloween I'm just trying to get it in Wrong neighborhood wrong place at the wrong time man.  Whoever it was is coming to finish me off so All of a sudden I've just heard bam and bullets like and I just felt like my teeth crumbling in the back of my mouth But I can still hear and see so I've seen the guy. No, I haven't seen the guy, but I've heard the guy running off So straight away my instincts kicked in to get up and try and move out the way cars in the middle of the road at This point so I've got up we've got I've gotten to the pavement. I've tried to jump over someone's fence Back garden fence a band on their window. Obviously, I've realized no one's Responding so I've Taken my phone out of my pocket. I've tried to call an ambulance at this point My phone wasn't working because all the blood from my mouth was dripping onto my phone As that's happening now, I've heard my name being called It was that to it was the one person that went to the party with and two people that had recognized me from the party So I've tried to I've managed to get myself back over the fence onto the pavement When they then took my car keys got my car and helped me into the backseat So I'm in the backseat. My friend is driving As he's driving me and I'm having conversations back and forth. I'm asking him how long I'm telling him I don't want to die this and that he's that don't worry like you're good Whatever that's a reasonable conversation in this situation that is very reasonable Hey people listen people may give and I'm not saying he was doing none of this because he was an innocent guy Mistaken identity. That's why I don't party on holidays where do people can wear masks and it's accepted You know I'm saying like no But like Anybody who's yelling oh Man, I ain't afraid to do this. I ain't afraid to do.   He's running to the hospital and he's tried to beg for help No one in the hospital tried to help because they said that the hospital was closed. So what's that? Hold on time out. So hospitals closed in the UK Hospitals don't close here. I've never went to a hospital and maybe like we're closed That's not a thing They're not happening now He's ended up bringing an ambulance to compete me from that hospital to take me to another one. No hospital close five ten minutes Then once I was picked up by this next ambulance I was taken to another hospital where I was then put sedated. I was put into a sedated coma So they can operate on me to call the bullets bullets out of me and stuff I'm wired my jaw Because my joes all over the place. So they had to wire my jaw. I had a metal wire in my mouth and I had missing teeth and some missing bone and I had to get metal plate put on my jaw So when I got jumped in Chicago I got a I got a hairline fracture on my jaw and I had three teeth missing and I have three root canals And I got three false teeth, but I didn't have to give my jaw I got jumped by 30 people as well It wasn't a light job. It was real I woke up after like two days after the sedated coma.  I Believe it was a mistaken identity. I believe they Really did believe that maybe I was one of their enemies or one of their ups or something But yeah mistaken.  Well at first like So the first time I spoke to my dad he was like He was a bit like what I've done like who've you who've you upset kind of thing? Just that everyone else probably thought maybe I upset somebody, but then obviously once I got a chance to explain things My mom and that they both realized that it was a mistake. Do you know I mean? My mom I feel sorry for her because I know it was traumatic for her because she saw me Like the day I was in any so she saw when I was asleep My tongue was big and black like something you've never seen before My jaws were hanging off and I had all these shoes hanging out of me. So I just know it It caused her a bit of trauma as well Jarvis if you was to meet the people who shot you what would you say to them? I just say Good question Maybe be more careful like cuz last precious like you need to take you need to take away my life Absolutely, no reason like you know I mean I hear you with them is road man Whatever they were thinking at that point it didn't matter it was just to go time they thought she was somebody else This is this is why it's hard being a young African-American Person in 2020 and anything past 2017 being hard. It's young I mean it's hard being young and African-American because mistaken identity you you you got to you got to be aware of Ops they not even your ops with people thinking you something that you not if you dress a certain way if you look a certain way It's wild Yeah And before we finish Jarvis is that anything that you'd like to say yeah I just like to thank God for I'd like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to come and tell you my story because I haven't really had chances to speak about this and Yeah, I just like to thank God for just saving me giving me a reason to be here make me Thought like I've got a reason to be here. Hey salute bad Salute man. I'm glad you made it out of there, bro.  Tla leave a like comment subscribe turn on your post no least Remember man go over to the taboo room link down in the description. That's so about


You're welcome back to the breakfast on Plus TV Africa. We're going back to the year 2013 to talk about what happened this day May 14th and in this same history the book Americana is published by renowned Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ongozi Adiche. This book won her the 2013 US National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. It was Adiche's third book after she had published, you know, others including a half of a yellow sun.  We're talking about race, nationalism, colonialism as well, African-ness, you know. So the book critics praised the novel for talking about different aspects of society and how it reflects global tensions and it basically centers around two main characters, Ifimelu and Obinzi and how, you know, they had ideals of what it was like to live and exist in the West and then they left Nigeria for greener pastures, for education in, you know, from Nigeria to the US and to the UK and just what they encountered, how they, the experiences, you know, were somewhat different, how, you know, back here in Nigeria, they never had to, you know, struggle with what it meant to be black, but going over to those countries, how they had to, you know, really, you know, basically struggle with those concepts. You know, it was just talking about the post-war in the US as well for Obinzi and for Ifimelu. So the book was selected as one of the 10 best books in 2013 by the editors of the New York Times book review and we know that in 2014 there was an announcement that David O'Yellowo and Lupita Nyong'o will start in a film adaptation of the book and for Chimaman Nongozia-Dichie as a writer, we know the quality of her writing and how she just has that ability to draw you into her world and make you really feel the words from the paper. She's written fantastic books. I enjoy reading her, especially Half of a Yellowstone. I haven't personally read Americana but I've watched lots of book reviews about this and read reviews about the book as well but talking about my experience reading her work from other books that I've read, I mean, the reviews are just there. Chimaman Nongozia-Dichie is one of the best things that have come out of Nigeria. We appreciate her for her work and even though there's lots of controversy with her stance regarding feminism, but we do know that Chimaman Nongozia-Dichie is one African author to be celebrated always. Absolutely. We celebrate her and looking forward. I've never got to read it.  Never got to read it. I think it started at Popohaibiscus and only got like 10 pages in and lost focus. I didn't lose interest, I just lost focus. Anyway, that's for that and now let's also talk today in history in 2013 on this day from our President Gulag Jonathan in his bid to rid the country of insurgency and terrorist made, gave an order, of course, declaring a state of emergency in three states in Nigeria. He'd allowed soldiers of course at this time to arrest people at will and take over buildings suspected to house extremists in Adamawa, Bernou and Yobes states. An official in Kadena state at that time said gunmen armed with rifles and suspected to be house of fallen Katowheathers killed 11 people in the village there. In Benwe state, a government spokesman said an attack blamed also on headers killed about 12 people and of course the president at that time was left with almost no other option than to declare a state of emergency in these states. The order was issued and of course applied to Bernou Yobes and Adamawa states. He also ordered more troops to be sent to northeastern states. Militants from Boko Haram at that time were blamed for most of the violence which had left about 2000 people dead since the year 2010. He also noted the rise of insurgent violence in states. Other states including Nassarawa where scores of police officers were killed. He cited several recent examples of violence including killing of innocent civilians and state officials, attacks on government buildings and facilities and the destruction of Nigeria's flag for strange flags instead. And so it was on this day in 2013 that a state of emergency was declared in those three states. The level of success of course can be discussed further. How successful was that decision in reading the country of Boko Haram and of course of other insurgent members in that time. But people would always also mention that at the end of 2014 year or sometime around 2014 that the government, Nigerian government and of course security agencies with support from mercenaries and you know other you know security support that they were able to get did a very very good job with almost successfully defeating Boko Haram at that time. It's a narrative that of course has been passed around. Some people agree some people may not. There's also mercenaries who have said that their contract was cancelled right after the current war. That administration lost the election and the administration came into power and they had recorded a massive success in the fight against insurgency back then in 2014 but their contracts were cancelled. But they have been over time numerous steps taken by previous governments and the current administration to win the war against insurgency. Unfortunately we still are dealing with Boko Haram with ISWAP and now with so-called bandits with headers and the likes. Kidnapping of course has also become one of the things that we've spoken about the most in the last couple of years. But well it's always of course a constant move by the Nigerian government by Nigerian people security agencies to ensure that Nigerians are safe across the country either with the state of emergency which has also been mentioned a few times in the current administration as something that we may need to consider with regards northern states in the country. Yes back then you know when the state of emergency you know was declared just so we can you know have a grip on the whole terrorism issue and yes you can argue that the Good Luck administration did you know try some steps and it was one of the things that you know the current president you know rode on in his campaign was going to defeat corruption tackle terrorism but you know they came into power and begin to blame the you know past past administrations I don't know why they keep doing that even governors whatever challenges they say rather than fix it they begin to say oh the last administration left zero narrow and it covers this was what we met but you've been there for four five six years why hasn't it changed in your time you know so I just feel that there's a long way to go and I really hope that the next administration that comes into power in 2023 doesn't say oh this is how we met it but it actually does something to make it better. Well the way things are going there's going to be a lot of blame you know for you know the current administration the way things are going you know there's always going to be some space you know for someone to say oh well you know in the last eight years with with you know the Bora Bora administration these things weren't done well that wasn't done properly that was left unattended to here and then so well like you said we hope that you know whoever it is ignores some of all those things and just focuses on doing the job of fixing Niger and fixing our country. All right stay with us we have our first major conversation coming up we are going to be talking about the need for a national dialogue do we as a country need to have these discussions again we've had one a couple of years ago that was never really implemented and the resolutions from the national dialogue are still you know have been ignored by the current administration so do we need to have another one and is it also important to know if you know we'll get into it after this short break I guess we'll join in us stay with us