Hey guys, it's Kevin. Today we're going to disassemble Epson Expressing XP 7100. And this is a workflow version, which we just, from beginning, we go all the way to the end. If you have any questions, or want to see some part that's not clear to you, or you want us to have a more specific video, please comment. And I will see if I can accommodate that. Also, if you feel this is going too fast, and you want to have a paper copy of the workflow, we can go to bchtechnologies.com and go to printer parts, and Epson, and install and install workflow. So you can find this XP 7100. And in the workflow, so this is the section. So actually, we just finished the first section. And we removed the paper tree and the duplexer. So now we're on the second section, which is remove the scanner. And you can see here, we're going to turn back to the printer. And from a top-down view, we're going to find a two silver screw. SS means screw with ultra-silver. And SK means screw, which is black. And let's do it. So in the back, we remove the screws.  And now we can unscrew the first circuit board. And by the way, on the right-hand side of your workflow sheet, you're going to see the parts number and show you which part you can remove from each procedure. And now just make sure all the cables are detached. And also the FFC cable. And there's one big one, and there's one small one. And take a look from there to make sure everything is attached. Then just hold the scanner, hold it towards you, and it'll come right off. Also make sure to take a picture before you do that. So when you put it back, you'll know which wire goes which. If you don't have a picture, and what do you do? Go to bch-diagnologies.com and download the picture. Now we turn the printer around and facing the front of the printer. You need to release the locks on the printhead. And to do this, you need to turn the wheel on your left side, turn it counterclockwise. And now you can remove a long plate from the top and just take it off. Now we need to take off those corner plates. On the workflow, it says remove the right plate. And you can start with the left if you want. Take the top plate off, then left or right is up to you. Now the front panel LCD can be removed. And now we can remove the waste tank. I realize the angle is not that great for this waste tank removal. I'm going to shoot another video to show you how to do it. Now we can take the printhead and the CSS board out. Up to you, remove the timing belt. Make sure that you save the CR sensor. The CR sensor is mounted on the printhead carriage assembly. Next are those I5C cables. And basically just run them through the loop and take them out. And next, we need to remove the pulley. Turn the printer back to you towards you and just use a screwdriver. Remove the biggest spring and the cable on the carriage return going to be loose. And you can take the pulley out. And now you can take the drive cable out. Now we're going to remove the printhead rails. And there's one upper rail. There's lower rail. And just unscrew all the screws under the rail. And the printhead carriage will come off. OK, for those of you who have a faulty ejection sensor, here's where the ejection sensor is. If the sensor is faulty, it will always show you have a paper jam. Although you don't have any paper there, it will show you a paper jam. If you want to get to the sensor, and you'll need to remove the paper guide. And the top part of the rail. Of course, you don't need to take the motor off if you only want to get to the ejection sensor. Here's a nice and juicy ejection sensor. However, you don't really have to go through this trouble to fix the sensor. I may just shoot another video to see what you can do is you can just install the sensor. Another place does have the same function. Now you can unwind those wires and remove the power supply and the waste pump. And I don't know why Epson designed the main board to be horizontal and is under the printer. And normally, Epson designed it another way. It designed vertical, so you don't have ink drip on it. And this model is very, very funny. It's really hard to get to the main board. OK, the rest of the stuff are pretty easy, just straightforward unscrew and remove. Again, if you get somewhere stuck, just leave a comment or shoot us an email. And we can see if we can help you out. I hope this video helps your project. Please visit us at www.bchtechnologies.com or locally at Greensboro, North Carolina. Cheers.


love my bikes. Well, I say bikes. I only have two, which isn't many by many people's standards, but this one was one I couldn't resist. It was down the village, just about 400 yards away, and a prop up against the wall with a sign on it saying, spares or a pair, £5. And this was only a few months ago and I looked at it and it was a much tattier state than this, quite rusty and I I picked it up and various things were seized and but I came home and I was thinking about it and having got home I thought, okay, I'm going to go and get it. So I went down the road and I gave one of these to the chap and in exchange I got to have this. And what has occurred of course is something we do on a regular basis and that is the trading of one form of wealth for another, in this case, financial wealth for what I would call techno-industrial wealth, things that we make, we manufacture, things like metals and plastics and tires, even though the rubber is a natural material, it's mixed with a whole bunch of things, turned into this molded tire. So let's think about those different forms of wealth and there are several different models for this. There's one by Wealth Works, another by Apple Seed Permaculture and they're all very good and very interesting and what I've done is just reflecting on some of the words that he used and some questions in my head I've come up with my own slightly adapted version which I'll describe now. So the first two I've got here are financial and techno-industrial so let's put those on the wheel. And what's marvellous about this wheel is it has 36 spokes, 18 on each side, that's nine pairs, which allows me to put nine segments on it so it even works mathematically, but even more fun for me is this idea of the word wheel because wheel we associate with things that go round of course, but there's also another word wheel which comes from Anglo-Saxon and it's the root of the word wealth. So wealth and wheel come from the same place and the spelling of that word was W-E-A-L and we'll come to its meaning a bit later, but at these days we tend to think of wealth as money or material possessions in our society anyway and so these are the two forms of wealth we tend to focus on the most and in this session I'm going to reflect on some of the other forms of wealth and why they're important. So I traded some of this, some of this, but look where it led me why did I decide to do that in the first place? Well it's because I have a few other forms of wealth which I felt would have made this a better deal than perhaps it was for the people that went by and didn't choose to take it up and that includes my intellectual wealth, the knowledge I have about bicycles and the things I've read about bikes in the past and ultimately the experience I have of fixing up bicycles and actually taking that knowledge and applying it. So because I knew about bikes and I knew I could fix bikes because I've done it before I thought that this looked like a really good deal. So I took the bike with me to the next permacotch design course I was teaching up in the Midlands and the idea was that I was going to spend the evenings or some of the evenings doing it up, fixing it up, doing a bit with the frame, sorting out the headset which was completely seized, the bottom bracket which was also pretty short and what I didn't expect was to get some help. I thought it was just something I would end up doing myself but as it turned out I had an opportunity to work with somebody who was assisting on the course and he'd been somebody who'd been in the background for me, he lives in London I didn't really get much chance to mix with him but we had two weeks together and he was really interested in the renovation of the bike and so we spent a lot of time fixing it up together and he really helped me particularly in those moments where I was starting to think I don't think I can fix this, it's too seized and it was just that kind of extra momentum to help me get through and so this is very much about the people we know, the network we have around us, the different experience, knowledge, skills and so on that we have within that network and so for me getting into permaculture I really built my social network like-minded people around me it's been one of the key things for me about learning permaculture, the people that I got to associate with. Now fixing up the bike we had solved some problems and there's another form of wealth here which is our cultural wealth the songs, stories and so on from our ancestors were very much about problem solving what happens if you know this happens in the future how do we solve this problem in the past and in addition to the knowledge that's passed on to our culture there's also really key things well somebody in the past invented bicycles and I get to enjoy like the cultural heritage the techno industrial cultural heritage if you like of having a bicycle but also as a gardener the varieties the different types of apples and pears and so on which we have available to us now were bred by our ancestors and they've been gifted to us and it's part of our cultural inheritance so for me there's a huge cultural wealth that I've inherited coming into this world and one that I feel that we have a responsibility to look after and that ties us very nicely into the natural world of course which talking about trees and plants and so on that all these things are only possible because of what nature has managed to achieve on earth to take the energy of the sun and to transform that energy into life using such amazing technologies and the natural world is one that we desperately need to care for in permaculture we give a great deal of attention to and so what are the natural what's the natural wealth that we've inherited well it's the water and the air and the soils and and so it's our responsibility again to look after those things and if we don't because we are made of those things then we ultimately will be poisoned by them which leads us nicely to our physical health which is the reason we do all of this stuff you could say our physical health is another form of natural wealth because we are nature but ultimately the landscape that we shape out here the way we shape it is all about meeting our needs how do we find the food we need and the water and the energy and so on to survive and thrive here and so our physical health really is a key aspect of our wealth and if we don't have physical health then much of the rest of it really is irrelevant so what about this other segment well we'll come back to that in a moment but what gets interesting is when you start to look at these different forms of wealth and when I talked about other models before that was they described as different forms of capital now capital is a stock it's it's a fixed thing it's something you hold it's the food in your fridge or the food in your garden or the logs in your log store but it doesn't take account of the flows the things that are coming in and those that are leaving and so wealth has to accommodate these things if the sun went out tomorrow then we might have a whole load of carbon stored on the earth and we could eat for a while but essentially without the sun's energy coming into power the system we would be doomed and of course stocks empty because they're there to basically buffer the times when the flows aren't coming in so we have to have food in our larder for the winter for instance or we collect rain in our water butts for the summer when it's not raining so much so wealth has to accommodate or take into account the flows in and the flows out and when we start looking at the rate of inflow and outflow of these different forms of wealth then we notice they're actually quite different so if we come back to physical health now I know that if I go out and exercise then I can slowly build up some improvement in my fitness for instance or if I'm not feeling very well and I want to eat more healthily then that's something that takes time for the effects to change and similarly my physical health deteriorates at a reasonably slow rate if I stop exercising then after a while I start to notice the difference and it might make me think I need to do start doing more of that again we could look at techno industrial things in a similar way this bicycle by the time I acquired it was in quite a state and they were quite a bit of work but you know I can park it in the corner of the room and it'll take a while for it to degrade so it's not something it disappears or degrades very rapidly how about some of these other things well my intellectual and experiential capital they're things that essentially until I really start to forget things when I'm really old then they just build and build over time I get more experience from doing different things the more I read or the people I talk to and so on the more you learn these are things that build and perhaps from time to time you know I will forget things because they're no longer that important but even things like experience I do ride a bike a lot but if I hadn't ridden the bike for a few years then I could still get back on one and within a few minutes pick up where I left off same for things like swimming because it's an experiential thing it's in the body we know how to do it cultural capital as well that's something that is very much we all inherit it and we hopefully add to it in some way but it builds and builds over time and things that become less important disappear and what we have to be careful of though is because our world is changing so rapidly and we are in a world where we've got essentially free energy to do all kinds of things that some of those things that our ancestors knew how to do which were vital for surviving and thriving can be starting we might start to consider those things as not being very important anymore and they can be lost and there are vital skills we live in a thatched house and thatching is a particular skill and the people that lived here in the past they thatched their house because that's the material they had you've got walked down the valley and there's a stream streaming the valley and lots of reeds and you go and you cut reeds and you basically roof your house with it because that's what you have and those skills can be lost so in permaculture we're really thinking about how do we preserve those skills because we may well need them in the future it's very important and of course our social capital people we know and network also again that's fairly stable we might be able to upset people quite quickly by just saying something offensive but on the whole our social network stays pretty much stable it doesn't change very rapidly the natural world is also very interesting because nature essentially just builds and builds over time life has used the energy of the sun and the expertise of different species and kingdoms in nature to build more and more of itself and so when we work with nature and natural resources then that's something that we can't use it up rapidly although of course there are non-renewable things in the context of you can use them more quickly than they're made like oil and gas and coal for instance so which of these stocks empties the most quickly well I think if most of us really think about it we'd look and say it's probably financial if I looked at my bank accounts it can be dramatically different within a matter of weeks perhaps even days depending on what bill's coming and so if we fixate on our financial stocks as being key to our feelings of safety because stocks are all about safety you know having food in the larder having rain in the water bath is all about feeling safe and so if we have full stocks and we see them and appreciate them then we feel safe if I look at my bank account too often I might start to think ah looks like that's empty I need to go out and find some more money and because that's something that happens a lot it has the potential to make us feel really anxious and it's no surprise to me that the culture I live in that values money so highly in material possessions is such an anxious culture for me the remedy to that is to remember and appreciate all of these other forms of wealth the intellectual the experiential wealth I have the people I know the cult my cultural inheritance the varieties of plants and fruits and vegetables and so on that I've inherited so coming back to this last segment what is that segment well I like to put in well-being I've talked about physical health so this is all about our mental emotional and spiritual well-being and this for me ties very much to the levels of all these other stocks because our well-being can go up and down very quickly in a day and it's a stock that you know we can feel fantastic maybe something great happened and then something terrible happens and we can go downhill very rapidly so to keep a good stock of well-being I think the key for me is to remember to appreciate all of these health forms and certainly if we worry too much about where our financial stocks are doing then that very much affects our well-being coming back to the bicycle and the word wheel and wheel means or the original meaning of wheel the Anglo-Saxon word was wholeness well-being so the circle encompasses that wholeness if you like so wellness wholeness well-being so when I traded one of these for one of these I didn't just exchange some financial wealth for some techno industrial wealth I also acquired the opportunity to build my intellectual capital my intellectual wealth because I had to learn a bit about a bike that was had a few things that were less familiar to me I hadn't done before and that ties into my experiential wealth because I've taken on a bike that I'd not worked with before and I fixed it up I know now that I can do it again it gives me confidence to know that I can do it it helped me build my social wealth by giving me an opportunity to really connect with somebody who I've been wanting to speak to learn from befriend for quite a long time it gave me a chance to appreciate my culture and what I'd inherited including the invention of the bicycle and the people that had made them even more fun by making them look like this and the natural world of course benefits by me using a bicycle rather than a vehicle that uses fossil fuels and a bike helps get me out into nature much more easily as well and of course while buying the bike was not me buying more physical health because I could just park it in the corner of the room and ignore it but by using a bike then inevitably my physical health benefits and so for me when I bought the bike I bought all of these things and ultimately a great deal of well-being so my question to you is what was the best £5 that you ever spent and I mean that from the perspective of all of these different kinds of wealth that you acquired by doing so


probably my favorite genre of games are first-person shooters and being a fan of Linux and free and open source software the great thing about free and open source gaming is we have a ton of great free and open source first-person shooters and one of my favorite one I've played on and off for many many years now is cube two or sour Broughton you can go check out the website at sour Broughton.org and sour Broughton has been around forever I remember playing sour Broughton probably a decade ago and it's a great game it's a it's a really fun first-person shooter that does have some active players and the great thing about it is it's cross-platform so it's free and open source software but it's not just available on Linux it's also available on Windows and Mac OS as well so when you launch sour Broughton you can either play online multiplayer which is what most people are gonna want to do but there is an excellent single-player mode you can go to bot match and play against bots and you could actually adjust the skill level of the bots and the number of bots you're playing against I'm gonna go with the default settings here and I'm gonna just quickly show you a bot match you have various types of games you can select I'm gonna do the free-for-all against the bots and then you get to pick your map I'll pick the cartel map here and then I've got a revolver here which isn't a very good gun it doesn't do a lot of damage oh but I did hit somebody but it's not gonna kill him let me switch to a different weapon so I scroll the mouse wheel and I get this grenade launcher which if I can hit somebody with the grenades it would be great but now I've switched to a machine gun but it does quite a bit of damage but you do have to hit them now I've got the four barrel shotgun let me get the armor so at least I'm not dying but I'm not killing any of these bots either free-for-alls can be kind of messy right it's kind of confusing there's so much going on when you've got me against five bots well it's six of us in the game me and five bots but six people everyone for himself let me get the grenade launcher because I think I could kill somebody with it oh I've got the chainsaw let's go I've always wanted to chainsaw somebody did I get him I know I hit him but I don't think I killed him all right let me switch back to a gun I've got a gun I guess I all I've got is the revolver I've got a shotgun got the four barrel shotgun now gameplay let's talk about zooming you hit G on the keyboard you can zoom you could also hit Z on the keyboard to zoom I don't really need to zoom with any of the weapons here most of these are close-quarters weapons like this shotgun there's no point in trying to scope somebody way off anyway that was just a little bit of the bot play the bot play is pretty fun now let's actually play a online multiplayer game so let's go ahead and play a insta team game so they're gonna be two teams there's gonna be the blue team there's gonna be the red team you're always on the blue team so you never have to worry about getting the colors mistaken anybody that's red you need to kill them and this is a 60-person max game there's 11 people in it right now the map is Venice and let's go ahead and join it and this game how it works is everyone has a rifle and the rifle is a one-shot kill so you don't have to worry about learning a map and finding cool weapons or being stuck with a weapon that doesn't do anything right so it's a very fair kind of way to play and I like it and this is probably the most popular kind of game on Sauer brought in are these multiplayer insta team games and let me go find the red players saw one I don't think he saw me if I could find him again oh I hear someone with a chainsaw up I'm not doing very well here one thing I will mention for those watching me play of course I don't game that often but I am better at this game than I'm showing on camera here but the problem here is I am actually playing this game on my Kensington expert trackball mouse so actually I'm actually kind of surprised how well the trackball is working for me inside a little church here and let me get him it's not bad actually I will say the Kensington expert although it's definitely not a gaming mouse this really big trackball I can get a pretty precise shot rather quickly with it the only problem is when you get excited it moves way too quickly too fast matter fact because I have a triple monitor system there's been a couple of times here where I've actually moved the trackball to where it had focus on another monitor that's not playing the game which obviously is going to get me killed oh so the thing to notice about this is that when you shoot the rifle there is a pause there's a delay you can you know you've got a couple of seconds between each shot so if you miss you're very vulnerable the other thing is the rifle does have some recoil which is unique not a lot of games have recoil when it comes to shooting so you actually get moved back just a hair but it's it's noticeable oh the guy on the roof I saw him at the last second but it was too late and this guy is camping his spawn camping let me go get that guy oh there he is I thought I had him but he got me somehow oh and then somebody snuck up behind me okay well you're not very good of course I'm not very good either I lost focus oh thank you my teammate got him I was dead there of the trackball it actually rolled across to the far right monitor so I'd actually lost focus mouse focus on this monitor so I was dead had my teammate not shot that guy when he did yeah maybe I should plug in a real mouse somebody got shot there now one thing about these maps is of course we've got these buildings I mean I could go up in a tower you know and try to be sneaky get up high and one of these buildings where I'm would probably stand a better chance of not getting killed as often I can go up the steps here let's go ahead I've got a ladder here let's try to get to the top of this building I've got these windows and now would be a good time to zoom so I hit G or Z on the keyboard either one I see if I can scope anybody out now I never saw anybody but somebody definitely scoped me out because they'd get me so and yeah I better not stay in one place too long that that's gonna be dangerous oh somebody somebody tried to sneak up on me there and of course the real secret to this kind of map is actually knowing the map knowing you know the good hiding spots knowing where people like to perch in these towers you've got a lot of people that they they find their spot that they like and you know you that is really the difference in the game oh there was somebody up there I don't know if I got him or I might have missed him really I'm just looking for somebody to kill I'm not even trying to be sneaky I'm just out here in the open I want to frag people for about five to ten minutes and then call it a day but this is Sauer Brotten just a cursory overview of Sauer Brotten which again free and open source software cross-platform available Windows Mac and Linux dang got him okay well I he had to be still for a minute for me to get him but of course the rest of my teammates were also missing him I see you up there I see you let's zoom in anyway that's Sauer Brotten so I hope you guys will go check that out Sauer Brotten for those of you on Linux being free and open source software and it's been around for many many years Sauer Brotten should be in every Linux distributions repos if you do install Sauer Brotten and check out some of the multiplayer online games I typically do play the Insta team games on the Venice map and if you see a player named RT FM that's gonna be me now before I go I need to think a few special people I need to thank the producers of this episode Devon Gabe James Matt Michael Mitchell Paul Scott with a commie Alan Lennox Ninja Chuck commander angry Kurt Diokai David Dillon Gregory high-co-coska Lee Maxim Mike Nitrix hurry on all this interpiece arching for door polytech river red Prophet Stephen and Willie these guys they're my highest tiered patrons over on patreon without these guys this quick look at Sauer Brotten would not have been possible the show is also brought to you by each and every one of these ladies and gentlemen as well all these names you're seeing on the screen right now these are all my supporters over on patreon because I'm sponsored by you guys the community if you like this channel if you like seeing Linux and free and open source software and free and open source games support distro tube over on patreon all right guys peace


Welcome back, it's time for our very first hot topic and we want to take a look at what's happening between Labour and the federal government. On Sunday yesterday, 1st of October in the morning, Labour came out with a speech, a statement where they brought some questions, raised some questions about their affairs of the country. And as I said yesterday morning, it seemed that all was set for the strike which has been scheduled for 3rd of October. However in the evening of yesterday's Sunday October 1st, NLC, TUC and the federal government had a meeting and some things came out from that meeting. So we want to find out what are the changes that have taken place as a result of that meeting and those things that have taken place, are they going to lead to the cancellation of the planned strike? We have been joined by Comrade Ismail Adejimo, Chairman Ratao Lagos, Ratao is Radio Television Theatre and Arts Workers Union and he is also the PRO NLC Lagos. Good morning to you Mr. Adejimo or Comrade Adejimo. Thank you very much. We are very proud of you Comrade and I appreciate you for having me on your breakfast this morning. Happy Independence anniversary to you. Happy Independence anniversary to all Nigerians when still in the mood of a celebration since the holidays today. Back to your question, Nigerian Labour Congress and the TUC, the two Labour Centre in Nigeria are very focused and determined to be the voice for the voiceless Nigerians and that is why we are resolute in our position and this position is to get government to the table to discuss those German issues that bothers on the wage award, the issue of subsidy that has affected the cost of commodities across both and this is biting other in our daily lives and that is why we want government to dialogue. The last result for any organised labour is the strike action which we find difficult to use except when it becomes so inevitable. At this very point you observe that we had a two days one strike is to point out to the government that we are ready and we are determined and this time around it is not only Nigerian people in this struggle. The TUC, the Trade Union of Congress, the civil society organisations, all allied bodies are fully committed. Even as I speak this morning by 3 am we are going to have a joint press conference in Lagos here to address this issue. But be that as it may, our national leadership, the parent body are already in talks with the government. The government have opened up the negotiations and discussion in this regard and you can gather from the press both the online and the conventional media that as of yesterday night there were flourishing resolutions and some decisions taken to cushion the threat of this subsidy remover. And we are also the leaders to tell these resolutions and decisions to various organs of the union as announced by our national president, Comrade Joe Ajiro, that today they will call for an emergency net meeting to deliberate and analyse these positions. All this offer that was extended to us by the government, then vis-à-vis our various state council, we also need to keen to it. So as soon as the decision is taken, then they will announce the next line of action. But as we stand, it is still ongoing discussion across the two divides is still ongoing from the labour centre. We are going to meet this money, our leaders will pass their resolution jointly with all the state organs. Then we make a final decision whether to continue the strike as planned for tomorrow or we suspend it in the interest of workers and injurians. What was supposed to be the issue that will make you call off the strike? Is it more promises or action that will start immediately? Because sitting at table and talking, I understand there are agreements that were reached as far back as 2009, which means there were promises that were made. These promises keep re-echoing every year, every time, especially election cycle or election time. These problems will come, there will be strikes upon strike upon strike. So did you at this time want to go on strike based on the fact that you have not been given more promises or you were going to go on strike based on the fact that there have not been action which you wanted to happen? Because if you are going to still discuss and the government tells you that in the next six months we are going to do XYZ, the buses will come for people to be able to travel for instance, the salaries will be added to the wage, salary award that you are calling will be added in the next six months for instance, that's a definite promise with a timeline. Is that good enough for you to influence you not to go on strike? Thank you very much. If you observe very well, this trouble started with the protest rally. In liberal movement, there are procedures, there are processes before we get to the final bus stop which is going on strike. We started with the protest rally where we submit our shutout demands to the government that this had our demands vis-à-vis the subsidial removal that is having a negative impact on the lives of an average worker and the citizenry. Having done that, we observe the government to react and follow those terms of reference by implementing them in phases because we don't expect them to implement everything at go because there are short-term and long-term requests there that government is not committed to implementing them as we expected that was why the need for the two-day warning strike came on board. Despite the fact that the TUC boycotted the strike, the Niger Liberal Congress which is the mother of all struggle in Nigeria was at the forefront and the strike was successful by all indications and that is why the danger rose and moved us to the next level which is the indefinite strike as I liked it. After the 21-day notice expiration, we are expecting the government to call the Labour Leader into a table and give us a time frame as we have said. Implementation of policies has to do with time frame and that is what we build confidence in the leadership and the citizenry that government is committed in implementing the S-Y-Z as at some time and we will see it in action but the time those things are beginning to come in, look at the issue of CNG, the buses, we have been expecting it because of transportation this idea at the reach of common man, look at the prices of stable foods in the packet, it's not more affordable. What are the government doing? The various government at the state, at the components unit of the government, the state government are doing little but it is not enough to cushion the effects of this subsidiary mover in our little life. So that is why at this point in time we are not only dialoguing on the basis of promises as we have said but implementation framework, the timeline must be clearly stated. How much confidence do you have? These promises will come to fruition and we begin to all have a feel, a relief from this hashing. Comrade, how much confidence do you have in this government to implement promises that they will make to you that will come to fruition maybe in six months time? For instance, this is October, we were told about student loans. I don't know if you've heard about it or not but that is for the ordinary man who is not a worker. Now the government comes and tells you they are going to give you 35,000 Naira or 25,000 Naira as the case may be, nothing, no mention is made about things that will benefit the common man that will be implemented immediately because it is not salary. The buses have not come, the palliatives that they said they were going to give to the people, it gets to the states and sometimes the state we hear it on the news telling us that 3,000 something have benefited from palliative in a state that will have millions of people and then you are asked not to distribute unless the party chairman of that state is there which means it's going to party faithfuls which means nothing is for the general public. Now how much confidence do you have in the government that has shown this nature to implement the things that you are asking them to implement if they don't start now? Thank you very much. The major thing that is missing in the social contract between the Netherlands and the people in government is that element of trust. By the time the citizenry begin to lose confidence and have no trust in the leadership then there will be problem and that is why we, the organized labor, the leadership have much from the degree of belief and confidence in the political elites, the ruling class that we need to key into the policy trust of government, policies should be revolved around the workers and the masses, it should be our own making that you carry us along from beginning so that the processes of implementation and the formulation will all be all encompassing. As we stand now, right now, governments are beginning to, you understand, prepare for the next budget which is 2024, I'm not speaking for government, the current budget that we have of 2023 to what extent would this budget implemented to key into the vision of this new government? They are giving us excuses along that line and that was where there was a kind of bacuna at the point of where subsidy ends and when subsidy, you understand, we vanished. And the president have announced it now, somehow, somehow, that we still need for government to pay some level of subsidy to ameliorate, otherwise, with the current exchange rate we have to be, with the free flow of dollar, you understand, skyrocketing everything, there is no how the lending cost of petrol will not go close to about a thousand error. So government still need to do something because the essence of government is to bring about greater happiness to the greater number of Nigerians irrespective of our party affiliation or whatever you have said in terms of palliative. And I can assure you in Lagos here, where we are, Lagos take command of Governor Babaji Nisongulu, the implementation of, administration of subsidy, the labor leadership are fully involved. Like my child person in Lagos, Comrade Agnesesie, she's part of the monitoring and enforcement of the distribution of the palliatives. Do you know? They show that it cuts across the vulnerable, hold on. Comrade. And the quantity of administration of those subsidy might not meet the yearning and aspiration of Nigerians because the federal government, hold on, the federal government promises... No, you hold on, you're saying it's very transparent in Lagos state. I want to ask you a question. Do you know that the last time palliatives were shared in Lagos, somewhere around Ikeja, close to the local government, people who were given the palliatives first time got it for free because their names were there. The next list of the people that were given palliatives, and we have proofs for this, were charged 2500 Naira for any bag of this palliative that contained rice, beans and oil and some other things that were charged. Have you heard that information? Because it happened here in Lagos. So I don't know how much you monitor. That's why I'm asking you that question. Thank you very much. You know, when you talk about trust and confidence, the leaders will propose confidence on people to administer this at various level. You cannot be at a point and see what is going on across the world. The governor of Lagos, for clarity, have set up committee, implementation committee across all the media tendencies and interest group in Lagos to look into how this thing would be distributed. But there is no how. You will not see some people with these shady views. I heard about it, but I cannot substantiate on air to what extent this thing will be understood. But immediately that was reported in the social media. We quickly reported it to the government. And that they have to checkmate these people. Otherwise they will defeat the aims and objectives for which these palliatives have been issued. It's meant for. And moving forward, you can see now that all those kind of demand the product is written not for sale. But why are people demanding money? The engineers are so greedy. People who are entrusted with the responsibility of giving this thing to the vulnerable people also want to make money from it. It's so unfortunate. It is unfortunate. Comrade, I almost called the NLC. I have three questions for you. And I'm going to put them together because of time. One, how popular would you say the NLC is with the people now? Two, have you felt the pulse of Nigerians with regards to this strike that's shadowed? What would you say is the pulse of Nigerians towards the strike? And three, is the NLC representing all Nigerians or just the federal workers? Thank you very much. Let me start from where you stop. The NLC is the parent body to many affiliate unions in which my own union, Radio, Television, Theater and Art Workers Union is one affiliated to NLC. The same thing goes for TUC. We also have some group of unions. Most especially in the private sector that fall under the trade union Congress. And by the resolution of NLC, for any action whatsoever, we are bound to comply. And that is why we are determined and set for this strike action except very early last minute changes or a decision communicated for us to do otherwise. Are you getting my point now? Now, for the confidence or the trust of Nigerians in NLC, we don't expect anything less because the NLC, right from the military days, go and check the record, the NLC has been the only vocal point that stands for the voiceless Nigerians. And wherever it may so because we, by the foundation and the establishment ethics of NLC, we are to advocate for the webbing of Nigerians beyond the working class, beyond those who are any salaries. That is why in any struggle we are having, you will see the civil society organization partnering with us. The non-government organization, so many allies, we join us. And that was why the issue of occupying Nigeria, when it started during Durantan regime, you saw the NLC who took a very serious and a very effective position, which prompted government to shift ground. The same thing we are doing this time around, whether Nigerians believe in us or they don't believe in us, the National Assembly is supposed to be the mouthpiece for Nigerians, but I cannot assure you, are they really doing that? The only voice I have in Nigerians is to rally around now to save them is the NLC. But it would appear to many Nigerians that the NLC were more focused and more determined during the Jonathan administration when you occupied Nigeria because Nigerians are already asking, they've been asking the question for some time now, where is the NLC? Where are those people that occupied Nigeria back then? What they seem to see is NLC threatening and then they meet government and then they shift ground and then they threaten and then they meet government and then they shift ground. It's becoming something that Nigerians are no longer fighting for. Thank you very much. The position of NLC today most perceived by Nigerians as political, let me be honest with you, because of the just concluded general election, the position NLC took, you know, I don't want to talk politics because I'm not here for that, but I cannot assure you by the fundamental principle and objectives of NLC in which we are to struggle for the interest and the webbing of workers and Nigerians we stand by it and nothing will deter us. If Nigerians want to believe because the current government, we want to give them benefit of doubt. For 100 days, six months, one year in office, they will give an account, stewardship of what policies have really translated into the webbing and the benefit of Nigerians. But every government will have its own only mood and that is the first three or four months to set you down. They constituted the cabinet. We can see they are just settling down before we don't have a minister of labor when we started this trouble and that was the reason why oftentimes you see the labor leader, they will quit the negligence table because you don't want to speak into the T.A. and all what you have agreed will not come into fruition. How would you respond today? We are people who hold responsibility. Hold on. We are people who hold responsibility. Hold on, hold on. We are people who hold responsibility. Now we have a minister of labor and employment who will be responsible for the resolution reached with the government and all these things will come culminate into what next action the labor leaders will take in implementing the policies that we have agreed or not. So Nigerians have the choice to support the NLC as its own advocate to press on their demand because it's only the working class that are suffering and every Nigerians are suffering. The people in government to understand that we are suffering but they have to be compelled and pressurized to do the right thing so that all of us will have a better Nigerian that we desire. Alright, so how would you respond to the allegations that NLC has been compromised? Never will NLC be compromised because we are not political parties. Let's get it right. We are organized labor. We are professionals. You saw what happened in the Ministry of Works recently when the government decided to lock out the workers without following down the lay procedure or lay down procedure. If workers are not coming to workers at the right time the public service rules is very clear. You follow the process. You should inquiry. If they are not responding you should do the necessary process that we give them the necessary sanction not locking the gate using those measures that are the workers we can never be compromised. We can never be compromised. We cut across different backgrounds. We are professionals in our midst. Alright, just before we go I want to ask you the question I had asked earlier before you came on and it's one of the headlines on The Guardian this morning. Casualization, concerns over exploitation, high demand for cheap labor. Over the years we've seen how Nigerians have been exploited by contractors, foreigners and Nigerian contractors. What has labor done to protect workers who have been exploited and who are exploited in the country? Thank you very much. Before this trouble in labor movement for you to know that even the labor law of Nigeria frowned at casualization at any level and for that reason the Nigerian Labor Congress have a separate department an organ called anti-casualization which beam is such light on any organization. Have you arrested any of these contractors? Over time we picket them you know in Lagos here we have picket too many companies that are indulging in casualization and in human treatment to workers especially these foreigners for treatment and we are more focused now because as cases are reported we are going to visit them under this new leadership of Comrade Joa Jero and the chairman in Lagos Comrade Agnes Essi a very gallant and dogged Comrade we never take any form of casualization as it is formally reported because we will not work on ESC. Once it is formally reported to the secretariat of NS in Lagos it will be referred to the anti-casualization committee and they will swing it to action. I can assure you from now going forward any form of casualization of Nigerians in any organization that public or private will be met with a stiff resistance. So if it's not reported it has to be formally reported by those experiencing it before you can get action. Yes it won't be formal because we are organized labor we are not just street workers we work on reported cases that are verified. Is there any kind of sensitization from labor to these people to know that look we've got your back wherever you are if you are being abused if you are being exploited write to NLC and we'll treat your case. Is there any form of sensitization but it does appear that there's nothing like that. Otherwise it wouldn't be going on as it's been going on. Thank you very much that brings me to the question of unionization. You showed the privilege of establishment even in the media where you are are you unionized? I am working in the media stream mainstream media of the government and I am unionized I am a member of the union. If you are under a union you are covered you are protected for any form of victimization or oppression either from your management or anybody. But often times when we move on organizing this we go into a union they will say we don't want to do this however it is by collectively soft of workers that we have power to challenge the authority and that is why the union slogan and stands first stands up of union solidarity so we said when union inspiration the workers' blood shall run they can give power without any weapon in it. So people are united in whatever form in 10, in 20, in 30s we want to give power. Thank you Comrade Comrade thank you so much this is it. Look at what you have put to a minister of work he apologizes to the workers. Time is no longer on our side but thank you so much you've spoken so well and we look forward to hearing from NLC today from your joint meeting to find out exactly what's going to happen tomorrow. We are expecting you to be there to cover the event so that we lay down our positions. No problems thank you so much Comrade. Thank you. Comrade Ismael Adejimo Chairman Ratau Legos and PRNLC Legos has been our guest on the first hot topic we'll be back with our second hot topic in a moment stay with us.