Welcome to our program of Kiki Handic State Open University. I am Rani Kalita from Department of Education going to present you a topic on aims of education. So, before going to the topic of what are the aims of education, we must know the necessity of aims of education. So, why the aims are necessary in the part of our education? Firstly, a definite aim of education gives us direction to act in a definite way. If there is an aim, we are aware what we are doing and why we are doing it. Aims are necessary to assess the outcomes or results of the educative activity. Again, clear determination of educational aim can only ensure development of life in the right direction towards reaching the goal. Lastly, it provides continuity and significance to education because without aim, it is very difficult to unfold new dimension of knowledge, develop new capacities in the individual. So, here we have presented the different classification of aims of education. We can classify the general aims of education under six broad categories. They are individual aim, social aim, liberal aim, vocational aim, harmonious development aim and complete living as an aim of education. Firstly, what is individual aim of education? The name itself presents that this aim of education actually emphasizes the development of every individual in the society. This aim actually believes that the success of education depends on the development of highest potentialities of the individual. Therefore, maximum opportunities should be made to available to each and every individual for developing their all-round possibilities that may be physical, moral, intellectual and spiritual possibilities. So, individual aim also believes that social development basically depends upon individual development. That means if an individual develops, that means together the society will also develop. So, Sir Percy Nunn, he was the chief supporter of this aim. He mentioned that individuality is the ideal of life and added that a scheme of education is ultimately to be valued by its success in fostering the highest degree of individual excellence. The second name is social aim of education. The name itself signifies that the education must emphasizes upon the society. We must provide education for the development of society. So, the basic theme of this aim is the society itself. That means the society is supreme to the individual. This aim believes that the state or society in the supreme and individual exist only for the society. Individuals cannot develop in isolation from the society. Therefore, education must always work for the welfare and progress of the society. According to this aim, the interest of the society is supreme and the position of an individual is always subordinate to the society or state. The basic philosophy of social aim is that society is the ultimate reality and the individual cannot rise above the social entity. So, the chief supporter of this aim of education is John Dewey. According to him, every state must design education for social welfare and efficiency. A socially efficient individual will be economically self-sufficient and he will not be a parasite on society but will contribute positively towards the progress of the society. The third aim of education is the liberal aim of education. So, the term liberal itself maintains that to liberate our mind, to liberate our soul, to liberate our body. So, this concept or this aim of education is not a recent one. It is very old. The aim of education in the ancient time was to liberate the mind. That is why the subjects, the provisions were made in the ancient time to include the subjects like philosophy, logic, geometry, fine arts, etc. in their curriculum. The supporters of the liberal and belief that man is considered to be far superior to animals because of his certain cognitive abilities such as thinking, reasoning, problem solving, etc. Therefore, liberal education laid emphasis on the development of this mental qualities of individual. Socrates, who was a Greek philosopher, was a chief supporter of this aim. He mentioned that one who had true knowledge could not be other than virtuous. So, education cannot but have knowledge as its important aim. The fourth and the important aim of education in the present day context is the vocational aim of education. We all know that we all take education only for the means of vocation to be a money-oriented person, to get some kind of earning, to get the livelihood in our life. So, in the present or in the modern context, in the 21st century, the most important aim we can say is the vocational aim of education. So, this aim of education has laid stress on practical aspects of education. It has given importance on training in some vocation or craft so that a person can earn his own living in future life. Vocational aim is getting importance in the present times due to the following reasons and what are the reasons? It makes one economically self-sufficient. Secondly, it strikes a balance between economic and individual progress. It prepares students for a useful life and useful occupation. Thirdly, it is essential to bridge the gap between the upper and the lower classes of the society. And finally, it develops the concept of dignity of labour among the students. The fifth aim of education is the harmonious development aim. So, now what is the harmonious development aim? What it means? It means developing the psychophysical and moral qualities of an individual in a balanced and harmonious way. We know that a child inherits the faculties of body, mind and soul. So, it is the education which should establish a harmony between these three aspects or the aspects of development for emergence of an ideal personality. That means the establishment of harmony between the body, mind and soul must be made with the help of education to build up an ideal personality in every child. Here, the Mahatma Gandhi also lays emphasis on harmonious development when he says, By education, I mean all round drawing out of the past in child and mind, body, mind and spirit. Thus, this aim of education believes in the development of all innate powers and capabilities of the child in a harmonious way in order to produce a well-balanced personality. The sixth aim of education is complete living as an aim of education. So, this aim has been formulated and expounded by Herbert Spencer. Education according to him should acquaint us with the laws and ways of complete living.  The concept of living implies living one's life to the full in its various aspects. We know that an individual's personality has different aspects and every aspect of human personality should find expression through different types of activities and experiences. And for complete living as an aim, he has suggested, that means the Herbert Spencer had suggested a number of activities and certain subjects of study for children. According to Herbert Spencer, the subjects like physics, language, mathematics, geography, history, psychology, home science, music, these are the subjects which helps in the training of complete living of life and this training in the activities help in self-preservation, rearing of offsprings, social preservation and also laser can be imparted through these subjects which we have already mentioned in our slide. Next, as we have already mentioned the six aims of education that are the general aims of education. Now, a specific aim of education in the present day as we are the citizens of India, as we are the citizen of a democratic country. So, this specific aim of education is very necessary and that specific aim of education is nothing but aim of education in a democracy. That means, how the education system of a democratic country should be provided to each and every citizen of India, not only in India, all the other democratic countries. So, how the education system and what are the needs, what are the needs should be included in the curriculum for giving the education in a democratic country. So, in this context, secondary education commission has decided some aims of education by analyzing the educational needs of the Indian democracy. So, this R.S. follows firstly the education for democratic citizenship. It means that education should be provided to every individual to build up a character of a good citizen. Firstly, the education in every institution must be provided so that every child can build up their personality as a good citizen of the country. So, it should be the aim of education to train all students to develop qualities which are of great importance to discharge their duties as a democratic citizen. Next is the education for art of living. So, what is art of living? We know that man is a social creature and in a democracy, every individual is important. Therefore, individual has to be trained in the art of living a community life. That means to maintain a social life and to develop a good feeling, fellow feeling, brotherly feeling, friendliness, this kind of nature should be adopted by every children and how the children will adopt these qualities with the help of education provided in a country, in a democratic country of our world. So, for this development of virtues like tolerance is necessary for mutual goodwill and this virtues should be developed through education. Next is development of a sense of true patriotism. So, true patriotism is another important aim where education has to play a very important role by organizing some workshops on the issues of the state and national topics and also celebrating anniversaries in memory of the great men of the nation. The students ought to be taught that they are not only dissertations of their own country but they are dissertations of the whole world. Next is the most important that is development of vocational efficiency. So, success of democracy depends upon its efficient citizens. So, development of the country is possible only through promoting skill and efficiency. Development of personality is the next point. Here in a democracy, personality of individual is very important which we already know. So, for all round development of individual, some kind of subjects should be included in the curriculum which is provided by the educational institutions. So, what are the subjects? The subjects are like art, craft, music and dance and these should be included in the secondary school curriculum along with national discipline scheme and national cadet crops etc for physical development. Last but not the least is education for leadership. So, leadership through education means leadership in all fields like science, literature, art, culture etc. A leader must possess the virtues like tolerance, wisdom, understanding, discipline and justice. So, training for leadership is necessary for the development of these qualities on a suitable system of education can provide such training. So, this in a brief how the education system should be in a democratic country. So, in just I can see that we have got in the aims of education, we have got the six general aims of education which we have discussed and the specific aims of education for a democratic country like India has provided this is some important points as provided by the secondary education commission. So, here in a gist it has been completed and we can see these are all the aims of education. Thank you.


Hey everyone, welcome to this week's video update. Today's Friday, September 16th. Taking a quick look at the markets before we jump into our trades. Obviously it was a big down day, big down week for stocks. Monday was higher but then the CPI data came out on Tuesday and stocks just absolutely got annihilated. Had a little pause on Wednesday and then further down side Thursday and then today. Although we're starting to get a little bit of a bounce, got back about half of what the market was down today. It's about two o'clock so we got almost an hour left before the market closes at the time of this recording. But big down week in stocks, gold and silver also seeing some downside although bouncing a little bit today. So much for gold being the inflation hedge that it was thought of at one point. And then notes and bonds continue to just melt to the downside as well, pushing yields higher. Oil, a little bit back and forth this week. Pretty much closing pretty close to where it opened. Natural gas continues to have massive swings in both directions on Wednesday. We had a huge up day natural gas up over 10% and then very next day took it all back plus some and then another 6.5% down today. The grains, soybeans got a little bit of a pop early in the week and then have just been kind of trailing off the rest of the week. The euro and the pound kind of back and forth initial drop on that CPI data and then climbing back up the rest of the week. Bitcoin continues to stay under the $20,000 level and then Ethereum had the infamous merge this week which they've been talking about for a couple of years but coming down in price a little bit. So Ethereum down at the 1400 level. So that's a quick look at the markets. Let's jump into our trades for the week. We'll start by strategy starting with the calendar trades. On Monday added a new TGIF and SPX. We ended up getting out of that one before the end of this week obviously. We also closed one of our monster calendars, booked almost a 9% profit on that one. And then this trade was closed five of eight of our contracts on TGIF and then closed the remaining three later that day. Closed the call calendar in one of our TGIFs and SPX on this alert. Closed three remaining contracts on our rut. And then we closed one of two contracts on our NDX, booked almost 35% on that one. Entered a new TGIF in NDX that we still have. So I'll show you that on the platform.   One of which, we were in the realm of closing it at our exit point. The other one where we ended up closing out the remaining put calendar, this one, this one got away from us a little bit from a standpoint of it, it went a little bit past where we wanted to exit as far as our kind of our stop loss. There was some really good conversation in the community in the calendar chat though this week if you haven't checked that out. Obviously, on a week like this, I mean, going back to the S&P because we were trading SPX, I mean, this was the biggest one day drop that we've seen in two years and then it continued on the rest of the week. So one thing that I said in relation to this and just kind of zooming out on your perspective when something like this happens is that, A, it doesn't happen that often. It's a situation where you're never going to be profitable on every single trade.  And especially with the strategy that we trade where you're sitting out up as a range bound delta neutral type trade, there's just no way to defend against this. So you just have to understand that you need to be able to accept losses when situations like this happen and move on. It's just another trade out of many and you've gotta take the perspective that you're trading the probabilities based on a large number of trade occurrences over time with the understanding that we're gonna take losses like this. And this was the perfect kind of imperfect, the perfect setup to take a loss because we had four big updates where implied volatility was contracting which is the perfect time to get in and then the market just fell out of bed and got crushed on those SPX positions. We had a similar situation back in June where we had this massive four day drop but we didn't even participate in that. So we didn't get hurt in that one at all and it just happened to be because we consolidated before that leading up to the drop we got out of a bunch of positions with profits and that consolidation didn't have any on when this tank happened. So that's a situation where we didn't get hurt but most of the time when you have that kind of, I don't even know in perspective what it was from an expected move standpoint but it had to be at least to maybe three standard deviation move and there's just no way to defend against that. That's just one of those situations where you're like, yep, taken a loss, moving on and we know that this is a very, very profitable strategy but you're gonna have situations like that where you do take losses. So make sure you're taking the right perspective on that and then two, make sure you're position sizing correctly. What I'm afraid happens a lot of times and I know it happens because I get the emails and the messages is we've had such a good success the last four months in a row with very few losses on our calendar spreads and so what typically happens at that point is people start to think this strategy is awesome.   And I think if you just, if you have that mindset stuff we talk about on the podcast all the time, if you keep that mindset, you're gonna be fine but so just don't let, you know, just one situation like this that happens very rarely, you know, don't let that shake your confidence in a strategy or your own trading ability or whatever else it is. So hope that helps kind of give a little bit of perspective on what's going on. So, okay, so let's go back to the platform and take a look at our current calendar positions. We've just got two positions on. One is in NDX. This is the TGIF that we put on earlier this week and price is hanging out right here kind of under our put strike. We're net with this little bounce that we're seeing late in the day. We're up a tiny bit of money but we'll hold that into next week and hopefully we can book some nice profits to get back of some of what the SPX trades took from us this week. And then the other calendar trade that we have on is our QQQ monster calendar, price hanging out right here. So we got a lot of time on that one. So well within range. So just waiting kind of in wait and C mode on that one. On to our butterfly trades. So let's start with the beginning of the week on Monday. So here's where we closed out one of three contracts on our flathead woodpecker in oil. So we're still holding two. So I'll show you that. We added a new one in IWM with 31 days to expiration. Added a new one in SPY with 64 days to expiration. And then today with the down move and actually if we would have held it it would have bounced back into range but it was getting down near our break even. So we went ahead and closed that one out, took a small loss on that to protect from any further downside. So let's go to the platform. I'll show you the current positions we have starting with IWM. Actually, let's start with the futures starting with oil. So like I said, we closed out one of three contracts. So we're still holding two and you can see we're up another $240 some dollars on our remaining couple contracts. Natty gas, we've got a couple of positions on. This one we've already taken off. We started with just two contracts on this. We've already taken off one. We're up another $100 and some dollars on that remaining one. If natural gas does decide to reverse and come back up we got a potential for a lot more profit. If not, we're getting closer to expiration on 928. So sometime next week we may just close this out and book whatever profits are left there. Our other Natty gas price was way up here at one point a couple of days ago and it's come all the way back down into our max profit tent here. So we've got a lot of time left on that one. So we'll see what happens into the next few weeks there. IWM. All right, so let's go in order of duration here. We've got this one with an October 5th. You can see we're slightly up on that one just waiting for some more. If we get a bounce into next week we'll probably be able to take off part of that for a 10% profit. If it starts coming down we'll have to manage it from there. October 14th is this one. You can see prices hanging out right here. So we need a bounce on that one. And then lastly we've got this October 21 and prices hanging out within our woodpecker head here. So just looking for some more time to pass, some more theta to decay there. SPY. We've got two positions on here. This is our one that we just put on this week. This is a longer duration one. Let me try to scoot this over a little bit for ya. Oh, there we go. Tossed it back to a little choppy. Anyway, prices hanging out right here. So I've got a lot of time left on that one. And then this one with the October 21 expiration. Prices kinda hanging out right here centered as well. So could use a little bounce for our butterflies. And those are all of our butterfly trades. Next, Iron Ducks. Couple of trades here. Number one, we did a new one in SPX with 17 days to expiration. We did a new one in RUT with 22 days to expiration. And then we closed out our QQQ one that was gonna expire today and booked almost max profit on that one. So I think it was like $640 profit on that one. So let's go to the platform and look at our other positions. All right, so we've got our one in RUT. You can see prices hanging out right here. A little bit lower than where we put it on. And then in SPX, we've got two positions. This one here is right in the center of the duck head. And then this one here, I don't know why Toss is giving us this delay here, but let's see if we can, there we go. Let's see, gotta wait for this to update. Got a little spinning wheel going on. Yeah, so this one expires next week on the 20th. And so, or the 19th actually. Sorry about this. For some reason, sometimes when I'm recording, Toss gets a little jumpy on me, kind of delayed when I click and drag on stuff. So let go, give it a minute. Okay, there we go. All right, so this one we're up a few hundred bucks on. So if price can kind of stabilize here as long as it doesn't get too crazy to the downside early next week, we should be able to book a nice profit on that one as well. So those are our ducks. Option selling, had a few trades here, starting with Tuesday. We added a new short strangle in MES. Did that one with 94 days to expiration. Then we rolled down some calls in our ZN position. We were over 50% of max profit on the call side, so we just rolled those down, collect some credit. We did a new short call vertical in UVXY. This is a purely implied volatility contraction play after that spike in IV. We also closed out our EWZ short strangle. On this alert we closed four of the six, booked over 40% of max profit, and then just held the remaining two to try to squeeze some more out, which we ended up closing today. We also rolled down calls on our 45 day MES short strangle. And then here's where we closed out our remaining contracts on our EWZ, booked exactly 50% of max on that one. And then we added a new short call vertical in UVXY today with 28 days to expiration. So just another implied volatility contraction. So if we get a little bit of stability slash bounce in stocks in the next week, those UVXY trades should do pretty good. So let's take a look at our premium selling positions. One we've got, we've still got a short strangle here in four slash six E. We've adjusted this once, and so we booked a credit plus what we're up here. So we're pretty close to our exit point on our profit target on six E. So hopefully if price can kind of stay similar to where it's at and get a little bit more theta decay, we should be able to book that next week. In CL we still have this iron condor. And you can see we're up a little bit. If oil bounces higher, we'll be in really good shape. And then in MES, we've got our three positions. This is our one that we have not adjusted yet. We're pretty much at break even on that one. Here is this one, we're profitable, but we have not quite hit our profit target on that one. And then our shortest duration is this one here. And we've now adjusted this one four different times. And if we can just kind of settle down here or get a little bit of a bounce, we should be able to take this one off pretty soon as well. We're up a little bit of money after all adjustments, but need a little bit more theta decay to book that one. And then lastly on our short strangles, we've got ZN. We've adjusted this one this week just the one time. And so need a little bit more time to pass before we can hit our profit target on that. So those are the, oh, and then let me go back to the UVXY one is over here. We've got those two short call verticals in UVXY. Here's the one, here's the first one we put on. You can see it pushed out of range because Implied Volatility has spiked a little bit further. And when we put that on, I said, hey, if Implied Volatility keeps spiking, we're gonna add another one. And that's what we did here with a little bit different expiration. And just after putting this on today, it's already contracted, we're up about a hundred bucks. So we want to get to about 50% of max profit. It's kind of our profit target on this one. So it doesn't take long if price just kind of stabilizes or bounces into next week, we should be able to book that. So those are our options selling. And then lastly, NTT. So I'll show you our NTT positions hit a new all-time P&L in my NTT account this week. Continues to do very well. Current positions I have on are 10Y. I've been ever since this point here, started buying, scaled out, dipped back down, bought again, scaled out as it goes up and dipping down a little bit today. I've got just a couple of contracts left on that one. So I'm just gonna keep holding these as long as it stays in an uptrend. We're obviously in a rising interest rate environment and with the CPI data and inflation data coming out, continuing to put pressure on the Fed to keep raising rates. So I'm gonna continue to stay long these. I've also got short MES using the S&P, using the micro S&P for MES. When we had that big drop on the CPI, unfortunately we are not in it because the candles were green at that point, but then it bounced back up, got short a couple of days ago and we've got this nice move down in stocks. And then lastly, I'm long wheat. This is a ZW chart, and I'm actually using XW as what I'm trading. So in a buy the dip, so looking for an extension higher at a wheat and then same thing with corn. I've been in this one and been kind of scaling out, scaling in, scaling out, scaling in. And actually this candle did barely turn red at the end of the day, so I'm still in this. So hopefully we get a bounce in the next week and I will get out. Otherwise, if it stays red, I will be closing it out first thing Monday. So that's it my friends. Those are all the trades. Those are all the positions. Hope everybody has a good weekend. Come back next week, ready to go. I will be for you day traders. I'll be running the live stream on Monday morning at the market open. So look forward to seeing you then. Take care.


Welcome back. So here we have one response from Richard DeLan, and his is the following. So retailers always face pressure to stay competitive. As you have mentioned, Amazon purchase, Amazon's purchase of Whole Foods is a potential game changer. If a company wants to stay traditional brick-and-mortar, they will have to have products that are very competitive or compete on service or another basis. Yeah, and I would add here, I think if the brick-and-mortar want to be still competitive, they need to think about redesigning the role of the traditional store. I mean, with that, they have a huge competitive because they have this physical store and the customers typically go to this store and buy their products. The question is that the variety of items and SKUs that they can keep in store is limited. So the variety of SKUs that an online retailer can offer is higher and this is something that traditional retailers need to consider. So I really believe that there is a great opportunity for retailers to redesign the use of the space of this store. What is the customer experience they want to offer to their customer in the store? So they have already the asset and they have the store in order to offer this as a way that the customer can go there and have some kind of experience. And I agree with this comment about maybe add more service, maybe add more additional experience to the customer in the store and play with the space. They can also use the space or part of this space to prepare online order and offer part of this space as a collect pickup point. Similar to the lockers in the case of Walmart. Similar to the lockers in the case of Walmart, similar to Target is also opening a pickup stores close to the downtown. So a small format just to pick up the online order. So this is another approach. Most of them, the other extreme are the guide shops or the showroom, but the traditional brick and mortar can still play a combination of this grab and go for those fast mover items that they know that their customer always want to have in the store and maybe play with a click and collect point with those that are not fast mover, but some of the customers still want to have. So yeah. Excellent. Thank you. And the answer to the second question is the following. So I think the challenge is determining the right mix of the strategy. I think Bonavos has a great idea with the guide shops so customers can try on the product. But it still keeps the overhead and the inventory. So basically the goal of life here is to mix the strategy. To mix the strategy, yeah. And then to think about that and to design the strategy that fit better with the kind of product they are offering, we need here also to take into consideration some of the features related to the product. There are products that let's say that the non-digital attributes are high. That means that our products that even if you have a great description through the website, customers still want to touch them. Customers still, this happened with the clothes. This happened with glasses. So there are certain products that there are some non-digital attributes that customers still prefer to try physically. So from my point of view, what the retailers need to do is arise segmentation of their product and a right decision about which products fit better in these new guide shops, showrooms, which are those that does not need that and with a good description through the website is enough. So yeah, this is another consideration depending on the product. Also in terms of deliveries and once the retailers are going to consider different deliveries option, the size of the product is something that is very relevant. If the product is heavy, the volume is a big volume. So people much prefer home deliveries versus go to a pickup or collect point for other kind of commodities. People are okay go to a pickup point. So yeah. Okay, so have another respond for one of the rooms. So this place is room two. The answer to the why do retailers need to examine the strategies is this. So a look and feel related expectations mismatch. Virtual trial augmented reality. Yes. Improving search abilities in websites. Yes. And branded products. Yes. So yeah, very good points. Virtual trial augmented reality. Some companies are trying to do that are trying to offer these capabilities and this virtual experience in order to, for instance, the customer kind of a reproduction of the type of person can see how the jacket fit on them. So this is something that some companies are exploring. And yeah, definitely is something that they can add and consider. And the technology definitely is helping here to offer this, yeah, to help the customer to imagine how the product fit with themselves. And also the article mentioned about the glass company. The article mentioned about the glass company and they had a pilot with this augmented reality in order to see how this glass fit with the shape of their face. Yeah. So this is something that definitely a very good point. You also make a great point here with returns and I agree. For online customers, the return policy is something that they consider once they are going to make the decision of buying their product or not in a certain website, the return policy is something that is important. It's important to have an easy way to return the product. In the article also mentioned the example of this lady that bought seven pounds or in order to buy just one. So if it is easy or not easy to return is something that is relevant here. So I think the return policy is something that these companies need to consider. And again, coming back to the traditional brick and mortar, I think one of the relevant competitive advantage that they have here is they can offer their stores, the traditional brick and mortar also as a return point. And at the end, this is an opportunity of a new sale. So you have again the customer there to return their product, but it's an opportunity for a new sale. So this is something that also retailers might consider. So yeah, great points. So in this case, it's related to the second question about the key challenges. So here we have some. So customers shopping as a leisure activity, a shop at the store, deliver information, flow complexity to manage the channel. So basically complexity of the flow to manage this kind of environment. Don't retell the point of view, isn't it? And focus on customer experience, matching the experience level across channels, so that might be also a challenge. Okay, so then from customer perspective again, this is related with the customer experience that the store want to offer. Yeah, same coming as before. This depend on the type of product and of the type of experience that the retailer want to offer to their customer. Nespresso, Nespresso is a good example. You are going to buy coffee and it seems that you are going to buy jewelry. It's like to have a nice experience. They make you feel very well more than by coffee. So this is, I would say the first part is related to this experience that the retailer want to offer to the customer. The second point that you make is from the, and I like this distinction is from the retailer point of view, which are the challenges. So here are different challenges for retailers that want to move to an only channel. One is the visibility of the inventory. The inventory visibility across the supply chain. This is very relevant because at the end, if you are offering different channels to your customer, you need to integrate all of these channels and you are going to offer an availability of an item on the website and the customer decide to buy and pick up in the store and the customer go to the store and they don't have the order there, this is going to generate a lot of frustration. So this is one thing. Another thing is when the customer have a look, if they have the specific product that they want to buy in a store and the website said yes, it's available in the store, they arrive to the store and the product is not anymore available. So this is something that definitely some of the companies are starting with that. They need to try to have a better visibility of the inventory across the supply chain. So one, this is, I fully agree with you guys that this is one of the main challenges that companies have. Thank you Eva. So we have another room, so in this case room number one. So number one, they are saying that Google has a common main source of information. So consumers search reviews. Yes. So shoppers expect a better user experience to have information delivered to them. They need to adapt or they need to stay in behind. Yes. And convenience is personal and each customer will want different things. They need to have some built-in. Yes. So first thing about information, yeah, I fully agree. Those traditional become more that they want to move to e-commerce, one relevant aspect is the information that they are going to provide through the website. The better description of the product, the better way to inform the customers about all of the features about the product is going to definitely help and also is going to help to reduce the number of returns. The number of returns is one of the challenges here too. In e-commerce, in the fast fashion retail industry, in Europe, we have more than 30 percent of returns in this industry. So in general, the percentage of returns in this environment increases a lot and is something that information might help in order to reduce this number of returns. This is one of the of the point, the second point they highlight was? Was the reviews. Yes, the reviews. Yeah, this is related with the new way to buy. This is related also of how technology has changed the way we look for accommodation now. They will look for a trip, to book for a flight. The way we look for a taxi change dramatically and it's basically because of the mobile technology. Most of the information and the decision rely on the reviews of the other. This happened at Airbnb, Uber. We're taking into consideration the reviews, also Amazon, also Lansen. Those companies that are selling their products through online, one of the first things that the customer goes is to go through the reviews and see what others said about this product, which is an excellent source of information and a new way to have this information. Okay, so we have only four minutes left to wrap up. Yeah, okay, sure. I definitely can do that. So great discussion. Guys, I really like the points that you made. I just want to summarize these key challenges. So returns, I already mentioned that as the increase of the returns in this environment and also as the opportunity of new sales for traditional become more that offered stores as a drop of points. Information. Yes, you highlight that. How will customers get the information they need? You point the augmented reality, the virtual reality in order to help this with the technology, also a more detailed description and also these online orders, these online transactions. There are different challenges here. Where to prepare the online order? Some of the traditional retailer are preparing that in store. Some of them are preparing this in the traditional distribution centers and some of them have the specific and dedicated e-fulfillment centers. So this is one of the that retailers need to face and make. Then I want also to highlight these hybrid strategies. Those companies that are offering by online pickup in store, those that are offering research online and purchase in the store, some of them are doing that, the reverse showrooming and also those that we already pointed that are these guide shops or showroom shops that you go there, you just try the product and then you buy online. Also the article mentioned the pop-up stores or these mobile showrooms that they analyze the impact of these mobile showrooms and in the areas that people have this opportunity to try the product, the online sales increase considerably. So something also to take into consideration. So in terms of these showrooms, also they help to reduce the return rates because people can't try the product. So they can make the decision based on if they like or not. Also this effect of increase the online sales based on the study for this paper. I also want to mention to you that there is Adidas Russia case study this is a very interesting case study that described how Adidas decided to introduce omni-channel in Russia. They increased the number of physical stores and these gave them a competitive advantage here in order to introduce the omni-channel strategy. The information technology plays also a key role in the introduction of this omni-channel strategy and make it a success. And finally the person who was leading this initiative was the VP of supply chain management that we conducted here at CTL around table last fall. We brought here more than 25 companies representing different actors in the supply chain and we were talking about the current challenges that they have in omni-channel. And definitely one of the main takeaway of this round table was the key role that supply chain play in the introduction and implementation of an omni-channel distribution strategy. So yeah with that I think this is what I really want to share with you and grab at this case study. I don't know if we have any last question. I think we don't have more time. No, no more time. Okay. Thanks again for being here and for sharing all of your good ideas. My pleasure. Thank you so much. Thank you all for joining this life event. So just a final reminder. Remind that tomorrow we are open the Dmitri Exxon. Good luck. Good luck. Bye.


You're welcome back. We're glad to know you're still there. It's the run-up, and we're talking 2023 election. The unit thing about this next month's general election is that it would revolve around the Electoral Act of 2022, which paves way for technology to be deployed in the course of the exercise. For instance, it imparts the INEC to transmit election results electronically from the polling unit to a central portal in the commission's headquarters. In 2019, there was much talk about the technology, but INEC said they had not deployed the technology yet, even when a particular political party insisted there were figures on a supposed server which favored them anyway. As a campaign for the election has kicked off, the commission has restated its preparedness to deploy every available resource and method to ensure a free, fair and acceptable election this year. But uncertainties still loom as INEC has warned that next month's general election faces serious threat of cancellation if insecurity is not properly tackled. Remember, it's just like a deja vu. The previous administration of Goodluck, Jonathan, had to postpone the election for about six weeks just to make sure that the insecurity problem in the country was tackled before the election. But today we are glad to be joined to discuss this about the preparedness of INEC for the 2023 election. That is Mrs. Adenike Tadesche, HOD voter education and publicity INEC Legos. Welcome to the program, Mrs. Tadesche. Thank you very much for having me on the program. We also have the spokesperson of INEC, Mr. Festus Okoe, who has joined us here today. Welcome to the program, Mr. Okoe. Thank you so much. I know the same ladies first, but I'll start with you this morning. Let's look at the readiness of INEC. Just give us a summary before we go to specifics of what INEC has done to make sure 2023 election is smooth. As you are aware, on the 26th of February 2022, this commission released the type table and schedule of activities for the conduct of the 2023 election. And out of 14 activities we listed, out of the 14 activities we considered as fundamental and critical to the electoral process, we have already implemented 11 of those activities. And we are proceeding at peace with our preparations. We have prepared and we have prepared well. We have the full complement of the beavers that will be used for voter accreditation and authentication. And we also have the full complement of the beavers we will use as backup or as redundancies. We have also started the training of our registration area technical support staff that will in turn train all the ad hoc staff that will operate these beavers on election day. We have also deployed over 60% of the nonsense materials required for the conduct of this election to various locations. So in terms of our own preparations, we are delegating ready. We have revised our MOU with the national union of road transport workers with the national association of road transport owners as well as the marine unions. And we are also going to sign individual contracts with the various transport providers of the various drivers. So we are getting ready. We are not going to be found once in terms of our own preparations, in terms of our own processes and also in terms of our own procedures. We are in a slightly more comfortable position now than we were during the 2019 general election. So we don't have any fears whatsoever relating to the organization and conduct of elections. Okay, before I go to Mrs. Tadeche, I'd like to also find out you talked about beavers and you just received a consignment, the final consignment of beavers. So between now, between the time you received the beavers and that time, configuration and every other thing that needs to be done on the machines need to be done. How far with that, not only the training, but how far with the configuration and everything you need to do on the machines? We are not configuring the beavers now because the configuration of the beavers will take place close to the election period. What we are doing as a president is testing the machines to be sure that the machines are fit for purpose and also to be sure that none of those machines has a factory issue or a factory challenge. If they have an issue that we can resolve which our in-house engineers can resolve, we go ahead and resolve them. If they have factory challenges, we return them to the suppliers or to the manufacturers and they replace them. So that's exactly what we are doing presently. The issue of configuration will come later. Let me point out that close to the election, we are also going to do a test run or a mock trial of the beavers in at least all the 100 nice military districts of this country to let people have a feel of what the beavers look like and to have a feel of the functionality of the beavers before the conduct of the election. So we are testing the beavers to be sure that all the walls that we have are fit for purpose, especially the walls that we serve, the workers 76,846 pulley units and the 809 registration areas in the country. So that's exactly what we are doing presently. Okay, we have no fear on that if so. Mrs. Tadisha, let me come to you. When we talk about the 2023 election, one of the most exciting things about it is the fact that a lot of people have generated interest to be a part of this process and that interest will just be dead if the PVCs cannot be collected and the actual voting done when the day comes. In Lagos, a lot of people have said that they experience a lot of difficulty in collecting the PVCs. Let us know what the challenges are and your level of success of distributing these PVCs in Lagos. Thank you very much. I want to say that the collection of PVCs in Lagos now that we have gone to the registration areas, we have 245 registration areas in Lagos state. I want to put on record that it has been seamless compared to when we were at the local government level. When we were at the local government level, the record we have on a daily basis, cut across the 20 local government offices, we were recording like 14,000 plus in a day. But now that we have devolved to the R-ray level, the 245 R-rays we have in Lagos state, I want to put on record that on a daily basis, we are recording over 40,000 PVCs being collected cut across all the local government. When we talk of the R-rays now. I want to tell our people that once we have devolved to the address test now, these two will be our weakness. That's the collection has been seamless. You can see that we have said 40,000 per day. Let me tell us this. We have two sets of PVCs that we are giving out. We have all drones for those who have registered 2011, 2012, 2018, 2019 generation election we had. And the second set of PVCs for those who could have registered during the continuous voter registration exercise in 2011 to 2022 July when we rounded it up. So now the PVCs in Lagos state that we collected, we have to tell people of about 7 million registrants in Lagos state. Now for the PVCs, the old PVCs we collected from the National Equators of the Commission were like 6,570,291. Now the old PVCs, the one I just gave to the people now that have been collected as of 15 January 2023, 5,685,196, nearly we see have 885,095. Now the new PVCs, as we speak now, if we now put the old PVCs and the new PVCs together, the total overall of the PVCs we collected from the National Equators of the Commission, we have 7,510,491. And as of 15 January 2023, we've been able to give out 6,299,036. So as we speak now, the old collected PVCs within our course study we have as of 15th, we have 1,211,455. And you know it's going to keep decreasing on daily basis, but this large chunk of PVCs we have are born out of the old PVCs. Because the new PVCs, you can see that people are really coming now. And for those people that engage in multiple registrations and their name has been removed from the new registration, they had no choice than to go back and collect their old PVCs. And this is what we are doing now. And you know at the RA level, we are going to be there till 22nd now that we have extension. We'll be there till 22nd January 2023 so we will now revert to the local government, the 20 local government offices we have in Lagos. That will be from 23rd to 29th when we will land up. So I want to say that this exercise has been seamless. The only thing is to tell our people to be patient with our staff. Everybody will ensure that everybody will get their car. The only problem we are having now, and it's not even a problem because it has been resolved so to say, and those that are having omission, their cars are being omitted for one reason or the other. And we have gotten all the data and we have sent to the National Equators of the Commission we even received a message now yesterday that we should collect all those having omission. And between today and tomorrow that the cars will be sent to the State Office. So we want to tell our people, they should have their assurance that I, Nick, will never disembark or disembark anybody from voting. And the only tool they have to vote is the permanent voter card and we ask them to know that it is very, very paramount and very, very important. And we are working in a serious way to ensure that all eligible registrants are ready to be received. Okay, Mrs. Stardeshe, we understand that it has improved tremendously from the time that it was at the local government headquarters to now that have come to the words and polling units. But the problem is that we still find people who have complained, a lot of them because Plus TV went out to town to fill the polls of the people. A lot of people complain that they go to a particular place that they were supposed to get the card. They are sent to somewhere else. They go to that particular place that they have been sent to and they are sent to yet another place. So what are your challenges because I'm not saying that you're not doing your job but what are the challenges so that people get to know as well because when you're calling for patients from the citizenry, they need to know what challenges you're facing. So why is it that some people cannot find their names where they are supposed to find their names? What are some of these things that we need to know? Yes, if we have people registrants of such because we are trying to ensure that because the French mark for registrant in the polling unit is 750. That is our threshold. So we are trying to really quit people. So if they get to any polling units with their sleep and they cannot get their card they will be directed to their appropriate place. For we are not even having much challenges of such because the challenges we are facing is this omission thing that I just spoke about not quite long, omission. But you are still telling our people because they keep saying that these omissions are PBCs we are not so sure they will print. So they are the ones raising this eyebrow and we have told them that because when they get to any polling units and they cannot get their cards we ensure that we get their data and we escalate to the appropriate causes and a budget. National approaches where their cards are being arched. And we are giving them their assurance because once we have your data we have your addresses we have your phone numbers I just told you that we got that directly from the National Archives now that the cards we will send to the states between today and tomorrow. And once we have that we ensure that we get across to all the eligible registrants to come and collect their cards. I don't see that as anything deep because the officials that are working now we have a lot of them the official time for the collection of the PBC is between the house of 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. but in the legal state we got the honorable record in its own magnanimity extended the time to like 40 on daily basis. So we are giving them that opportunity to come in and out. So they should not exercise any fear. Thank you. Well, let me go back to Mr. Okoe. One thing I have noticed is that sometimes we find definitions in other climes different from definitions that we find in Nigeria. I hope that is not the same way with INEC. We need to know the definition because of vote buying because the citizens would want to know when you are giving warning that the person who is buying the vote and the person who is selling the votes they are all supposed to be in trouble. Now we need to know what vote buying really is according to the definition of INEC so that when we see something we can say something as well. What really is vote buying? Well, if you go to the electoral act you will not see vote buying in the electoral act. What you are likely going to see will be what we call either bribery or voter inducement. When you induce a voter to exercise his or her franchise in a manner different from the way the voter wants to exercise his or her franchise that is voter inducement. When you give a voter a source or you give a voter money at the level of the fully unit in order for the voter to vote one way or the other that is bribery. That is trying to corrupt the electoral process. But vote buying as a concept is our own definition of our own understanding of this concept of trading.  That is exactly what we are talking about. So in the concept in the Nigerian concept of vote buying there is a willing buyer and also a willing seller. So it's a transactional deal a transactional business between two individuals. And so both the person who is buying is guilty of an infraction and the person who is selling is also guilty of an infraction but that is really at the theoretical level. There are different reasons why people want to compromise the sanctity of the ballot. There are different reasons why people want to say their PVCs. This is because there are some people who do not realize the power and the potential of the PVC. They don't realize the sovereign power and the ownership of the electoral process embedded in the PVC. So I believe that with enlightenment and also with robust and comprehensive advocacy we will begin to sensitize our people of selling their PVC or selling their votes for any amount whatsoever because good governance resides in the PVC. The PVC is not equivalent to an ATM card. You can only withdraw money with an ATM card but the PVC can change the government and there is a whole difference between the two. So I think that our people should not on any account whatsoever compromise the sanctity of the PVC or compromise the sovereign rights and ownership of the electoral process embedded in the PVC. Okay. You mentioned the fact that a transaction has to be carried out between the person who is buying and the person who is selling. In some cases the person who is buying will not even tell the person who is in quotes selling that this is what is going on. I'll give you an example. Because they know that maybe on the day of election they cannot exchange money for votes and all that they do what they call empowerment. In some states we have found governors for instance who want to come back or who are trying to go to the senate for instance now doing an empowerment scheme and they say this empowerment scheme is going to last till after the election. Categorically they are telling you it's not going to end and it will continue all year round. It will end in March. And this is what is going on. Some people have called this vote buying but it doesn't necessarily have to have the consent or something like that of the person who is receiving.  So every polling unit will have at least five families which will have at least five people each that will vote in that family. So how do you define this? Can this be also called vote buying or because it's not done on election day or two days before the election or they are not using the words vote for me. You cannot call it vote buying. You know people can be very creative and people can also be very innovative and people can use a bribery, corruption and inducement using different concepts using different cliches and also using different methods and using different methodologies. Unfortunately the electoral management body cannot be everywhere and cannot monitor every program organized by individuals organized by groups and also organized by government. In powerment programs as the concept is part of good governance but when you less the empowerment with the seats or when you lessen the empowerment and mask it with a completely different concept it becomes something else. Our concern and the remit of the commission is that we do not want to see any candidates any politician, any political party at the principles of the polling unit trying to buy or sell PVC. We do not want a situation where people will be asked to show how they have voted or who they have voted for. We are not too much interested in what goes on at the level of governance and also at the approaches governments at the various levels adopt in ameliorating the suffering of our people. There are some people who exploit the poverty of our people there are some people who exploit the vulnerabilities of our people in order to corrupt them and also in order to do things that are on tour and also in order to skew their brains from doing what is right so I believe that we should continue to advocate, enlighten our people and also empower them both economically and politically and through electoral education to understand the variables and also the lines the red lines between a parliament and vote by it and I think that that is what we will have to continue to do it's a long way but I'm sure we are going to get there sooner than later. Okay thank you so well that means a lot more has to be done about education so that the people will know like you said red lines the way they should not cross and the fact that like you mentioned some of these things are part of good governance the people should be able to decipher between what is done because that is what is supposed to be done as good governance and what is done because the votes are needed so that people get to know that you can still collect those things because those are part of good governance and then do what is right for you talking about education let me come to Mrs. Tadashi let's know about in Lagos here how far are you taking this advocacy because even though Lagos has a population we say that is 10% of the population of Nigeria resides in Lagos and if we get it right in Lagos there's a likelihood that we might get it right everywhere else in Nigeria how far are you taking this advocacy to the grass root because it doesn't end in just giving PVCs to people so what are you doing to raise the awareness of people regarding this election 2023 thank you very much concerning the sensitization of our people to know what they are to do before during and even after the election we have held series of stakeholder meetings where we in the stakeholder's meeting we have the traditional rulers at the state level we have the media we have the market women we have all the stakeholders all the stakeholders even the political parties very very important we have meetings with them that is at the state level and even market outreach we are going out we have partnered with some we have a set of people who go to providers, we have them in legal state and they too they have been going from one market to the other we have been following them we have been going on advocacy visits to sensitize our people to tell them what they ought to do and what they ought not to do at the state level and even at the local government level all the local government offices we have in legal state they have been having interviews with all their stakeholders as well we have those we call voter education desk officers in each of the local government we call them fedos their own assignment is to go to one marketplace townhouse to tell our people what our net is doing at the moment and this they have been doing and that is why we are having this large turnout of our people coming out to collect their cash because if you have not been doing advocacy visitations people might not know what we are doing they might not even know we are at a level so we are not resting on ours in the legal state we have been going all around as we speak now nothing picked the date to meet with the council of traditional rulers in the legal state so we are all the traditional rulers we want to tell them all the activities we have in contrast of the 2023 general election we are not resting on ours we have been moving from one area to the other sensitizing our people we have like these fedos have said they are not even resting but let me say something that might be funny to our people concerning this issue of a collection of PVCs when they tell our people come to the arena that we have PVCs you know what most people say bring to our house the PVCs to our house not on our door and they say since you can come out to yourself for registration because we don't give this cast out by proxy so our people will always want and that's what we are doing anyway we keep educating our people we keep sensitizing them we keep telling them so that they know what to do this is your watch binder my boss just talked about we are not going to relate this voter education because most of them they might be ignorant of what they are doing like some people who are telling us maybe they are collecting some set of people are collecting their cast from what we are doing because we are telling them if you collect another PVC it's not going to be useful for you on the election with this use of our Pivas by modern voter accreditation you cannot use another PVC and that's what we are saying if you educate your fingerprints for your officials so collecting their cast you really don't know why they are doing that your voter accreditation number is clear and specific to yourself and you should not divulge it for whatever reason so I don't know why people are so but like my boss has said we keep on educating our people so when they know the importance of the PVC as they are true and as a voice I know they will not want to keep it for whatever reason okay well Mr. Okoye and Mrs. Tadise we are going to take a short break and when we return most of the things we will be talking about will bother on security security of the technology security of life and property everything security when we talk about the election so that you clarify some gray areas but just stay with us and we will be back in a moment you are welcome back it's still the run up and we are looking at the 2023 election we are being joined by Mrs. Adenike Tadise who is the head of department voter education INEC Lagos and we also have the spokesman of INEC Mr. Festus Okoye we just like to call you the spokesman your titles are long spokesman it is that we enjoy calling you let's begin with you Mrs. Tadise just talked about the fact that some people buy voter cards and they say it's not going to be of any benefit to them walk us through how these things work anyway because some people might still be nursing the idea of buying it except for the fact that some people say there is a catchment area of a particular political party and by the PVC so that the voting strength in that place will not be good enough so just tell us how voter card buying will affect the election whether positively or negatively or whether it will have no effect on the forthcoming election from two perspectives if we have an effect the first perspective is if you deny somebody of his or her permanent voter card what you have done is to take away part of the person's sovereign right to make a determination or how he or she wants to be governed that is one secondly when you buy up a PVC there is a possibility that you are suppressing the vote and as you pointed out you can go and buy up the PVC of some of people in an area he or she believes maybe a go style to his or her political aspiration in which case those people will not have an opportunity of coming to the polling units to come and use their PVC to vote so that is called both suppression or voter suppression you have suppressed their right to come to the polling units to exercise their democratic franchise the second aspect is if you buy the PVC and you want to use it at the level of the polling unit now that is where the problem is the the details of each registered voter in Nigeria now resides in the beavers but section 47 subsection 1 of the letter R2022 still makes it mandatory that any voter who wants to exercise his or her franchise must come to the polling unit with his or her voter card so when you approach a presiding officer with your voter card they will look at the last digits of your voter dedication number or VIN number and use it to call up your details from the beavers they will also certify that you are one of those that have been captured in the voter's register that will be used for the conduct of election and that is where it ends thereafter the voter must be accredited authenticated using the beavers using the fingerprint technology or the facial technology and so when the beavers tries to identify you using your fingerprint and it fails then you will be identified using your facials so if the beavers cannot identify your fingerprints and cannot identify your face there is only one conclusion and that conclusion is that you are engaged in identity theft and you are not who you are purport to be in which case we will not allow you to vote the only way we will allow you to vote is for you to go home and bring your authentic fingerprint and come back to the pooling unit before we are allowing you to vote so buying up the PVC and giving to someone who is not the registered voter or coming to the pooling unit thinking that you can use it to vote twice is next to impossibility and people should predict that idea and stop trying to buy up pvc's because at the end of the day it will be completely useless and they will be looking for where to dump the PVC either in the soccer web or on the highway so it is completely useless ok by way of emphasis because we have been talking beavers all this while just walk us through how beavers is actually a game changer in this election you have touched on it even talking about it today but just specifically tell us why we should really really be excited about this election just because of beavers and any other technology you might have yes the beavers is more or less like an arbitrator is not an arbiter between the Nigerian people and the electoral management body what we have done is to introduce a technology that makes it possible for only registered voters in Nigeria to vote on election day prior to this particular period when we were using the ICDM form when the data of each registered voter resides in the PVC some people will go to the polling unit and then the smart card readers are unable to read their data and they say give me ICDM form to fill and they are giving ICDM form to fill so you find a situation where one individual can vote 10 20 times on the basis of the fact that his or her PVC cannot be read by the smart card reader that arise over because as I pointed out the data of each registered voter now resides inside the beavers and the beavers contains only the data of all the registered voters in a particular polling unit and no more so the beavers must be in a position to authenticate your fingerprint if you authenticate your fingerprint you'll be in a position to vote if it does not authenticate your fingerprint and authenticate your face you'll be in a position to vote if it does not do these two things you will not be allowed to vote so all those who have bottom PVCs thinking that they can use it should just perish the thought and go and dump them in a place where we can see them and make it available to the owners so the beavers is a game changer and the beavers is the real arbitrator in relation to the electoral process and we are really really excited about it and it's going to restore ownership of the electoral process in the hands of the Nigerian people how much of the the people living with disabilities community represented or considered in this election for instance someone wants to vote and the face might be there the hands may not be there but the person wants to vote someone wants to vote and he is blind he is willing the fingerprints are there the face is there but he is blind do you have braille for the blind for instance do you have alternatives for the people who may not have the fingerprints to do this in the forthcoming election do you have robust relationship we have an exciting relationship we have a trust relationship with persons with disability we incorporated them much more concretely much more comprehensively in the electoral process when we were doing all the off-cycle governorship elections and other by elections we make sure that we incorporate them to collect the data segregated data of persons living with disability in all the polling units across the federation we are also cooperating with them at this moment we are going to deploy braille ballot guide we are also going to deploy magnifying glasses we are also going to print posters for various categories of persons with disability and we have also trained our presiding officers on the need on the constitutional and negative need to give persons with disability priority in terms of voting so we have an exciting relationship with persons with disability and we have been working with them and we continue to work with them in this election in the 2020 regional election no individual will be left behind no person with disability will be left behind every Nigerian who is valiantly registered we have an opportunity to see the size increase of our democratic franchise okay before we go to the national we will come back to you Mr. Okoye for the national outlook of security let me go to Mr. Statichet right now Lagos state some people feel that there might be some flash points during the forthcoming general election what are you doing to make sure security in Lagos is top notch before the national body says what we are going to do surely Lagos state must have been putting some things in place because it is a peculiar state what are you doing in terms of security Mr. Statichet Mr. Okoye it seems she is not there why we are waiting for her to she is mooted and that is the problem let me come to you the chairman of INEG said something some concerns that the 2023 general elections may be postponed because of security reasons what really are the specific security challenges that made him to say that because it has put a lot of Nigerians on edge unless we begin to know what specifics he was talking about then we might a lot of people might just stay home and say even INEG chairman said the security situation is too bad so let's know why he said that and what is being done right now to make sure that doesn't come up postponement of the election the commission has clarified that particular issue the commission has made it very clear that the conduct of the 2023 general election is sacrosanct and the commission is proceeding with organizing undertaking and supervising this election if the election is not sacrosanct we couldn't have created or converted the voting points and voting points settlements into full-fledged polling units thereby bringing the total number of polling units in Nigeria to 176,846 moreover we have also displayed the voter's register for claims of objections and presently we have a total registered voter population of 93,469,008 and these people are presently collecting their permanent voter's gas I've also informed you that we have the full complement of the beavers required for the conduct of this election and we are presently engaging various trainings meant to prepare both ad hoc staff and our permanent staff for this election so we are getting ready for this election if you look at section 132 subsection 2 of the constitution you can see that the period for the conduct of elections has been constitutionally circumscribed and the moment you try to get out of this constitutional window it becomes very very problematic so this commission and working very hard to make sure that the 2020 regional election is successful I pointed out that when we started that we are now in a more comfortable position than we were in 2019 and the chairman has made it clear that under his provision, that under his watch elections will no longer be postponed on grants of logistics and logistic challenges moreover we have received assurances from the various security agencies and they continue to assure us and assure the nation that they are doing all within their power to secure the nation to secure the country to make sure that election materials are distributed to make sure that election personnel are feeling comfortable going out to go and work for doing this election and also to make sure that the voters have the confidence and the trust to go out on election day to go and exercise their franchise so we have no doubt whatsoever that we are prepared for this election the nation is prepared for this election the Nigerian people are prepared for this election and almost all the sectors are prepared for this election and we are proceeding at peace with preparations we have executed 11 out of the 14 items we have in our schedule time table and schedule of activities so if there is any sector if there is any commission that is prepared for this election the independent national electoral commission okay the independent national electoral commission can be prepared for the election but the people may not be okay this is why I say this there may be some things that INEC will want the people to do because all the responsibility cannot be on just INEC the citizens have their responsibility as well so what are these responsibilities what are these things that you expect from the citizens of Nigeria to ensure that this election will be free, fair, credible and seen to be so Nigerians must understand that democracy must be natural Nigerians must understand that democracy must be protected Nigerians must also understand that for democracy to endure in this country they must take ownership of this democracy in other words during this election Nigerians must engage in mandate protection election rigors only go to public units and communities that are vulnerable they hardly approach communities where people are conscious where people do not want anything to happen to their public units or their registration areas or their local governments in mandate protection secondly Nigerians must try as much as possible to come out and use that permanent voter's card to exercise their franchise as I said the permanent voter's card is not an alternative ID card the permanent voter's card is not an ATM card the permanent voter's card is for voting and voting alone so collect your permanent voter's card and show up on election day I also want Nigerians to be sure and we want to assure them that this commission will make their votes to count and that only the Nigerian people can put any government in power and only their votes can put any government in power the chairman of the commission has made it clear and has also assisted the commission to put in place processes and procedures that makes it even impossible for a national commissioner to vote in a single polling unit we are building a professional commission we are building an ethical commission and also we are building a commission owned by the Nigerian people and a commission that will have the trust of the Nigerian people and that is where we are so let Nigerians take ownership of this particular process show up on election day engage in mandate protection and defend this democracy that is their responsibility just briefly about mandate protection there was a time that INAG or maybe I heard wrong said that at the polling station when the election is going on nobody is allowed to use cameras or phones to record some things maybe I got the information wrong but if I didn't get it right has that law been lifted can people protect their mandate by amplifying the wrongs that may be done the commission said is that one of the wrongs of democracy one of the beauties of democracy is the secrecy of the vote the commission said no individual is allowed to go into the voting compartment to go and film or photograph how he or she has voted and no individual is also permitted to go and film how somebody has voted within the voting compartment because what we operate is what is called open secret ballot you complete the secret and vote in public because the electoral act says that the ballot box must be kept in the full view of people from beginning to the end of voting so we don't want people to go and show how somebody has printed or how somebody has voted but in terms of staying around in the polling units the commission has nothing against people staying around so long as they don't interfere with the voting process or with the election process they can stay around see how people are voting see how results are being collected see how results are being counted see where results are the votes of the people see how from easy it is being is being filled and also see how the entire electoral process is going on we don't have any challenge with that and we encourage people to stay around and see how the electoral process progresses this is very clear now because it was achieved generally anywhere the election is going on even phones are not allowed but now we know the polling booth of people previously used to go there maybe because of this vote buying and all that to take photographs and videos of how people are voting so that after that the rewards will come so it is good that you have clarified this and you have also said that people can stay around and make sure everything goes well but like you said not to disrupt the process of the election just a final word today even though you have been saying some things like that just give us some more assurances about the election and if we have Mrs. Stadich here maybe she will also talk to the Legosians please Mr. Okoye finally tonight the HOD is muted so she can mute herself so that she can also talk to the people of Legos let me just say this we want to assure the nation and the chairman has given this assurance over and over again that this commission this commission is a public trust we are going to be very transparent and we are going to be very open in terms of our processes and our procedures and we want to assure Nigerians that only the votes of the people only the votes of the Nigerian people will determine the outcome of this election this commission will work and work assiduously for the people of this country and we are going to make sure that their votes count and their votes will continue to count we have our assurance on this this commission will not disappoint the Nigerian people this commission will continue to work for the good of the Nigerian people and nothing will deter us we have the courage, we have the staying power and we also have the planning ability and disposition to do what is right for the people of this country thank you very much Mr. Okoye for all this thank you so much Mrs. Stadich, if you have unmuted yourself can you say something to Legosians very briefly now we are going to tell our Legosians to please avail themselves the opportunity of coming out now that we are still at the early level, the world level because that will make it so easier for them to collect their cash and we know that without the PBC you cannot vote on election day even if you have the PBC you don't even vote on coming out on election day because that is the only tool it is your power, it is your right to vote for leaders of your choice and together we can make a change in Nigeria, thank you very much thank you very much we have been talking with Mr. Festos Okoye the spokesperson of INEC and also with the HOD of voter education INEC Legos Mrs. Deneke Tadache it's been a pleasure having you on the show today and we are getting closer and closer to the election so we will be calling on you when we have questions that we need answers to thank you for coming on the show today thank you so much thank you very much I will take a break now for the news and when we return we wrap up the program stay with us