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You see the way you people are doing the whole dangote thing and saying you’re partners after buying shares yeah?
THAT IS HOW YOU SHOULD HOLD THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABLE.
There’s an agenda against young people in Africa. They are constantly being fed with negativity about their country, making them feel they are in a cursed land. Yet this is the most advantageous time for young Africans.
EndSARS gave me a glimpse of what would happen if we ever had a brute revolution. In my area, people in power didn't feel it at all. Those who mattered enough were escorted by soldiers. They only had to show up at one or two rallies, donate some money, and buy water for people. They were immediately seen as "those that are with the masses," even though all their previous actions said otherwise.
It was we, the semi-poor and the middle class, who were most affected.
In the deeper part of Ìbàdàn, a few faction of neighbour "protests" were led the area boys and the ẹ̀gbọ́n àdúgbòs. They didn't allow anyone to pass through the checkpoints they mounted on the first day. By the second day, they started demanding money before you could pass. They set up music and generators for daily entertainment. There were about seven checkpoints within a 20km stretch.
We went from protesting against police brutality and extortion to suffering area boys' brutality and extortion. There were things I needed that I simply couldn't get. Shop owners closed up out of fear of looting, and some never reopened even after the protests ended.
What stayed with me most is how quickly the language of the struggle got borrowed by people who had nothing to do with the struggle itself. The politicians borrowed it for photo opportunities. The area boys borrowed it for extortion. The people who actually wanted change, the ones without soldiers or checkpoints to hide behind, were left holding a movement that had been picked clean by everyone standing closer to power than they were. I learnt first hand that revolution can be hijacked long before it ever reaches the people it was meant to serve.
@DefenseNigeria Terrorism is a profitable and coordinated organization that made peace a burden to live with.
The world is destroy daily by the people who appear to be good in public.