Later in the week when I am back from my appointment with the orthopedic surgeon, I will be calling for a protest against the cyber crime act which has been used to prevent Nigerians from criticizing their oppressors. For all the persons being and who have been hassled under it. The cybercrime act cannot stand. It's an illegal piece of legislation that continues to be used against Nigerians by their oppressors. Even before there is a formal, physical protest, take of your clothes. Protest with your bodies, if you no longer feel you have a voice. As they have tried to take our voices. Take pictures and tag the NBA, National Assembly, the US and UK embassies in Nigeria and all other orgs that have spoken against this.
I will be doing this as well. Before and should I decide to (dis)honour that ridiculous invite.
I am also calling on the @NigBarAssoc and it's president @afamosigwe to witness how much the apparatus of law and it's systems and institutions are being used to subvert the voices of Nigerians. Because they were silent in the face or this illegal legislation being passed. And it's sibling and very institutions continue to be used against the people it's meant to protect. It's not only the cybercrime act, police and rider-thugs that have been used to attempt to silence me. Apart from the shooting threat by thugs, this police invite with the ridiculous charge of cyber bullying, lawyers have also been employed. See the NDA @OlaniwunAjayiLP, Nigeria's supposed most prestigious law firm was hired to give and gave me. An Nda saying I cannot speak about my accident. An accident that left me with a spinal fracture and almost ended my life. The NDA asks that I never even speak bout the fact of a public incident. Erasing it as it were. As if it never happened. My life, my pain. A public incident. I and the other victim both. Is this ethical? The ethics you people teach upcoming lawyers, does it allow things like this? Asides ethics, is it even legal? Is this enforceable by any court of law in this country or anywhere in the world? To prevent a person from speaking about a public incident that happened for the world to see. Can I also be legally prevented from speaking about the June 12 election? Endsars? Father Christmas? What else?
Chowdeck has done everything to and against me.
Do you know what they haven't done? They haven't heard from me. Listened, seen me or my pain. Because this is something Nigerian figures that hold any kind of power don't want to do, hear of, and see our pain. Take accountability for their part on it. I haven't heard a word from any exec of Chowdeck for 4 months now. I asked to see the CEO, an exec, someone with decision making power, they said no. I asked for us to see in a virtual call. All you have to do is sit down in your house. You don't even have to go anywhere, do anything. Literally just sit down, log in and listen. Your camera can even be off. You could even not be there. Have someone pretend to be you. They fixed a zoom call meeting. And guess what, they didn't show up. They weren't at the zoom meeting they fixed. Only lawyers came.
That's why this has dragged on. It's not been about the money, but accountability. But these people hold us in disdain. They don't think we are worth hearing, listening to. They rather use the biggest lawyers and law firms, police, the cybercrime act. But they will hear, and listen to, and feel our pain. Because those tools will be rendered obsolete. If they take our voices, we will protest with our bodies.
Wherever you are, paint truth, free speech, etc on your bodies. Post the pictures and tag these accounts that should care a out em.
We will convene next week for a physical protest at those locations if we do not get sufficient responses that our calls are being heard.
Do this. Remember Dele Farotimi, Chioma Okoli, and so many more. Don't wait for it to be your your spine first.
Tinubu doesn't yield to the demands of the citizens he claims voted him, but very soon he would behave like his hands are tied to yield to IMF. Resist this man before he ends us.