What then? #EndSARS Movement
I calmly listened to different radio programs from 6am to 8:30am today. And I’ll love to air my deductions and what I think that happened, that is happening, and may happen.
What has happened is, we've made our points clear to the government and based on the kind of system we are in, it seems nothing is been done, because we don't trust them. The worrisome part is the President not even talking to his people, his children, yet they want youths to stop protesting. If he had spoken to the youths, directly, probably we won't be out there anymore. The protest started with #EndSARS, but it has moved to #EndBadGovernance. He seem to be unmoved by the whole actions around the country. I admit, we can't go on, forever protesting, but let's see actions, like the Lagos state Government and some states are doing.
The well-meaning youths have shown it on different grounds that we can have a good Nigeria, where you decline offerings from the bad people to become one of them, where you can pull resources together to make everyone feel involved in the process, where you damn evil with love and harmony and where you can deviate from the norms.
Obviously, the pinch of violence is been added to the protest is not from well-meaning youths. While in secondary school, there used to be some sets of students they call 'No Future Ambition' (NFA). These sets of people are the ones that are instigating violence into the protest, either voluntarily or paid services by another people that have an agenda to push. NFA don't have jobs, they don't have a clear plan for their lives, they see #100 as a big thing to come by. Thuggery is their way of life and you are now paying them to live their lives, won't they do it with all diligence? Some spheres want this to end, but thinks pitching the youths against themselves all in the name of youthful exuberance will dissolve the program. Older generations that experienced a little bit of good life making use of people that has never experienced good life, have zero joy to perpetrate evil. Do you think somebody can pay me #1000 or even #50,000 to disrupt a peaceful movement or even perpetrate violence and I won't call him out? Just like they give some a sachet of alcoholic drinks to steal ballot boxes, wreck election processes for their personal gains.
Let it be known that people that started this movement and joined the movement from the onset will never add violence to the mix. Take your cue from people located at strategic locations for the protest, has there been a form of violence by them? Instead, they come together, to fight hoodlums and later show them love and care.
What may happen and is about happening is the government making use of force to disperse protestors, which may turn out bloody. The youths have taken enough of the bad governance, corruption, nepotism and all bad things that is clear to the eyes to see. They want a Nigeria "where the son of nobody can become somebody without knowing anybody" and everyone is accountable to the people.
In the end of the protest, come 2023, election year, politicians will try to buy out some youths, as usual and the voices of those, that are truly for this course will be heard again. Only thing that can shut that voice is when the body responsible for the election is been utilized as a partisan body, which ought not to be. Let people get their PVCs and see what will happen.
A new party is rising up, a party that won't tolerate the usual norms. A party that will truly be for the people and not for 'myself, my family and friends'. But before that time, there will be clampdowns, there will be killings and there will be arrests.
Until obvious actions are taken, people will not relent, come rain, come shine, come kill, come arrest, they will still gather in their numbers.
