Today marks the remembrance of the endsars Lekki massacre where soldiers opened fire on Nigerian youths protesting for a scrap and/or disbandment of a killer cop unit, the Special Anti Robbery Squad, SARS that had hitherto been involved in widespread extra judicial practices steeped in human rights abuses including forceful disappearance, extortion, maiming, abduction, theft, arbitrary arrests, murder etc etc.

Today a number of youths across the country remember those who were killed and maimed at Lekki toll gate, main venue of the protests, exactly a year ago. Of interest to the writer is the trend among the Igbo youths to wrongly identify with the endsars movement.

Our people say that "the man who does not know where the rain started beating him will not know where it will end". Another saying amongst our people goes thus "if you do not know where you're going, at least know where you're coming from". The Igbo youths, especially those who are mainly resident outside the South East have shown with this endsars memorial that they are clueless as to where they are coming from.

At this time let me bring to your notice a vital piece of information many have forgotten or even ignorantly overlooked. As the endsars global movement raged across Nigeria about time last year it refused to ignite in the South East. Weeks went by and there was no rally or protest or recognition of the movement in the East. The reader who does not know this may ask why.

To those Igbo youths mostly outside the South east who naively identify with the endsars movement and put up the disgusting flag of the forest republic of Nigeria how many memorials have you had for the thousands of our youths and parents who have had their lives cut short by not just SARS but by every military and paramilitary body in the country. How many memorials have you had for them. How many times have you written or spoken up against the wanton extra judicial killings of innocent people by security operatives in the East. How many memorials have your colleagues from other parts of Nigeria had for Igbo youths and parents, too many to count, who have been killed extra judicially since the 70s by units of the police force, the army etc etc. How many times has police brutality on innocent Easterners made the news outside the South East. Answer this questions to yourself in all frankness and honesty. How many times have you remembered those who have been widowed, those who have been rendered orphans by security operatives. How many times have you spoken up for them.

Today, you spit on their graves by putting up a flag that has decimated thousands of innocent people in your home land. Not to make light the incidence at Lekki which stands condemned any day, but that incidence pales greatly in comparison to the accounts of police brutality in the East.


And this is what many in the south east knew and felt that made a global movement like endsars go almost unnoticed in the east. It stood as hypocritical to many, for Nigerians to suddenly wake up to police brutality and yet expect them in the South East who have been suffering it for decades with no one to listen to them, to suddenly join in. On behalf of South Easterners and Igbo people in general I asked some influential endsars conveners who kept taunting the south east to join the movement last year. I asked them, where were your voices? All went mute. They had no answer.

What I observed is that many rushed to identify with the endsars movement so as to look politically correct to their colleagues from other parts of Nigeria. They told me last year, ehn let us come together since the movement is fostering unity. You don't seek unity by selling yourself short. True unity is attained by ensuring there is equity across board. If endsars was equitable why did the conveners or the movement not hit on police brutality in the East. That would have been equity and true oneness.

To show you that your endsars movement was shallow how many times did you see other Nigerians you're trying desperately to identify with speak against police killings in the east. Even asides endsars have you ever seen Nigerians talk about police brutality against Igbos at home? Your answer is as good as mine. Yet you struggle to identify with people who do not identify with your plight or your reality. Not once during the global endsars movement last year was police brutality in the east brought to the front burner. But here you are talking about endsars. Are you doing right by your people at home? Or you think the world starts and ends in Lagos.

How can you identify with an endsars movement that would see changes in the police modus operandi but your home where police brutality walks on two legs was never mentioned. How?

Umu Igbo chuwanu amamihe maka amamihe amaka. Ụnu adizina iberibe.


I will end by repeating this adage, "if you do not know where you are going, at least know where you're coming from". Daalu nu.

This your write up is contradictory,
The protest was against police brutality witnessed mainly in southern Nigeria so there is nothing wrong if the Igbos identify with it, because they were not exempted from the police brutality that was and is still ravaging the southerner.
The protest gave room for them to express their piled up grievances against the federal forces which they wouldn't have had the courage to do without that protest.

The igbos are your problem out of the Hausa, Fulani, Yoruba, igala and other Africa nationals participating in this protest

One day you will blame the igbos for not being able to impregnate your wife

PrinceOfLagos:
The igbos are your problem out of the Hausa, Fulani, Yoruba, igala and other Africa nationals participating in this protest

Because we are always made the scapegoat.
They shield themselves using us.

I repeat, any Igbo lad joining in this protest is a mumu

Sergio101:


Because we are always made the scapegoat.
They shield themselves using us.

I repeat, any Igbo lad joining in this protest is a mumu

I'm not Igbo but I think it's madness how some people blame the igbos for their misfortune

Toh

Ok, but somehow you right and you refuse to include the fact that the Yoruba began an anthem amids the protest they titled YORUBA RONU, that igbos want to burn down Lagos, where as aba was burning at the same time with a whole local government headquarters burnt to the ground with all the cars in there, banks are not spared, police office killed by mob all around the place, many police stations went up in flames, but the media was only focusing in Lagos, nobody reported aba endsars and obigbo endsars which they have not recorded from till date,

PrinceOfLagos:
The igbos are your problem out of the Hausa, Fulani, Yoruba, igala and other Africa nationals participating in this protest

You did not read it or you woefully miscomprehended.

Anybody who identifies with endsars without bring to the fore the police brutality in the east, has failed our people.

Okay

SlayerForever:
Today marks the remembrance of the endsars Lekki massacre where soldiers opened fire on Nigerian youths protesting for a scrap and/or disbandment of a killer cop unit, the Special Anti Robbery Squad, SARS that had hitherto been involved in widespread extra judicial practices steeped in human rights abuses including forceful disappearance, extortion, maiming, abduction, theft, arbitrary arrests, murder etc etc.

Today a number of youths across the country remember those who were killed and maimed at Lekki toll gate, main venue of the protests, exactly a year ago. Of interest to the writer is the trend among the Igbo youths to wrongly identify with the endsars movement.

Our people say that "the man who does not know where the rain started beating him will not know where it will end". Another saying amongst our people goes thus "if you do not know where you're going, at least know where you're coming from". The Igbo youths, especially those who are mainly resident outside the South East have shown with this endsars memorial that they are clueless as to where they are coming from.

At this time let me bring to your notice a vital piece of information many have forgotten or even ignorantly overlooked. As the endsars global movement raged across Nigeria about time last year it refused to ignite in the South East. Weeks went by and there was no rally or protest or recognition of the movement in the East. The reader who does not know this may ask why.

To those Igbo youths mostly outside the South east who naively identify with the endsars movement and put up the disgusting flag of the forest republic of Nigeria how many memorials have you had for the thousands of our youths and parents who have had their lives cut short by not just SARS but by every military and paramilitary body in the country. How many memorials have you had for them. How many times have you written or spoken up against the wanton extra judicial killings of innocent people by security operatives in the East. How many memorials have your colleagues from other parts of Nigeria had for Igbo youths and parents, too many to count, who have been killed extra judicially since the 70s by units of the police force, the army etc etc. How many times has police brutality on innocent Easterners made the news outside the South East. Answer this questions to yourself in all frankness and honesty. How many times have you remembered those who have been widowed, those who have been rendered orphans by security operatives. How many times have you spoken up for them.

Today, you spit on their graves by putting up a flag that has decimated thousands of innocent people in your home land. Not to make light the incidence at Lekki which stands condemned any day, but that incidence pales greatly in comparison to the accounts of police brutality in the East.


And this is what many in the south east knew and felt that made a global movement like endsars go almost unnoticed in the east. It stood as hypocritical to many, for Nigerians to suddenly wake up to police brutality and yet expect them in the South East who have been suffering it for decades with no one to listen to them, to suddenly join in. On behalf of South Easterners and Igbo people in general I asked some influential endsars conveners who kept taunting the south east to join the movement last year. I asked them, where were your voices? All went mute. They had no answer.

What I observed is that many rushed to identify with the endsars movement so as to look politically correct to their colleagues from other parts of Nigeria. They told me last year, ehn let us come together since the movement is fostering unity. You don't seek unity by selling yourself short. True unity is attained by ensuring there is equity across board. If endsars was equitable why did the conveners or the movement not hit on police brutality in the East. That would have been equity and true oneness.

To show you that your endsars movement was shallow how many times did you see other Nigerians you're trying desperately to identify with speak against police killings in the east. Even asides endsars have you ever seen Nigerians talk about police brutality against Igbos at home? Your answer is as good as mine. Yet you struggle to identify with people who do not identify with your plight or your reality. Not once during the global endsars movement last year was police brutality in the east brought to the front burner. But here you are talking about endsars. Are you doing right by your people at home? Or you think the world starts and ends in Lagos.

How can you identify with an endsars movement that would see changes in the police modus operandi but your home where police brutality walks on two legs was never mentioned. How?

Umu Igbo chuwanu amamihe maka amamihe amaka. Ụnu adizina iberibe.


I will end by repeating this adage, "if you do not know where you are going, at least know where you're coming from". Daalu nu.

you talk true I don't understand my people sometimes. We are kill every day no body identify whit us.

Is Awkuzu SARS a yoruba problem?

The protest was to end SARS and police brutality, so why is the writer making it look like any Igbo who participated was doing so in support of another region's problems, as opposed to a national problem fully experienced by Igbos anywhere in Nigeria?

Throwback:
Is Awkuzu SARS a yoruba problem?

Do Nigerians know what Awkuzu SARS is all about?

Did you see yoruba in that writeup?

Throwback:
Is Awkuzu SARS a yoruba problem?

The protest was to end SARS and police brutality, so why is the writer making it look like any Igbo who participated was doing so in support of another region's problems, as opposed to a national problem fully experienced by Igbos anywhere in Nigeria?

ask yourself why is it there were no SARS issues in the north

SlayerForever:



Do Nigerians know what Awkuzu SARS is all about? Akwuzu sars happens everyday in the east.

Just as SARS wahala happens everyday in all of the South and Police brutality happen everywhere in Nigeria

So why do Igbos have to pull the ethnic card on a national issue?

This article is nonsense

SRAROFDAVID:
ask yourself why is it there were no SARS issues in the north

How does that explain the false and absurd narrative that SARS protest should not concern the Igbos, then claim that Igbos suffer from the same SARS without any concern from the other tribes/regions in Nigeria?

The arguments are so contradictory, and only seek to perpetuate the victim mentality that has become an entitlement of the Igbo in every national discourse.

Ma gee
It is well...



This are names of those killed in lekki tolegate and na igbos full the list....

Igbos have sacrifice so much to better this country but we end up being the one to be used to reconcile between Yorubas and there fulanis brothers....

And some were actually mute during Obigbo, and it happened the same time with endsars.

And they always have the most to say about IPOB. They're really ignorant (not just them, but Nigerian Youth) about how Nigeria works



Plot twist; when endsars became chaotic, Igbos were accused of destruction in Lagos. Lol. Ndị eriri eri

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Throwback:
Is Awkuzu SARS a yoruba problem?

The protest was to end SARS and police brutality, so why is the writer making it look like any Igbo who participated was doing so in support of another region's problems, as opposed to a national problem fully experienced by Igbos anywhere in Nigeria?

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You are clever by half. You have still not addressed the issue in the writeup. You are only dancing about this issue halfwittedly.

Not once during the global endsars movement last year was police brutality in the east brought to the front burner. But here you are talking about endsars. Are you doing right by your people at home? Or you think the world starts and ends in Lagos.

If you claim it was right and just that the End SARS protest did not gain a foothold in the SouthEast, can you then claim that it was wrong and unjust that the End SARS protest failed to bring your SouthEast SARS issues to the front burner of the national discourse?

This is very confusing and contradictory.

Besides, Awkuzu SARS got a lot of national mention to the point that the most notorious SARS personnel absconded from his new political appointment with the Anambra state government and disappeared forever since.

SirBlack999:
And some were actually mute doing Obigbo, and it happened the same time with endsars.

And they always have the most to say about IPOB. They're really ignorant (not just them, but Nigerian Youth) about how Nigeria works



Plot twist; when endsars became chaotic, Igbos were accused of destruction in Lagos. Lol. Ndị eriri eri

Your last paragraph I deliberately avoided that issue so that ndi hydraulic will leave the write up alone.

SlayerForever:
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You are clever by half. You have still not addressed the issue in the writeup. You are only dancing about this issue halfwittedly.

The writeup itself is dancing about the issue and pulling the usual victim mentality we have come to know the Igbo for.

Police brutality is not an Igbo problem. SARS brutality is not an Igbo problem. Both are national problems.

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Throwback:


If you claim it was right and just that the End SARS protest did not gain a foothold in the SouthEast, can you then claim that it was wrong and unjust that the End SARS protest failed to bring your SouthEast SARS issues to the front burner of the national discourse?

This is very confusing and contradictory.

Besides, Awkuzu SARS got a lot of national mention to the point that the most notorious SARS personnel absconded from his new political appointment with the Anambra state government and disappeared forever since.

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You are talking arrant nonsense. The writeup is very very clear. You are merely skirting the issue.

Throwback:



How does that explain the false and absurd narrative that SARS protest should not concern the Igbos, then claim that Igbos suffer from the same SARS without any concern from the other tribes/regions in Nigeria?

The arguments are so contradictory, and only seek to perpetuate the victim mentality that has become an entitlement of the Igbo in every national discourse.

the issues is the fact that your likes always paint them black when you know they are doing the right thing about the injustices metted out on them but when you face the same thing you called them names for, you want them to key in, forget about what the OPs narratives are, the problems lies on the hypocritical nature of the Yoruba. If SARS menace only happened in the old eastern region you will see a Yoruba man will rather demonize the people than condemn SARS, saying they deserve what they got. Don't forget even in lagos today Igbo were still in the fore front of the protest, the first arrested protester was Igbo

SlayerForever:
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You are talking arrant nonsense. The writeup is very very clear. You are merely skirting the issue.

The writeup is very clear in its attempts to trivialise a national issue with Igbo revisionism.

If Igbos have faced police brutality since the 70's, all Nigerians have faced police brutality since independence.

That you failed to launch a national discourse over the specific events of police brutality in the SouthEast, should not prevent you from keying into one that was launched on behalf of all Nigerians over killings in the SouthEast and other parts of the South.

Lastly, you cannot now begin to sorrowfully regret your failure to make the most of the National discussion that escalated on the subject last year.

Besides your foolishness to suppress the protest in the SouthEast, you cannot suppress the fact that inspite of your failed efforts of suppression, details of SouthEast police and SARS brutality did come out to the fore of the National discussion.

SRAROFDAVID:
the issues is the fact that your likes always paint them black when you know they are doing the right thing about the injustices metted out on them but when you face the same thing you called them names for, you want them to key in, forget about what the OPs narratives are, the problems lies on the hypocritical nature of the Yoruba. If SARS menace only happened in the old eastern region you will see a Yoruba man will rather demonize the people than condemn SARS, saying they deserve what they got. Don't forget even in lagos today Igbo were still in the fore front of the protest, the first arrested protester was Igbo

I believe the problem lies in the victim mentality and persecution complex of the Igbos, coupled with a clannish survivalism.

The Igbo must introduce a tribal perspective to everything, as it is their only way to rationalise what response is required to an event.

You will not be begged to join national aspirations, so worry less about tribal motives and agenda, especially when you know you will also suffer the consequences of the undesired status quo.

Sergio101:


Because we are always made the scapegoat.
They shield themselves using us.

I repeat, any Igbo lad joining in this protest is a mumu

You repeat? and so? Of what value is your repetition

You are just venting emotional nonsense. You folk never have any constructive suggestions and are always lurking waiting for things to "spoil" so you can laugh your bitter laugh.

The reality is with time people have learnt to stop taking you seriously because you do not operate like adults.
You are always sentimental and not able to take pragmatic decisions rather preferring to focus on imaginary grievances with no idea not to talk of plans for a way forward

Get over yourselves and stop operating like an encircled dot. You want to be treated as a major ethnic group? Start behaving like one and shun pettiness.

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Throwback:


I believe the problem lies in the victim mentality and persecution complex of the Igbos, coupled with a clannish survivalism.

The Igbo must introduce a tribal perspective to everything, as it is their only way to rationalise what response is required to an event.

You will not be begged to join national aspirations, so worry less about tribal motives and agenda, especially when you know you will also suffer the consequences of the undesired status quo.

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Hydraulic gibberish. What have you said about the wanton destruction of lives and property by the security operatives in the east? Can it be compared to other parts of Nigeria?

Throwback:


The writeup is very clear in its attempts to trivialise a national issue with Igbo revisionism.

If Igbos have faced police brutality since the 70's, all Nigerians have faced police brutality since independence.

That you failed to launch a national discourse over the specific events of police brutality in the SouthEast, should not prevent you from keying into one that was launched on behalf of all Nigerians over killings in the SouthEast and other parts of the South.

Lastly, you cannot now begin to sorrowfully regret your failure to make the most of the National discussion that escalated on the subject last year.

Besides your foolishness to suppress the protest in the SouthEast, you cannot suppress the fact that inspite of your failed efforts of suppression, details of SouthEast police and SARS brutality did come out to the fore of the National discussion.

Actually it is a sign of frustration and a clear recognition that as a group they now only have "nuisance value".
The mentality on display is like that of the biblical mother who said if I cannot have the baby let us divide it into 2 with a sword.
They have boxed themselves into a corner with hubris and there is no way out other than to see what they can spoil for everyone.
They deserve pity

Throwback:


I believe the problem lies in the victim mentality and persecution complex of the Igbos, coupled with a clannish survivalism.

The Igbo must introduce a tribal perspective to everything, as it is their only way to rationalise what response is required to an event.

You will not be begged to join national aspirations, so worry less about tribal motives and agenda, especially when you know you will also suffer the consequences of the undesired status quo.

the people who introduced tribal perspective to the endears when it was raining fire and brimstone was still the yourbas with there anthem "Igbo's wants to destroy Lagos Yoruba ronu oo"

I wrote this to my Igbo siblings. Why are Yoruba warriors having a fit?