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Segun Showunmi: EndSARS One Year After by AnonPoet: 6:09pm On Oct 20, 2021
We all accept that the right to protest is a fundamental human right. At least we pay lip service to it. Upon review of the #ENDSars protest and matters arising from same, especially on the first anniversary of the inglorious day, we have our stars to thank for what could have dragged us into a revolution of the nature of the “Arab Spring”—which left a lot of North African countries destroyed. Yes, we have our scars, allegations of killings, destruction of properties, and general chaos. However, we are lucky to have somewhat of a country now one year after.

It is appropriate to pay obeisance to the memo of all those who suffered, died, got injured or lost valuable properties. In all, we must never forget what happened and what could have gone wrong and what lessons we need to learn from a near meltdown, the type of which some other locations would have had gory tails of woes and scars to show for it. In all, as we say here, we thank God.

Now to the crux of the matter. What are we going to do with Endsars, and what it represents! How do we #Reset our country? We have huge issues with our security, our policing structures, our nation-state concept, our governance philosophy and all. We have to tell ourselves the damn honest trust. We seem not to have moved quickly with the opportunity that the youth agitation presented. When the youth of a nation pick up the courage to organize themselves in such a protest of that magnitude, leaders must answer transparently and deliberately the questions that their protests throw up. We are duty-bound to understand that failing to do what we need to do, we will pay very dearly given the youth bulge and the unemployment issues of our country.


As for the civil societies and the professional protestors, it’s time to review and rewrite the playbook, for we must move to a level of decent descent; otherwise, we will destroy all things that we have observed from areas where an unmanaged meltdown in the name of protest had destroyed things that will take a lifetime to build. Indeed a great revolution must and is a combination of micro evolutions. Baby steps in the right direction will give us much more than great giant leaps into chaos. May the memories and lessons of the Endsars protests inspire us to Reset Nigeria.

https://www.mediaorchid.com.ng/2021/10/segun-showunmi-endsars-one-year-after.html?m=1

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Re: Segun Showunmi: EndSARS One Year After by AlexBells(m): 6:11pm On Oct 20, 2021
One thing I have come to realise is that Nigeria is not getting better anytime soon, we can all play it through or laugh it through or hurt it through but nothing happening today feels special.

By this time last year the whole place was so heated that it seemed like the sky was falling, here we are today one year later and nothing much had changed.

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Re: Segun Showunmi: EndSARS One Year After by JackDaAlienz(m): 6:11pm On Oct 20, 2021
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Re: Segun Showunmi: EndSARS One Year After by richmond500: 6:11pm On Oct 20, 2021
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Re: Segun Showunmi: EndSARS One Year After by iLoveYouToo(m): 6:11pm On Oct 20, 2021
How time flies
Re: Segun Showunmi: EndSARS One Year After by jyz200(m): 6:12pm On Oct 20, 2021
Omo e don complete one year self
Rip to the bro and sis who pay the ultimate prize to end police brutality forever in our hearts
And
Well wishes to every youth out there who wants the country to be good
#soro soke youth
#end sars
#End police brutality
#better society

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Re: Segun Showunmi: EndSARS One Year After by Omicron007: 6:12pm On Oct 20, 2021
shocked


It shall never be well with Lord Lugard and his Baby Mama Flora Shaw for laying the foundation of this shithole corntree.

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Re: Segun Showunmi: EndSARS One Year After by AlphaAutos: 6:12pm On Oct 20, 2021
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Re: Segun Showunmi: EndSARS One Year After by Ojoboak(m): 6:12pm On Oct 20, 2021
Hmmm,
Re: Segun Showunmi: EndSARS One Year After by UTILITYMAY(m): 6:12pm On Oct 20, 2021
We will remind them again next year while they are preparing for elections!

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Re: Segun Showunmi: EndSARS One Year After by Maxymilliano(m): 6:12pm On Oct 20, 2021
It is time the government take heed to the demands of the youths

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Re: Segun Showunmi: EndSARS One Year After by itsme01: 6:13pm On Oct 20, 2021
Where is Segalink sef
Re: Segun Showunmi: EndSARS One Year After by CelestineNelson: 6:13pm On Oct 20, 2021
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Re: Segun Showunmi: EndSARS One Year After by jojo1415: 6:13pm On Oct 20, 2021
So sad....they r demanding for a better Nigeria and the useless law enforcement guys r killing them....I weep for Nigeria cry

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Re: Segun Showunmi: EndSARS One Year After by Wiseandtrue(f): 6:13pm On Oct 20, 2021
AnonPoet:

When the youth of a nation pick up the courage to organize themselves in such a protest of that magnitude, leaders must answer transparently and deliberately the questions that their protests throw up.
https://www.mediaorchid.com.ng/2021/10/segun-showunmi-endsars-one-year-after.html?m=1
A responsible government will do this

But here in Nigeria, I can bet that this government will be holding meetings to look for who to blame or get back to!

I have never seen such a childish leadership style like this in my life! undecided

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Re: Segun Showunmi: EndSARS One Year After by greatiyk4u(m): 6:13pm On Oct 20, 2021
Was there honesty behind the protest?

Of what National significance is the Lekki tollgate site chosen for the protest?


In Owerri it was carried out along wetherall road and the stopped at the Government House roundabout where the Governor met them

In Enugu, Ikpara square was the chosen venue

Why Lekki tollgate? Of all places of FG ownership in Lagos?

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Re: Segun Showunmi: EndSARS One Year After by Ezenwa98: 6:13pm On Oct 20, 2021
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Re: Segun Showunmi: EndSARS One Year After by chigoziri2403(m): 6:13pm On Oct 20, 2021
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Re: Segun Showunmi: EndSARS One Year After by mila1121(m): 6:15pm On Oct 20, 2021
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

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Re: Segun Showunmi: EndSARS One Year After by Erickymania: 6:15pm On Oct 20, 2021
Nice right up from real and genuine #endsars protester.

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Re: Segun Showunmi: EndSARS One Year After by Joromi1: 6:16pm On Oct 20, 2021
At least, Nigerian police for the first time in history resisted the urge to kill an unarmed protester.

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Re: Segun Showunmi: EndSARS One Year After by legba1(m): 6:16pm On Oct 20, 2021
The cycle continues... Nothing serious will come out of the many enquiries... The youths had long moved on while the tormentor in chief, policemen are back their best of brutality... The management of the country themselves can not wait to have our voices suppressed... Some folks said "JAPA LO SURE JU". But for how long... I suggest we face our oppressors and TAKE our freedom by force. Demanding won't yield desired results, LET US "TAKE" IT BY FORCE.
Re: Segun Showunmi: EndSARS One Year After by Jemmysax(m): 6:16pm On Oct 20, 2021
One year down the lane
Re: Segun Showunmi: EndSARS One Year After by packman: 6:16pm On Oct 20, 2021
Fully Nigeria..

It's a struggle.. It's just a phase...
We are not down in our spirit..
We are glad we are Life when it started..
We are not quiting the fight....
Its not just the Leaders... It's the system we are after... angry angry

Guard your heart..
Work hard..
The One Voice is our only advantage..
We are aware that the world is not fair.. Yet we are ready to stand strong on our cause...

#WeMove
Re: Segun Showunmi: EndSARS One Year After by money121(m): 6:18pm On Oct 20, 2021
Ok
Re: Segun Showunmi: EndSARS One Year After by Authoreety: 6:20pm On Oct 20, 2021
NJ
Re: Segun Showunmi: EndSARS One Year After by Queenbridge(m): 6:22pm On Oct 20, 2021
RIP to heroes that lost their life in the strugle.


For your kitchen cabinets and design please kindly check my signature

Re: Segun Showunmi: EndSARS One Year After by FvckAllMods: 6:22pm On Oct 20, 2021
How will I explain to everyone who got shot and died last yr end SARS that even after they were killed, it was all for nothing and nothing changed... omg
Re: Segun Showunmi: EndSARS One Year After by FvckAllMods: 6:25pm On Oct 20, 2021
We won't stop until...
UTILITYMAY:
We will remind them again next year while they are preparing for elections!

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Re: Segun Showunmi: EndSARS One Year After by FvckAllMods: 6:26pm On Oct 20, 2021
Aswear my heart still hurts
Pricezz:
NAwa oo
just as if it's yesterday

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