EDITED : Before stating anything. I want express my sadness over the death of our brothers and sisters who lost their lives on the 20th of October, 2020 and the many more who have also lost theirs in the course of this fight for freedom. I am in no way better than any of you. You laid your lives so that we can live ours better. I want to say that we will not and never relent on this fight. We must win this fight. You'll forever remain heroes and never be forgotten in our hearts. Liven on warriors.


Good day nairalanders,
So much to say, but I have to be as brief as possible. So from where do I begin?

Let me start by doffing my hat and saluting every young person who in whatever way supported this #ENDSARS movement. You are truly a hero whether noticed or not.

I have been typing this write up for a while now, trying to make it precise and concise. But as events unfold I have to edit it everytime. Yesterday's was the worse I could ever imagine. It has affected many things I already typed.

Since what I will be talking about will be very lengthy, I will categorize the writeup into headings and paragraphs, so as not to bore readers.

WHAT WE DID WELL
It is an excellent idea that the protest has no leader and took to the pattern of the Mexican Mafia called La Eme, where everyone is a leader and a brother. Thus making it very difficult to break in by the government.

I'm extremely impressed at how Nigerian youths have united and shown so much support to each other. This is something I always wished for, but I don't have the platform to air my views. Support in terms of feeding, health, security, kind gestures like paying for an artificial leg for that lady amongst numerous others. I believe this is the begining of testing our strength.

I want to commend us for understanding that the media in Nigeria is highly compromised, thus the need for us to setup our own radio network "SORO SOKE"

I want to commend us also for putting up a "5for5" demand before the presidency and consistently mounting pressure on them to fulfill every part of it.

REALITIES
1st REALITY : Yes Buhari is in the know about what is happening, no doubt. But it might suprise you to know that Buhari has not been given a real picture of what is really happening. They probably just said to him "your excellency, a handfull of people are not happy with SARS brutality, so they said I should come and beg you to look into it. They also made a few demands.". Those around the President have made it a duty of painting a picture of perfection in the country.

They control the entire media space and everything related. This means the daily newspapers brought to him have been properly vetted. The news stations he watches are all controlled by these big shots. The initial most trusted news channel Channels, is owned by Tony Momoh. This same person was appointed by Buhari to act as the governing council chair to Unilag. Such romance, what does that tell you? TVC is owned by a strong member of the ruling party. NTA, Oh! lets respect the dead. Which other TV station is capable of giving big blows to the government?

Next stop should have been the internet but unfortunately, I doubt if your president uses the twitter app or the internet at large.

2nd REALITY : SARS is a menace no doubt, but wouldn't you say same about the Nigerian army? Customs? Ordinary Police Officers? EFCC? Even Civil Defence they gave guns to just "yesterday" have extrajudicial killings in their name. So what then is the problem? Is it the name of the squad/body, the people in the squad? Their trainings? Or what? Let's get down to it.

Logically speaking, what these operatives do is just a manifestation of the average Nigerian. If you take the rifle, uniform, badge, capacity and office of a SARS officer and give it to an ordinary civilian, he'll most likely do same or worst. And I'll tell you why much later.

AN INTERLUDE
SOME TRUTHS YOU DONT KNOW
On sunday I had a chat with a Police Officer, and I recorded him half way though very late (when I discovered those truths cannot go unrecorded) but I can't post it here because nairaland does not support such media, but I will convert it to a video and post the link here much later. Beneath is a summary of some of the things he said.

Firstly he said, I am 101% in support of #REFORMTHEPOLICE / #ENDSARS and I'm sure 80% of junior officers are in support. Then he continued saying:

1. There is a system in the Nigerian Police Force which mounts pressure on you to be corrupt. You cannot avoid it. For instance, you are asked to go on patrol with the police truck. To start with there is no fuel inside the truck, but you must ensure that you and your team fill the tank with fuel and go for the patrol. You can never find a NPF truck with more than 1litre of fuel inside. Definitely extortion on the road must occur, because I'm definitely not going to take out of my #40,000 or #60,000 naira meagre salary with a wife and maybe 3 children to fuel the truck.

2. He said, for one to become the head of some squads and teams of strategic points, one could pay as high as 10,000,000 bribe because it's sure that you'll make multiples of that amount. In the first place how come you have so much money to spare from your meagre salary, he questioned? Secondly how are you going to meet up if you're not planning to rob people and shoot them if they don't unlock their phones and show you their bank balance?

3. Then I asked him if it was true that they buy buttons and sew their uniforms for that ridiculous amount I heard. He confirmed it that they buy about 8 buttons for their uniform and so on totalling over 50-60,000. How does one meet up?

4. One of the biggest jackpot that can change a Police Officer's life is the UN peace keeping missions he said. When you return from that mission, UN calculates your 1year stay there and pays you an equivalent of 8-9million naira. Such an amount of money is life changing, he said. But even that one has been hijacked by the big guns in the NPF. Ideally, one who has gone before isn't supposed to go again until everyone has gone like in the Nigerian army. But in the NPF, the person who went last time, will take 1Million out of his/her 9million and bribe his or her way again for another, thus depriving others. There is a commision paid on return to the top.

5. During the Edo election, we were about 31,000 officers who went for that election both uniformed and undercovered, he said. (I was stunned). We were supposed to be paid 100,000 each on return. But we received only 40,000. Now ask me how to receive this 40,000 he said, I asked how? He said you must lobby with the person who will put your name. His cut is 20,000. (I became weak).

6. We are supposed to be entitled to a lot of allowances, but they cut all of them, he said. Furniture allowance for instance was totally cut off. Look at our barracks, go and see how messed up it looks, but you dare not say a thing. We have to suffer in silence.

7. I joined the NPF 16years ago with school cert, he said. We were asked to further our education if we want to grow, I hustled to get an NCE, some of my colleagues HND, ND, Degrees and so on. Still nothing till date.

8. There is a very big romance on-going between the government and our institutional heads. And the monies involved is not in tens of billions. They've got each other's back for the looting. There is so much money within the NPF, he said. Outside government fundings the NPF recieves quite a lot of money. Companies come to pay homage to top officers monthly, amidst others that can't be typed here. Wherever you go you find the police in charge of security, but we the junior officers dont benefit in any way.

9. He further said, myself in particular and I'm sure a whole lot of Nigerian Police officers who are suffering in silence are stronly in support of this movement because we are the biggest beneficiaries. The only ones not supporting are the corrupt few at the top benefitting directly and the few SARS unit officers extorting people.

WHY IT MIGHT NOT WORK
THE ROMANCE BETWEEN THE POLICE BIG GUNS AND THE GOVERNMENT
There's obviously a deep "romance" and "handshake" between the NPF and the Government, though this is to our detriment it doesn't matter. Because a wrong system will always seem right to those benefitting from it. To think of it that we did not demand anything tangible yet they cannot grant our request, that alone should tell you the amount of money they are raking in from the SARS units daily.

INFERIORITY COMPLEX
Should the government heed to our demands, we will from now henceforth realize the magnitude of power we possess. This primary reason alone is why government is refusing to succumb. They don't want to feel inferior.

OTHERS
The international community is not interested in our case. Let's not deceive ourselves, I watched on CNN how a sincere man said point blank that Nigeria is not a priority. I have lost faith in organizations like the UN, ICC, AMNESTY, AU, ECOWAS etc. Because I have never heard or seen them take any action before. And if there's any requirement for their intervention, I believe Nigeria has surpassed it multiple times. But I have never seen or heard them do anything. No matter the killing spree.

The government is using the access to tools under their control to discredit the peaceful protest in order to tag it a violent one. As a result launch attacks and impose curfew. Unfortunately I am posting this after the attacks. Because I wasn't able to finish proof reading this lengthy write-up before yesterday's attack. I knew it would happen. Once again, may the souls of the departed rest in peace. You will continue to live in our hearts.


SOME NOTES TO TAKE AND POSSIBLE SUGGESTIONS AS TO HOW WE CAN MAKE IT WORK

OUR DEMANDS AND NEGOTIATIONS : Yes I understand that we don't have a protesting leader/face/front and that's good. But when government began to ask us what we wanted. We ought to come together and draft out a flawless plan of what we actually wanted. There are professional negotiators specialized in the act of negotiating. We ought to have come together to employ the services of one. Himself and a lawyer should have drafted out a demand for the youth and negotiated with the government on our behalf.

A STRUCTURE : Earlier on, I said that the killings being perpetuated by the Nigerian security operatives only reflect the typical character of an average Nigerian when handed power. This simply implies that "these extrajudicial killings will not stop so long as uneducated, untrained, average power drunk Nigerians will wear those uniforms and hold those rifles" unless we want to be economical with the truth.

Now that we know the inevitable, in my honest opinion the best way to curb Police excessess is to design a structure to handle their expected excesses.

Some of which includes:
1. Body Camera : Though expensive to maintain, it's still cheaper than a human's life. I always say, "A camera is the deadliest weapon today". This alone can put Police and every other agency in check for as long as possible.
The biggest advantage of this is it'll help to improve police accountability, transparency, and legitimacy.

2. Truck Camera : Quite similar to the body camera, this will further strengthen the evidence for and against the alleged offender. Kicking against this idea shows that our police is not trust worthy.

OUR INCORRUPTIBLE MEDIA : Although this has already been done, I must commend the initiators of the SORO SOKE RADIO outfit. I must say we still need more especially a TV station. This is as important as Oxygen. I also want to use this medium to salute ARISE TV what they have been doing. We hope they dont compromise too. I want to state here at my own risk that Channels and TVC have been compromised. And I have known this since early 2016, but I cannot say it here because everyone in Nigeria who condemns the government is automatically termed a PDP member. People fail to understand that some of us hate both.

TELECOMMUNICATION : Sincerely, one of us has to go into telecomm business and we will support you immensely. I had to edit and add this point after seeing how helpless we were yesterday. We need one of us in the game.

REWARD AND PUNISHMENTS : Nigeria is where it is today because we lack this two (rewards and punishments). No consequences for whatever action. The impunity has further boldened others to do wrong. On our list of demands, we were not specific about what the "Justice for all victims" should be. We gave the government that brought us the same pain, a "blank cheque" to choose what to do with offenders they are trying to sheild for their selfish interest. What do you expect them to do? I expected precision on the demand. To start with, anything beneath death penalty for killing an unarmed civilian is a stupid demand. This is the only way to enforce good working ethics. Other offences can be jailable.

CONSTITUTIONAL BACKING : Earlier, I stated that we need a lawyer and a negotiator who properly understand some of these things, their possiblities and feasiblity. I stand to be corrected on this point, but I believe both the House of Assembly and the Senate will have to pass laws criminalizing criminal acts by the police and the punishments as laws so as to aid enforcement.

With this being made law, should an officer contravene, we can hit the streets in protest. This would make a lot of sense since it's already a written down law.

INVESTIGATING BODY : We must not let the government hijack this panel. We must ensure we have incorruptible and bold representatives representing the youth in whatever panel and capacity they setup. Be it the panel to investigate Police misconduct, or assesment of mental health status of officers into tactical units. We must be a part of the process. The days of "sidon look" are over.

CAMERA LAW : Sincerely this has to come under its own seperate heading. Because I don't see what damage a camera can cause if the attacker is not doing something he shouldn't be doing. We must press for a law to protect people who video activities of force operatives. Snatching of recording devices, breaking, harassing, deleting and so on must be a serious offence with the ability for the harrased to lay whatever claim since evidence has been erased or altered.

ONENESS (ONE FOR ALL, ALL FOR ONE) : I grew up in Nigeria to hear one stupid slogan called "Mind your business". I'm happy we are gradually seeing that, that slogan is a stupid slogan. We can not mind our business anymore because when one of us is affected all of us are. Whenever SARS or whatever stops anyone of us, I'll write this one in caps " WE MUST ALL COME ROUND, PASSERSBY MUST STOP, PEOPLE AROUND MUST COME CLOSE AND DEMAND TO KNOW THE OFFENCE OF THE YOUNG LAD. WE MUST HAVE EACH OTHER'S BACK, FRUSTRATE THEM TO A POINT WHERE THEY GIVE UP ON ARRESTING ANY OF US ILLEGALY ". We must have each other's back always.

Talking about having each other's back, we must ensure that everyone of us locked, arrested during this protest is fought for and freedom regained.

OUR POLITICAL PARTY : The last and probably most important point is the need to register our political party. The present crop of leaders we have today started ruling this country in their 30's and 40's. Yet they've refused to give us same oppurtunity. But truth be told, power is taken not given. And so shall it be, we shall grab that power. We may loose this battle, but we must not loose the war in 2023. We must ensure that we vote and defend. That's the real fight to die for. Because I will lay my all during that election.

I will urge us to start selecting candidates with reputable track records and character from now. People who have handled the little in their hands excellently. We must ensure we support them. Let's set up structures in every state and credible people to occupy positions from Local Government to Federal Goverment.

Lets donate funds to this cause via crypto currency. This protest has already shown how accountable we can be if we choose to. No amount is to small. If 1,000,000 youths donate 100naira to this cause that would be 100,000,000 naira. I know we can donate 500-1000naira per month until 2023. We now know that cost of governance is not expensive, we only have theives at the helm of affairs. And come 2023, we must oust them all.

Thanks.

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ADD YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS. THANKS.

Q

Una too dey deceive unaself

I can pay to listen to these guys speak

Q

All these stories are too long. Just create stiff penalty for the police and follow the demands below, watch Nigerian police transform overnight. The demands below are structured and planned to kill loopholes efficiently with whatever the police throws, whether SWAT, NCIS or whatever.

Any demand below blood for blood for a murderous Nigerian police officer is a useless demand. Public execution is the least we can ask for.

Abeg allow them. If no be say one thing. Something for enter something

Ha!
Yahaya will ask that they be observed, known and their details taken secretly.

If they over do, that guy can fuçk them up afterwards. You know say Yahaya na young boy too.

Righteousness89:
She Has a Valid Point!!

I also Have a Very valid Point !
My Point is all about us
My Point is all about our Eternity!
My Point is about Preparation for what is Coming!

The Coming of JESUS is upon us Folks
Everything around us is happening Exactly how JESUS said it will..

What Really Matters is our Soul,
Eternity is not a Community or Family Matter,
Eternity is a Solo Matter!
In all the Happenings around us, Let's Ensure we Connect to what will save our Soul!
JESUS only is What will Save our Soul.

Oga, please can you stop disturbing us with this your preachings?

Imaginary Hell was made for people Abbi? Tor! Me I want to go there. Yes I do. Can we now rest?

Please go to your Imaginary Heaven with those who desire to and leave the rest of us who aren't interested.


What the hell has your fùcking Jesus white boy done for this country? People are out there risking their lives to change this country and all you talk about is one dead motherfúcker called Jesus and his "cumming".

This was the same bullshít story our parents were fed with that led us here. They kept praying stupid prayers and kept moving back er'time they were pushed to the wall until we got to this almost irredeemable stage.

Guy! Take time o.

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Q

Nice one Kwarans.

Meanwhile read below and offer your contributions.

Haba Birnin Shehu.

I know they don't disturb there, but you should show solidarity to those suffering here. This is not politics. This is about human lives.

Erase the argument of SARS stopping armed robbers, they don't do shít, they're only concerned about extorting youths. During lockdown, million boys and other miscreants were robbing people in their homes, where was SARS? When I was robbed a few years ago along Okene - Lokoja road where was SARS? Have you ever seen a gun battle before in Nigeria between police and thieves?

Please let's stop all these #ReformSars rubbish. The simple thing is #Endsars and criminalise their existence afterwards.

Better still we can have a vote to determine the states where it will be implemented and those it won't. I think that's fair enough.


Meanwhile

Q

Nice one

Nawa

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For fairness, you should have compared it against the Redmi Note 9pro.

Anything Tecno is shît. That camera you hype will fade in 2months max.

Lemme sound and type like one popular bitter sadist tonight.


Can he drive it to heaven?
Will it steer him away from hell fire?
My advice is for him to sell this car and all of his possession, become poor if he wants to enter "imaginary heaven".
I have the list of everyone who'll enter "imaginary heaven" and those also going to "imaginary hell"
It's never too late to turn to the "Israeli White Boy"


Y'all know this annoying mofo?


Don't bother quoting, I have fúcks, but I won't give

Q

This means I'm the only one who noticed the nipple. My eyes, sighs!!!

I posted this a few days ago and I'll repost it again for those it didn't get to.



Lemme take time this evening to enlighten you guys on why some happenings in Nigeria will never be looked into. Because I've noticed that most Nairalanders are not in tune with reality, rather idealism.

Now, there's something called "food chain" if you remember your primary 4 science. That's what's playing out here. You can continue to wail and scream all you like it's not gonna change a thing.

The SARS unit you meet on the road, before they were given such strategic location to mount, their OC (Officer in Command) already gave them a target to meet of maybe 10,000,000/week depending on how sensitive the area is. Now if they don't meet this target, they'll be replaced (in which they don't wanna risk).

The OC has been told by the Deputy Commissioner to meet a target of maybe 100,000,000 from his 20 teams (X) the number of OCs in that state.

The DCs will take 200,000,000 to the CP.

The CPs X 36 states will take 3,600,000,000 to the IG

The IG is gonna take 1B to who put him there. And so on till it gets to the C in C or fades away from our understanding.


And you sit here on Nairaland and say the foot soldiers should not meet their target? Laughable.

Are you saying that the C in C should issue an order asking them to stop doing what is bringing Money to their pockets? Laughable grin

Get this straight from today, whenever something which ought to be done right is intentionally done wrong just understand that someone/some people are on the benefitting end.

You think all your hashtags (ENDSARS), posts on Nairaland et all, blog posts don't get to their notice? They do. But Oga they won't end shit.
If you think they don't see it, why is that one small hate speech about them (that we did not even hear about o) DSS will go and pick the person. (Even this one I'm typing sef, I'm not safe) grin. But full protest and online campaign will not be heard. Oga read in between the lines now.

You can scream all you want online, nothing is gonna happen.

What pains me most is, it's the southerners (SARS Officers) that kill themselves (the southerners) the most. I can drive in the North for 2 months before seeing SARS once. But southerners don't like each other damma, so they kill themselves like goats then blame northerners everytime for their woes. As a SARS officer you can't try all these rubbish up north. They'll transfer you that same week.

Lemme take time this evening to enlighten you guys on why some happenings in Nigeria will never be looked into. Because I've noticed that most Nairalanders are not in tune with reality, rather idealism.

Now, there's something called "food chain" if you remember your primary 4 science. That's what's playing out here. You can continue to wail and scream all you like it's not gonna change a thing.

The SARS unit you meet on the road, before they were given such strategic location to mount, their OC (Officer in Command) already gave them a target to meet of maybe 10,000,000/week depending on how sensitive the area is. Now if they don't meet this target, they'll be replaced (in which they don't wanna risk).

The OC has been told by the Deputy Commissioner to meet a target of maybe 100,000,000 from his 20 teams (X) the number of OCs in that state.

The DCs have taken 200,000,000 to the CP.

The CPs X 36 states have taken 3,600,000,000 to the IG

The IG is gonna take 1B to who put him there. And so on till it gets to the C in C or fades away from our understanding.


And you sit here on Nairaland and say the foot soldiers should not meet their target? Laughable.

Are you saying that the C in C should issue an order asking them to stop doing what is bringing Money to their pockets? Laughable

Get this straight from today, whenever something which ought to be done right is intentionally done wrong just understand that someone/some people are on the benefitting end.

You think all your hashtags (ENDSARS), posts on Nairaland et all, blog posts don't get to their notice? They do. But Oga they won't end shit.
If you think they don't see it, why is that one small hate speech about them (that we did not even hear about o) DSS will go and pick the person. (Even this one I'm typing sef, I'm not safe) . But full protest and online campaign will not be heard. Oga read in between the lines now.

You can scream all you want online, nothing is gonna happen.

What pains me most is, it's the southerners (SARS Officers) that kill themselves (the southerners) the most. I can drive in the North for 2 months before seeing SARS once. But southerners don't like each other damma, so they kill themselves like goats then blame northerners everytime for their woes. As a SARS officer you can't try all these rubbish up north. They'll transfer you that same week.

You were given life to live, you don't know how you came to be. The person lying to you doesn't know either, but you just woke up one morning and began to lie to everybody because some white people handed you a hard cover text book, now you're forcefully trying to shove your opinion down everyone's throat. You further went on to call anyone who doesn't believe a fool.

You, a creature you claim you know the story of the creation. Are you saying you were on tour with the creator while he/she/they was/were creating?

You, a living being you claim to know what lies after death, are you saying you've died before seen the other side and returned?

If none of us has any certainty, why lie? Why force your doctrines and imaginations on others?

You saw all this via the inspiration of the holy spirit right? How is it authenticated? And why is it that if some people claim the holy spirit asked them to do somethings, some of you argue? If I claim now that the holy spirit asked me to drop my account info and everyone reading this should empty his account into mine, why would you say the holy spirit cannot say such a thing? And if you don't believe mine why should I believe yours?

A goat dies, monkey dies (Everyone: Oh! The goat is dead. A human dies (His soul blah blah blah, his spirit blah blah blah, and so on)).

Oga, when you die, your organs have failed. You're dead. No more no less.

When I say every Nigerian is a thief, some people will be screaming minus me o, minus me o.

Oga, being a thief is not judged only by action, but also by the tendency to steal. If you know deep down that you'll steal money when you get there, then you're already a thief in waiting.


Nigerian politicians be like

Drop your phone number let's discuss, come and see it and inspect it. Then pay up.

1. Firstly, these operatives storm environments and pick every fresh young looking guy, so there is high tendency that some of them are innocent.

2. I'm gradually learning how to remain silent on any issue that has to do with 9ja, because it's obvious our leaders aren't in any way our problem. We are the dull mothe.rfuckers. They only enjoy having se.x with us because we're collectively dull. They say when a beautiful girl has no "brain", her vagina must feel the "pain".

I see some of you here who don't understand the concept of "Cause and Effect" come on Nairaland to say "E go better" "Let's pray for our leaders", "Let's pray for Nigeria" and some other dumb statements. You think that's how developed countries were built? By dumb prayers?

I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist and trust me when I say crime in Nigeria has not started. Do you know how many unemployed youths there are? My mates be calling, "Boss, abeg anything for you boy" and I'm like Haba now me no be your boss o. I'm just privileged to have a lil platform. Even the small hustle I'm doing Tax and internal revenue want to kill somebody (Story for another day).

People are starving whereas "Person" is stealing "People's" money. And you expect these young ones to live on Oxygen? The bad precedence has already been set. THERE'S NO REWARD NOR PUNISHMENT IN NIGERIA The younger generation have already been indoctrinated to think that stealing is smart and wise. And who steals more is the real OG. The younger generation will be wiser, smarter and faster.

Believe me INTERNET CRIME HAS NOT EVEN STARTED.

Let's have a poll below to prove to you that those who want to be G boys are plentier than those already in it.

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The whites really did a good job on Blacks. So much they detest good things of life and call it vanity.

A white man's paradise is here, whereas a Blacks' is in his thought, thus no need to live like humans. We can just live like animals and hope that some day the sky'll open and one white boy in a white robe and a horse gon come fix Lagos-Ibadan express better still take us to a place designed with Gold.

And you complain that your politicians are screwing us? Nah!! Them just don see us finish, say majority of us no get sense. And those protesting are inconsequential.


One here is even expectant of bad news and jumping on every post so that he can tell us how to prepare for one motherf.ucking imaginary White boy. Face Palm. Damn!!


I'm not in support of elected representatives stealing money, but always coming to Nairaland to call money vanity is damn too hypocritical and stupid 'cause that's what you f.ucking wake up everyday to seek.

You could post this shi.t on here because you made some money to buy data and a phone. And don't come on here acting all holy when I don't know of any charity foundation in your name. You don't even help your neighbors, all you do is accumulate and hope for more and hypocritically criticise those who are cashing out more than yourself.


B.astards who'll jump on the next better paying job, be here calling money and material things vanity.

Ion even know how I'm trapped with this much concentration of black dumb thinking mothe.rfuckers. (Face Palm)

I see a lotta peeps saying "All the cash, cars etc will be left behind", like what dafuq was supposed to happen?

Why the heck are Africans like this?

So why then did you go to school? Even opted for Masters after your Degree? Why aiming for a better job? And if you succeed what will you use the money for? On the other hand whatever the hell you choose to use your money for is your damn business.


So we shouldn't aim high because death lurks? You too shouldn't have obtained an education after all death lurks.

Black people ehn? (Face Palm)