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smogjoe:
Now tell me which of the reformation process can be effectively achieved under tension. You and I know that effective Reformation requires time..all we need to be doing is to find more people like davido has done to be visiting the leadership of the NPF for briefing on how far they have gone with the reformation process and see to our needs been attended to. Don't let's think backwards na.. Aséju is not good..

First of all, David Adeleke speaks for himself and himself alone. When the government is ready to dialogue with the youths, the would hold a roundtable discussion. I can tell what we have achieved, we have gotten the attention of the government, and the International media to let them know that we are suffering, and smiling in this country. Reformation can take time no doubt but the FG and the Ministry of Police Affairs, should listen to our demands and give us a laid process of how they want the reforms to take place.

FunkyAlhaji2015:
SARS is not a creation of the presidency so no executive order is needed to disband it.

Nigerians like to punishing their fellow country men for crimes of the government. How is blocking the traffic in and out of Lagos going to affect the government?? How is blocking the traffic on Lekki toll gate affect the FG?? We are just causing pains on our fellow country men and women. It so sad and disheartening to see all of this.

Stop Shell and Chevron production, close the ports. These are things that will affect the FG

Blocking the roads would affect the people in power who use it daily, and in turn they will tell the FG to address us. When its time to block the Airports, Oil Ports and Sea Ports nobody will tell us, we would do it without haste.

BreconHills:
It is important to know when to declare victory. Instead of calling for an executive order, civil society ought to be asking for participation in the reform process. This means getting themselves organised and choosing people of unimpeachable integrity to represent them.

Protesters must understand that the support of the vast majority of people not protesting is important to success. If goal post and demand keep shifting, that support will ebb and society will be polarized

I understand your point of exiting when the ovation is loud but with all due respect we can't because our demands has not been met. Once the FG meets demands, we would surely back down.

Nodogragra4me:
There won't be and the protest must stop, one way or the other.


There has never been such order even for python dance of the army. The coas decides with his team what name and scrap it when it has served it purpose

The Army won't interfere because this is a fight between the elected and the electorates, so why should the military interfere in civilian business? Or Is it a wrong thing to protest for our rights.

PassingShot:
And the reform and the panel will happen overnight?

Please carry on with the protest and let's see how it ends. No matter how popular and intense it'd be, it won't reach the level of the Black Lives Matter protests recently concluded in the US.

We are not struggling to be like the #BLM protests, we are only demanding that we live our lives without fear. Also, if you feel nothing serious can come out of this let the NPF continue the violence, let us where it will end the country. The youths are the live force of any nation.

ThreeEyedRaven:
Exactly! The police and the entire military is only but a fraction of the population.

That's what the older population have failed to understand, we just don't want to engage in violence for peace to reign but if it is called for we will give it to them, until then let the peaceful protest continue.

PassingShot:
Please go on with the protest. Anyone begging you guys not to continue with it after the original demand has been met is high on codine.

By all means, you guys should carry on and let's see how it ends.

The demand has not been met, we asked for them to reform the polices and also create an independent panel that would look into the injustice melted out by Sars.

So till the demands are met Aluta Continua, Victoria Ascerta.

IniAkpanMorgan:
Unfortunately, what I have discovered about majority of Nigerians who complain about one thing or the other is that those complainers, given the same opportunity as those they complain about, would do worse things than the ones over whom they complain about.

In the video holding on the link shared below, which shows how those who were protesting police abuses, were themselves harassers of two Nigerians who needed to enjoy their rights of way, in spite of their being in military uniform. What happened in the video is absurd and very very disrespectful of the limits of the protesters' rights.

I find it difficult to accept that the major drivers of the #EndSarsNow protests have no links to criminality or the relatives of criminals. In Nigeria today, I can hold my head above deep water to sustain my believe that we may be entertaining a grave national problem on our hand. And I really cannot shut my mouth at this auspicious time.

This is therefore to call Mr President, His Excellency Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, to be personally involved in the reformation needed to be implemented by the Nigeria Police authority. He should not allow the Police authority to handle the matter internally. I suggest the raising of a Presidential Committee to deeply look into the various aspects of public servants.

Now this is my dilemma: how do we know if some of the protesters were not members of some "brotherhood" who have risen against the Nigerian State, camouflaging it as a protest?7 And like I suggested in an article, evening yesterday, it is possible that majority of policemen in this country are products of armed robbery and other heinous crimes?

It is not enough to disband SARS and redeploy the agents: a bad character remains a bad character anywhere he is. The sickness in SARS begins from the commanders who assign the agents: they should all be investigated. And this problem stems from the recruitment model employed by our police authority, who monetise civil opportunities.

I am a village man, and in my village I have seen young men who seek to join the police, not for the love of the job but for the power they envisage they would acquire by it. And so they do not mind selling their farmlands to raise the "price" they claim they need to remit to actualise their aspirations.

A young lady who had issues with members of my family vowed to "sleep" with sponsors who would get her son into the Nigerian Army, and he is a school dropout. This is how bad it is.

As a means of moving forward, Mr President should raise the afore-suggested committee mandating them to investigate every personnel of the Nigerian Police who serve in special units having to do with our civilian population.

Let them be made to submit their Bank Verification Numbers, and their homes be searched and combed out. The presidential committee to be set up, must be made to work with the Corporate Affairs Commission, The FIRS, and the banks. And I think the submission of BVNs should also involve that of civil servants from GL 06 to the Head of Service of the Federation.

All organizations seemingly registered, or unregistered, which is suspected to be cult-related, and since cultism is a criminal activity, should be required to submit video evidences of their activities, and under no terms should our authorities allow meetings of any group outside private residences after mid night. Our bushes should be combed at night by helicopter patrols across the country.

More importantly, our present police formations concentrates on serving the privileged and sometimes the very exploiters of the people. I do not see why we should have 1 IGP and require more than 2 DIGs and 6 AIGs, then the ranks of Commissioners can be proliferated to cover the duties handled, through spill-overs, by those above them.

It is also important to calm the pressured need for State Police by Mr President, further devolving the police formation to having Police Unit Headquarters at the equivalent of the electoral polling units across Nigeria.

It will take the federal government nothing to build National Centres (mini presidency) with the portrait of Mr President, each State Governor and the respective LGA Chairmen hung in the town hall within such centres. It brings government to the footholds of the very vulnerable and the forgotten. Government must no need the people only when they need to be counted and when they need ink on their thumbs.

Such centres will accommodate: a census office, an INEC office, a facilitated police unit with good internet connectivity and patrol vehicles, an equiped dispensary with an ambulance, a federal information unit and a detention centre. No citizen should be made to pay to seek justice or a hearing. These should be available within a walking distance

Like a fabric being washed, for Nigeria to start the journey to national prosperity, our leaders must ensure an inside-out turnover, starting with filtering some escaped criminals pretending to be making laws in our sacred chambers across Nigeria.

Our electoral system must be prepared in such a way that it could throw up men and women with bad and evil records. The saying about bad apples has never been a joke. we are sinking deeper in every shade of national failure. Our people have an engraven love for money on their souls.

The employment to fill the vacancies created by these national centres would be raised through local content, the government: federal and states would send all junior cadre staff of the ranks of GL 01-06 back to their villages to work at the national centres.

That way, we will achieve the pyramidal security structure and architecture needed to curb the present gaps in security dissemination, and it would hand over official security needs to be provided by the very people who truly need it - this is community policing, sort of Citizens On Patrol (COPs)

We seem not to have a serious people's responsive security architecture and structure, we have a very redundant civil service where money sharing, dedicated from our commonwealth, is the vogue. Adultery among personnels is an entrenched norm in our public service, leaving junior workers as alms-trailers of visitors to their repsective organisations. Our country is under a demonic attack by the rulers of darkness and principalities in high places.

It takes the eyes of the Almighty God, Subahana Wata'ala, to see the depth we have sunk into, as a nation, and as a people, and I think: every Nigeria-loving citizen, and Mr President himself, with his teams, should all be spiritual about this issue, starting with a national fast, asking God for his mercies and benefits.

We can't go on pretending day-by-day that someone, somewhere, will soon make a change. We're all a part of God's great big family, and so the truth, you know: love is all we need. We are the ones who make a brighter day, so let's start giving. There's a choice we're making, we'll be saving our own lives. It's true we'll make a better day, just you and me.

We are Nigerians!

Ini Akpan Morgan writes from Abuja, Nigeria. Send feedback to Whatsapp number 08102466347.

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Alaye, you know where you failed the protest has no leader. This is a decentralized protest and it will continue until all our demands are met and there is no force that can stop us.

Their must be a form of presidential order, we wouldn't want our efforts to end up like the other years. So its either the presidency bends to our will or the protest continues.

Wike can't take away our constitutional rights. We would protest peacefully, and nothing will happen.

This is exactly the brutality we are fighting against, yet some old cargoes on this forum will be asking the government to treat us like thieves until it becomes their turn to suffer the abuse.

ThreeEyedRaven:
This is only the beginning. We will pick at all of them one after the other. It's good majority of the dirty politicians are talking against Sars now because it's not about them ..untill their time comes

The worst they will do is to keep on the killings, as it will only result to a revolution. Already on twitter people are clamoring for arms, and some are showing others how to get it cheaply. It is better they listen than for it to end in a full blown war because we wild surely outnumber both them, and the military.

KingAzubuike:
But IGP don end SARS. Why una still dey protest with the #EndSARS hashtag.

Until police is reformed totally and our demands are met, the protest continues and nobody can stop us.

Golan007:
Many of these hoodlums are not interested in SARS.

Until the police is reformed totally, we are not ending the protest.

doggedfighter:
Is he our representative now or spokesperson?

We are decentralized, he is speaking for himself alone. Nobody is leading the protests, we are our own leaders and organizers.

ThreeEyedRaven:
They think this is only about Sars. It's an overhaul of the failed system we want

These men think we are joking or we are scared. We would surely win this battle against the government. After Sars and police reforms, we would demand good governance, and a youth inclusive government.

I like this forward ever backward never. Na person wey give up, na him Bleep up pass, we must fight for the lost souls of all our comrades. If the police keeps on triggering the youth, this protest would spiral out of control, and it would lead to our Nigerian Spring.

DaniDani:
Those who are calling for halting of the protest will now have a point of reference. I now realized that some people in this forum whom I thought were on the side of the masses are hypocrites. The way they are against protesters of endsars, makes me to wonder if anyone really meant well for this country

No be everybody want make country progress boss but no worry posterity go judge all of them, and them go collect their own share.

kutashi:
…Policeman, bus driver killed, two in critical condition
…Expect upsurge in robberies, kidnappings – Security alerts Nigerians

The protest turned violent in the Surulere area of Lagos as protesters besieged the Anti Kidnapping Unit of the Command, killing a police Inspector . Two other policemen who were shot by armed hoodlums, who hijacked the protest, were said to be in critical condition as at time of writing this report.

Spokesman for the Lagos State Police Command , SP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, who confirmed the death, explained that ”

Today,(yesterday) being October 12, , 2020, at about 1pm, some armed protesters laid siege on the Anti Kidnapping Unit Office of the command, broke into the cell and liberated two of the kidnap suspects, before they were tactically and professionally repelled.

“In the process, Inspr Ekei Joshua with AP No 175493, Inspr Peter Agabi with AP No 251138 and Insp Erinfolami Ayodeji with AP No 229241(now late) attached to the Anti Kidnapping Unit of Lagos State Command, located at Iyun Road, Surulere were shot and critically injured. They have been rushed to the Intensive Care Unit of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital.

In addition, the protesters fired and killed one Ikechukwu Ilohamauzo, 55 years, a driver of one Toyota Sienna bus, with registration number LSD 296 FX, who got stuck in the traffic caused by the blockage of the road by the violent protesters, in Surulere today. It is pertinent to state that the attacked police inspectors and Mr Ikechukwu Ilohamauzu were hit and injured by pellets reasonably fired from pump actions/locally-made guns. The corpses of the deceased have been deposited in a mortuary for autopsy.

“The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, has urged protesters to be peaceful and avoid violent attacks on police personnel or any other security agents. Also, he warned them not to harass innocent Lagosians by picketing them to forcefully join the protests and should avoid blocking access routes or roads for other Nigerians who are as well entitled to their fundamental human rights

“He also appealed to parents and guardians to keep watch on their children and monitor their activities to avoid being mobilised and used for illegal activities in the state.

“However, four suspects have been arrested in connection with the incident. The Commissioner has ordered the Homicide section of the SCID, Yaba, Lagos to carry out thorough investigation into the incident for further police actions

Sourced from: https://www.vanguardngr.com/

Even vanguard self dey buy this cheap lie by NPF

Keep the protests coming, our demands must be met. We have refused to be like the generations before us and succumb to their will.

donbachi:
Youths should end their own bad lifestyles also.

Oga Sars hunts both the good, and bad. These people have no regard for human life they expect youths to live like savages and when you disagree they tag you "yahoo boy", and execute you.

donbachi:
Youths should end their own bad lifestyles also.

Oga Sars hunts both the good, and bad. These people have no regard for human life, they expect youths to live like savages and when you disagree they tag you "yahoo boy", and execute you.

How do unarmed protesters fighting for their rights shot a policeman? I hope the police knows that if we wield a gun they won't have monopoly over violence like they had yesterday. Besides that man in the picture was killed by his fellow officer.

I hope Lauretta Onochie saw this, crazy noise making old woman.

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Ebenezar2021:
just shut up

He actually made more sense than you did. You would have told him where he was wrong but instead you exhibited your animal tendencies. Shame on you if you are an adult and grow up if you are a child, that you don't find Sagay's comment inciting shows you are not in the right frame of mind.

Dayoebe:
There's more to this protest than EndSars

People are not just seeing it, the people are more of living like savages this is a revolution. It would happen like a film but it will be the end to bad governance in this country.

sammy329:
Anarchist

That is the only way power can be restored to the people and balance can be achieved.

sammy329:
I'm concerned about today's casualties, that's why I'm raising my voice on ending the protest. A lot have been affected already, we don't need more.

For a country to be liberated some have to pay the ultimate price.

CilicMarin:
Even Trump used excessive force to quell BlacklivesMatter matter ptotest and nothing happened...

Don't dare the state!

He should go ahead then and use force, this protest is more than just #EndSars, it's about we letting out our bottle anger and frustration for years flow freely. The minute they become violent, it would end going down as the largest revolution in the history of Africa.

bolaayenimo:
So the protests should continue even if hoodlums hijack it?

Nobody hijacked the protest all we are asking is for a better Nigeria for you and me.

jethro2013:
He was unarmed,he led his team down there..

A man from his team was wielding an AK and tried to shoot but spiraled out of control and shot your guy.