However, if you go through my posts, you will discover I have never supported any form of looting.
My major concern was what led to it.
Government handled the #ENDSARS protest as an opposition antics and paid lip service as usual to it. Check my pictures with dates of when Buhari started promising police reform and ending of SARs
They insisted they don't want lip service but action and we know how government reacted.
Hiring thugs and sending soldiers to what can be solved by dialogue and implementing what was asked for.
It first started as anger over the killings till palliatives were discovered at Oba of Lagos house.
I cannot supporting looting of any kind even if the palliatives was not even recently brought.
Looting is a crime and many states will soon start prosecuting some hungry Nigerians arrested in the act.
Our political leaders also don't have the ear of the hungry masses as it's not election time when they come to share stipends.
Since you sound very sane, if you were the president or Governor now, what will you do differently?
Handling Endsars protesters would have been easy if Buhari and his workers did not see it as a political movement from the word go.
Those saying the demands of the protesters don't know history. Attached is same lip service Buhari made in 2019.
IG hurriedly created SWAT which even the governors advised him to stop but he responded by fixing their training resumption date.
Government quickly hired thugs to disrupt the protest which even emboldened protesters even under waton destruction of their properties and bodily harm resulting in even death.
When it didn't work.
Sanwo ordered an impromptu curfew
Ordered the CCTV removed.
Sheyi put of the light of his Bill Board on the orders of Sanwo which Sanwo have even denied.
The street light was put off
Soldiers arrived.
And started shooting peaceful protesters
Now afraid and traumatized, the peaceful protest moved to survival.
This angered lagosians who turned it violent and other states followed.
The worst mistake was Buhari waiting for 48 hours while Nigeria burnt to give us a pre-recorded speech void of empathy.
V7place: Police Brutality Started The Boko Haram War! Yes one wrong step by a Police Officer is what started the mess that is Boko Haram war. I never realized that myself until a friend reminded me its exactly what started the war!
A war that has cost Nigeria billions of dollars, tens of thousands of lives , displaced over 2.5 million and spread into three other countries. And all this started because several policemen on July 30 2009 decided to take the laws into their own hands and execute without trial Mohammed Yusuf; founder of Boko Haram.
The Army had captured Yusuf and handed him to the police alive after interrogating him. His interrogation was recorded on tape. The army did its job and rightly handed him over for prosecution. Later that day though, he was killed outside Police Headquarters in the full view of dozens if not hundreds of members of the public who were hailing the Police and chanting “ No mercy, no mercy” Before 2009 Boko Haram was a legal organization; infact so legal that some commissioners in Borno State were members. Boko Haram infact helped ensure the election of Governor Ali Modu Sheriff. But gradually like most strict religious sects they began to go radical and eventually started attacking Christians. Borno that was the most peaceful State in Northern Nigeria and probably the whole country began to have religious skirmishes. One of Nigeria’s greatest problems is a lack of consequence for actions whether it be reward or punishment. Mohammed Yusuf was obviously a bad man, but there is a system that exists designed to handle bad people. That system is the law and gives everyone a right to trial. Indeed a trial of Mohammed Yusuf would probably have allowed lots of fact to come out and people like Abu Musab al-Barnawi and Abubakar Shekua (present day leaders of Boko Haram successors) may have been nipped in the bud along with information as to who their sponsors were, both local and foreign. Instead his murder and the subsequent killing of hundreds of people in Borno made him a martyr and built up anti government resentment in the North and an all out war.
The job of the police is to enforce the law; it is not their job to make laws nor to give out punishment. The courts decide if a person is guilty or innocent.
Its been 17 days since the ENDSARS protests began; yet despite mass protests NOT ONE Police or SARS officer has been charged to court including those from possibly the most evil SARS office in Nigeria; Akwuzu, Anambra State where dozens if not hundreds of people were extorted, raped and executed by policemen. And this to the 50 or more people who have been killed by security officers since the protests started on October 8th including at least two extra judicial executions captured on video and seen by millions. It seems we have not learnt out lesson as a nation yet.
Police brutality can destroy a nation. There must be reward and consequence for actions if we are to develop as a nation. We need to rebuild and retrain our Police Force. Nigeria itself needs a rebirth,
iamDrRhymes: EndSars has brought all this on us. It is when 2023 come that we will know that all their efforts were just complete waste of time as the same youth will still rally round the rich old men.