I should have made this post way earlier but I've been out on the street joining the Nigerian youth in a peaceful protest to exercise our rights and voice out against the truancy and brutality of the rogue arm of the Nigerian Police force called SARS against young Nigerians that has been going on for years with the lackadaisical intervention of the Nigerian government which only lasts for a couple of weeks before the "gun-men" take back to the streets.
"Nigerians are resilient", is the term they throw at us for taking every shit the Nigerian government feeds its people. Drenched in lies and corruption, reeking of injustice and truancy, the Nigerian government is the worst!
Imagine not protesting for good governance, not protesting for healthcare nor lack of jobs, not protesting for security or light, which are the barest minimum amenities, but here we are, protesting for a right to live, to go out and not be kidnapped, brutalized or killed for simply being young, by the arm of police force meant to protect the citizens of the country, SARS.
For those who don't know, SARS is an acronym for Special Anti Robbery Squad, in a sane environment, seeing a member of the SARS around you should give some assurance of security, safety, but here, reverse is the case, as a young Nigerian, you leave your home with hopes that you don't encounter members of the SARS on the road, because for some it's been their last day, while many others have through such encounter found themselves in cells, unlawfully locked up with bail worth hefty fees.
Instead of unravelling robbery and locking up criminals these rogue policemen extort young Nigerians at random, brutalize the ones who don't dance to their music and do away with the ones they feel trigger happy with. Imagine leaving your home and not even being afraid of being robbed by robbers but rather with fear of encountering an arm of the police force.
Well, this has been the reality of the Nigerian youth for a couple of years without any permanent solution from the government to curb the menace!
They(SARS) claim to be fighting cyber crime by stopping and unlawfully searching youths at random, search their phones and laptops for conversations with foreigners, transactions, even pictures of a favorite footballer and criminalize them for it. Its unbelievable, in this age of technology where most youth work remotely,with foreigners and foreign organizations.
Just the other day, I was about to step out of my house and I had to delete my bitcoin wallet app, binance app, luno, and every sign of crypto from my phone because a friend was recently arrested for having a bitcoin wallet with bitcoins in it, he was tagged an internet fraudster, and had to pay hefty fees to be released for being a legitimate bitcoin holder, he luckily had the amount they thought was reasonable, an amount I couldn't dare provide were I in his case.
If you check the hashtag #Endsars on twitter, there are countless videos of live experiences of the extortion, brutality and killings of the youth by SARS, and whenever we call on the government, they issue some vague warnings that does nothing to change the situation.
Today, #Endsars was the number 1 trending topic in the world on twitter, if the Nigerian government wont listen to the people then we will show the world what we are suffering, the protest today showed that the people are tired of being oppressed, being killed and of the silence of the government!
Enough is enough!!!
We are not asking for stable electricity, not asking for jobs promised, not for healthcare or education, not for good roads, not even for justice. We are asking the Nigerian govt to let the youths live, to #EndSARSImmediately, yet we are being taken for idiots!
This is just the beginning, we will ask for every other thing the older gen are too cool to fight for!We will use our strength, technology and everything at our disposal, we will take our lives back.
You can even follow this link to read a more detailed story of the History of SARS
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What happens when they ones who should be protecting you becomes your biggest threats? Federal government really need to listen to the plea of the Nigerian youths.
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Its a sorry case....they are hiding behind providing "National security", but youths are being killed on a daily. If we say the govt is behind all of this now, they will say we are bashing them
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Sad thing is, FG is being less concerned
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Let us hope the new law this time will be enforced for real, if not, we are on a long tin
I hope so too
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My biggest question is how bad is the violence in Nigeria currently that they would need such a unit...
And it would definitely stand to reason that anybody running around in a third world country that encounters police and has access to a large amount of cryptocurrency would end up having all sorts of issues.
We need the police or there is no justice and protection for the common people.
However if you got rid of the police like you are asking who is then going to protect the community?
Hi ganjafarmer.
To answer your first question, the case of security in Nigeria is horrible but in different degrees, in the North, they are battling with terrorism, in the South-west and East, its mostly kidnapping and few robberies.
Concerning crypto, Large amount maybe questionable, but thats not even the case, any sign of crypto is seen as a redflag, even while the govt has issued statement that no ones phones or laptops should be searched without warrant, these people act on their own
We need the police definitely but we need it to be reformed from ground up because if we successfully scrap this particular rogue arm of the police force, they will only be reabsorbed into the system under another name. Which is why we need a reform, police are meant to protect lives, I don't think these ones got the memo.
In the case of protection, citizens have been protecting themselves for long enough, states have been requesting for a bill to allow private security outfits that can be called to order unlike the present ones we have but the govt ain't granting the request.
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Woaaahhh. I wish people knew about this all over the world. I will share it. Do you mind if I share this article in a few private groups of friends. There are no Nigerians in those groups
Oh please share on and thank you...
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Like the legendary Fela would say
I am actually glad to see the Nigerian youth standing up for their right, I hope to see more of this, it is high time the youths of such a wealthy nation fight for what is theirs.
I hope it is sustained, I hope we don't get tired, the oppression have gone on for quite too long. It needs to end and if we aren't doing this, we might as well be digging our graves
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