Gustave Le Bon and Carl Jung wrote extensively about “Crowd: The study of the popular mind” & The Madness of Crowds respectively. These are two critical works I have passionately studied over a decade and applied when dealing with mixed multitudes out here. #JustSaying
A mixed multitude crowding together to form a mob releases their individual dynamism thus, letting loose their collective man— beast/demons that lie dormant in every person until he is one with the mob. Man in the mass sinks unconsciously to an inferior moral/intellectual level.
Once the lust after fame overtakes the principal idea ridden on to band with the mob, you are dealing with a different set of beings. This is not what the advocacy is about. We condemn in the strongest of terms any act of violence or destruction of public property.
I would have loved to say more for it is certainly a good thing to preach reason & common sense, but this is hopeless when dealing with an audience in a collective frenzy. They have even tried to fraudulently install their own Convener thinking the advocacy is about riots.
When it is time for glory, everyone wants to be crowned a leader even without doing the work forgetting that leadership is responsibility. For those who ignorantly believe there’s a fight with the police, & have acted on this belief, kindly step forward & take responsibility.
The Police retain their power to maintain law and order and will exercise their powers to make arrest of vandals and violent mobs. We must not become the demon we fight. If police officers have breached their protocol we can always flag this & report it. We can’t go violent.
Make a king for yourself in your Frenzy for what it’s worth. I rule over no one but @SIAF_NG takes no responsibility for violence and vandalism. We have been out here for years spending our resources to keep the vulnerable out of harm’s way. We’ve pushed polices. Never this way!
Peaceful protest is constitutionally covered and we support anything the constitution guarantees but belligerence, intolerance, harassment and any form of violence or harmful cultural practices is condemned by us. This is not who we are. #EndSARS#ReformPoliceNG is lawful.
I know the mob may be moved by impersonal overwhelming forces right about now but this will soon wear off and we will be confronted with the consequences of our choices on both sides. The authorities should act responsibly & so should we. #EndSARS#ReformPoliceNG
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Let me tell you this for free. The Govt bent over backwards and approved all the demands including the #5for5. The President even gave the Presidential order as demanded. As we speak they are constituting an independent panel to investigate these crimes in the next 5days.
There is nothing I have ever tweeted that I won’t say the same way before God and Man. I am not doing anyone a favor but contributing my little quota for future generation’s sakes.
It was a long one but the demand for the immediate release of all that may have been arrested and some even charged with murder should be released unconditionally. The IGP and the panel agreed to all the terms as presented and will show this in their action.
Distinguished, I usually don’t engage petty thoughts like this but lest those whose hearts are hungry feed on your mischief, let me state here that I have NEVER been a fan of protest knowing how it makes a bait of the vulnerable we seek to protect. 👉🏽link.medium.com/cNhguBEDxab
Learn more about the Movement and Advocacy. It is not the same as the PROTEST. The protest is the constitutional expression of discontent by every individual who so chooses to engage. We simply created a valid case for the CAUSE based on research and consideration of extant laws.
The conversation started long ago and have achieved so much you probably May never know because we are not selling ourselves. Our goal is to create a future and legacy for our children that our fathers were not brave enough to create for us. You can’t protest forever.
Distinguished, please note that the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act passed by the US Congress in 2016 allows the US Government to sanction foreign Government officials implicated in human rights abuses anywhere in the world. #5for5#FreeLekkiRoad 🙏🏽
We mustn’t endanger the lives of others with our push for assurances on the already given orders that scrapped the tactical squads as demanded as a main objective of the movement. Fellow citizens must not suffer more. Let’s open the roads and keep the peace.
We have been locked down in meetings since with the IG of @PoliceNG@MinofPoliceNG credible CSOs and other critical Govt bodies as hosted by the @NhrcNigeria. This has never happened before, as made possible by our collective responsibility as citizens.
Revolution is not about primitive protests with ignorant people void of apprehension of the future. It begins in the mind. A movement of a people around a strategic cause may or may not require street protests. #EndSARS movement wasn’t born days ago. It started in 2017. #History
The Church shouldn’t be perceived to have began on the day you started believing. What you don’t know exits. The movement is NOT about the street protest but the common goal researched, conceived, designed & advocated for years across platforms with all arms of Govt in the loop.
The protest strategically must be leaderless following the Starfish model, where every individual is a potential starfish on their own. This how it spreads without the possibility of a setback due to the arrest of any individual. The protest, however, is not the Movement.
Leadership is responsibility. Success has many relatives and also those who will want to claim they deserve to be success personified even without the capacity to show responsibility for the title or position so desired. ⛱ #Reality
But when all Hell breaks loose, or when responsibility is required in dire situations, there is no longer unconscionable cum ignorant argument about who the Convener is. There’s a consensus. "Ọmọ o̩lọ́mo̩ ni à ng pè ní abẹ́gúndé."
It is another man’s child that we assign to deadly masquerade while pretending he is destined to be so aligned for our amusement. Similarly, it is another man’s child that we sent into an evil forest known historically to consume explorers.
I’ve said once before— “Prejudice is an emotional commitment to ignorance.” There are certain people who would rather die fighting over who is superior in a collapsing building than collaborate to ensure everyone leaves the building alive. #EndSARS#ReformPoliceNG is a movement.
It is a platform created by @SIAF_NG to engage the culture of impunity in 2017. It is not built around protests, bottling blames or for the expression of discontent alone but to strategically build a bridge over institutional gaps as done across critical institutions of state.
It is a structured Advocacy with a Convener that carries along the general public on the progress made in years of multifaceted engagements and interventions. This doesn’t mean that the Convener rules over anyone. The rights to protest & contribute to the common ground is yours.