1.Perhaps the real issue in the #ENDSARS campaign is the capital word, IMPUNITY. It is the belief in the exemption from the rule of law, a thug's definition of the use of power. #EndPoliceBrutality #ReformPolice
2.Impunity permeates our society - from the brigandage in our political system, to the Okada rider who rides against the traffic knowing he can pay off the law cheaply, to the use of convoy as a weapon of brutalisation, etc. #EndPoliceBrutality #ReformPolice
3. It would seem that in Nigeria, power is not a means but an end. A power-defined society ultimately becomes a wicked society. #EndPoliceBrutality #ReformPolice
4.The #SARSMUSTEND campaign is a trigger. It is pointing to bigger issues in our society - issues that have stretched the unusual elasticity of the average Nigerian to breaking point. #EndPoliceBrutality #ReformPolice
5.The older generation got overwhelmed. Some gave up the ghost, some became mute, some became Judas to the cause, and some became the very evil they were elevated to fight. #EndPoliceBrutality #ReformPolice
6.The #ENDSARS campaign must push for systemic reforms, ranging from constitutional reform, to electoral reform, to education reform, to encouragement of creativity and enterprise. #EndPoliceBrutality #ReformPolice
7.IMPUNITY must be banished from our society, or we will continue to suffer from individual sovereignty. #EndPoliceBrutality #ReformPolice
8.I wish to acknowledge the valiant efforts of the youths in taking up the gauntlet in the reform of the Nigerian society. May you not grow weary. May the labours of our heroes past and present not be in vain. #EndPoliceBrutality #ReformPolice

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