AT LEKKI TOLL GATE
When I offered a few a place to sleep, many of the online propagandists who continually heat up the polity with incitements were tweeting "why ladies?" As small as the offer is, this is what others and churches saw and started asking people to come for shelter.
@UN's Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict stipulates priority protection of women and children. International Committee of Red Cross has its equivalent (30-10-85 article, No. 248) for priority first aid treatment. Its common sense!
Ironically, its women who started querying why women, before men. This is d extent to which many stoking this fury are ignorant and tweeting it from their homes when these people are in peril.
I'm not in Lagos, talk more of being at the place I asked people to run to for shelter.
I've twitted it before that I've shunned everything about active politics, as I bidded some things about Nigeria goodbye! Yet, I wont stop caring about the nation's progress, speaking up on what affects all. I will support what Buhari does that's good and I will condemn the bad!
Many of you who accuse others of being insensitive dont care about the killings, either #ProSARS or #EndSARS
You just want graphic pictures to push your shameful work, online. There's a huge difference between you and me. You desire d deaths more than you desire good governance.
I jeered at the online warriors, the bloody cowards, who started deleting and trying to erase their digital footprints when government announced curfew and i also roundly condemned d Lekki Toll gate incident. I dont have to convince you I support #EndSARS, go to hell; go to hell!
At the risk of severing my interactions here with many and i dont care, I will not endorse an #EndSARS protests in the form that will lead to loss of lives! Its pure mischief to call this #ProSARS or support for Buhari.
If you are thirsty for blood, please go and buy chicken. 🐓

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20 Oct
Dear @Mochievous @fkabudu @mrmacaronii @falzthebahdguy
Nigerians, not just youths, owe u gratitude for pushing issues that have troubled us for ages to d front burner. Unlike spineless keypad warriors, u followed your conviction with affirmative actions, at d risk of your lives.
Now that d outpouring of goodwill from Nigerians towards you is unwavering is also d time you should show astuteness with d peaceful #EndSARS protests. Coalesce your resources, deftness & ideas into helping Govt bring to a halt, violence unleashed by thugs hiding behind #EndSARS
Its dubious for failed presidential aspirants, who want to live their unfulfilled dreams through you to have claimed #EndSARS have no leaders. You are the leaders! Saying otherwise is an old trick, with which they portray you as humble, so as to leave the cockpit empty for them.
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The seat of the president isn’t as powerful in a federal democracy as we often think, except d occupier is brazenly tyrant. Buhari's sarcastic emphasis and throat clearing, when announcing d amount NASS appropriated to itself for 2021 buttresses this.
If there's no #EndSARS protest and the arrest of erring policemen are ordered, there would have been conspiracy theories saying it's a move targeted at "Christian" policemen, seeing that many of the policemen accused of being brutal are Christians of southern extraction.
If govt had gone after CSP James Nwafor who was accused of killing one Chijioke Iloanya, there'd have being questions asked about other killer policemen in the West or elsewhere who aren't Igbos. Now it seems #EndSARS is louder than the usual ethnic jingoism or religious bigotry.
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Its true that Danladi Mirenda gave d coinage 'SARS' to his team when he was moved from Benin to Lagos in 1992, but this team were men from FCID, Adeniji Adele, Zone 2 Anti-Robbery & State CID Panti. These anti-robbery units were already doing hatchet jobs for Halilu Akilu's DMI.
Publishers of TELL Magazine will have a full library compliment of how SARS in 1992 hounded Gani, Beko, Mayegun and others at the peak of Babangida's scheme to transform himself into a civilian President, after the sham elections that gave majority seats to his front party, NRC.
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Dear President @MBuhari
I expect that the current @PoliceNG IGP, Mohammed Adamu would have been sacked long ago. In Nigeria's 60yrs after independence, there was never a time @PoliceNG has been this useless, bereft & brazenly criminal. #EndSARS
Everything isn't politics. Its sheer madness to have made the allusion that a vast majority of @PoliceNG are patriotic. An aide in Aso rock must have made that up. A vast majority are maniacal crooks! Nigeria will likely be safer if the entire @PoliceNG is disbanded this moment.
I saw a tweet with photo props that IGP is briefing the President on @PoliceNG reforms. That's the 'razzest' joke from @MBuhari's media aides.
@PoliceNG that cannot complete a uniform switch, about 10yrs after the blue uniform was deployed. Some wear blue, some still wear black.
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