It is easy for our compatriots to blame Lagos for encouraging the protest. We are Yoruba people,we tolerate dissent, we encourage and allow alternative views and opinions to prosper. We are accommodating and unjealous of others.We didn’t make ourselves this way,we are who we are.
Those who are students’ of history will recognize the role of Lagos in the struggle for independence,our cities were the theatre of battles against oppressive military dictatorships,we are just who we are,not created to be subservient. In all these we also create rooms for people
creativity to thrive. We can’t kill decent no matter how attractive such options were but we have also in the process made ourselves the target of envious enemies and betrayed by allies,that is what our history have taught us, but we will not be other people, we will be us!
The protest for ending police brutality is legitimate,the actors in that protest are many. Within this protest were layers of interest and antagonists,but we can’t kill the protest. Let me say it here: the national security architecture failed us,there was the absence of policing
we were abandoned but we will neither lament nor blame-game. We shall face the consequence of our conviction.We will rebuild Lagos that is so much a victim of envy but we will also build a Lagos that can protect itself.A policing reform that does not recognize our right to police
to police ourselves will be rejected. We can’t rely on Abuja to police our communities and our investments. Lagos will still continue to proper from the energy of our people but we won’t allow ourselves to be left alone in crisis again. Enough is Enough.
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