Was it not in this country that rising to take a strong stand that young women who went to school and were abducted deserved the justice of rescue by their @NGRPresident and @NigeriaGov , earned one attacks, falsehoods, impugning, arrest and detention? It’s their way. Just stand!
They lied to you that reason I, your fellow citizen was determined for #JusticeOfRescue to be given abducted children is “she wants to be minister”, “she’s looking for attention”, “she was hired as a consultant to embarrass xyz “, “ she is angry at xyz”.
You foolishly believed.
The total lack of cognitive ability or unwillingness to connect-the-dots and see through all the lies that the two administrations of the @NigeriaGov and their allies have hurled at your fellow citizens for daring to #SpeakUp for #ChibokGirls will remain a wonder to me. Na waa.
One falsehood that always got me laughing was the, “she was asking for #ChibokGirls because she wants to be minister”.
Like, how can any half-intelligent person even think that way.

So, in order to be something one had been over a decade ago, I needed to protest for children?🤦🏾‍♀️
Simply know that the Establishment and their cronies will do the abominable to tarnish your advocacy against their failures.
Lies & Lies.

It is their way.

Don’t ever let anything they say bother you.

Let your Courage of Conviction constantly empower the stance you have taken.
You had enough of a criminal gang of police officers of @PoliceNG extorting, robbing , maiming and killing your Generation without consequence for their actions.

You did the right thing that citizens do in any Democracy.

Now the @NigeriaGov and cronies smear you.

Stand on!✍🏾
Until @MBuhari @NGRPresident and his @HQNigerianArmy @PoliceNG transparently account for what happened at the #LekkitollgateMassacre and other extra-judicial killings around the country- Abuja, #Oyigbo, #Enugu, #Oshogbo etc, the Blood of the dead will keep crying for Justice.
That @NGRPresident @MBuhari used Thugs, @PoliceNG @HQNigerianArmy to break your legitimate right to protest peacefully against his failure to protect and preserve lives of his young citizens, can never invalidate your #EndSARS.
Only the irredeemably dishonest stand against you.
Wherever you may physically, emotionally and mentally be today on your hugely successful collective effort at asserting your Voice as a Generation, one thing you must take pride in is, “You shook the Establishment”.
They now know that the #OfficeOfTheCitizen can bark and bite.💪🏾
Don’t stop asking the @NigeriaGov under the incompetent leadership of @MBuhari to #EndSARS.

Nothing his government has so far done shows a commitment to solving the problem with sincerity.

Do not be intimidated into silence.

#SoroSoke #KwupuOkwu #SpeakUp .
Stand on! ✍🏾✍🏾

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4 Nov
While other nations are trying to figure out their Post-COVID19 priorities and strategies, what do you think our own country is doing?

Well, @MBuhari is busy with repressive acts against his young citizens who merely asked to be allowed to live by the @PoliceNG he supervises.👎🏾
We are a constitutional democracy and actions must be anchored on the Rule of Law.

Miss Odele’s passport cannot be seized by NAIA Comptroller of Immigration on the “order” of @HQNigerianArmy without an Order granted by a court of the land.
We are not a military state, @MBuhari .
I’m grateful to Femi Falana, SAN for always being available to take on cases of gross injustice against our citizens.

Miss Modupe Odele @Mochievous is not standing alone. Millions of sensible Nigerians are standing with her.

She and her peers gave Hope on what Nigeria could be.
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So, I have a message from the scriptures for young #EndSARS protesters!

It is from the Book of Jeremiah Chapter One.

Welcome to a Thread.
#DoNotSayIAmAYouth💡🔥
Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Jeremiah 1:4-5

#DoNotSayIAmAYouth💡🔥
Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.
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You hear me when I call
You are my morning song
Though darkness fills the night
It cannot hide the light

Whom shall I fear?

#ExtravagantWorship🙇🏾‍♀️🙇🏾
#GodOfAngelArmies💡💡
You crush the enemy
Underneath my feet
You are my sword and shield
Though troubles linger still
Whom shall I fear.

#ExtravagantWorship👼🏾🙇🏾‍♀️
#TheGodOfAngelArmies
I know who goes before me
I know who stands behind
The God of angel armies
Is always by my side
The one who reigns forever
He is a friend of mine
The God of angel armies
Is always by my side.

#ExtravagantWorship🙇🏾‍♀️🙇🏾‍♂️
#TheGodOfAngelArmies💡💡
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If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
II Chronicles 7:14
#AncientWordsEverTrue💡✍🏾
Therefore, you kings, be wise; be warned, you rulers of the earth. Serve the LORD with fear and celebrate his rule with trembling.
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#AncientWordsEverTrue💡✍🏾
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, The people He has chosen as His own inheritance.
Psalm33v12

#AncientWordsEverTrue💡✍🏾
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16 Oct
A short Thread.

I saw something this morning that reminded me to go read my pinned Tweet. /1

#EndSARS
By now, any honest Nigerian knows I am simply huge of Citizens Voice.

It was reason I propounded the concept of the #OfficeOfTheCitizen at a #GenVoices event in 2014.

It is why I never cease to push Citizens to never slack in demanding for Good Governance and Accountability.
When I saw the young citizens rise in unison to embark on #EndSARS protests across the country, it made me so very happy for them.

When the @PoliceNG responded with brutality, my heart raged and so I quickly wrote a letter and went to meet the IG of @PoliceNG on the 9th October. Image
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@funmioyatogun My dear Funmi, your tweet wrenched my heart because I do follow your exceptional hardworking trail on this Street.
1. Would you like to learn more about a non-partisan initiative @fixpoliticsnig for structural change of our Political Culture and its perennial dismal outcomes?
@funmioyatogun @fixpoliticsnig A minimum threshold of effective Public Governance that enables Citizens and Business is central to all prosperous societies. We’ve lacked that. The root is “a political culture that subordinates Collective Interest to Private Gain”. We must #FixPolitics for Good Governance.
@funmioyatogun @fixpoliticsnig The initiative @fixpoliticsnig came out of my research as a Richard von Weizacker Fellow @BoschAcademy .
Here are snippets of a conference held in Lagos on the interim findings.
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