Thread by @officialEdnaOji

HOW NIGERIAN ARMED FORCES WOUPD HAVE KILLED ME 6 YEARS AFTET KILLING MY PARENTS 💭

In 2013 I just gained admission to study in Enugu State University, when someday my mom called me that early morning saying "EDNA I THINK YOU SHOULD COME HOME TO BENIN.SARS SHOT YOUR DAD" I died

And woke up. I quickly rounded up what I was doing and ran off from Enugu to Benin. I got there and went straight to the hospital she had told me they were. Being the first child, I was so close to my parents because after me, it took almost 8 years before my siblings were born

I came and hugged my mom then held my dad. He had bandage round his head and wasn't moving. I cried like my life would end. Later, mom started telling me the story that they were driving to ugbowo when the police swooped in on them and started harassing them.Before much was said

One of the policemen released a bullet and it hot my dad on the shoulder then he fell straight and hit his head on the tarred road and also broke his head. She made attempt of videoing them but they destroyed her phone then ran away. In her trauma she drove dad to the hospital

After 2 hours, the police people came without the particular man that shot my dad. They stayed less than 5 minutes and my mom was screaming that they'll pay for what they did to her husband that she'll go any Length to make sure of this, then suddenly another threat came. They

Threatened to deal with mom if she ever misuses her mouth, and they left. A day after I came, mom went out to buy some prescribed medications for dad. She called me after a while that it's like someone has been following her from the hospital and it's more than 15 minutes. I told

Her to just get the drugs and come back. To me she was being delusional. 1 hour after that call I didn't see her and started calling. I called throughout that day she was picking and she didn't return. Dad passed on,on 24th October. Everything was now on me. That was how I didn't

See mom again till today. Her phone kept ringing for 2 days till it went off. After much, we later found her handbag inside the Bini moth.Of course the police being afraid she would bring them to book, assassinated her. That was how we becam orphans, and I was only 17 at the time

6 years later, #endsars protest came on, and that was my only opportunity to be heard so that fateful day, I happened to be in Lagos soon I decided to join other youths to protest against the Nigerian SARS, the Nigerian government and the Nigerian leaders that have caused us so

Much pains, and then again I escaped being brutally killed by the Nigerian army, almost same date as my dad. I lost all my phones in the process, and the whole money I was paid for the herbal remedies business I came for in Lag. Today I'm back to square 1. No phone, no business

Nothing. If not for the help of some kind Nigerians, I don't know where I would be by now. I'm still battling with my mental health. I still talk and laugh with myself since after the experience at Lekki toll gate on 20th October 2020. I still feel suicidal, and worst of all, I'm

Still wallowing in the poverty Nigeria has returned me to. It is not over yet. Our voices MUST be heard and justice MUST be served. #EndSARS #EndSWAT #EndPoliceBrutalityinNigeria #EndBadGovernanceinNIGERIA