Thread by @DrOlusesan

BEFORE YOU'RE USED NEXT TIME
Have you heard or read about "soft facts?" Read it up. Disinformation communications is a new knowledge domain that embodies use of "soft facts" to steer perceptions and experiences of security and safety at individual, group and institutional levels.

I've parted ways, in some cases physically, in some cases psychologically, with as many people, as much as I have met in life, who turned blind eye to a glaring anarchical circumstances, where hoodlums started burning our things down in Lagos, because there's a point to prove.

If we do an introspective plus-delta, our conscience will see it that firstly and, admittedly, the Nigerian Army's tactics at the Lekki Tollgate is totally unacceptable, irrespective of whatever side of the argument you belonged to. The initial finger pointing made it all uglier.

However, if you aren't directly involved in the theatre of events, be careful with how you see d material evidence with which you analyse things, when either peaceful or violent non-state actors, VNSAs, begin to subtly execute scripts of ideological propaganda, passed on to them.

As it became clear, the only organic part in #EndSARS before and after it was hijacked, is a fully baked online quest to have a democratically elected president removed, if practicable. And all the "shalaye" are what Matza and Sykes's sum up as "Techniques of Neutralization."

Each truth about govt's poor handling of the protest was used to manufacture tens of lies. Perceptions have been shaped to see it as contrarian, that there was never a time in the history of Nigeria, where money poured in in chunks, to finance public protest the way this went.

Read in details about "techniques of neutralization," as it applies, to understand the dynamics of the chains of events and its sequence during and after the #EndSARS protest.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Its tragedious how spiritual embodiments gave grandiose to a politically driven ideological propaganda. One in the UK have acknowledged he was partly sponsor to the UK parliament's petition. I've always known politically innocent, poor Nigerians are incapable of doing such.

How did people who never did anything holistic to help struggling Nigerians, suddenly become interested in helping the poor masses fight govt? I found out he is having it very rough, trying to circumvent conditions of a university license he got before the current govt arrived.