There seems to be this binary idea that if you call out someone involved in the #endsars movement for bullshit you are calling out the whole movement. This is false. Policy brutality has a long history going back to colonial times, this is not in dispute.
Protest demanding change and justice is unquestionably the right thing to do. However, some are not amplifying these righteous calls for action in good faith.
In October 2020, a a video of the killing of a young man by SARS officers in the town of Ughelli sparked long-standing opposition to SARS into a national cause. So why then were there internet armies of bots and disinformation campaigns gearing up through 2020, as early as May?
Before you say that I a implying the reaction in October was planned, that is not what I am saying. I am saying there are external interests that were aware of a very real issue that they knew would eventually spark.
They just didn’t know exactly when. When it did, they mobilized and used a just cause for nefarious ends, discrediting the real cause of anger, causing neighbor to distrust neighbor, and sowing chaos generally. They flood the zone with sh*t and created a disinformation buffet.
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