What Rinu tweeted about Nigeria being a Zoo exemplified the failure of character that didn't allow even a worthy cause like #EndSARS to succeed.
It was a just cause I fully backed.
It had the buy in of almost all people across political divides. Those SARS needed to go.
It was a just cause I fully backed.
It had the buy in of almost all people across political divides. Those SARS needed to go.
But some of the prominent personalities behind it made it about themselves & how that movement can be morphed into something entirely different.
I remember how it was very normal for them to pitch younger generation of Nigerians against the older ones. It was sad to see.
I remember how it was very normal for them to pitch younger generation of Nigerians against the older ones. It was sad to see.
Some of us warned them and called for a more cohesive and inclusive approach, but our heads were not coconut heads.
You can't engage on a cause that seeks to alter something that monumental and not have the staying power. It will take weeks of engagement, if not months.
You can't engage on a cause that seeks to alter something that monumental and not have the staying power. It will take weeks of engagement, if not months.
The FRSC you see today came from a volunteer group started by Wole Soyinka to reduce mortality rate of his Ife students along the Ibadan Ife Road. For that value to be extended beyond that, government took it up and that meant talking to the military government he hated.
The Late Tai Solarin- a notable critic of the military- agreed to be the chairman of people's bank set up by the military junta because the soft loans the bank will give to poor traders was more important to him than his adversarial and principled stand against them.
You can't cause significant change if you do not make these separations. It is not a personal fight. It is certainly not ego driven.
The generation that fought the military consistently between 1992 and 1999 didn't have access to social media opportunities like today.
The generation that fought the military consistently between 1992 and 1999 didn't have access to social media opportunities like today.
The objectives were clear and the Nigerian state wasn't something to cause and deride. They and the military they stood against were that Nigeria.
Be critical and still be strategic.
One day, it will be your turn to steer the ship of the state that you once caused.
Be critical and still be strategic.
One day, it will be your turn to steer the ship of the state that you once caused.
Are yoi organising?
Are you infiltrating the political parties to form blocs that can cause change from within?
Are you learning from the errors of the past or you assume that you are superior to them?
Are you eveb ready?
Are you infiltrating the political parties to form blocs that can cause change from within?
Are you learning from the errors of the past or you assume that you are superior to them?
Are you eveb ready?
Even*
Curse*
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