Thread by @IjeomaOgud

Those young women are still suffering the consequences of all the amazing work they did for #EndSARS.

We all saw it. We were here when it happened.

We saw the people who stood up for us.
FemCo's is crystal clear.

Joey Akan, what did you do on 20/10/20?

https://twitter.com/JoeyAkan/status/1358894682265313288

We are not talking about something that happened in secret.

We were here watching.

We saw Moe tweet sending ambulances to protests.

We saw her tweet that the Army were preventing the ambulances to reach the injured.

We saw how none of these women slept that night.

That you allow your conscience to be bought over, and black, white just for a few rubles, doesn't mean that that is how everyone else lives.

These women showed integrity beyond measure when we needed it.

They stood up and took the target that would have been on anyone else.

And we know their actions didn't go unpunished. Moe had her passport siezed.

Last she tweeted about the airline refunding her ticket money, after the govt stopped her from travelling.

We all saw the work they did. What you WILL NOT DO(!) is pretend their work had no meaning.

We know what #EndSARS was about. It was fighting to have our rights recognised by a govt we voted into power. You know, that little thing called democracy.

We watched @feminist_co put all into keeping protesters safe and cared for.

@JoeyAkan what did you do for #EndSARS ?

We didn't start calling F.K Abudu our president for nothing. We watched that young woman scrap around to help, come up against obstacles and move past them for the good of all.

You know what she couldn't move past? The Nigerian Army killing its own people for protesting.

I don't know if the women of @feminist_co had jobs. Because we saw them dedicate almost every waking moment to making sure #EndSARS went smoothly.

Women who r clearly brilliant in all they do.

A sensible govt would harness that power.
@JoeyAkan tell your daddy to try again.

Many of us are still waking up with the trauma of that night. The Nigerian govt turned its guns against its own people.

We saw it all in shock and horror.

Even though it was live streamed, they still tried to make us believe it didn't happen.

Where are the bodies they said.

We remember protesters tweeting on that night that the Army was removing bodies of protesters they had shot.

A straight line from there to the "where are the bodies?" question.

The Army removed bodies so we would have no proof.

So people like @JoeyAkan could muddy waters.

You should be ashamed of yourself for what you tried to do this morning.@JoeyAkan
A govt inflicts harm on its own people and you brazenly attempt to ridicule the dangerous work the young women of @feminist_co were forced to do.

Your conscience is obviously not existent.

But guess what? WE REMEMBER #Lekkitollgate killings.

We will not let you rewrite history.

@JoeyAkan shame on you. You acknowledge people were shot in your tweet. You're annoyed it wasn't the women of @feminist_co who were killed.

Shame on you!!

Try again, Joe. Try again.

If we lived in a country where our lives and rights really mattered, there would no conversations about this.

A govt without shame, attempting to return to 'business as usual' after THEY KILLED THEIR OWN PEOPLE.

Lagos state was complicit in those murders.
As was the FG.

We've been quiet for too long. Our oppressors think we are already dead.

Guess what, Joe? There is still a pulse in this body.

You do NOT get to use our trauma for your 12 pieces of silver.

Hey @JoeyAkan is there still a heart beating in that body?

Or is it frozen solid?

Both the FG and Lagos state govt, if they were really govts that cared about their people, wouldn't need anyone telling them to turn the #Lekkitollgate into a monument to the souls lost there that night, to the bullets of our own Nigerian Army.

Bullets bought with taxpayers...

Money, used to kill tax payers, for having the audacity to ask our own country's police force to treat us with humanity.

How both govts haven't buried their heads in shame still shocks me, but not surprised.

There will always be the likes of @JoeyAkan doing their dirty work.

Till today, the Nigerian govt is still trying to punish us for daring to demand our rights. All their actions have been in service of making sure we never get to do it again.

Risking our lives IN A PANDEMIC to get NIN.
Banning cryptocurrency.

All cos we said #EndSARS