Thread by @InibeheEffiong

There is an ongoing deliberate and likely sponsored campaign of propaganda and lies meant to discredit agitations by citizens for a better country.

The imbecilic views that agents of government are expressing in their desperation to stop the #EndSARS memorial is astonishing.

This tweet is an example of what I'm talking about. To the unsuspecting, the author of this tweet is intelligent, but any good student of history will easily decipher the mendacity and frivolity in it.

The military did not leave power out of pity, the military was chased out of power by courageous Nigerians who constantly went out to the streets to protest. Some of the protests were violent because the military, like the Buhari regime, had no respect for human rights.

Like we witnessed during #EndSARS protest, it was a common thing for military despots to sponsor counter demonstrations. The military also constantly deployed thugs and cultists to attack protesters.

This revisionist history should never be allowed to go unchallenged. It is insulting to the memory of heroes of democracy who made sacrifices, some paid the ultimate price, to chase the military out of power, for someone to try to demonize citizens who are demanding change from

corrupt, pretentious, dictatorial and incompetent civilian rulers by insinuating that the battle to return the country to 'democracy' was fought and won on a platter.

#EndSARS protest was not perfect, it had its weaknesses. But we should not allow corrupt and oppressive politicians and their surrogates to alter the truth of what led to the violence that took place during the protest. We all saw how government vehicles were used to convey armed

thugs, including vehicles belonging to security agencies.

We saw how armed thugs were led by state agents to unleash violence on the protesters. The carnage that we saw in Lagos would probably not have happened if the military was not deployed to shoot peaceful protesters who

were holding the Nigerian flag and singing the national anthem. Much of the violence was provoked by that unwarranted attack. I was present at the Lagos Panel of Enquiry when the military admitted that the violence in Lagos started after they attack protesters at Lekki Toll Gate.

Till date, no serious effort has been made to meet the demands of the protesters. The police is still killing innocent people and engaging in extortion and other criminal activities.

Those trying to stop people from protesting are the real enemies of this country. If you believe that protest is not the right approach, use your "right approach" and bring about the change. But do not attempt to stop other citizens from exercising their constitutional right.

If the police cannot protect peaceful protesters, the police should stay out of their way. We will not be enslaved in our own country, irrespective of who is the President.