Thread by @Chxta

This chart shows that you are actually more likely to be lynched in Southern #Nigeria.

It should be food for thought for Southern Nigerians.

It should be food for thought for someone like me, who is a parent.

https://twitter.com/sbmintelligence/status/1531176081520140289

Imagine sitting in your house, and your child goes out, then you hear that he has been killed because of ₦100 ($0.17)?

That is what happened to #DavidImoh's parents. bit.ly/3a0EtF7

Sadly, too low-income Nigerians have been socialised to see mob justice as normal.

When you add that most of us have no trust in the legal system in any event, we will see more lynchings in future.

No one is safe, because even the child of a top banker who lives in Banana Island could one day want to cross the road at Admiralty Way in Lekki, and could very easily be accused of failing to pay a random ₦100 toll. Then that's it...

If we are honest, it is what #Nigeria has always been. Lynching is not a new thing in Nigeria.

What were the Aluu 4 killed for 10 years ago?

What was that young boy lynched for at Stadium Bus Stop in Surulere back in 2004 (does anyone still remember that?).

In general terms, the difference between the nature of violence in Northern Nigeria and Southern Nigeria is that in the North, the violence is typically nihilist; while in the South, it is typically for economic reasons.

We have been used to it for a very long time but I think that the ubiquity of the mobile phone brings these things home the way a mobile phone live-streamed the #LekkiMassacre into our living rooms, makes us confront the stark reality of what our country is – a Hobbesian state.