#ENDSARS PROTEST_Nigeria is a country that eats its young.
They thought protesters would get discouraged by their silence and disperse, but the numbers and locations increased.
They thought we'd run out of cash, but we raised over ₦26million in less than 1 week and much more subsequently. They shut down the Flutterwave link for donations and we raised over ₦1million worth of bitcoins in an hour.
They thought we'd get exhausted or fall sick, but we raised a team of medical personnel and even got private ambulances for emergency.
They thought that arresting us would make us cower, but we mobilised a team of over 600 lawyers across the country to provide free legal services.
They thought that hunger would send us home, but protesters were literally having buffet services back to back. Small chops, rice, pasta, ẹwà agoyín, pizza, asun and drinks.
They thought that using water canons, throwing tear gas and shooting at us would make us become violent, but we remained calm.
They also thought that sending thugs to attack us would make us lose our cool, but we overpowered some of the thugs, fed them, sent some to the hospital, arrested and handed the rest over to the police.
They thought that destroying our cars and phones would make us retreat, but people got their cars and phones fixed at little or no cost.
They thought that subtle threats of distorting the internet would shake us, but we immediately made plans for VPNs.
They thought that the rain would scatter us, but we ordered raincoats and umbrellas.
They thought that the football weekend would be a major distraction, but we created a stadium at Lekki toll gate and brought football live to the protesters.
Was there anything impossible for us to do? Is there anything more powerful than a group of young people tired of being oppressed, brutalized and killed by the very people meant to protect us?
We gathered to peacefully protest again on 20-10-20. We sat on the floor, arms in the air with the Nigerian flags in our hands, reciting the national anthem and the Nigerian Army opened fire on us. Bullets were fired from the guns of the Nigerian Army that was set up to defend us.
They shot af us, kîlled some of us, injured others and they denied it. They hid bodies and covered up the evil that they rained on us. Even when the report of the panel that they set up confirmed that they actually kîlled people, they did nothing. Justice was never served nor seen to be served. The people elected to protect us turned on us. Nigeria is a country that eats its young.
WE WILL NEVER FORGET.
By Bibian Pius_Urum
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