#ENDSARS

 

Nigeria…the land of kolomentality.

Hi guys, it’s been a bit going on all year, and even though I haven’t had all the time in the world to post regularly (*minions eye roll*), let's just say this year is one for the books.

So, even though the Fucking Wuhan virus was sure to fuck up world economies as expected, trust Naija, our own economic recession was epic!! As in, things have become very expensive, there’s hunger in the land while some bastards hoarded palliatives meant to assist, jobs are scarce, the government is a colossal failure and everything had to come to a head somehow…

Cue in the #ENDSARS protests.

What started as an online regular protest against the idiots known as SARS*, took on a life of its own outside social media and escalated to full-blown coordinated protests against the government asking them to scrap the killer cops.

Coordination was so good and well organized that the clueless clowns in power were obviously scared and anticipating another Arab-Spring type of situation. So they resort to their evil tactics. While pretending to accede to the demands on one hand, they go full out with devious plans to quash the uprising on the other. Hired thugs are brought in to disrupt the protests and cause chaos, the usual suspects of tribalism and religion are employed (mostly in the north) and are unfortunately minorly successful in dividing parts of the populace. Still, the protests go on with youths banding together to strongly condemn SARS and all their evil practices and relations.

Finally, the Govt, fearing the worst, play their most devious hand.

October 20^th, 2020 the Lagos state Govt imposes a curfew and sends soldiers (with obvious instructions) to the Lekki toll gate to get rid of protesters.

Now, if there’s anything well known about Nigerian soldiers, majority of them, sorry to say it, lack basic common sense. These fools go to the toll gate venue and eventually open fire with LIVE FUCKING rounds on people gathered there!!!

Thanks to some live streams from the venue, we can see exactly whats going on and it’s an absolutely horrific scene. People are injured, shot and some blatantly murdered.

It’s an overwhelming shameful stain on our collective and honestly that day remains one of the worst days in a year chock full with horrible days.

The enormity of the decision takes its toll and Nigeria is prominently featured in a bad light the world over for a while. Unfortunately, it has the effect of ending street protests as honestly, nobody wants to die for this useless contraption called Nigeria. However, the government knows it has lost the people and we wait to see how things turn out.

Meanwhile life goes on in this patch of the world as we try and come to grips with the reality of living in this part of the world.