The Coup False Narrative in the Persecution of the EndSARS Peaceful Protesters.

The End SARS peaceful protest was televised live. And the shooting and killing of the participants at Lekki Toll Gate were televised live. What was not so revealing, and still unresolved, was who ordered the armed Military men out of Bonny Camp to attack the peaceful protesters? Governor Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has vehemently and unequivocally denied contacting the army or having a hand in the bloody attack on the peaceful protesters. The question remains: who did? 

The attack on the protesters in Abuja, as well as the burning of private vehicles, was televised live. And there is overwhelming evidence to support the conclusion that the attacks and the vandalism of private properties were organised by the Presidency. And most disturbing, was that the attackers used government vehicles. These are not allegations or figments of once imaginations. There are tons of videos available on the public showing the deployment of ground troops.

A few days after the brutal attack on the EndSARS peaceful protesters, the Northern Governors had an emergency meeting in Kaduna, Kaduna State. Unexpectedly, the communique issued after the end of the meeting stated unequivocally that the protest was calculated to remove President Buhari from office. Another Treasonable Felony Trial in the Making. And a few days after the meeting of the Northern Governors, the Police Force issued a stern warning that it would not tolerate another protest from the same group. So, who is making decisions that are binding on Nigerians? Northern Governors? 

Following the release of the communique, there is a dramatic change in the handling of peaceful protesters in Nigeria. Today, those who are directly or remotely connected with the EndSARS peaceful protest are targets and enemies of the state, thus contending dangerously with arrest and forfeiture of a private bank account. Only in Nigeria. When was that decision taken? On what grounds are you prosecuting them? If I may add, President Buhari and Mallam El-Rufai were regulars in the protest match during President Goodluck Jonathan. And not even once did they suffer assault, arrest, or prosecution. 

So, to my Nigerian commentators, if you don't know, I want you to know right now: The Buhari Administration, his cabal, the Ministry of Justice, and the Northern Governors are treating the EndSARS peaceful protest as a failed civilian coup. I repeat, they are treating it as a coup by you to remove President Buhari, a Northerner, from office. 

Southern Governors should wake up. Nigerians should wake up. Men and women of conscience should wake up. What they are doing to the peaceful protesters is illegal and unheard of. It has a semblance of the Treasonable trial felony of Chief Obafemi Awolowo and his Action Group men. A trial and incarceration that planted the seeds of the 1966 military coup.

The cowardice, ignorance, and disinterestedness that Nigerians exhibited when Gideon Orkar and his fellow coup plotters were sentenced to death post-trial are at play once again, today. EndSARS protesters did not carry arms against the state like coup plotters. The EndSTARS peaceful protesters did not vandalise the Lekki Toll Gate. They did not touch government properties in Abuja. The government hired tugs. 

So, the prosecution of those involved in the protest and the seizure of their bank accounts must be condemned by Nigerians in the strongest terms. We must call an end to it. The right of the people to protest against oppression is an inherent right and a fundamental attribute of human existence. Enough is enough. Southern Governors should speak up. Northern Governors are not above the law. And we know where lies the grundnorm. This is a page from a conquest theory and the apartheid regime.  

SAVING CHRISTIANITY IN NIGERIA: WHERE IS THE JESUS CHRIST AND MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., IN YOU?

Martin Luther King Jr. was a Christian and a Baptist Minister. He couldn't stomach the state-sponsored inequality that cast his people as unworthy of the protection of the state and the denial of basic human rights. And he took his demands for racial tolerance and equal rights, and justice to the streets of America and to the National Mall in Washington, DC. Besides the "Sermon on the Mount" by Our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, the "I Have A Dream" speech by Martin Luther King Jr. remains the most memorable speech by any leader in the history of the human race. Just the way Jesus Christ went to the Temple to confront the merchants who turned his Father's House of Worship into one of bargain and exchange, for money changers, and hawkers of influence, Martin Luther King Jr. went on a march from Selma to Montgomery. All for his people to be free. You are no more special than these two.

Jesus Christ didn't wait for or look up to their Roman Colonia Masters to prevail on the Pharisees and Sadducees or for Pontius Pilate to remind him that he is the King. And Jesus Christ did not ask for the protection of the followers of His teaching (who will later be called Christians for the first time in Antioch). He took the fight to the enemy. And even at the point of death, he stood his ground. And he was peaceful. Martin Luther King  Jr. took the fight to the National Mall and to the enemy's territories. And he was peaceful. Where is your peaceful protest?

Today, you would rather dwell on what men and women do in the privacy of their own home than to talk about poverty, inequality, disease, bad roads, the poverty of ideas ravaging our leadership structure, nepotism, the killing of peaceful and unarmed protesters at Lekki Toll Gate, the humongous salaries and wages of the members of the National Assembly, the massive disconnect between Abuja and Nigerian reality, as well as the obscene emptiness of Aso Rock. And you are waiting for President Donald Trump to fight your fight. 

Black Lives Matter was a global crusade. How many of you in your church in Nigeria or your idolised and hero-worshipped evangelists in the US spare a second to empathise with the movement or condemn the heartless killing of Trayvon Martin or George Floyd? Too pedestrian to be worth your while.

They told you that he was going to send American Military Forces to protect Nigerian Christians in Nigeria. Really! The last time that I checked, Nigeria is a sovereign nation. Two, the American President does not have the power to suo mo tu send Military Forces to another country. Even if he does, Nigeria is not like the Vatican, where the population of the faithful is in a bounded area. Which makes the expectation logistically untenable and the lie, too juvenile.

There is a popular video by Rev. Fr. Oluoma Chinenye John that made the rounds on Facebook and WhatsApp a few months ago, calling on Nigerian men and women of God, as well as Muslims, to march to Eagle Square in Abuja. How many of you crying in captivity since the US Presidential election share the video on your Wall? I did it three times. 

Fight your own fight, gentlemen. Stop waiting for heroes in the wrong places. Emancipate yourself from the mental hijack of Chief Femi-Fani-Kayode and the sophistry of my fellow Esan brother, Pastor Chris Oyakhilomen. Please, take the bull by the horns - you know who your enemies are. CALL THEM BY NAMES. Stop speaking in tongues about them in your places of worship. 

Do you know what would happen if 20% of you match to Eagle Square in Abuja and take the STOP THE KILLING OF CHRISTIANS CAMPAIGN directly to President Buhari and the cattle merchants and land grabbers who are sponsoring and arming the killers? President Donald Trump can't do that for you. He didn't promise that, either. The UN can only condemn it, but they can't fight the fight for you. You have the manpower, you have the resources, and you have the means. Fight your battle. 

Please, take a page from the works of our Lord Jesus Christ and Martin Luther King Jr., their audacity, selflessness, and the no-hold-barred chastisement of the political system that perpetuates un-Godliness, inequality, and man's inhumanity to man. And free your mind of the escapism of some of our evangelicals that is holding you hostage. You are clothing somebody in a borrowed robe that he didn't even bargain for. 

And if I may ask, are you more Christian than your folks in the States? And does it matter to you that not even 1% of them espouse your views about the US Presidential election and the candidates? They sold you a dummy, and you fell for it under the spell of prophesying. Now that your prophecy has come true, you are blaming the gods. Come on, brethren, the gods are not to blame. Blame it on your naivete, ignorance of the facts on the ground that you are not familiar with, and the false narrative you concocted to hoodwink your gullible followers. 

DEBATING DANGOTE 

It is NOT about Dangote. It is about the system that creates the absurdity. Nigerians should Debate the system in light of the absurdity and similar occurrences, and not Dangote per se. If 25% of the social media hours that Nigerians devoted to debating Biden vs Trump are devoted to debating the anomalies that encapsulate closure of our borders, Abuja will consider a rethink or review the measure by now. Cattle Colony was not taken off the table because the faceless authors of the policy at the Ministry of Agriculture consider it repugnant. It happened because you said no - NOT in my backyard. So, my friends, it's time we - individually and collectively - rethink and rebel against our capacity for tolerance.