#EndSARS protesters: These arsinists, looters, murderers are not real
The problem with burning up and destroying public assets and looting is that it offers the same corrupt politicians, we rise against, an opportunity to continue to enrich themselves by ripping us off.
Long before the wounds sustained from the bullets and cudgels of the hoodlums they hired to deal with us, heal, contracts would have been awarded for the reconstruction of these structures, and at costs, unconscionably, inflated.
At the end, we, the people, are the ultimate losers. We empower the same oppressors whom we vent our anger against. Their accounts will be fatter by some hundreds of millions, while we writhe in hunger and rue our losses.
When we destroy privately owned structures and business premises, especially, those belonging to investors without political links, we would be fighting against ourselves and betraying the ideals that should drive a people’s revolution.
Some of thesehese private businesses are more responsible in employing our citizens than the government. When we destroy them, our comrades; those young and equally dissatisfied fellow citizens, are thrown out of their jobs and some of these businesses will take much longer time to rebuild. Opportunities for employment and wealth creation are reduced. At the end, the ordinary people get the short end of the stick, while our oppressors scorn us from their mansions.
When we attack men in uniform, we would be attacking fellow suffering Nigerians, who are reluctant slaves of our oppressors. We would be attacking and killing those we should protect and empathize with. Most of these men are as angry as we are, and would be ready to be part of the protests if need. By killing them, by setting their offices ablaze, we anger them and turn them against us. Our oppressors would be happy to understand that these men in uniform are made angry with us.
Fortunately however, I can bet my right thumb with which I type this, that those behind these destructions and deaths are not the real protesters. The real protesters have been mostly peaceful and orderly, until our oppressors deployed hoodlums to attack them.
I have my suspicion that those who kill our soldiers, naval officers and policemen are those who were paid 1,000 Naira by some politicians to disrupt the protests and make it look like it has become violent. Killing our men of the Armed Forces could serve as a motivation for them to zealously approach the real protesters like a group of enemies and deviants, instead of, as fellow citizens and friends.
Remember, that the real protesters were even handing out food and drinks to policemen and traffick wardens on duty. Obviously, our oppressors took more I’d this and immediately knew that it was a matter of time, before members of the Armed Forces, especially, the rank and file, joined the protests.
So when next you read news of break-ins, arson, murder or of any such barbaric things, I bet, you should know who instructed those hoodlums. They are not the real protesters.
