The practice of democracy in Nigeria has just gained a touch because the government is now afraid of other people, unlike the other people who fear the government.
And the above statement is underlined and illustrated by the fact that, following persistent street protests and protests, the government nevertheless accepted Nigeria’s youth’s call for the dismantling of the much-feared and vilified police unit, the Special Anti-Riot, SARS squadron.
The government – President Muhammadu Buhari and the inspector general of police, IGP – still had no selection to pay attention to the voices of the “street leaders” who are the protesters; because most of them are expected to hold the positions that today’s leaders hold today. The ongoing protests leading to the government’s concession to dissolve SARS are a confirmation of a butgrullada: force belongs to others; and this underscores the creed: democracy is the government of others, through others and for others.
President Muhamadu Buhari might not understand the extent to which the few democratic steps he has taken over the past two weeks as policies have strengthened his democratic credentials. Positive movements such as allowing the election of the governor of the state of Edo to move forward without a game of hands that may also have facilitated the manipulation of votes in favor of your party’s candidate; Allowing free and fair elections in the state of Ondo, and listening to the voices of other young people to dissolve SARS, are major milestones that have strengthened their democratic spirit, which was shredded as a result, among others, of civil rights violations. arrest and arrest of protesters from Revolution Now, led by Omoyele Sowore. This, along with other violations of the human rights of citizens seeking to make a living through security agencies, recorded during the Covid-19 pandemic, has led to the blockade of the economy and even the outcome of the 2019 general election, which a wide variety of questionable Nigerians, emptied any passodwill balances on their account.
As President Buhari knows more than I do, dissent or protest is the oxygen that underpins democracy, because it is evidence of freedom that differentiates democracy, that is: the government of others through others and for others; dictatorship, autocracy and totalitarianism.
That the president and commander-in-chief, C-C of Nigeria’s armed forces Muhammadu Buhari, did not get carried away by the enormous force he wields violence against the young protesters, but yielded to the fervent and persistent. masses by suppressing sarS yoke and the now ubiquitous violent police in the country from behind, showed pragmatism and inadvertently made positive deposits in their goodwill bank that had been exhausted by the monumental existing state of mistrust in the country. resulting from its resistance to the call for:
Replacement of military service chiefs; unbearable pain resulting from the burden of taxes on the cap – increase in value added tax, VAT, from five to seven and five per cent; the emerging costs of fuel in the pump and the unjustified accumulation of electricity costs, all at once, amid a pandemic that is decimating lives and livelihoods, without first offering strong palliatives.
Forget the chaotic merchant’s moni, the movement of direct money to indigent members of society, feeding schoolchildren and others who have proven to be channels to channel the public budget into personal bank accounts: let’s communicate palliatives such as flexible schooling for everyone through high school and a student loan for those wishing to continue their studies in higher establishments of billions of nairas that will be stored from the abolition of the scholarship. Fuel: such a policy is a safe bet for Nigerians who have long suffered and have an insatiable thirst for schooling, but who have been rejected for poverty.
If the past the wise due Obafemi Awolowo can simply provide loose education to the Yoruba with cocoa export income, I see no explanation as to why Nigeria’s government, with massive oil and gas revenues, cannot offer everyone. Buy it loose. Microsoft founder Bill Gates and others have hinted at underutilization and untapped human capital in Nigeria, which studies say is governed by young people. The ongoing protests in #endSARS are evidently a negative drop in the rise of young people that experts have tried, unsuccessfully over the past decade, to attract the attention of the authorities.
I will give more details about what our government can do to integrate our other young people into governance and what can be done with oil and fuel revenues stored by preventing fuel subsidies later.
Can the end of protests against SARS be the end of police violence in Nigeria?
As Simon Kolawole, columnist for ThisdayNewspaper, in his Sunday, October 17 article on the last page of Thisday, titled
“NO SARS, ” the unequivocal is no.
Justifying his position with a terrifying, unexpected and very valuable account that is ignored about the poisonous point of violence in the police, which he received from reliable sources, argues as this:
“I don’t need to be alarmist, but SARS is not the deadliest unit of Nigerian police. In fact, those who are very familiar with NPF operations have told me that SARS can be considered as a group of large types compared to two others. “When it communicates about impunity and savagery, SARS learns the industry compared to the Special Anti-Kidnapping Brigade (SAKS) and the Special Anti-Sect Brigade (SACS),” a police source told me. SACS agents who killed Kolade Johnson at the Lagos Visualization Center in March 2019, but other people think it was SARS. The source said disbanded SARS members can even be republished in the two deadliest units. “
The understanding that SARS atrocities is a children’s game and does not pale in any way compared to the aforementioned death squads: SAKS, SACS in the police is a blood hug and, therefore, an intelligent explanation of why the passing government should go beyond converting the nomenclature. from SARS to SWAT, which is actually purely cosmetic, as insisted by the aggrid youthsArray and hence their continued stay on the street.
In fact, this may be the right time for our legislators to intervene, so that posterity gives them greater judgment.
Accency at a critical time like this, when other young people who make up about 60% of our population are mobilizing for greater remedy from the police and heads of government in general, is possibly one of the reasons why the members of the IX Assembly and the Republic are known as undeniable rubber seals.
This is an opportunity for NASS to regain its respectability by intervening on the side of young people. The same goes for members of the judiciary. This branch of government does not have to have frontal interaction to solve the crisis. go back through the creation of forums or mediation platforms for young people and the Executive Branch to concrete and tighten agreements amicably. Whether our leaders need to settle or not, our country is in crisis.
The evil nature of these police groups – SARS, SAKS and SACS, who from other protectors committed pure cruelty and pure savagery laugh at the police nickname – The police are your friend.
Thus, the move taken so far by the government to appease the anger of young people, such as accepting its 5-point request to end SARS and creating a committee to reform the police, may not be enough to calm or drive protesters away from #finishSARS. the streets.
It is time for the unrest raised through the protesters, like jumbo, pay our legislators in relation to the emoluments of their counterparts from other climates and the highest outstanding governance charge through the N125b assigned to only 465 legislators then depressments N46b is assigned to fitness and the undeniable N48b section for education of a country with a population of two hundred million in the 2021 Budget Array does not leave the government in a smart position.
If the claim of some policemen and women that the salary of a police sergeant, and indeed other men and women in uniform is of some miserable 50,000 N, it is true, it is unexpected that our country has lost the war opposing terrorists and bandits boko haramArray
How can our security forces, who are so discouraged by poor wages, be motivated to fight the bandits and terrorists who, through all indications, benefit from heavy food, excess cash and even a surplus of abducted women who are used as sex slaves and stolen meat, farm animals and stolen cash from banks satisfy their destructive intentions.
What prevents the government from taking down the office of governance or re-allocateing safe resources, for example by cutting the emoluments of lawmakers and expanding the wages of the men and army who carry the burden and use deadly weapons to protect us?the worst paid in the system?
It sucks, because it is so unfair and inhumane that a sergeant in the armed forces earns 50,000 N miserables, as a monthly salary, while lawmakers earn more than 29 million N consistent with the month, which I cannot determine just because lawmakers pay is opaque By some estimates, it is several times higher than the salary a university professor earns each month. Does the government ever have to extortion and elegant sex through some tevery oneers in our upconsistent with establishments have dreamed or dreamed Unique epidemic levels, while SARS brutality is on a pandemic level?There could be links to the few emoluments and I urge social scientists to conduct surveys to see if they can link the points.
Difficult times like this require a paradigm shift in the redistribution of revenue sources into our public service wage system Why deserve to spend the maximum of the public budget on customer financing, as evidenced by the fact that, year after year, the OPEX operational/spending part of our national budget is higher than capital expenditures, CAPEX.
It is equally absurd and disturbing for governors to drive in expensive and gleaming vans with a convoy of exotic cars with taxpayers’ money, which explains why the governor, Gboyega Oyetola of the state of Osun, the CTF’s minister and governor, Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom The state recently faced the wrath of the protesters, who were obviously dismayed that the governors and the minister showed no sense of regret , since the citizens over which they rule are crushed by poverty and therefore commit suicide. I don’t know if anyone noticed that. VIP cars blocked by other young people are exotic and manufactured abroad, while local brands such as Peugeot and Innoson Motors, among others, cannot sell their assembled cars locally, which may have allowed them to create jobs for the military. now blocking roads in protest.
To measure the point of frustration or how distressed our other young people are, we just want not to forget that it was only recently that other young people plunged into the Lake Lagoon due to government movements or the inaction that led them to There are also hordes of young people, especially in the north, who die en masse fighting terrorists or bandits (members of the civilian JTF) , while terrorists controlling the vast interior of northern Nigeria are now slipping away. in cities.
The frustrating accounts of other young people, most of whom have found themselves in a bind, because they have not been able to locate formal jobs in establishments or in the personal sector, so hotelier to exploit the benefits of the virtual age or the economy of work through doing online business and yet the police do not back down to maim and kill them after stripping them of their hard-earned funds. Today.
And the lack of through law enforcement officials that the mere fact that other young people do not own identity cards indicating that they are bankers, lawyers, stockbrokers and officials does not make them all scammers, when they are seen dressed in fancy clothes, leading to fantasy. cars or grabbing exotic virtual phones or laptops.
This adds to the fact that security forces will have to be told that they have no right to arrest and search the streets for their IDs or search for their phones or laptops without a warrant, as this equates to gender. profiling that the Charter of the Federal Republic of Nigeria does not approve.
Thus, re-editing security agencies on the new virtual age and the economy of small jobs in which corporations can be carried out virtually, by contract and in the short term, will be a priority and a primary objective of the police reform agenda.
This is not to say that the scourge of cybercrime does not exist in our society; Indeed, this is part of the challenge because the negligible number of these rotten eggs among other young people has been the excuse for the Scottish Land’s programme of annihilation of other young people who are not committed to the classical form of paintings through the notorious ambassadors of the police.
But the disintegration of such a cybercrime must be left to those who know how to do it more productively, such as dcP-led unit Abba Kyari, which untangled the killers of teenage Lynda Osokaogu, who was drawn to her death by cybercriminals; and the team that cooperates with INTERPOL to track down cybercrime culprits, such as Hushpuppy and the like, that actually abound in our society.
As some commentators have pointed out, the genie is now out of the bottle and it would take skill to return it.
It is worth remembering that he took the march of one million men of Nnamdi Kanu in the past due dictator of the SANNI army ABACHA, for the other young people of the Niger Delta, who had the opportunity to make a stopover in abuja for the first time. to know and know firsthand how the oil wealth generated through his region splattered in abound, it is well known that it was the site of the opulence of the CTF that galvanized them in a force that intensified the struggle for control of the resources that engulfed the past due dictator, Abacha and beat former President Olusegun Obasanjo to Umaru Yar’dua , with a blessed reminiscence treated with skill.
As for our other young people who have to literally take fate into their own hands and who have made their voices heard through the fact that the government has moved the needle a little bit by accepting their initial five-point request, I advise them that it is time to negotiate.
In my experience, dissent and protest are comfortable weapons to force leaders to sit at the table to negotiate with the aggrieved parties, and it seems to me that the government is now in a position to have a roundtable with other young people. young people is palpable for all to see and feel, just as there is no denying the energy and galvanization of their collective strength, but the great strength they possess, which they now exert, does not give them the courage of the Netherlands to have government interaction in question of making or dying or putting them in a struggle to end.
As a component of their trading market, other young people are asking to be assigned at least 25 to 30% of public functions. Incidentally, through the social media message that entered my orbit recently, the TB preacher Joshua of the synagogue church was the first to recommend the participation of our other youth in government in 2013. This is not strange, given that 30% of the public workplace is now assigned to women. And gesture is the positive result of a coherent plea through so-called weak sex. .
In the context of the fact that other young people are in fact leaders and deserve the mentoring of those who have recently been in leadership positions to achieve a harmonious succession, the proposition that the role of junior ministerial posts should be assigned to Willy Nilly for other young people would possibly not be more appropriate because it is indisputable.
As evidenced or received in the personal sector, marketers prepare their youth or siblings in their youth for intelligent managers or heirs to their business, whether in banking, production or service offering, and those succession plans have been very effective.
The ability of our other young people to see for themselves, if given the opportunity to serve in public office, even as junior ministers, was the highlight of the demonstrations. I am inspired by the fact that other young people were able to save him from participating in the demonstrations, thus avoiding looting and vandalism; repaired cars that had been destroyed by the protests; he provided medical care to the wounded and fed the hungry and presented the same welfare to the police, their alleged executioners.
Above all, the other young people collected their own cash (last count of 60 million nars) to cover the prices of the above activities and eventually cleared the debris created at the places where they held their meetings. is remarkable and commendable.
Another smart benchmark on the productivity of our other young people would be when Nasir El Rufai, the current governor of Kaduna state, the CTF minister, involved our other young people in the progression and control of Abuja, so the center of attention of many eyes, adding visiting European heads of state.
SarS and its odious cousins SAKS and SACS, 3 hands from a leper (apologies to Ball Ige) have long since been discarded. The violator of hip-hop music, Naira Mali, at one point triggered a runchus with SARS about the invasion of his privacy, the government probably paid no attention because the young musician’s body is covered in tattoos, a typical red flag for SARS members whose mindsets are rooted in the age of caves.
The government heard in violation, meaning that instead of hearing the public cry opposed to the cruelty of security agencies, the government has been involved in the e-spirit-de-corp. And that’s one way of saying that hurting one is hurting everyone.
What is the strategy that other young people have also followed to jointly protect themselves from the risk of deranged and enraged men and women in uniform who like to torture or kill other innocent young people who fail to satisfy their thirst for dirty profit?
After all, the vile acts of henchmen and thugs in police uniforms were forging Villa Aso Rock.
The vice president, Yemi Osinbajo, apologized to other young women for forgetting the government for allowing the loss of other young women to spread, and the ever bubbly First Lady, Aisha Buhari, is in a position to enroll in the #finishSARS. campaign, otherwise she would have been busy preparing her own menu to end mistrust in the north.
Let’s hope the heads roll after their crusade has grown in duration and momentum.
As a crisis manager, my recommendation to President Buhari would be to come out with a #endSARS cap on his head and a sign in his hand.
I who such a gesture of intelligent will and branch of olive tree, in the way that melancholy music calms the nerves of a charged monster, would cool the temperament of our rabid youth.
The smile that has been touted since the crocodile operation through tuesday’s scheduled army will be absolutely out of the hours or loop of the Aso Rock villa, if the non-violent solution to the crisis is the search for the government.
What President Buhari probably does, though he realizes, is that before assuming his current role as president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 2015, he was almost deified, especially through his 12 million supporters promoted in the north. There’s no other way I can say better. The stark truth is that a little five years after the start of his 8-year presidency, the President was discredited because he was fundamentally unable to meet the expectations of his admirers. to defeat the terrorists who destroy their lives; instead, the anguish of the bandits was added; nor has the quest to reduce, if not eliminate hunger, on the contrary, poverty and hunger have been aggravated by the inability of the masses to pass to the farm because of the lack of trust that invades the land.
These are just two unmet fundamental desires of their base members, who will most likely be inside.
While President Buhari is running against the clock, can he oppose negative belief and regain its glory by putting the country on the same keel before leaving strength in 2023?
I’d say he would, if he put his reform mechanism on his own.
Already on the right track as he sought to oppose the negative anti-corruption trend by creating Ayo Salami’s justice panel to investigate investigators in a similar way, he also decided on teachers with his recent Labor Day approval to raise their salaries. .
Taking on the task of reforming the police and reducing top and public spending by transferring at least part of the budget from overly pampered legislators to uniformed men and women would return him the glory that could be lost if he is unable to put Nigeria down. back on the same keel before retiring in 2023.
ONYIBE, entrepreneur, public policy analyst, author, strata, alum student at Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Massachusetts, USA. But it’s not the first time And a former member of the Delta State Government Cabinet sent this article from Lagos.
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