HOW THE YOUTHS WERE DELIBERATELY PLUNGED INTO VIOLENCE.

READER DISCRETION: Please be strong, because reading this was so painful, and it got me crying.

But emotions won't solve the matter. I just hope the clout-chasing lot on the social media have learnt their lessons...and most importantly, I pray the nation is healed...very fast.

Macaroni, FK Abudu, Rinu, Yul Edochie, P-Square, Don Jazzy, Yemi Alade, Davido, Aisha Yesufu, Wizkid, Falz, Omojuwa, Gimba Kakanda, Shehu Sani, Oby Ezekwesili, Dr. Olufunmilayo, Reno Omokri, and a host of many high ranking celebrities and social media influencers are all responsible for the carnage and any other thing that comes out of it. 

We started out as protesting against police brutality, Government told us all that they have heard the agitations. Government disbanded SARS that was the cause of the problem. Government mandated all States to setup Judicial Panels, so as to investigate any case past, present or future about police brutality.

 

They claimed there was nothing government is saying they haven't said before. Government called us to come to the table, accepted our 5 points demands you refused & coined phrases like 'we move' 'werey dey disguise' 'focus'. Then you started soliciting contributions locally and internationally! 

As the funds poured in, you hire DJs, pay vendors to cook & mobilize anything & anyone. You people decided it was a good idea to block Lekki Toll Gate stopping Lagos Island folks from going to the Mainland & vice versa! You thought it was a good idea and to block Lagos-Ibadan express way, now let me tell you how some of your moves were not only dangerous but detrimental to the initial agitation against police brutality; the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway is the major highway that links Lagos the commercial hub of Nigeria to almost every part of Nigeria!

Livestock (cows & goats) coming in from Northern Nigeria via trucks got stuck in that traffic. Vegetables (tomato/onions etc) from other parts of Nigeria got stuck there and began to rotten. Breaking it down further; Kara the cattle market in Ojodu Berger not only manages & distributes close to 90% of the meat supply in all of Lagos & environs but it also has the biggest abattoir in all Lagos. 

There are over 1,000 meat seller/menial job workers who source their livelihood from that single location! Out of the over 1,000, most are what we call agbero/hoodlums/touts! Mile 12 in Kosofe is one of the biggest vegetable markets in all of Nigeria, trucks bringing in their wares all got stuck at the highway you blocked! If there are 1,000 people in mile 12 , 100 are traders, 200 customers & the rest menial workers aka agberos/hoodlums/touts! Imagine how many markets scattered all over Lagos, then ask yourself the number of agberos/hoodlums/touts you or should I say we (cos we all are responsible) rendered jobless all at once? Did we forget that these people are the ones who live from day to day? People who's only source of livelihood is the wheelbarrow they push in those markets and life of crime? So we setup camps at Lekki Tollgate, Surulere, Alausa with music, free food, drinks, shisha, weed & all types of profanity! It was only a matter of time for the so called touts/hoodlums/agberos to get drawn to another source of food! 

Then they saw young girls who they could abuse, phones/tab/devices they could steal, food they could eat etc! One day we will hear the story of girls who were raped during this madness, most wouldn't want to speak up just yet. People stuck at Lagos/Ibadan Expressway became easy prey for crooks, they extorted them & even attacked many! Then the criminals saw and heard you say 'End SARS' 'End SWAT'! BOOM! Crisis began! It became a free for all! Loot as much as you can! Of course malls, plazas, banks etc., became easy target's! 

When you guys started, many of us warned that this thing could easily be hijacked! There are lots of politicians out there looking for scores to settle, they could easily see this as an avenue to make trouble! There are lots of anarchists & psychotic people out there who could throw fuel into the flame, people like Nnamdi Kanu & Yele Sowore etc all waiting for an opportunity, well you gave it to them! Then the Government failed to clamp down on this madness once and for all. They wasted valuable time! 

As the madness started, we started pointing fingers, Madam Oby insinuated that the jailbreak & crisis in Benin was orchestrated by Government. the organisers devised a very deadly strategy; if people got wounded, died or arrested they labelled them 'peaceful protesters' but those burning, looting, destroying they called them Government sponsored hoodlums! 

Being clever by half but I am here to tell those responsible that they shot yourselves in the foot! Everyone and everything is as a result of the fire they started both online & offline and then it's a picture puzzle so difficult to put together with a few pieces of the puzzle missing! 

You posted fake new, doctored pictures, uploaded old videos or twisted stories about videos & then throw in the Lekki massacre where every single dead person has either risen from actions/inactions of government! Some people are trying to paint a perfect picture of events, no! It was and is still total chaos! If we insist on a picture, the dead, never died at all or died in different locations! Now we have another problem brewing on our hands; we have thrown in the ethnic & religious fuel! Now we are pitching tribes against each other! Those doing this aren't any better than those who started this chaos!

Those doing it aren't any better than those who peddle fake news, pictures etc! We all contributed one way or another to this madness! We all are guilty! So, if we plunge further into an ethnic crisis, this people and their crews are liable! They refused to stop!

CHIEF OJUKWU.