END SARS Article: Which Way Nigeria? - Obiwuru C. Rex

 WHICH WAY NIGERIA?

It is disheartening that Nigeria at 60 is still a directionless, purposeless nation on earth. Nothing seems to be working. People are frustrated. Hunger and starvation lie visible in the atmosphere. One finds it difficult to proclaim his Nigerian nationality boldly or in the hearing of our foreign counterparts without drawing some sentiments and stigma.

To compound the problem, there is absence of adequate security of lives and property. Those assigned the duty of security turn to feed on their "proteges". The Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), the police have exhibited shameful cannibalism. FEAR, rather than safety, is what sits in the mind of Nigerians under the aegis of these force men! No wonder Chinua Achebe of the blessed memory, in his The Trouble with Nigeria, yelled like a mad man that:

"Nigeria is not a great country. It is one of the disorderly nations in the world. It is one of the most corrupt, insensitive, inefficient places under the sun. It is one of the most expensive countries and one of those that give least value for money. It is dirty, callous, noisy, ostentatious, dishonest and vulgar. In short, it is among the most unpleasant places on earth!"

Regrettably, Nigerians of the 21st century - of the year 2020 precisely - are under heavy bombardment and massacre for standing up for the truth, for wanting a sane Nigeria, for demanding an end to SARS and godforsaken police brutality and bestiality. The architects of our nation's primitivity are fanning the live coal of the massacre, they are ordering and giving thumbs up to the monsterous killers of the peaceful protesters! On the basis of this I repeat Sonny Okosun's question: Which Way Nigeria? Why is the country being turned to jungle where might is right, where cannibalism is a norm?

To those murdered in the on-going protest, I say a golden RIP! You've paid the supreme sacrifice for a better Nigeria! May history of the new Nigeria you fought for eternally be kind to you and to the loved ones you left behind!

To the visible Nigerian "Lucifers", the orchestrators of the ignominious condition we find ourselves in this country, I boldly announce to you that nothing rises without waning someday! Your end is just by the corner!

#ENDSARS

#END_POLICE_BRUTALITY

 

Obiwuru C. Rex

  

About the Writer

Obiwuru C. Rex is an independent scholar with several books and articles to his credit. As a youngster who works and yearns for a better Nigeria, Rex supports the protest afoot to end police brutality in the country.