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In 2014, before we embarked on the #occupyflagstaff protests that contributed to the momentum to vote out the previous government, we had been having conversations online about what will constitute the average Ghanaian's tipping point. 1/ https://twitter.com/cchukudebelu/status/1293565725945270277
By then, large parts of the country were experiencing 12 hours of electricity every 36 hours, the cedis had lost nearly 50% of its value since 2012 and the economy was in free fall. 2/
Jobs were lost, wages were cut and the general tension in the country pointed to the government losing the next election due to the tangible widespread disaffection. 3/
But those elections were still 2 years and we couldn't wait. The tipping point conversation was had for a long time here on Twitter. We wanted consensus on how bad Ky should get before everyone was ready to go into the streets. 4/
What would be our Bouazizi moment? If you remember, this is the Tunisian guy whose self-immolation sparked the Arab Spring. 5/
We didn't have that event but by mid year, everybody agreed that 1st July, the Republic day holiday was good time to say enough is enough. 6/
The result? Thousands braved the rain in Accra and poured into the street in the first mass citizen protest in the country for a long time. Not organised by the opposition or any interest group. 7/
I was aggregating tweets that day and Nigerians kept wondering how Ghanaians had gotten fed up so quickly over a depreciating currency and something as relatively good as 12 hours electricity every 36 hours. 8/
It comes back to me, that question? It hadn't really sunk how much lower Nigerians had accepted without fighting back. That they thought we were hanging it good in Ghana was a shock to me. So today I ask, "what is the average Nigerian's tipping point?" 9/
They've taken your lights, stolen billions of your dollars and stashed them in Swiss and other banks, watched Boko Haram kidnap your girls and your mothers. Turned the police on you to the death. And still the Nigerian's tipping point hasn't come. 10/
What exactly will it take? What is the average Nigerian's tipping point? End. 11/
@cchukudebelu
@segalink
@asemota
I don't know who else to tag but I really want a conversation. Everyone in West Africa needs Nigeria to rise.We're counting on it. It will improve all our lives
@cchukudebelu
@segalink
@asemota
I don't know who else to tag but I really want a conversation. Everyone in West Africa needs Nigeria to rise.We're counting on it. It will improve all our lives
Lebanon's revolution took one week. Just days after one blast and the government was out. C'mon Nigeria! You are tougher.
Don't leave this hard work to your children.
