You don’t only die when you stop breathing, you die when you stop having a course to live for - IsraelofAfrika 2020

A tired Nigerian is adequate enough to describe myself. However, I’ve never been so proud of being a Nigerian youth as I’ve been in the last couple of days due to the way we handled the #Endsars protest.

We have been able to demonstrate to our insensitive government that they play with the tail of a lion while sleeping doesn’t mean it cannot roar. I’m pretty sure they got our message loud & clear.

However there is just one more thing to do that might end up being the queen pawn in the chess to deliver our long overdue dream Nigeria but before I hit the nail on the head, I’d like to give a little background on why it’s a must do.

I have religiously followed the Endsars protest and analyzing the emotions & agitations ensuing from it, I was able to come a logical conclusion that the police brutality which we’re clamoring a stop from is just a figurative act for the numerous hardships an average Nigerian is

subjected to. If the IGP, Governors and Buhari comes out a 100 times and reiterate that they’ve banned SARS & SWAT or even scrapped the entire police force, there is this part of us deep within that don’t want this protest to end until a major change that rubs off on everybody

is effected. Don’t you guys think it’s really time we “Soro sokey” and stop disguising about all we really want.

The SARS/police brutality menace only happens to be our tipping point because it’s confrontational & the effect is directly agonizing. Many young lives have been taken by the police brutality menace but if we would be sincere with ourselves

other issues like unequipped hospitals, bad roads, ignorance (due to lack of education), insecurity, highhandedness of politicians have taken a thousand more lives. An average Nigerian youth has little or no hopes for the future.

An average Nigerian youth is literally a living dead even before being attacked by brutal police or of what use is a life devoid of hopes and opportunities?

We have started well by owning the #endpolicebrutality with one voice but it would be wise we end all other brutalities once and for all. Our leaders have been promising us vision 2020 since decades ago but here we are still visionless

Since they couldn’t deliver the vision to us, don’t you all think we should deliver one for ourselves by making this year a historic one to be later studied in history books around the world. Year 2020 has been one full of unprecedented events afterall!

Some insensitive/unbothered citizens are already seeing the prolonged Endsars protest as an “overdo” because it’s disrupting their daily activities while some opportunists are already taking advantage of it. I’m sure the government is also working out a top-notch

strategy to temporarily address the issue and defuse the tension after which it strategically positions itself as a victim on the international font should in case the protest continues. At that point, any organized #Endsars protest could be regarded as an act of treason

So fellow Nigerian Youths, I think we need to articulate our demands alongside the #EndSwat movement before the tension and morale dies down. The struggle this time around would be for better governance and we would only have one demand alongside the current police reform

“REDUCE THE NIGERIAN LAWMAKERS SALARY. NO SENATOR/HONORABLE SHALL EARN MORE THAN A UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR”.

You know why??

These thieves make the law that breeds all the rots you can think of in the Nigerian society. They are the narrow rope that holds together the garment of corruption in Nigeria. A sharp tooth work on the rope and the whole corruption garment crashes!

A Yoruba proverb says “Kàkà kí eku ma jè sesè, a fi sè awadanu (meaning,rather than the rat not have its desired meal,it's prepared to ruin it all). A lawmaker will never pass a law that allows other office holders enjoy what he’s not enjoying. He’s only partisan to course that

favors him!!

An average Senator goes home with approximately N15m/month in salaries and allowances, but it took them years to deliberate on the implementation of N30k minimum wage. The Nigerian Senator is the highest paid in Africa and third highest paid in the world yet over

50% of our national budget is funded with borrowings. These positions are the most important in the political system and it’s time we made them less attractive. Let’s elect statesmen that has good intentions for the country into the senate/assembly and Nigeria is on the track to

track to taking it’s due position on the world map. Let’s make the senatorial and honorable seats one we beg and encourage people to run for. Enough of the Senator title being synonymous to wearing white flowing agbadas and siren-blaring non-ending convoys and aides.

Let’s make the Senator/honorable title synonymous to being a Patriot. If this is the only thing we achieve as Nigerians in the remaining of 2020, posterity will smile on us for it.

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This time around, the modalities of the protest will be adjusted as follows.
1. We would be launching 2 additional hashtags: #1for5 and #STOPLAWMAKERS.

The #1for5 would mean that every current active onsite Endsars protester will bring 5 new non-active protesters on site and each will bring another five and the chain continues.

2. We would be shutting down the entire country for the rest of 2020 (We were on COVID lockdown for months and we didn’t die afterall) and the fact that we would be effecting a change this time makes it worth more).

3. There would be no complaint of disruption of activities by some indifferent Nigerians like we have for this Endsars because we would ensure there are no activities at all in this first place.

4. It would be massive such that the only reason we would be leaving our house would be to protest.
5. Our voice would be so loud that every international channel we tune to on TV will be airing the #STOPLAWMAKERS protest in Nigeria.

6. We would engage on social media such that the two hashtags of #1for5 & #STOPLAWMAKERS will never leave top 2 trending in the world till our request is met.
7. There will be no leader for the protest and anyone that wants to assume one will be immediately cut to size.

8. It would be strictly Nigeria against its government and the only acceptable negotiation would be to grant our request.
9. Our request (aside the police reform) would be just one and it would be very clear:

REDUCE THE SALARY&ALLOWANCES OF THE LAWMAKERS TO MATCH THAT OF A UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR AT THE MAXIMUM.

Fellow Nigerian youths, we would be making a grave mistake to allow this opportunity slip off our hand. The bitter truth is that the Nigerian government has been structured to always be ahead of us, they are already putting in place every possible strategy to ensure that this

kind of massive protest never comes to light again. We would be foolish to let this current morale die while still having unfinished business. There are so many rots in the society to protest for but we can’t protest for one at a time as we would have to protest forever.

Let’s force a downward review of the earnings of our lawmakers then sit and watch our other concerns take good shape. The next generation would ask us the same question we are currently asking the older ones if we don’t act now. What will be our answer?

If we choose to stop at the Endsars, we would have only chosen not to die by the bullet as the other rots in the system is still designed to kill us anyways.

Please retweet if you support this movement for a New Nigeria. Together we stand!

Signed.
A tired Nigerian.

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