When we get to the constitutional reform part of #EndSARS , I hope we will understand why social and economic freedom (both "freedom from" and "freedom to") are such key elements of ALL successful societies on earth, including China (which is functionally freer than Nigeria).

Successful societies do NOT just go around giving their uniformed personnel all sorts of absolutely unrestricted power to intervene at will in people's lives at any time and without any sort of process.

It is that military holdover that created the culture of SARS in Nigeria.

I used to sometimes wake up at 3AM on a Saturday morning in Bradford, get into my car and randomly take a roadtrip to London or Southampton just because, and NOBODY ever asked me any questions.

Such freedom is central to creativity and ingenuity which boost economic growth.

Here, when I was on my way to Abuja airport on Monday enroute Lagos, the taxi got stopped at a military checkpoint and the soldier asked me not only where I was going (the airport), but where I was flying to, as if that was any of his business.

This kind of paternalism must go.

Every Nigerian above the age of 18 MUST be free to take their own decisions involving where to go, how to get there, what legal economic activity to engage in, who to have sex with, what to purchase, how to use it and so on.

All forms of state repression must be terminated NOW.

In case I haven't been clear enough, allow me to reiterate: SARS and the wider Nigerian DEFSEC ecosystem are driven by the controlling, paternalistic sentiments of old slave owners and men who are obsessed controlling women's bodies.

This is a generational conflict.

Older Nigerians do NOT like the idea of young, self confident people freely interacting economically and socially without their input or permission.

Older Nigerians think they are in competition with us, and they are HAPPY for state repression to put us in our place.

This has happened elsewhere, but those societies realised at some point that a country must be driven by its young, which is why they specifically rewrote their laws to empower young people ("freedom to") and disempower controlling paternalists ("freedom from").

Nigeria's new constitution must guarantee people under the age of 40 the freedom to live their lives as they see fit, free from state-backed bullying and murderous puritanism. That is the bigger issue, which #EndSARS is just a symptom of.