There's no justification to shoot at protesters who were out during a curfew when they could've been arrested instead

However, you can't help but imagine how things could have gone differently if only protesters did not block the roads when their demands were acknowledged

Many of these protesters have no understanding of the many underlying tensions brewing in this country. With over 300 diverse ethnicities and several religions, people are bound to have differences which have escalated into deadly crisis in the past.

To name a few, there's a...

History of :
1. Post election violence
2. Farmer-herdsmen conflicts since before independence that still exists today
3. Inter-religious clashes
4. Indigene-settler clashes
5. Zakzaky Shia violence
6. Bokoharam
7. Tiv- Jukun clashes
8. Ethnic Majority -minority regional tensions

9. Northern - southern kaduna crisis
10. Jos crisis.
11. Niger delta militancy
12. Police brutality
13. Kidnappings

Now this is just a list of those that make it to the news.
A lot of these crises never completely end, they just lose steam for a bit and come back stronger later

For example, Jos still has endless peace committees and Inter-religious groups set up to reconcile and make peace. Many of these never yield any long-lasting impacts.

Now crisis is not only relative to Nigeria. Conflict is a global phenomenon and it only depends on where you are

However, ours is a peculiar case because we have all these several dimensions and facets. We have many people simply looking for a trigger to unleash mayhem and with an understaffed and underfunded police force, all it takes is a couple of days for things to get out of hand.

This is why many pleaded against roadblocks which saw poor people trying to get home stuck for hours while protesters partied and cooked on the roads. (who the hell thought it was smart to cook on asphalt?!)

People started romanticizing the protests and it became a hookup hub

Then you have the 'celebrities' including those whose parents were part of the same problem Or those who had the same policemen working as personal guards to them. Or those who had severally used the same police to intimidate other Nigerians. It was the trendy thing to tweet.

Then you had the aggrieved Sowore who'd do anything to get into the spotlight and tried (and failed woefully) to appropriate the genuine #EndSARS protests for his revolution now drama. And many others who attempted to politicize the situation and started calling for