Daily Roundup #3: From Empathy to Disagreements back to commendable resilience.
The fight continues with emotions at an all-time high.
“Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another.” – Alfred Adler.
The youths of Nigeria A.K.A the #EndSARS protesters have shown empathy toward each other and other citizens at large. One steady chant has been “Ensure none is left behind.”
Of course, it is one thing to talk but talk always requires action and these youth did not disappoint one bit.
A tweet went viral about Jane, a lady with crutches walking throughout the protests and in less than 4 hours, enough money was raised for her to buy a prosthetic leg and even more left to spare.
Read the full article “A leg, and then some” by Mary Olohitare Belo here
While the Nigerian youths have an abundance of empathy, emotional intelligence and more, the government and police officials have none at all. Coupled with that, it seems they also lack the intelligence to hunt down criminals, especially Cyber-criminals with the right approach. Their tactics leave plenty of room for questions.
“… many other states overseas plagued with incessant cyber-attacks have more organized systems to go about this, and none of them involves standing by the roadside checking the mobile phones of persons…” Eugene Adavore writes in her article “Fighting Cybercrime away from the Cyberspace”
Speaking of fights: A big Conflict/clash of words happened yesterday, October 16th 2020, on the streets of Twitter among the youths stemming from a tweet posted by Feminist coalition about the involvement of the queer lives in the #EndSARS protest.
The tweet sparked a lot of heated arguments which almost caused a division to unified fronts of the youths because culturally and legally, the LGBT movement is still not accepted in Nigeria.
Of course, where there is a large gathering of people, there is bound to be conflict and drama. But then again, what is life without drama to spice everything up?
Nigerians might not be ready for some conversations but they are fully prepared for some.
Foremost on the list is still the issue of police brutality.
Today, October 19th 2020, is day 12 of the nationwide protest. Still, the Nigerian government has refused to budge. Rather than meet the demands of the peaceful protesters, the government has resorted using various tactics to ensure the peaceful protest tends towards anarchy.
Word on the street is the Prison break which happened today in Edo State was masterminded by the government in order to declare a state of emergency on the nation and deploy the military.
Chika Onubogu covers the full story here and rightly names it “Aged tactics”
Well, if the Nigerian government say they have coconut head and they won’t hear word, then the youths have come to show them their own head is made of metal and nothing can break it. The resilience of the Nigeria youths especially those in Abuja is to be coveted. From being teargassed to being attacked by thugs to being shot at, the youths in Abuja indeed have their head in the game.
We agree with Funso, Abuja is truly the home of grit and we all love to see it
The message remains the same.
See you 9:30 pm tomorrow, #ENDSARS.