When 46 Nigerian youths decided to sleep in front of the government house at Alausa Ikeja in Lagos state to demand the end of a unit of the police called the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) that had time after time harassed young Nigerians and stole from them, I don't think anyone of them expected the movement that we currently have in Nigeria by Nigerian youths.
What started as Feyikemi Abudu, a twitter user by the handle @fkabudu trying to raise fifty thousand Nigeria naira (#50,000) to make breakfast for the protesters has become a full blown movement with over thirty million Nigerian naira (#30,000,000) in donations over the last 5 days.
https://twitter.com/fkabudu/status/1314363320447762435?s=19
Nigerians have a saying that we are resilient, so much that even when we are pushed to the wall, we go ahead to break the wall rather than turn and push whoever pushes us back. This phone pressing generation called that saying bullshit.
Peaceful protests have happened in different parts of the country and Nigerian youths all over the world have come together to ask for the same thing – that the government ends the SARS unit of the police force.
Youths have refused huge amounts of money from the government of their states, some have opened their homes up to strangers to keep them safe during the protests, and in usual Nigerian fashion, food, music and love has been everywhere on the protest grounds.
Who would have thought that this phone-pressing generation was exactly what Nigeria needed?
Who would have thought!!