A Nigerian man based in South Africa holds a poster reading “#EndSARSNow” during a protest outside their embassy in Pretoria on October 21, 2020 in solidarity with Nigerian youth who are demanding an end to police brutality in the form of The Nigerian Police Force Unit, Special Anti-Robbery Squad .
Protests, peaceful or violent, can only aggravate the insecurity problems in the country and the outcome, as in Frederick Forsyth’s Devil’s Alternative, is bound to be bloody and possibly fatal with all of us, both the government and the governed, ending up as losers. New protests? No Not now.It is only two months ago that the #EndSARS protests broke out almost spontaneously across the country.
As part of the efforts to get to the bottom of this maelstrom, government ordered judicial panels to probe the entire protest and its bloody aftermath. The panels have up to six months to complete their assignments, some clear five months from now.But beyond the temptation to prevent the gains of #EndSARS from quickly going to waste, there is no reason for the youths now to resume the protests or start another round.
Some of the fifth columnists even stand accused of hiring hoodlums to clash with the protesters while it was in full swing to cause mayhem and destruction. And we have had plenty of mayhem and destruction to last us for long.