Federal Government Can’t Sweep History Under The Carpet, Okey Bakassi on EndSARS Memorial

Okey Bakassi, the Nigerian comic, says the federal authorities can not sweep the # EndSARS motion beneath the carpet ensuing from its significance all through the nation’s historic earlier.

 

The actor was reflecting on the #EndSARS Memorial protest amongst fully various factors in a gift chat with HipTV.

 

On October 20, 2020, troopers had opened hearth on unarmed youths protesting in path of police brutality on the Lekki tollgate axis of Lagos state.

 

To commemorate those that misplaced their lives over the last yr’s protest, youths had staged an illustration on Wednesday all by means of completely fully completely different elements of the nation, chanting solidarity songs.

Commenting on the event, Okey Bakassi stated it’s unhappy that the federal authorities might solely clamp down on EndSARS protesters with out utilising the motion to reform the police.

He added that any try to erase the reminiscence of the #EndSARS motion wouldn’t work as a result of emergence of social media.

 

“I’m completely in assist of these celebrating the # EndSARS anniversary on account of it’s a day we is not going to want away from our calendar. If you converse concerning the historic earlier of this nation, it’s a day when the youths of this nation obtained proper right here collectively and stated ample is ample,” he stated.

 

“The youths — Christians, Muslims… — obtained proper right here out with one voice and authorities missed a possibility to interface with them to finish in constructive change.

 

“One yr after the # EndSARS protest, is the nation safer? The reply isn’t any. Have a look on the extent of insecurity all through the nation. If authorities had used the potential for the # EndSARS protest to take a look at important police reform, the nation would have been elevated secured.

 

“However the authorities didn’t do this. As a substitute, protesters have been attacked and injured whereas some have been killed, so it’s not a day we’ll want away.”

 

The entertainer, born Okechukwu Onyegbule, furthermore stated the federal authorities ought to search out elevated methods of collaborating the youths.

 

“I do know in Nigeria, there’s this tendency by the authorities to comb historic earlier beneath the carpet nonetheless sadly for them, this social media interval, you will’t stiffle the dad and mom. So, by now, authorities should be additional low price to hunt out elevated methods of collaborating with the dad and mom,” he added.