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Christian Initiative for Nation Building (CINB), an NGO registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission of Nigeria, is conducting this survey to help improve the administration of the Contributory Pension Scheme in Nigeria and prevent unnecessary delays in payment of retirement benefits causing premature death and indecent living standard for retiree.

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Please spare THREE MINUTES to complete the form.

Thank you.

When it comes to commemorating marriage anniversaries, there are stories that go beyond personal celebrations and touch upon something much larger. Join us as we delve into the heartwarming journey of Mr. Victor Balogun, an esteemed team lead, and his wife, Mrs. Susan Balogun, an organizational accountant. Their wedding anniversary not only marks a special day in their lives but also reflects a profound commitment to love, leadership, and Christian initiative in the context of nation building.

A Fusion of Love and Purpose

The anniversary of Mr. Victor and Mrs. Susan Balogun is more than a mere calendar event. It signifies a remarkable fusion of their personal bond and their shared vision for nation building. As we celebrate their journey, we uncover the threads that connect their love story to a deeper purpose – one that transcends their union and resonates with the broader community they serve.

Marriage Anniversary: Christian Values in Action

Amid the celebrations, it’s crucial to recognize the principles that guide Mr. Victor and Mrs. Susan Balogun’s life together. Their marriage anniversary not only underscores their commitment to each other but also highlights their steadfast adherence to Christian values. Their relationship is a living testament to the power of compassion, humility, and service as catalysts for change, not only in their personal lives but also in their efforts toward nation building.

Leadership Aligned with Love

In the world of leadership, titles often pale in comparison to actions. Mr. Victor Balogun’s role as a team lead speaks volumes about his ability to inspire positive change through his actions. He has skillfully cultivated a team that shares his vision for progress, embodying the true essence of collaborative leadership. Similarly, Mrs. Susan Balogun’s role as an organizational accountant reflects her financial acumen and contribution to their shared endeavors.

Unlocking the Impact of Marriage Anniversaries

While it’s essential to celebrate love, marriage anniversaries can also hold a deeper significance. The commemoration of Mr. Victor and Mrs. Susan Balogun’s anniversary serves as a reminder of the transformative potential inherent in marriages driven by Christian values. It prompts us to recognize their efforts not only as a couple but also as contributors to a brighter future for their community and nation.

Embracing Inspiration for Marriage Anniversaries

In this moment of celebration, let’s draw inspiration from the Baloguns’ journey and incorporate their ideals into our lives. As we navigate our roles within society, we can learn from their love story, their leadership, and their embodiment of Christian values. Each of our actions, regardless of size, plays a role in shaping a more compassionate and robust nation.

Join us in commemorating the marriage anniversary of Mr. Victor and Mrs. Susan Balogun – a celebration of love, leadership, and Christian initiative that resonates far beyond personal boundaries. May their journey continue to inspire us all on the path of marriage anniversaries filled with purpose and meaning.

In a world that often seeks examples of leadership and inspiration, it’s heartening to celebrate a couple whose lives embody the very essence of Christian values and nation-building. President Dr. Niyi Oginni and his wife’s wedding anniversary is not just a personal milestone, but a symbol of their commitment to a higher purpose – the betterment of their nation through Christian initiative.

A Fusion of Love and Leadership

As we commemorate the anniversary of President Dr. Niyi Oginni and his wife, we are reminded of their powerful journey – one that blends love and leadership seamlessly. Their relationship has served as a living testament to the transformative power of unity, both within their own marriage and across the nation they serve.

Christian Values as Pillars of Progress

The cornerstone of their enduring marriage and their vision for nation-building lies in their shared commitment to Christian values. Love, compassion, integrity, and humility are the guiding principles that have shaped their personal lives and professional endeavors. Through their unwavering dedication to these values, they’ve showcased the potential for positive change that can arise when faith and leadership intersect.

Impactful Initiatives for a Stronger Nation

President Dr. Niyi Oginni and his wife have consistently demonstrated that true leaders are defined not by titles, but by actions. Their anniversary serves as a moment to recognize the profound impact of their initiatives on their nation. From championing education and healthcare reforms to fostering social unity, their endeavors have been driven by a deep-rooted desire to build a stronger, more prosperous society for all.

Inspiration for Future Generations

As we celebrate this special day, let’s also celebrate the legacy that President Dr. Niyi Oginni and his wife are creating for future generations. Their love story and their dedication to nation-building through Christian principles provide a roadmap for those who seek to make a positive difference. They remind us that every action, no matter how small, has the potential to shape a brighter tomorrow.

A Call to Action

The celebration of President Dr. Niyi Oginni and his wife’s wedding anniversary isn’t just an occasion to applaud their accomplishments; it’s an invitation for each of us to reflect on our own roles in nation-building. As citizens, as leaders, and as individuals guided by faith, we have the power to contribute to the growth and progress of our nation in meaningful ways.

In commemorating this special day, let us not only honor the love and dedication shared by this extraordinary couple but also recommit ourselves to embodying the Christian values that underpin their journey. Happy anniversary to President Dr. Niyi Oginni and his wife – a source of inspiration, a beacon of hope, and a testament to the positive impact of Christian initiative on nation building.

To save the state health insurance scheme from imminent collapse, Governor Ademola Adeleke has ordered the immediate recall of Dr Niyi Oginni from suspension.

In a statement issued on Monday, the recall was premised on the review of the report of the Contract and MOU Committee as well as the disturbing reports of imminent collapse of the state health insurance scheme.

The decision was also linked to the need to comply with public service regulations which stipulated procedures and conditions for discipline and management of public servants.

Governor Adeleke further directed the recalled Executive Secretary to normalize the operations of the insurance scheme by ensuring continuous patronage of the scheme by hospitals across Osun state.

The recall of Dr Oginni from suspension takes immediate effect.

Signed
Mallam Olawale Rasheed,
Spokesperson to the Executive Governor

written by Admin January 31, 2023

A groundbreaking new story from the team at Project Veritas reveals that Pfizer is secretly working on “mutating” SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused COVID-19. According to Jordon Trishton Walker – Pfizer’s Director of Research and Development, Strategic Operations and mRNA Scientific Planning – the pharmaceutical behemoth is actively trying to mutate the virus to produce new strains that don’t currently exist in nature. 

According to Walker, Pfizer hopes to use these new viral strains to create new “vaccines” which he says will be a “cash cow” for Pfizer, its executives, and its investors. Additionally, he is seemingly not concerned about pushback from regulators, citing the “revolving door” between state officials and industry corporations. 

Still, Walker understands that gain-of-function research is not something that Pfizer should be doing with SARS-CoV-2 and so (as we’ve seen time and again) he refers to the research as “directed evolution.” It’s important to understand the distinction.

Directed evolution is the laboratory process by which biological entities with desired traits are created through iterative rounds of genetic diversification and library screening or selection. Gain-of-function refers to any selection process involving an alteration of genotypes and their resulting phenotypes.

And so, while it’s true that not all directed evolution results in gain-of-function, the use of directed evolution to create new strains of a coronavirus absolutely is. In fact, Walker describes Pfizer’s experiments as “selected structure mutations to try to see if we can make them more potent.” 

He goes on to acknowledge that an outbreak of one of these mutated viruses would be “a risk” and that “no one wants to be having a pharma company mutating [expletive] viruses.” What’s especially telling is how Walker refers to this as a risk of “more outbreaks,” implying that it wouldn’t be the first time a mutated virus escaped into the global population. 

That inference is confirmed later in the interview, when he specifically references the theory that SARS-CoV-2 originated from a lab in Wuhan, China (an increasingly viable theory that is a subject of our lawsuit against Legacy Media). Here’s another direct quote from Walker, who had just finished explaining how Pfizer scientists are able to mutate the virus:

“…you have to be, like, very controlled to make sure that this virus that you mutate doesn’t create something like, you know, just goes everywhere. Which, I suspect, is the way that the virus started in Wuhan, to be honest. Like, it makes no sense that this virus popped out of nowhere.” (emphasis added)

Nevertheless, Walker seemed to have little (if any) concern about intervention or consequences from government agencies or regulatory bodies. With a smile on his face, the high-ranking Pfizer employee acknowledges that his company “is a revolving door for all government officials.” 

The influence of major companies is not limited to the FDA, nor is it limited to leadership. 

After law school, Ajit Pai worked for the Antitrust Division of the DoJ as an Honors Program trial attorney on the Telecommunications Task Force. He eventually left that job to become Associate General Counsel at Verizon, where he handled regulatory issues. He eventually moved on the the FCC, where he spent 5 years as its chairman. He now works for a private equity firm that invests in internet and other tech companies.

From 2017 until 2021, Sonny Perdue served as the Secretary of Agriculture. Before his appointment, Perdue was a veterinarian, fertilizer salesman, and Governor of Georgia. Having developed many contacts in the agricultural profession, Perdue has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations from the industry. Upon his appointment, he introduced a roster of severely under qualified candidates to influential positions within the government’s agricultural oversight department. In 2021, it was revealed that Perdue had engaged in highly suspicious financial activities with  Archer-Daniels-Midland, an agricultural business he would regulate for the next 5 years.

If these conflicts weren’t enough, consider this: 75% of the FDA’s drug review budget comes from the biopharmaceutical industry. This has led to hundreds of risky drugs being rushed to market without adequate proof of safety. Even independent advisors often receive payments from the industry after drugs are approved.

Walker understands this relationship, saying that “…all the government officials who, you know, review our drugs, eventually, come work for pharma companies.” 

But it’s not just government officials who are corrupted by the deep pockets of Big Pharma. 

When a new therapy is up for FDA approval, advisory committees are formed to review the new drug and vote on whether or not it should be approved. The FDA always follows these recommendations. But a look into the finances of these committee members paints a more sinister picture. Physicians who sit on these advisory boards nearly always end up taking money from the companies relying on their votes. These bribes are not well-masked, showing up as consulting fees, travel compensation, or research grants.

According to sciencemag.org, “An analysis of pharma payments to 107 physicians who advised FDA on 28 drugs approved from 2008 to 2014 found that a majority later got money for travel or consulting or received research subsidies from the makers of the drugs on which they voted or from competing firms.”

Doctors expect gifts from Big Pharma the way waiters expect tips from their guests. It’s not required, but it’s expected. This works out great for physicians and pharmaceutical companies, but not for Americans who are trusting these institutions to put safety and efficacy above all else when introducing a new drug to the market. 

Which is exactly what Walker said:

“It’s pretty good for the industry to be honest. It’s bad for everyone else in America. Because if the regulators, who review our drugs, you know that once they stop being a regulator, they want to go work for the company, they are not going to be as harsh on the company where they’re getting their job.”

This is not a conspiracy theory. 

Pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer know that they can obtain favorable outcomes from regulators by offering them jobs or other compensation once they’ve left their government posts. This is not a wild, anti-vax fiction designed to undermine the government’s regulatory institutions. This is how the system works, as told by one of its biggest benefactors. 

Dr. Robert Malone chimed in on the report:

“…would it be feasible for Pfizer to circumvent international or national law? I think that is undeniable.[Walker] has clearly indicated that Pfizer believes that it has successfully captured the regulatory apparatus of the United States Government.”

In a follow-up call with Project Veritas, Dr. Malone, and others, a question was posed: If Pfizer is able to mutate the virus, and if it has developed vaccines for that mutation, what is to stop the company from releasing that virus to ensure profit instead of loss on the project?

The answer can only be speculative, but if the company’s history is any indication, there may be no depth to which Pfizer will not sink to generate profits. 

written by Admin January 25, 2023

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) is circulating an alert on the outbreak of diphtheria in certain parts of the country. Specifically, the NCDC mentioned Kano and Lagos states as having confirmed cases; while the situation is being monitored in Osun and Yobe states.   Just as in the days of COVID-19, the case counts have begun!

In the alert, the NCDC describes diphtheria as “a serious bacterial infection caused by the bacterium called Corynebacterium species that affects the nose, throat and sometimes, skin of an individual.” 

Then the big deal, who is at risk?  Surprisingly, (and instructively), first to be listed is:

“Children and adults who have not received any or a single dose of the pentavalent vaccine (a diphtheria toxoid-containing vaccine).”

This is really amazing: the people most at risk are not those exposed one way or the other to the bacteria, nor those with some special vulnerability, but those who have not received one particular vaccine!

It’s difficult not seeing here another desperate effort to promote mass vaccination.  Indeed the main result (directed at Nigeria) of a Google search with the keyword  “Diphtheria” is: “A serious infection of the nose and throat that’s easily preventable by a vaccine”

Naturally then, the primary counsel of the NCDC is that everybody troop out to get their 5-in-1 pentavalent vaccine, a formulation, which for economic reasons, has the diphtheria vaccine combined with those for four others: tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenzae type b.

The LivingScience Foundation, as part of the Coalition Against Mandatory Vaccination, has previously explained our position  on vaccines and mass vaccination.  While vaccines are to be treated as God’s gift to mankind, the philosophy behind mass vaccination (their deployment en masse) is terribly flawed!  Mass vaccination imagines a one-size-fits-all scenario (same dosage of the same product, to all, supposedly without any appreciable contra-indications for certain individuals). No other medical product is such treated!

However, our main beef here is with the very idea of presenting vaccination as the first and primary response to diphtheria, while the other options are only half-heartedly mentioned.  We think it makes more sense to prioritize “primary prevention”, whereby people are prevented from being exposed to the vectors in the first place; rather than deploy so much resources and efforts at protecting them from the consequences of such exposure later on.  This is especially true when it actually requires far less resources to go in the direction of primary prevention, and  where “safety and efficacy” of the solution present no concerns at all.  Not to mention substantial concomitant benefits in other spheres of life.

Even in the case of occupationally-exposed health practitioners (ranked 4^th on the NCDC’s at-risk list), good PPEs and working practice should still come up for consideration before indiscriminate mass vaccination of such health workers.

The matter is considerably worsen when issues of “safety and efficacy” are brought in.  As can be easily seen in the WHO Report on the use of the Pentavalent vaccine in Asia, there are considerable safety issues with the Pentavalent vaccine.  Indeed it required “actively managed public communication about the observed events and their public health implications” before its use was restored in the many countries that had suspended it after several intolerable adverse effects sprung up.  One of the tropes that eventually arose from such astutely “managed public communication” included the position that we should accept and even expect “a close temporal relationship between SIDS (Sudden Infants Death) and receipt of pentavalent vaccine.  And that this has nothing to do with the vaccine but is occurring “by simple chance”. 

On efficacy, the GAVI plainly explains on its website that “although vaccination prevents symptomatic infections, it does not prevent people from carrying and spreading diphtheria,” therefore making mass vaccination and booster doses quite “essential”.

Annoyingly worsening the situation still, is the fact that it is only a few weeks ago that the LivingScience Foundation highlighted the dangers of the continued importation and use of mercury-laden vaccines in Nigeria.  In our Public Statement we responded to NAFDAC’s incredible attempt to deny the outrageous situation where several vaccines on the official childhood vaccines list in Nigeria come loaded with ethyl mercury at concentrations higher than what the WHO recommended for waste waters that could be used in agricultural practices (for irrigation).  NAFDAC itself would strictly not permit ANY amount of ANY FORM of mercury in any product – including soaps and cosmetics.  Any product, but childhood vaccines, that is!

The NCDC is apparently not bothered about such trivialities as the well-known neurotoxicity of mercury, which is present in the multi-dose format of vaccines shipped to Nigeria, under “generous subsidies” from western nations, where those very products are largely proscribed for use!

Yes, we must stop diphtheria (or whatever new public health concern arises next) by all reasonable means available to us. But rather than the panic pushing of a solution that could be far worse than the original problem, it seems reasonable to us that the NCDC could start to push government to actually facilitate good sanitation by making budgetary allocations to provision infrastructures and facilities needed: Clean water, efficient waste disposal, good sewarage system, public toilets, and the likes. 

Presenting mass vaccination as our primary response to a disease which cannot only be avoided in the first place, but for which effective treatment exists, is another clear example of sheepishly placing globalists’ interests ahead of our own.  

Two years ago, the GAVI had predicted that diphtheria may be the next major global pandemic and that mass vaccination would be necessary.  Living Science is aware of the consensus among global authorities that one of the greatest crimes at the present time is promotion of “vaccine hesitancy”.  Nevertheless, even at the risk of being so-judged, we consider it our patriotic duty to our nation, and basic responsibility to our children and grandchildren to insist that solutions dished out by our public health authorities are sound and deployed on reasonable risk-to-benefits basis.

Ile-Ife, 25-01-23

Source: http://blog.lsfnigeria.org/2023/01/ncdcs-diphtheria-advisory-its-stirring-again/

The Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has launched Coalition for Policy Advocacy on SSB (Sugar-Sweetened Beverages) Tax, with a mandate to, among others, ensure the funds are properly earmarked, and used, for health interventions, especially Nigeria’s rising non-communicable diseases (NCD) burden.

The launch was the high point of a webinar CAPPA organised to commemorate the 2022 World Diabetes Day marked annually on 14th November, on Monday, November 21 with participants drawn from civil society, community-based organisations, health advocacy groups, professional bodies, and the media, among others to discuss Nigeria’s Rising non-communicable diseases (NCD) burden.

 While launching the coalition, Akinbode Oluwafemi, Executive Director of CAPPA, disclosed that the participants would form the fulcrum of the coalition as suggested by the attendees and more organisations with the same campaign goals would be brought in to strengthen it.

The webinar addressed Nigeria’s public health challenges, and the legal landscape for a sustainable pathway to significantly reduce the incidences of NCDs in Nigeria.

In his welcome address, Oluwafemi identified some of the health issues associated with the excessive consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages (SSBs) which include weight gain leading to obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart diseases, among others others.

 “Studies show that about 39% of all deaths are related to NCDs, because of unhealthy lifestyles including diet (excessive consumption of sugar), and sedentary lifestyle (lack of physical activity).

“The launch of Nigeria’s multi-sectoral action plan 2019-2025 for the prevention of NCDs, has a policy document that listed the cause of NCD as the consumption of sugar,” Oluwafemi said.

He explained that the Finance Act 2021 imposes a tax of N10 per litre on non-alcoholic and carbonated sugar-sweetened beverages, which is lower than the recommended WHO standard.

He stressed the need to ensure that the SSB tax is institutionalized, sustained, reviewed upwardly, and earmarked for the health sector.

Dr. Francis Fagbule, a public health consultant with the University College Hospital, Ibadan, while making his presentation on the Public Challenges of Nigeria’s huge NCD burden, lamented the astronomical rise in Nigeria’s disease burden which puts the increase in prevalence at 150%.

Fagbule, however, expressed the need for more evidence generation to drive home the message of harms done by the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages in Nigeria.

He further noted that Nigerians must strive to know their health status while the CSOs continue to raise awareness, and advocate for pro-health laws in the country.

Nigerian Coordinator for the Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI), Joy Amafah, expressed satisfaction at the turn out of participants at the engagement which she said showed a cross-sectoral commitment to finding a lasting solution to Nigeria’s NCDs problem that is driven by the people.

On the need for a sustainable approach to combating NCDs, Amafah stated that there is a need for deliberate policy change through data-driven advocacy, legal framework, and industry monitoring to discourage the industry and their allies from setting policy agenda for the country on public health.

In 2021, Nigeria introduced a N10/litre excise tax on sugar-sweetened beverages produced and distributed in the country.

The tax regime, which only came into force in June 2022, has come under huge attacks from the producers of carbonated drinks and their allies.

The industry has threatened shutdown of businesses at different times and have continued to use misinformation in the media to pitch the public against the government in order to reverse the tax.

However, the N10/litre tax is a far cry from the minimum 20% increase in final price of sugar-sweetened beverages as recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as an effective way of combating non-communicable diseases.

The participants at the virtual meeting agreed on the need to have a sustained conversation through to push for the policy changes required to achieve the set goals.

Dr. Adeniyi Oginni, President of the Christian Initiative for Nation Building (CIBN) and Executive Secretary, Osun Health Insurance Agency, reiterated the need for the tax to be increased and properly earmarked for health interventions.

Dr Oginni, who joined from Cairo, urged the participants to coalesce and advocate as one strong unit.

Doctors Can No Longer Ignore It: You Can’t Hide from Vaccine Injury When It’s In Your Face Every Day
– Oncologists are seeing more cancer cases.
– Neurologists are seeing patients with no risk factors having strokes.
– Cardiologists are seeing heart attacks with fibrin clots that are filling the coronary arteries to an extent they’ve never seen before.
– Gynecologists are seeing all of the fertility and menstrual abnormalities.
Dr. Pierre Kory: “This is a humanitarian catastrophe, and it has been ignored, it has been suppressed. It has been censored, but you can’t hide from this data when it’s in your face every day. The system is going to have to address this in some way at some point.”
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Launch of the African Sovereignty Coalition – Saturday 18 June 2022 – 1pm GMT

Launch of the African Sovereignty Coalition – Saturday 18 June 2022 – 1pm GMT

And a must watch screening of the shocking film about the WHO’s role in vaccinating girls and women in Kenya – Infertility: A Diabolical Agenda

Shabnam Palesa Mohamed

The African Sovereignty Coalition (ASC) formally launches Saturday 18 June 2022, 1pm GMT / 3pm CAT / 4pm EAT / 2pm BST.
The motivation for the ASC launch includes resistance to undemocratic developments that threaten the sovereignty of Africa and all nations. These threats are being driven by the World Health Organisation, and by extension, the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum.

The ASC believes that together, and free of corrupt control, there is a better way for our world towards health, personal autonomy and national sovereignty.

The ASC launch event brings together seventeen African scientists, doctors, lawyers, activists and journalists from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Uganda and Kenya, together with international allies and friends from the United Kingdom, the United States, and Switzerland. African speakers include Dr Sakhiwo Yako, Dr Wahome Ngare, Sabelo Sibanda, Fahrie Hassan, Obert Kondongwe, Dr Robert Rapiti, Dr Shankara Chetty, Simon Ssenyonga, Eva Mugisa, Pearl Kupe and Rob Hutchinson. International friends include Mary Holland, Dr Tess Lawrie, Dr Astrid Stuckelberger, Reiner Fuellmich, Philip Cruse and James Roguski.
Some of the informative and empowering topics that will be presented include:

•The Population Control Agenda: The role of WHO and counter measures

The People vs the System: WHO is WHO in Afrika? How can we be truly free?

Gene Therapy: Africa and the World at the threshold of Humanity “Version 2”

Exposing WHO Conflicts of Interest. Capturing Global Health by Subversion

From Democracy to Technocracy. Why WHO’s plan on sovereignty will fail

Globalism and One World Governance: Why Governments must act now

Botswana: A case study in jab mandates. A lesson to WHO and Big Pharma

Why the WHO must be held accountable for crimes against humanity

Should the WHO have a role in health: An answer through the C19 lens

The WHO and Big Pharma’s role in Africa – Lessons for the future of health

Why Africa is important in building a better way for health and human rights

How Africa can exit the WHO to work towards health, peace and freedom

A multifaceted perspective on challenging WHO’s power grab of our health

Africa’s critical role in standing up to the WHO and investors like Big Pharma

Africa’s strengthening role in law, justice and human rights around the world

DearGOV – A way to make our voices heard by the WHO and government

Statement: African royal indigenous leaders reject the WHO and Big Pharma

written by Admin October 20, 2021

Exactly this day (October 20) in 2020, Nigerians were plunged into mourning following the killing of EndSARS protesters at the Lekki Tollgate in Lagos State allegedly by the Nigerian Army and other security forces.

We recalls that the EndSARS protest was birthed by extra-judicial killings perpetrated by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), a Nigeria Police Force unit created in late 1992 to deal with crimes associated with robbery, motor vehicle theft, kidnapping, cattle rustling and firearms.

Some of the SARS operatives, however, allegedly deviated from their legal assignment to unlawfully humiliate, brutalize and kill innocent Nigerian youths, making life relatively miserable for them as some were scared of moving freely on the streets. Most of the time, youths were profiled based on what they wear and the cars they drive.

The development angered and triggered some of the youths to stage a protest in Benin, the Edo State capital following the death of a student who was allegedly killed by an operative of the SARS in late September 2020.

The protest spread across all parts of the country including the big cities – Abuja, Lagos, Port Harcourt and all other states, affecting the Nigerian economy as several economic activities came to an abrupt halt.

Despite some moves by the then Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, who swiftly disbanded the SARS on October 11, 2020, in a bid to address the grievances, we recalls that the protest continued as the aim metamorphosed into repealing the ‘bad governance’ experienced in the country.

The peaceful demonstration, which subsequently gained the attention of the international communities, was, however, hijacked by hoodlums who severally invaded the protest ground to unleash terror on the youths, leading to the death of many protesters.

Despite warnings and advice from both state and federal governments including security agencies, the angry youths who lamented the level of unemployment, bad management of the educational sector and the general hardship birthed by the alleged bad governance, refused to back down.

According to reports, over two hundred and five police stations and formations, including other critical private and public infrastructure across the country were damaged by hoodlums during the hijacked protest.

Policemen were killed in Lagos, Oyo, Anambra, Benue Abia Ogun and Ebonyi States. Lagos and Oyo States had the highest figure of slain cops, with six each, followed by Anambra State Police command with four, Abia and Ebonyi had two each while Ogun recorded one.

Many correctional facilities were attacked during the protest leading to the freedom of several inmates who subsequently joined the hoodlums to destroy government formations across the country.

On October 20, the protesters assembled at the Lekki Tollgate where the Nigerian Army allegedly opened fire on the unarmed protesters leading to the death of several Nigerian youths.

Despite media reports and investigations, the Nigerian government had strongly pushed back at the claims that the shooting led to massive death tolls, insisting that the reports were fake.

However, report had it that at least 99 people were killed in Lagos during the #EndSARS protest and had their bodies deposited at a morgue in the state.

A social media influencer in Abuja, Ajeh Jennifer, expressed disappointment over how the incident was handled by the Federal Government, stressing that right to life is not a guarantee in Nigeria.

“I still weep whenever I remember that night when the Nigerian Army opened fire on those representing us to demand good governance for the country.

“It is more disappointing to remember that the killers are still moving freely in the society without any questions from the authorities. Those saddled with the responsibility of protecting our lives are now the ones taking the lives they were meant to protect. Everything in Nigeria needs to be reformed”, she added.

Similarly, a newscaster in a popular radio station in the nation’s capital, Mr Caleb told our correspondent that the memory of EndSARS will forever remain with Nigerians.

Mr. Caleb agitated for inclusion of the incident in Nigerian history book, stating that “posterity must be taught that some youths were killed in Lekki Tollgate on October 20, 2020 while they were demanding for their rights.

“I was actually one of the protesters here in Abuja before it was hijacked by sponsored terrorists. The education ministry has to add the incidents to school curriculum because posterity must be taught that some youths were killed in Lekki Tollgate on October 20 2020 while they were demanding for their rights.

“My heart is still with those heroes who lost their lives not just at the Lekki Tollgate but through the protests. May their souls continue to find rest with God”, he said.

A corps member serving in Kano State, who simply identified herself as Ene, told DAILY POST that she lost a friend during the hijacked protest in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. She expressed readiness to join the planned remembrance protest organized by some activists across the country.

“I can’t forget October 17 last year when those terrorists hired by the government stabbed my friend to death in Abuja during the EndSARS protests. He was supposed to be among us that were mobilized recently for the NYSC one year compulsory service. They ended his life just like that and nothing was done about it.

“I heard that there is going to be a remembrance protest on Wednesday (today) . I don’t know if it will happen here but I’m ready to join. They should come and finish us”.

DAILY POST reports that some activists including the publisher of SaharaReporters, Omoyele Sowore had vowed to shun security advice and stage protests across the country in memory of those allegedly killed by the Nigerian army at Lekki Tollgate.

However, speaking with DAILY POST, Mr Emmanuel Onwubiko, National Coordinator of the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA advised the Nigerian youths to shun violence.

He said, “Nigerian youths should stay out of trouble, avoid violence, but should speak out in defence of their fundamental human rights as active citizens of Nigeria.

“HURIWA is urging the youths not to get involved in crimes but to meaningfully embrace pursuit of knowledge, education and capacity building and expose all acts of human rights violations unleashed on citizens by law enforcement officials and to demand redress. The youths should mobilise to join forces in political camps to take over power democratically in 2023.”

DAILY POST observes that despite the outcries from Nigerians, police brutality has continued in many parts of the country as officers continue to assault unsuspecting citizens.

About two months ago, a video emerged on social media revealing a police officer engaging a young lady in an altercation and physically assaulting her while on duty at a checkpoint in Obeagu Awkunanaw, along Agbani Road, in the State.

Reacting to the video, the Enugu State Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Ndatsu Aliyu on September 11, said the Command would not entertain such acts of “unprofessionalism by personnel under his watch”.

Similar incidents have continued to occur relatively on a daily basis as police operatives were accused of being responsible for the sudden disappearance of some persons.