NOISE is when you rant on social media but will never participate in any protest.
Your dream of a better country will never materialize as long as you want others to fight your battles while you hide under your keyboards or stand on your verandas to make videos of protesters.
The day we shall be 1 million of us on the street, is the day we shall all be free from bad governance in Nigeria.
Whenever the number of police officers outnumber that of the protesters, time and energy are wasted because some of us must suffer from arrest and brutality.
Your enemy is more afraid than you think. Their words of threat are empty threats. After all their threats and their stupid hashtag of "DemNorBornTheirPapa", did you see the so-called Lagos defenders at the 13 February Lekki toll gate protest? Resistance is the instrument that open the key of fear.
I salute the few that overcame fear and showed up when it mattered most. Their physical appearances was a strong statement borne from the loins of true heroes and heroines. Justice does not come to those who refuse to dare.
The day we have a coordinated protest going on simultaneously in the west, east, south and middle belt, is the day bad governance will end.
Learn from insults. I am not a fan of Femi Adesina but he was right when he said that government can only take our revolution seriously when there is a huge mass of people participating in a protest.
I will continue to mention it. No tribe in Nigeria can save itself from today's Nigeria by fighting alone. We either fight together or die separately and miserably.
There is no way police can override us if the ground traffic is tight. They override us because they still have space to walk on. When we fill the ground space, even the police will join us because they will be overwhelmed.
Your suffering will continue as long as you insult the activists that spend their energies in organizing protests.
We are still very far from the One million march. Bootlickers know the power of a million march. That was why they planned it to support Abacha until death beckoned.
We shall never get to that number if we continue to listen to the intimidating sound of fear.
The police could not have molested the protesters on 13 February if we were a million. Did the government not panic when the number of the first #EndSARS protesters swelled by the day? The greatest wish of the government is that our number must not hit One million. That is why they are very aggressive against protests. A concerted and well articulated effort by our celebrities could raise the number of protesters to one million.
The number of officers in the entire Nigeria Police Force is 371, 800. This is less than the population of Somolu local government area of Lagos state with 402,992 persons. There is no way the police will send all their personnel to a million march. They shall become weaker if they attempt to mobilize the soldiers and other security agencies because our number would have swollen far above a million day by day and our resistance would have become stronger. Any bad government can fall.
We in diaspora are doing our bits. Only cowards wait for their diasporas to come home for their liberation. Did Sowore not come home? Nobody is urging you to protest senselessly. You are being urged to grab your liberty and free yourself from mental slavery towards achieving peace and sustainable prosperity. In doing this, we shall have no need to be violent because our strength will rely on our huge number.
Our compatriots that are resident in Nigeria must jump out of the social media on to the physical arena of the struggle. When a person invites another person to a protest and the other person invites another, that is the beginning of triumphalism.
We must have protests that fully appeal to the emotions of the people. We have many reasons to protest in the horrible Nigeria of today. The next action should be a massive protest against herdsmen/terrorists attacks, kidnappings and killings. It affects all of us. We must continue to push and push. We must not give space between one protest and another. It weakens the mind. To a coward, "na who protest epp?" Protest has not helped because we have not reached a million under the sun and rain.
Until we do this, tighten your belt for new Pharaohs that will come into office in 2023. Then, it will be too late, as you continue to dream about your dream countries. Refuse to be silenced.
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Frederick Odorige
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