Apccording to the report in The Punch,
"The policemen later stopped firing teargas at the protesters and decided to watch the protest march by over 3,000 youths."
This is the smartest move ever made by any police command in the face of public protest by an aggrieved segment of the populace. I presume that the protesters did not proceed to destroy property. Otherwise it would have been gleefully reported. What after all are a few Nigerian flags worth? Let nobody lecture me about patriotism, respect for national symbols etc. None of the serial coup plotters who currently command our undeserved respect seem to have bothered about that.Neither do the thieves among us.
We can always sew new flags when we retrieve the vast amount of loot in the possession of the political class. The peace that followed after the protest would seem to be worth the apparent permissiveness displayed by the police. When the protesters got tired, they obviously went home. Not so?
For goodness sake, do I have to repeat what other commentators wrote about Scotland, Catalonia and Quebec? I guess not.
Then again one asks, does this government have any advisers? It seems to have borrowed extensively from the unrevised playbook of the past four administrations on this MASSOB matter. How effective was the result so far? For a government that has its hands full with the war against self-declared terrorists, the Boko Haram, to willfully open another front, is most baffling indeed.
First the presidency scandalized the nation by announcing that indeed the occupants of Aso Rock instead of spending their time (paid for by WE THE PEOPLE) in handling the business of governance, listen to Radio Biafra. What a waste! Whereas Chief Ralph Uwazurike has been in and out of detention over twenty times, the government does not seem to know what to do with him. What then is the point in adding another martyr to the growing list of non-violent refuseniks? I wonder. Love for Nigeria cannot be achieved by force or intimidation.
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