“Mr President, you let down Nigerians”, says Ezekwesili in solo protest (with video)
Security operatives stopped former education minister Oby Ezekwesili’s solo march on Tuesday to Aso Villa to protest killings in Plateau. She was stopped at the entrance at the Villa but she told Channels all she wanted to do was tell the president to “stop the killings”. Officials seized her banner and chased away a cameraman […]
Security operatives stopped former education minister Oby Ezekwesili’s solo march on Tuesday to Aso Villa to protest killings in Plateau.
She was stopped at the entrance at the Villa but she told Channels all she wanted to do was tell the president to “stop the killings”.
Officials seized her banner and chased away a cameraman following her, the TV reported.
Her banner was emblazoned with #EndTheBloodFlow, and a helpless prone figure beating against a wall, with the inscription “help” in red.
She recounted the seizure in tweets.
Despite the interrupted protest, bits of it was on personal video as it streamed online.
Oby Ezekwesili Marches to the Villa #plateau killings https://t.co/lFn6barK4H
— Florence Ozor™ (@FlorenceOzor) June 26, 2018
It shows Ezekwesili lamenting that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo had to visit Plateau to commiserate in the wake of the killings.
“In other societies, it would be the president that would go when even two people are killed. But in our case, the president felt too much to go to Benue, Plateau, to commiserate with the families he had let down,” she said.
“I am here to deliver this message loud and clear to you. The blood of the innocent will cry. They cry to be avenged. The blood of the people of Plateau, Nasarawa, Benue, Taraba, Enugu, Ebonyi, everywhere that terrorist herdsmen have killed our people, the blood of innocent Nigerians is crying for vengeance, and that vengeance shall come.”
Her solo protest before the Villa got Nigerians concerned. @abangmercy said, “thank you for stepping out all alone when the rest of us are behind our phones and laptops tweeting”.
People are either very ignorant or disingenuous with the TRUTH.. But I'd say thank you for stepping out all alone, when the rest of us are behind our phones and laptops tweeting, thank you for standing for us at all times, Posterity will be kind to you…
— Khaleesi (@AbangMercy) June 27, 2018
The only way to end the inhumane separation and imprisonment of innocent children is to down tools and march on the whitehouse screaming until something gets done. It’s being done in your name – stop waiting for someone else to do something about it and stand for it no longer. pic.twitter.com/ZnnOCpVaNF
— Peter Hesketh (@peterhesketh) June 20, 2018
Well said. Many Nigerians complain in their closets, are uselessly docile and great lovers of nay saying. @NigerianBlokes
— Dr Nick Idoko (@drnidoko) June 27, 2018
Many also debated the wisdom in marching before the Villa, comparing it to the White House.
The only way to end the inhumane separation and imprisonment of innocent children is to down tools and march on the whitehouse screaming until something gets done. It’s being done in your name – stop waiting for someone else to do something about it and stand for it no longer. pic.twitter.com/ZnnOCpVaNF
— Peter Hesketh (@peterhesketh) June 20, 2018