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#EndSARS Protest Was A Great Opportunity Nigeria Leaders Missed To Bring The Youths Together – Pastor

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#EndSARS Protest Was A Great Opportunity Nigeria Leaders Missed To Bring The Youths Together – Pastor

The Lead Pastor, Trinity House Church, Lagos State, Pastor Ituah Ighodalo, has said the #EndSARS protest was a great opportunity Nigeria leaders missed to bring the youths together and provide answers to their request for redirection and restructuring.

Ighodalo spoke on Thursday at the Bishop Kola Onaolapo 10th memorial anniversary lecture held at the University of Lagos.

According to him, the protest was rather seen by the leaders as an action taken against them.

He said, “The protest was a cry of the heart of the child to the father, telling the father what they were going through, asking for help, redirection and restructuring. They were just using the police as an instrument of one of the things they were upset about. It shows the collective unity among the youths. It shows that it was possible for Nigerians to speak up.

“Instead, they felt that there was something personal against them. And this is one of the challenges of Nigeria. All our leaders take things so personal; you can’t criticise, you can’t question. They just take things personal that you are against them. They don’t think that people should say what they feel. They have over-personalised governance and leadership and they missed a great opportunity. This is what #EndSARS represents.

Ighodalo further commended the courage and organisation the youths displayed during the protest, adding that they offered themselves like Jesus Christ to be slain on the grounds of Nigeria at the entrance of Lagos where a lot of Nigerian colonialism started.

He said, “Those children believed that if you carry the flag, nobody would kill you, but Nigeria came brutally against its own children. I don’t see how a father will shoot his own child because the child is complaining that the houseboy is misbehaving.

“We shot them, but God had mercy and decided to use that blood as the blood for cleansing. 2023 is going to be different. Those children cannot die in vain. And those who think they are in charge and in control of Nigeria will be shocked because this thing has gone beyond what you see. It has gone to the womb of God and God has decided that there must be a change in Nigeria. Nigeria belongs to all of us and nobody should think that they can advocate power to themselves. We must all sit down to talk about this Nigeria and decide where we are going.”

Speaking on the controversy surrounding the alleged killings at the toll gate, he said, “They cannot deny it. I saw the video, people saw the video. There was coverage all over the place. The British saw it, the Americans saw it. The hospitals where there. Mortuaries where filled with dead bodies. So, let them not try to deny it. Let them accept that people were slain. Let them take responsibility. If they need to punish anyone in the military who behaved like that, let them find out who gave the instruction. But they covered everything up. Even the investigation they did, they scattered it, nothing came out of it. Nobody was questioned in the army, and everybody kept quiet. That is complicity.”

 

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