I'm not a human right activist, and to be honest, I do not fancy human rights activists. Not that I hate them or what they do (in my defense) I do not just share a strong view in the way they air their point of view. Especially because it's all the same routine where they speak up for the masses but no one speaks up for them when the government they speak against comes after them. It's sad to see that a lot of these human rights activists fight for the right of others and try to speak up for the oppressed only to become oppressed at the end of the day. The fact that they are always speaking against evil makes them and everyone around them a target to danger and puts them at a disadvantage against the very thing they are fighting against.
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I believe more in a system being able to counter a system. One person can never be strong enough to fight a system, therefore if for any reason there's a need to fight the system, it shouldn't be done by one person, it shouldn't even be done by a group of people, it should be done by a system of people where one person can not be singled out to have orchestrated the whole counter attack. The idea of Freedom of speech is just a myth in Nigeria. This has been seen in every process where the masses decided they needed to heir their views about their unsatisfied expectations from the government of the nation. In October 10 2020, the Nigerian government killed her citizens who were protesting for peace from a sector of the Nigerian armed forces (SARS)
Twice this year the Nigerian government has laid ambush on citizens who thought it right to speak their minds on the hardship going on in the nation. And this brings me to wonder if the masses do not learn a lesson that they repeat something over and over again expecting a different turn of events. It's the same government, it's the same system, we all know this system is anti democratic, if you must counter it, you must be ready to hit them where it hurts the most as a ghost. Creating a system where everyone is talking, but no one is talking is the first step to achieving this goal. I'm not an expert in strategy, but I believe we can all make a change without speaking how they expect us to speak.
I believe more in communication than just ranting, if we must make a change, we must learn to not just rant but communicate our views. When we rant, we are like mosquitoes disturbing the ear of a host that can easily kill. But when we communicate we insite fear into the hearts of the government. You do not need to understand the language of the lion when it roars because that roar sends a message of fear (communication). I can't in this post begin to say what a nation of over 200 million people should do to incite fear, but I can say this, if we continue speaking the way we do, the government will keep our mouths shut and our knees to the ground. And when they keep doing this, they keep communicating fear to as many that witness these events making another rebellion hard.
