BY VICTOR BUORO, ABUJA – FixPolitics has said that it is instructive to note that one year after the #EndSARS protests, none of the socio-economic maladies in the polity which compelled Nigerian youths to launch a peaceful protest have been decisively addressed.
It stressed that instead, in a rather disturbing, insensitive and tone deaf development on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the #EndSARS protests, citizens were treated to the horrific scene of a police officer extorting and brutalizing innocent citizens in Kogi State.
FixPolitics, therefore, assured that it would continue to advocate for the single amendment to the 1999 Constitution to allow for a referendum, stressing that; “This is a critical first step towards empowering and giving a voice to Nigerian citizens – the voice which was denied the #EndSARS protesters”.
This is as FixPolitics declared that the deaths of scores of Nigerian citizens killed one year ago during the #EndSARS peaceful protests by Nigerian youths will not be in vain as citizens continue to work and pray for the emergence of a new Nigeria where righteousness and justice prevails.
FixPolitics which is a citizens-led, research-based movement designed to structurally change and innovate politics in Nigeria and Africa as a whole, stated this as part of activities marking the one year anniversary of #EndSARS protests in the country.
These were contained in a statement by the Executive Director, #FixPolitics Initiative, Anthony Ubani and made available to Forefront News, in which it also said that it remembers with lingering sadness, scores of Nigerian citizens who were killed one year ago during the #EndSARS peaceful protests by Nigerian youths.
The statement further states; “On this sombre one-year anniversary of the #EndSARS protest, we honour the memory of those citizens who lost their lives in the patriotic process of peacefully protesting for social justice and an end to police brutality.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with all those who lost loved ones.
“October 20, 2020 is a day that will forever live in infamy in the history of Nigeria and in the minds of her citizens. As Nigerians, our shared shock and horror at the bloody events of October 20, 2020 should not only strengthen the human chords of compassion for the suffering of our fellow Nigerians but it should, more importantly, lead us collectively to reaffirm our resolve to accentuate our demands for good governance and social justice,” it said.
#FixPolitics also said; “We will never forget what happened on October 20, 2020 in Nigeria”.
