Aisha Yesufu, activist, says President Muhammadu Buhari does
not show empathy towards Nigerians.
Yesufu said this in reaction to Buhari’s silence on the
attack on #EndSARS protesters at Lekki on Tuesday evening.
Buhari addressed the nation on Thursday, 48 hours after
military operatives shot at unarmed protesters but kept mum on the incident.
Several people sustained various degrees of injuries but the
number of casualties, if there are any, remains a controversy.
Speaking to TheCable, Yesufu said Buhari’s silence on the
issue “is a normal way that the president has always behaved”.
“He never shows enough empathy or any empathy for Nigerians
who are killed and even his speech, 20 people were reported to have been killed
in Zamfara, there was no mention of them. So he has been disdainful of Nigerian
lives,” Yesufu said.
She accused the government of bringing in thugs to disrupt
the peaceful protests against police brutality across the country.
“The #EndSARS protest has been peaceful until government
decided to bring in thugs. They attacked them with police and military and
these thugs went rogue and attacked protesters and now attacking properties of
Nigerians,” she said.
“And it’s quite sad that our government tends to do things
without thinking of the repercussions.
“And when #EndSARS protesters were able to apprehend some
and hand them over to the police, the police refused to arrest them. So, it’s
the way politicians and those in government have constantly done their things.
“For me, it remains that young people found their voices and
are speaking up. It shows Nigerian youth are standing, are resolute and are
determined that something is going to come out of it. In the end, power belongs
to the people. The highest office in the land is the office of the citizens and
citizens will continue to make demands.”
Speaking on her role in the protests, Yesufu said she never
organised or led it but only used her presence to give moral support to the
youth.
“I was never at the front seat of the protest. The day when
that picture was taken, I was at the back all throughout because it is a
protest by the Nigerian youth. It was when police decided that they were going to
shoot at them that I came forward,” she said.
“I went there to give them moral support after they were
attacked by the police. We need to understand that Nigerian youth are capable
of doing so much.”
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