When I go online and see people talking about protesting against bad governance and hardship, it makes me wonder if those people are actually from Nigeria, maybe they got their motivations from the ongoing protest in Kenya but they fail to realize that this is Nigeria where the government is two steps ahead of it's citizens and would do anything to crumble plots of kicking against their governance.
It's so shameful that Nigeria has turned into a lawless country, whereby the law only favours certain caliber of people, they disobey the law, take away citizens right and go scot-free without giving account of their actions, take for example what happened in the past major protest which was the ENDSARS protest where innocent citizens carrying out peaceful protest where killed by some military personnels or is the previous election‽
Even if we embark on another protest by emulating what Kenya is doing, there would be some saboteurs that would go behind to take bribe and ruin the whole process or the government would come up with anti protesters to cause a clash and then they'll declare state of emergency just to ruin the process, that's why I earlier stated that the government is two steps ahead of it's citizen, it's obvious we need a messiah but who would be that messiah? What i think is good for this country is the military regime cause democracy currently is a scam in Nigeria. Well, do you think embarking on a protest would stop bad governance in Nigeria?
OP you made a very good point here but I want you to also understand that despite how irrelevant the citizens are to the government, the government also understand the mayhem that may occur during any protest, do you also know that the then government was afraid of the possible outcome of that endsars protest because the youths hijacked it and it was very serious to the extent that the entire government of the federation was afraid of the next line of action, is just that we are in country where the youths have decided to dance to the tune of their pay Masters and thats the problem, in every country, the youth are the major tools to get the attention of the government and it is by protest, since i was born i have been hearing that youths are the leaders of tomorrow but it aint becoming reality may be because they youths fails to do the needful.
I think the best thing that will stop some kind of looting in this country is military taking over for some period of time, the developmental strategy and the frame work Nigeria is using today was all the idea of the military government, in military government know one can come up with fuel scarcity or food scarcity, you can not sell a different price from the proposed government price, I think democracy is a pure lie in the entire Africa and I call it deceit in disguise, in conclusion, protest will only solve our problem if the whole military force will support the process to say no to bad government if not, the government will still come up with a strategy to disorganise the process. Nigeria is in dilapidated stage and we can still attribute it to failed nation with illed governance, it will take a great force to put Nigeria in good shape.