#OccupyNigeria,The Struggle That Redefined The Nigerian Spirit: In Pictures
January 1st, 2012. That date in history that reworked the definition of the Nigerian. The date when a lack of smart, people-oriented governance pricked a long slumbering attribute of the people of my fatherland. On that day the government of Nigeria gambled with a policy that would immediately deepen the already inhumane standard of living around here. We are globally acclaimed to survive on a dollar a day and we endure it with a smile and the usual “e go better”. This day gave notice to the people bleeding us of our commomwealth.
This article is not my own version of attempting intellectual cow-boyism, nor is it a ploy to distract gallant Nigerians, who stood their ground until the President fell to his weakness and rolled out the tanks and boots against his own compatriots, from the real issues of government frivolity, corruption, and sheer disrespect of the polity.
Rather, this article celebrates the Nigerian men and women, boys and girls who in anger took to the streets to protest the antics of the same man they queued in the sun, lost lives for, to become President. I attempt to capture pictorially the events and people that defied the sun, whips, and police brutality, but defined the new face of the Nigerian spirit, to march upon Abuja. These are some of the heroes of Nigeria, a representation of how Nigerians cried out in unison, from all works of life, for the soul of a nation still under siege.
Those were days of the mass protest, when the fact that you are Nigerian swelled your head, left you emotional with pride. Those days renewed hope that we will not allow our motherland to go to the dogs.
This is #OccupyNigeria as captured by the lenses of Blaze Otokpa.
It started as a tiny crowd of young Nigerians gingered by Social Media, then the rest of Nigeria caught up!
A Monk's Words 