What Happens When You Push Someone To The Wall| SARS v Nigerians

John Fáwọlé
2 min readOct 13, 2020

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Ever since I've joined TwitterNG, I've never seen Tweeps holistically agreed on a subject without any counter-view. It happened this month! In short, the Twitter Street is already bloody.
Folks are angry all over and agitating that the Federal Government should end SARS. We all are protesting (if you're not protesting you're wrong) and tweeting against SARS. Nigerian youths are coming out hard.
And you see, the present occurrence is lubricating the evergreen words of our sagacious ancestors who said in their grey hair of wisdom that: when you push someone to the wall, he will turn and ATTACK!
Now, what is this SARS? SARS is a unit of the Nigerian Police Force that was designed to carry out intelligent and investigative policing of crime. So ideally, they have no power to be raiding or to do stop-and-check. They should work as an intelligent unit.
But unfortunately, an average Nigerian freezes at the mention of SARS! They were known for harassing and extorting suspected fraudsters. But the shocking thing is: they are now harassing freelancers and just any Nigerian youth who lives comfortably.
One of my mentors who is a lawyer even reiterated that SARS has harassed him countless times even as a lawyer. Of course, will you quote the Criminal Code against someone who holds a loaded rifle?
At this point, it is apparent that this is just the climax. Nigerians are frustrated and tired. The country is already bad—to be honest—but it's now sliding down the ice of being worse.
Some youth are already attacking SARS physically and engaging them in fire combat, they are vandalizing their station. This is what happens when you push someone to the wall.
At present, Nigerian youths have unanimously agreed to #ENDSARS. But our government—those who lead us—are silent and being diplomatic. Yes, we know our leaders have failed us in the grand scheme of things. But this is now unbearable.
At this point, nobody gives a damn about anything. All hands are on deck to #ENDSARS. And as we have it on the topic of this article: this is what happens when you push someone to the wall. They RETALIATE. They ATTACK. They no longer care.

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John Fáwọlé
John Fáwọlé

Written by John Fáwọlé

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