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It is extremely easy for the #EndSARS campaign to be seen only in the context of Nigeria but that will be a fundamental mistake. #EndSARS may have started as a protest against police brutality, but it goes much deeper than that. It is symbolic of all the societal ills of poor governance and the determination of the youth to reverse the trend and take their country back.

In other words the take away is that NNAMDI KANU instigated Igbo in Lagos to attack Lagos in the name of protest for #ENDSARS. As an Igbo political leader in Lagos who has been here for close to 40 years I think history will permit me to speak out and put the records straight before the feeble, weak and senseless narratives create ethnic war in Lagos.

But for some reason, we love to think of and remember him as a clown. Not just any clown, but one with credentials. On one occasion when the police were looking for him and it was feared he had been kidnapped, he later emerged to tell a tale of how he had spent 11 hours on top of a tree.