One of the front-runners of the #EndSARS protests, DJ Switch has told the International Criminal Court about her experiences as a young Nigerian.
She went into exile after alleged threats to her life following her role in the October #EndSARS mass protest.
DJ Switch said that, as the Nigerian saying goes, ‘Wahala no day finish,’ meaning the nation’s problems never end.
She recalls that Nigeria’s problems did not just start this year.
According to her, Most Nigerian parents take time to imbue the right social values in their children with high hopes of leaving a lasting legacy.
Sadly, from her experience as a child, things took a different turn for the worst in the country from the late 90s to 2000.
She grew up in the Niger Delta area of the country where corruption caused a deadly tribal war between the Ijaws and the Itsekiris.
The war was caused by “a failure in leadership and respect for differences.”
Switch recounts that her family lost so much to that war, making it her “first real encounter with insecurity, a lack of accountability and irresponsibility.”
A country like Nigeria with 200 million citizens that are beautifully diverse in tribe and in faith, had its youths come together, putting aside their differences to fight a common enemy.
An enemy that deprived them of good education, a functional health system, electricity, jobs, security.
These are the basic things that any parent or leader should avail its children of. She laments that these basic things have been weaponised by Nigeria’s leaders who use them to lure its youths to do their biding.
The leaders use them to “oppress us, keep us too hungry to be angry, use it to kill us.
“It was indeed woeful to see the new generation of Nigerians Stand up for Nigeria, not religious or tribe based, but if we don’t act, this new generation will be haunted like myself, wiped out or succumb to the will of a dying generation.”
DJ Switch weeps that the Nigerian people are tired of the oppression. “For the first time, I saw Nigerian people stand together in protest all over the country – #EndSARS !
Some of the youths who participated in one of the world’s most coordinated protests have been arrested and put in jail for their roles in the #EndSARS protests.
DJ Switch, detecting the dangers ahead for her, travelled out of the country and has continued her campaign abroad.
Reports have it that she is currently in Canada.
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