Lagos Peace Walks… For a Greater Lagos.

 

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

            Before you come to my wall and talk about my sponsored post, let me educate you about why Lagosians must walk for peace. I graduated from Lagos State University (LASU) in the period I don’t hope any student witnesses in this country again. In the early 90’s, LASU witnessed student activism, cultism and the likes. The key actors in those events who played students activist are now ‘big boys’ who set up NGOs in different works of life. I see some of them on television shows talking against violence, election malpractice and many others.

            However, back in the university when some of us preached peace they took the path of violence. One clear incidence I will never forget, and I hope they all seek forgiveness is the stripping of a woman old enough to be our mother in the name of fighting for students’ rights. Today, some are in Politics, Business, Education and even Heads of Organisations and are preaching peace forgetting you can only sow what you reap. Without trying to be judgemental, most of those who took the part of violence then are not Lagos indigenes. Today, they ride on the fight for democracy, same people who committed to do evil in their university days but are now enjoying peaceful lives. They are advocates of good behaviour and good manners.

            For most of us then,we took the back seat and decided not to join the fight whilst calling for peaceful resolution. We sat back and allowed these idiots who want to ride on student union activism to become popular or do their task master game plan destroy our lives.  The students stole students’ union funds, used student union buses for businesses without remitting money to student union account, collected money from the political class and used LASU’s name to fight for personal gains. Now, we have them as Activists, Mega Party Conveners, some of them are even calling for election reforms meanwhile these people had disrupted peaceful elections when in university. They always want to win by all means! Oneis a convener of anti-violence however, he joined others in beating both academic and non- academic staff in his youth days.

In the early 90’s Lagos State University ranked among the best in Law, Science, humanities etc however their violent acts turned the school to a centre of violence. The University was named “militant but reasonable.” Their acts made us spend two years at home. Now they come and start to preach peace. It is for these reasons we cannot allow them. We must all stand for peace in Lagos, because those who are in the path of violence now will later come and preach peace after gaining popularity with violence. 

 

Like the saying, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”we the good people of Lagos State especially the youth must walk for peace, because those who chose the part of violence now will later come and preach peace. They will be the ones romancing the big and the mighty,while those who are peaceful remain in the background.

Let’s put a stop to those who wish to use violence to gain popularity at the expense of people life.       

I WILL WALK FOR PEACE IN LAGOS. I WILL WALK WITH MR. GOVERNOR.