Nigeria is not yet a democracy as its rulers are wont to make the people believe. A system where the rich political class who only constitute 1% of the population oppress the rest whom they have laboured to render poor using a set of laws that apply only to the oppressed cannot be said to be a democracy.
According to Professor Ganesh Sitaraman of Vanderbilt University Law School, there are three essential components of democracy; Economic Equality, Social Unity, and a government that acts in the interest of the people. Nigeria lacks all.
The Nigerian state in the last five years made it a mandate to weaponize poverty through its archaic economic policies that obliterated millions of micro, small, and medium enterprises. Little or nothing has to been done to return these classes of people to where they can comfortably sort out their life problems except empty promises and blame games. Their anguish heightened while they waited with bated breath for an opportunity to unleash their anger on the rich politicians.
This explains the looting of warehouses and homes of politicians that have characterized the after-effect of the #endsars protest. Are these rioters breaking into the Covid19 warehouses and homes of influential politicians hoodlums or people whose only means of survival is to attack those who rendered them poor?
