Last year, we asked the Nigerian government to #EndPoliceBrutality and #EndSars Lives were lost because even though protests were peaceful, the idea that Nigerians were demanding to not be brutalized by a government they employed and over-paid, was deemed worthy of death.

We already knew democracy was a sham, but last year, the world watched a government kill its own people for demanding accountability. The world watched it squeeze life out of the bodies of youths because it dared to stand up and ask to
I will never forget #LekkiMassacre2020

I will ever forget my friends in the medical field telling me about the blood. How it filled everywhere and how they had seen too many human insides spilled. And how death felt heavy in their mouth because every dead person was somebody's someone, and someone.

What country kills her future? What ocean empties the river? And today is no different. We cannot forget.