With the event that happened on the 20th October 2020 in Lekki Lagos, I and my father have been reflecting on the Nigerian social and political issues. The #endsars movement is just the tip of the iceberg. Before the event happened my dad predicted that something bad was going to happen in Nigeria, and he recalls saying: “I’m reliving a Deja Vu” For a year or so I've been interviewing my dad, reading books, watching documentaries on the war. I and dad spoke about how the two events are similar even though they are 50 years apart. We have seen how the government is denying what happened in Lagos and is trying to push a false narrative. My dad was saying that we are lucky because we have social media and is essentially the most powerful tool that we have right now. He says during the Biafran war journalists were not allowed in, no one could document the atrocities that happened during his times.
As we are seeking justice for what transpired in Lagos, I took a passage from my dad's memoir where he writes about his experience of the war.
"I knew that It was a matter of moments before Nigeria planes descended on us, just like the kites prey on the chickens. The numerous trees in the garden, however, provided protection to them making it difficult for the kite to sweep down on them. The air raid was, however, a different story; warplanes descend on us like lightning from the sky setting the entire place ablaze, houses, trees, and all.
At about this time every day, fighter and bomber jets kept a regular deadly appointment with our village; it had become a routine. I wondered in my naivety if the pilots had a personal score to settle with us. I wondered why the enemy planes targeted my father’s house with incessant bombardment"