This blog seeks to immortalise the names of those who in the course of fighting for the right to be truly free were mowed down by Nigerian security agents.
These martyrs were law abiding Nigerians; people who loved their country enough to not sit back at home and watch the downward spiral continue. Their only sin was believing they could change Nigeria for the better by exercising their right to protest, by walking their talk. Well, they braved the callousness of our inept leadership and the bloodthirsty security agents that serve to perpetuate their ill-governance and paid the supreme price.
First to fall, On January 3 2012, was Muyideen Mustafa, a young graduate marching to clear the fog that covers his future and that of millions of young men like him across the country. He Marched across the street of Ilorin, armed only with protest songs—the only weapons Nigerian protesters are allowed by law to carry—but was gruesomely murdered by people constitutionally mandated to protect him. Muyideen could have been a president, a governor, a father, a grandfather, a husband; could have been anything, but we will never know. All because itchy fingered policemen supposedly from Area “A” Division Ilorin sent him to an early grave.
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