Award-winning songstress, Tiwa Savage, has said that in the ongoing agitation for an end to police brutality in Nigeria, the Muhammadu Buhari-led government would not win the agitators this time.
In an Instagram post she made on Saturday, Tiwa said: “Nigerians are special people but the country is bad. Because we are strong, we don’t realise how bad our country is. We are not protesting for basic needs because we are not used to having it in the first place. A lot of privileged people feel that these happenings do not concern them because they have alternatives but what if there is an unforeseen incident and your money or affluence cannot save you?
“All we are asking for is to stay alive and they still want to stop that? There is corruption everywhere in the world but when you take, give back.
The Koroba crooner stressed that she knows she may be criticised for speaking out. “I know that I may be blacklisted by these outpourings but we know what the late Fela Anikulapo-Kuti stood for and we have to stand for the same things too. For everyone that has given us a platform, I am grateful but I call on them to also use their platforms for Nigerians. What is happening now is deeper than police brutality. I don’t want the government to frustrate us. The government will not win this time, we would win,” she said.