By Rita Enemuru, Reporting
NIGERIAN rapper and activist, Folarin Falana, better known as Falz, has issued a fiery call to action, urging citizens to mount intense pressure on their lawmakers as insecurity worsens across the country.
In a video shared on his Instagram Page on Monday, Falz condemned what he described as the government’s shocking lack of accountability following the recent release of kidnap victims in Kwara and Niger states.
Falz noted that President Bola Tinubu had publicly celebrated the freedom of 38 abducted church worshippers in Kwara State and 50 out of more than 300 kidnap victims in Niger State, yet failed to provide crucial details on how these releases were achieved.
“There was no mention of any arrests being made, no mention of whether any ransom was paid, no mention of anyone being apprehended and brought to book. This does not cut it. It is just not enough,”
Falz said, his tone laced with frustration.
The rapper decried what he called Nigeria’s culture of passive online outrage, insisting that momentary hashtags and scattered social media posts were no longer sufficient in the face of escalating insecurity.
“I’m tired of one tweet here, one hashtag there, one post there, complaining on social media. We need to do more. We need to do a lot more,”
he stressed.
Although Falz confirmed that some Nigerians had reached out to him about staging a peaceful protest later in the week, an idea he described as a great avenue, he insisted that the crisis demanded immediate, strategic action.
He called on every citizen to begin bombarding their representatives and senators with calls, texts, emails, and WhatsApp messages, urging sustained, unified pressure.
“If there is one message that they’re consistently getting, they would have no choice but to listen,”
he said.
Falz also demanded a public hearing, broadcast live on television and streamed online, to openly address the country’s worsening security architecture—despite what he described as “billions and billions” budgeted for arms and ammunition annually.
He raised hard-hitting questions about the capacity of Nigeria’s military:
Why is the military still ill-equipped?
Why are military convoys still being ambushed?
Why was an Army general murdered on video?
The activist revealed that he had already created a message template for citizens to send to lawmakers, along with a link to contact details available on the National Assembly’s website.
He ended his message with a stark warning that reflects the urgency of the times:
“This is a national emergency. We can’t continue like this.”
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