Social media has been buzzing over the awakening and revolution currently ongoing in NEPAL over demands for corrupt leaders to step down from political positions.
The protest heavily spear headed by youths of the nation or generation Z has garned the attention of the world following demonstrations by hundred of thousands of young people demanding for justice for their country.
In just two days, NEPAL youths had burnt down its parliament building, the prime minister’s wife has also been killed, with multiple politician homes burnt down by angry NEPAL youths.
A viral social media clip captured a moment where politicians were hanging on to ropes from a chopper in a bid to escape the angry masses.
Nepal’s Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has resigned in the wake of public outrage over the killing of 22 people in police clashes with anti-corruption protesters.
His office said he had stepped down to pave the way for a constitutional solution to the massive youth-led protests over widespread allegations of corruption and sparked by a social media ban, which has since been withdrawn.
At least 30 people have been confirmed killed, 19 of them by security forces responding to mass antigovernment demonstrations on Monday. Led by teenagers and young adults, these were the most widespread protests in Nepal since it became a democratic republic in 2008.
Drawing a comparison between the crisis ongoing in Nepal and the Endsars protests of 2020 also spearheaded by Nigerian youths, it is safe to say that the current generation have had enough of the turmoil plaguing the nation.
It could serve as a fresh case study showing that persistence can shake political elites, even in fragile democracies as some netizens have already taken to social media to urge citizens to protest against the elite in Nigeria.
The leader of the Take-it-Back Movement, Juwon Sanyaolu, in a post on X on Friday, said, “In 2020, Americans had Black Lives Matter. Nigerians were inspired; we did #EndSARS in the same year. In 2024, Kenya had a Finance Bill protest. It inspired us, and then we had #EndBadGovernance protest. It’s 2025. Will Nigerian youths take lessons from Nepal?”
“It’s funny how this illegitimate government keeps pushing Nigerians. Nigerians will be forced to start that protest by force, and it may even be worse than Nepal’s revolution,” another X user, Sylvester, wrote.
Urging the same action, another X user, Ubtrix, wrote, “I am giving you people this update for free. It is high time people start taking protests to the rightful place. Aso Rock Villa is the place and venue if Nigerians really want to be like Nepal, the country. Do this and thank me later.”
However, President Bola Tinubu’s followers have pushed back against those who have called for demonstrations against the nation’s political elite.
Supporters of the APC led government warned that any attempt to replicate Nepal’s youth-led revolt could trigger unrest worse than the #EndSARS protest.
In a post on Thursday, Reno Omokri, a former presidential assistant, contended that those calling on Nigerians to demonstrate had never visited Nepal.
“We reject for Nigeria the Nepali breakdown of law and order and senseless looting and destruction of public and private property that has been mislabelled as a protest. Even the Nepali people are now regretting it.
“Nigeria’s security forces and law enforcement agencies are urged to be on the lookout for agent provocateurs, who are misusing the freedom of expression that exists in Nigeria to try to ignite social unrest. If you want to protest#StartFromYourStateofOrigin. Not Lagos,” he wrote.
In an interview, Enefa Georgewill, the chairman of the Rivers Civil Society Organisations, responded to the protest calls by criticising Nigeria’s government for not bringing about significant change in spite of repeated pleas for reform.
He called on the government to “retrace their steps and take a clue from what the Nepalese people have done.”
With the conversations and mobilizations that have begun and the governments frantic responses and push backs, there is high uncertainty of what may play out in the coming days.
