Ethics of EndSARS Protest Philosophy for Social Change in Nigeria

Abstract

Aim and Objective: This paper is directed towards the examination of the ethics of national consciousness for the realization of Sustainable National Development (SND) through the visitation of EndSARS Protest Philosophy (EPP). Hence, the objective of the study is on the needs to revisit the courses of social change as basis of EPP, and this will necessarily lead the Nigerian youths in achieving the courses of SND especially towards the values of committed and constant positive change of attitudes. 

Methodology: being non-empirical research, the paper employed the expository, speculative and phenomenological methods of analysis. With the available research materials consulted, how the paper expositorily assessed the effects of the police brutality and criminality as the major cause of the EndSARS protest, how it speculatively projected the resultant solutions to the causes of EndSARS protest, and how the protest phenomenologically engineered the collective identifications of some philosophies of SND. 

Findings: The paper recognised and observed that the causes of EndSARS, which were greatly traceable to the misguided and criminal activities of SARS, as governmental misplacement of values and interests for SND. Hence, it projected the adoptions of EPP as ethics of national reformation for SND. The objective observation is also made that the pronounced disbandment of SARS has not effective affected any positive and drastic change in the attitudes and operations of NPF, which was the major cause of the protest.     

Conclusion: The paper concluded that the tactical and resourceful needs to revisit and adopt the contents of EPP as a basis of national characters reformation in achieving SND, becomes very economically inevitable and politically indispensable, following the trending nature of national consciousness which are away from the national values and identities that we are known for as a people.