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Ahmad Salkida
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Ahmad Salkida
@A_Salkida
Autodidact. Founder, @HumAngle_. Building @HumAngleFdn. Reporting power, conflict, and accountability - often at personal cost.
- The UK issued a travel advisory on your capital city and canceled flights leaving many of your citizens stranded. Your govt called the advisory reckless. You did not summon or demand a retraction from US/UK ambassadors. Instead, you went on a medical trip to the UK days later.
- #SecureNorth is not an ordinary protest, our survival depends on it. There is no better time than now. In my near 46yrs of existence, I've never seen how powerful our voice can be, until #EndSARS. And then, it is not true that to protest is not in the DNA of #Nigerians.
- Imagine I was abducted in my house 40 days ago? Imagine the horror my wife and children have to endure? It happened to one of us, called Dadiyata. If we don't share same political views, we share a common humanity with him.
- 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,...43 citizens who work on a farm were beheaded this afternoon and no official statement 12 hours later. We have become used to these massacres, so we simply move on to the next news of another massacre that lies ahead. No one is held to account. #ZabarmariMassacre
- Most times we underestimate the power of the smallest act of caring, which can not only reverse stereotypes, but can win a war. Indeed, this is a powerful portrayal of the Nigerian Army from the #LakeChad that must be encouraged and sustained. Photos by @HQNigerianArmy
- Dear 'officials' threatening me to cease reporting on conflict situations in Northern #Nigeria. My reports are not fake, it is also not the problem, the problem is insecurity across the country. I also specialize on conflict reporting, I can't move to other issues proposed to me.
- Zamfara in the last 7 days has recorded a noticeable improvement in security. We are no longer counting casualties in the hundreds, the victims are becoming fewer by the day, but many rural communities remain deserted. Kudos to the security forces, we hope this can be sustained.
- A citizen was abducted in his home, before the eyes of his loved ones. The authorities are indifferent, it seems only the powerful elites enjoy official investigation, commoners like me and you, can disappear, for months, without a trace, and no one will ever be held to account.
- The 2015 elections were better organised than the 2019 elections, why have we retrogressed instead of making progress? #NigeriaDecides2019
- Lieutenant General Buratai in the trenches preparing for a major offensive against #BokoHaram. The Chadian operations may have triggered a fire never seen before. May this effort bring lasting peace to my home state and Nigeria as a whole.
- I was declared wanted by the Army; which devastated my family. The Army said it was an oversight. A student was abducted by police, taken to the Villa, beaten & detained; the First Lady who orchestrated it forgave him. No consequences. How do you still love a country like this?
- Is it true that a student was arrested, brought before the first lady in the presidential villa by officials to be beaten in her presence? If this is true, & there is no outrage, no immediate consequences for all involved, then we are not a nation with values, we are not serious.