I'll start with your last question.
A lot of things have been building up in Nigeria over the last couple of years. It was in 2017 that #EndSARS started trending online. Last year there was a visit by the special rapporteur of the United Nations on extrajudicial or unlawful killing. In her preliminary observations, she noted the lack of accountability in Nigeria for crimes committed by state officials and that we were actually sitting on a keg of gunpowder.
The early warning signs were there for a pretty long time and kind of peaked, showing that the government needed to address this issue. If people complain, you need to ensure that justice is served. I guess when that video of October 3 was trending, people had just had enough. That month also happened to be the anniversary month of our independence. Nigeria celebrated 60 years of independence, so for young people it was like, “What is the future going to look like?” I think there were a lot of mixed feelings in celebrating our independence from Britain. All of this culminated in....
In addition, we've experienced one of the worst economic recessions of all time. The prices of things have gone up. Meanwhile, people are saying, “We can't even walk free on our streets. We need justice to happen.”
With regard to the threat to Amnesty International, it's by a group that we suspect is being sponsored by the Nigerian military. We have not been able to directly link them together, but there are staged protests in front of Amnesty offices whenever we release a report, and we notice that it's always when there's been a report linked to the military that we have protesters in front of our office. We have videos to show that afterwards they go and share money and then they leave.
This threat is particularly worrying for us not because they've asked us to leave Nigeria—they've asked us many times to do that—but because we are coming out of a period when there has been wanton killing and destruction of property across the country. We've been campaigning against the police, so we feel that the people who can protect us might not be in the position to do so.