Thank you very much for that question.
My focus is on systemic failure because no good agency or arm of government can function under a system that cannot guarantee the proper channelling of complaints or in which rights are not guaranteed. If you go into the judicial system, you're not guaranteed your rights. If a SARS officer violently shoots or kills an individual, the rights of that individual are not guaranteed. There's no accountability. No one, as far as I know, has been found guilty when someone has been shot by SARS. There are hundreds of cases of innocent people, even bystanders, who have been shot down. There's just no evidence of an inquiry that has taken up a case involving SARS that has come to a conclusion and the officers were found guilty.
This is because of systemic failures from those institutions of government to the individuals. Sometimes we rely on individuals to be honest and true. However, in a system where nothing is guaranteed, it becomes very difficult.
For your question on the issue of an overreach by the army and the SARS, yes, there are provisions for these agencies to come in where the protesters are overreaching. However, what we saw from the #EndSARS protesters had been largely peaceful until the shootings and the killings started. There is clear evidence that the protesters were very organized and respectful. They cleaned up the streets after their protest. They were very well organized and they were respecting laws. They were not breaking laws.
The shooting and the killing, of course, led to gangs and mobs taking over the protest and looting, rioting and burning and all that. Before the shooting itself, the protest was a very well-coordinated, respectful and peaceful protest. The killings led to those with the wrong intentions taking it over.
I'm here to testify that the taking over of the protest by those with the wrong intentions is also evidence of systemic failure, because the killing and the rampaging over those with the right intentions led to the thugs and all those people with the wrong intentions coming to take over. The police found themselves not being able to control what happened in the aftermath.