When We Were Protesting Against Police Brutality, She Called Us Children

A cinematographer has responded to Regina Daniels’ appeal to Nigerians for help following her brother’s arrest.

Regina and her family created a petition and begged Nigerians to help them sign it so they could secure the release of her brother who was arrested allegedly because of Regina’s estranged husband, Ned Nwoko. 

Reacting to Regina’s plea for help, cinematographer Jude Eze reminded his followers of the time when Nigerians were protesting in 2020 to end police brutality and Regina Daniels mocked their struggle with a video she shared. 

He also shared a screenshot of the nonchalant post Regina made on October 20, 2020, the day Nigerians at the Lekki Toll Gate were shot at. 

In the caption, Jude Eze wrote: “One thing I like about the dysfunction of Nigeria is that it doesn’t discriminate. 

“It comes for everybody eventually, one way or the other, no matter who you are. 

“October 2020, when we were protesting against police brutality and bad governance, Regina Daniels set up her tripod, camera and ring light not to lend her voice to the struggle of young Nigerians like herself simply demanding our basic human rights, but to reprimand us for protesting like we were children. 

“She even mocked us. Because she couldn’t relate to our struggles, because she felt she was part of the elites, because she thought the problems of ordinary peasants will never be her problem; because she was literally in bed with the opps (pun intended). 

“Today the same Regina is on the internet crying for help from the same Nigerians she mocked for the same police brutality we were protesting against. 

“Today the dysfunction of the Nigerian system has caught up with her and she finally feels what we feel. But who will protest with her now? 

“Poetic justice innit?”