Death Threats Do Not Move Me – Aisha Yesufu

Popular Nigerian activist, Aisha Yesufu has come out to react to receiving a death threat from an anonymous person.

She recently shared her confident and bold reaction, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to her, everyone is going to die, and all of us were actually born to die, so she just cannot be scared of the inevitable.

Aisha added that killing her means she must’ve dealt with the killer seriously, so the sender should try something else.

Her words, ”For real someone threatened me?! With death? Same death that is almost dozen for one kobo? Haven’t the pandemic taught them anything? We are all going to die and it can be TODAY! Killing me means I have seriously dealt with you! I was born to die! Try something else!”

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Aisha Yesufu (born 12 December 1974 in Kano State), is a Nigerian socio-political activist, and co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls Movement, an advocacy group that brings attention to the abduction of over 200 girls, from a secondary school in Chibok, Nigeria, on 14 April 2014, by the terrorist group Boko Haram.

Yesufu was among the women protestors at Nigeria’s National Assembly, in the nation’s capital, Abuja, on 30 April 2014.

Yesufu has also been at the forefront of the End SARS movement, which draws attention to the excesses of a controversial police unit in the Nigeria Police Force, called the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).

Yesufu has said she “would not leave the fight against End SARS protest in Nigeria for her children.”