Aisha Yesufu
Aisha Yesufu
Aisha Somtochukwu Yesufu, is a Nigerian political activist and businesswoman. She is the co-founder of #BringBackOurGirls movement, which brought attention to the abduction of over 200 girls from a secondary school in Chibok, Nigeria on the 14th of April, 2014, by the terrorist group Boko Haram. She has also been prominently involved in the End SARS movement against police brutality in Nigeria.
"Politics affect lives and we all have to be politicians. You can be the one being voted for or the one voting for or the one volunteering in someones campaign or helping to raise money or donating or giving governance or making demands."
"One of them had pushed me and the raised hand might be what some saw as a slap. No, I wasn’t slapped and I refused to cower and I turned and gave them a piece of what I thought of their pathetic selves and if I am going to die, it would be with my fist high up and my mouth open."
"I would never give up on Nigeria no matter what it throws at me. I owe it to unborn generations on their way to Nigeria and I will continue to fight for Nigeria just as I wished others had fought for me before I came to be Nigerian."
"It is just unbelievable how we tend to reward incompetence and punish competence."
"Herdsmen who are criminals have to be criminalized. Those who arent shouldnt. No one has monopoly to cause trouble and no one is safe from what trouble can cause."
