My phone pinged: “Tell Mark Essien they are coming for him.” I had no idea what that even meant. It was a forwarded WhatsApp message that someone had sent to a friend of mine. All I was doing was trying to convert PDFs from the 2023 Nigeria Presidential elections into spreadsheets. But let’s rewind a bit and give some context. In 2020 a small group of about 5 young people went to a crossroads in Lagos, Nigeria to protest against police brutality.