JUST SO YOU KNOW.

The Nigerian SARS is a Special Anti-Robbery Squad unit of the Nigerian Police Force under the Force Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department...

The ongoing mass protests by mostly Nigerian youths, in major Nigerian cities, led by leading celebrities and activists across the country is a demand to end police brutality in the country.

The current protests are a culmination of weeks of anger and outcry online by Nigerians over evident claims of kidnapping, harassment and extortion of young Nigerians by men of SARS..

PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF THE FOLLOWING:

That reapeatedly, Buhari's government has failed to end atrocities of SARS, although this is hardly surprising because many of these officers bribe their way to SARS in the first place. That the police chiefs in charge of SARS are themselves entwined in the corruption like top officials of Buhari's APC government.

That lawyers are often not allowed to see their clients in SARS detention centres and that in some cases SARS officers direct family members to specific lawyers who will negotiate a bribe on their behalf.

That detainees in SARS custody are subjected to long periods of detention without trial. Often no one, including their lawyers, get access to them, sometimes families are not aware that their relatives are even in SARS custody.

On December 4, 2019 one Mus’ab was killed by members of the Nigerian police in the street of Kano, as we speak, his killers have not been found...

On February 22 one Tiamiyu Kazeem a 21-year-old footballer was killed by SARS operatives, again, his killers have not been found.

One Chima was arrested by police in Port Harcourt. While in detention his family was extorted by the police. The police thereafter falsely framed him with robbery to extort his family more. He was tortured more and died in police custody, till date, his killers are roaming free!

On May 18, one Sadiq was at home in Gwarimpa, Abuja, Nigeria's capital when SARS operatives stormed the house and shot him. Their bullets damaged his bones. When his family demanded justice, the SARS leadership at Guzape threatened them. Case closed!

SARS detention centre in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) was previously a butcher’s yard and is commonly known as the “abattoir." Many suspects detained in "abbatoir" rarely come out alive. The situation is not very different across the country...

In 2016, a mid-level police officer in Lagos confessed to Amnesty International that being posted to SARS is often regarded as a “juicy” posting and is in some cases preceded by intense lobbying by potential officers.

For many years, countless cases of police brutality, and SARS despicable torture and crimes against innocent Nigerians have been reported with strong evidences and yet, Buhari's government have paid deaf ears or at least, mere lip service to the calls to reform the police.

Apart from a funny tweet this evening, up until this moment, General Buhari has said nothing meaningful about these protests, and he has sadly shown no signs of real comittments to seeing to the wishes of the Nigerian people...

I honestly hope this protests will grow bigger and bigger, and spiral into confligaration that will lead to the entire country being reformed in such a way that there will be dignity of life for all citizens...even members of the police are victims of the failed system that gave rise to SARS, though it's leadership may either be blind to this fact or choose willful ignorance...

Finally, no matter how this turn out, General Buhari will end up and go down in history as one of the the most clueless, inept, failed, evil and despicable rulers to ever occupy Also Rock!

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