PEOPLESGAZETTE.COM

Anew report out on Monday has accused the outlawed police special anti-robbery squad of conducting more than 30,400 in extra-judicial killings around Nigeria since 2004.

The International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law said in its analysis of extra-judicial killing of unprocessed detainees within the 16-year period showed how that SARS was responsible for the disappearance of thousands of Nigerians who were not legally arrested or tried before being executed in custody.

The report could complicate police’s claim that officers were frequently checked for extra-judicial violence and #EndSARS protesters were misinformed about cases of police brutality. SARS was disbanded on October 11 after nearly three decades of gruesome rights abuses and corruption.

The Onitsha-based civil rights think-tank said its examination of SARS activities showed at least 10 citizens were killed monthly per state in the years under review.

“This further translates to 370 persons monthly and 4,440 yearly,” Intersociety said in its report sent to Peoples Gazette by its director Emeka Umeagbalasi. “In other words, Nigeria as a whole is most likely to have lost in the past sixteen years or since 2004 a total of 30,400 unprocessed citizens to police extrajudicial killings mainly perpetrated by its SARS.”

The Force Headquarters declined the Gazette’s requests for comments on Intersociety’s allegations Monday morning.

Intersociety defines unprocessed detainees as citizens who were taken into custodies and pre-judicially accused of breaking the law and tortured to death or shot dead after they have been taken into custodies without undergoing full processes of arrest, investigation, prosecution, fair trial, conviction and sentencing.

Until the police were forced to make changes amidst recent campaigns to end police brutality, Nigerian police officers had for decades exercised vast powers of life and death over detained citizens.

Several reports published by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have exposed how SARS officers and other Nigerian security forces wantonly shot citizens dead despite being in handcuffs. Frequently, security forces claimed gunfire exchanges with the victims and labelled victims as armed robbers or worse.

“Torture and extrajudicial killings by NPF personnel particularly its SARS are in most cases fueled by trio of hate, corrupt and crude or unprofessional policing,” Intersociety said.

https://peoplesgazette.com/over-30400-nigerians-killed-in-sars-custody-in-16-years-report/

30,400 in 16years

158.33 in a month

39.59 in a week


SARS has killed many over the years but not as many as the number we have here.

This is reckless journalism!

this can only happen in the zoo

Thirty thousand four hundred souls! God!

What? 30,400
That's terrible

That's too much na, looks fake. Are we in a fvcking war?

even bokoharam have not exceeded that number SARS are the real terrorist

Am sure its more than that. That figure could be a conservative one.

Those guys were acting with legality with perpertrating illegality. Their legal status gave them the impunity to harass people without being disturbed in any manner unlike real armed robbers that have to become dare devils to execute their operations.

PissfulProtester:
30,400 in 16years

158.33 in a month

39.59 in a week


SARS has killed many over the years but not as many as the number we have here.

This is reckless journalism!

You could only state that this report is wrong only if you have the fact to debunk it.

If not, your assertion is more reckless then you claim the journalism is

That is too small if one takes into real account of how many souls this authorised demons ,and criminal gang called SARS killed in a day, you will realise that most stories of missing persons are victims of SARS criminality.

The kidnappers, cultists, ritualists we talk about in Nigeria are the police,and SARS by extension .

30,400 souls wasted, jeez! This is almost half the population of Seychelles.

Lord,may your thunder ,fire,and brimstone visit every SARS personnel, and their children both in rank and file.

Useless gang of evil men

NIgeria panel's report will be like , "disagreement between SARS and citizens led to the death of 30 people in 16 years-both citizens and SARS officers"

Spit**

PissfulProtester:
30,400 in 16years

158.33 in a month

39.59 in a week


SARS has killed many over the years but not as many as the number we have here.

This is reckless journalism!

If you are opportune to visit SARS custody, then you will know that that figure is on the low.

What happens to those cases that go unreported?

SARS is more dangerous than armed robbers.

psucc:
If you are opportune to visit SARS custody, then you will know that that figure is on the low.

What happens to those cases that go unreported?

SARS is more dangerous than armed robbers.

He is one of online hoodlum . Their response to issue is robotic

Okay


Yet Northerners say we should continue SARS...it is well..

Please FG, listen to Borno state governor and redeploy SARS Official to the north to fight Boko haram...

Useless country!! Useless police force!! Useless president.

oooo too bad....




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SARS must be held accountable for their actions. Nigerians want to see arrest and prosecution being made and not talks.

PissfulProtester:
30,400 in 16years

158.33 in a month

39.59 in a week


SARS has killed many over the years but not as many as the number we have here.

This is reckless journalism!

Counter the claim with ur own facts or u forever shut up. SARS are evil. They should all be killed.

Olatunji1929:
even bokoharam have not exceeded that number SARS are the real terrorist

And majority of their victims were in the south

In fact, SARS was our own Boko Haram in the south

Is even more than that...

Akwuzu camp and other camps in anambra will account for almost 30,000 of it..

PissfulProtester:
30,400 in 16years

158.33 in a month

39.59 in a week


SARS has killed many over the years but not as many as the number we have here.

This is reckless journalism!

If they kill at least one detainee in one state per week (some like Akwuzu kill more), they'll achieve this effortlessly, judging from the experiences narrated

From the ipob bureau of statistics

I know the figure might sound crazy to some, but I actually believe this. If it's not that exact number, then something close to it. Sars have wasted a lot of lives in this country, most of them been innocent youths.