The #endSARS protest which birthed the slang ‘#sorosoke(speak up)’ all started from a Twitter trend where a lot of Nigerian youth took to their social media account to lament and demand the disbanding of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) unit of the Nigerian police force.

The Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) had been tagged to be a very notorious unit of the Nigerian police and have been accused of several atrocities which is against it initial reasons for creation which was to detain, investigate, and prosecute people involved in crimes like armed robbery, kidnapping, and other violent crimes. The unit is now being dreaded for doing the same thing which they are supposed to protect the people against and they are accused of violations of every human right ranging from illegal “stop and searches”, illegal arrests and detentions, extrajudicial killings, sexual harassment of women and brutalizing of young Nigerian men.
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