₦airaland Forum

Lai Mohammed u and ur family will know no peace, as u label Nigeria youths "Hoodlums" so shall ur children and grandchildren turn out to hoodlums, ur threatening all Nigerian youths that u can't fold ur hands again, it's the youths that had folded their hands for too long...this time we'll shock all of u thieves... Werrey

Movic1:
I Guess i should stop here ,let the forum point out who is the fool .

brother please stop arguing with a FOOL...

That no4 reminds me of a certain girl I gave in all my best just to help her in time of need for nothing in return....lemme stop here sha

Nigeria is not divided, the North are merely segregating themselves from the movement... Down here we're more united than ever...

Fahdiga:
You think it ends here. Your children will one day ask you questions about all this evil you have been perpetuating and I wonder what your answer will be

does his comment suggest he has plans for tomorrow let alone having children?...just let him wallow in his abject ignorance

So imagine having Mrs Loretta Onochie as a returning officer from any state, this is pure Iberiberism

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has forwarded to the Senate for Screening and subsequent confirmation, his Special Assistant, Social Media, Lauretta Onochie as a National Commissioner for the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan on Tuesday read the letter from President Buhari forwarding the name of Onochie from Delta along side three other National Commissioners.

Others are Prof. Mohammed Sani from Katsina State; Prof. Kunle Ajayi from Ekiti State and Seidu Ahmed from Jigawa

Buhari said “Appointment for Commissioners for INEC. Pursuant to paragraph 14 of part 11 of the first schedule of the 1999 constitution.


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/10/breaking-buhari-appoints-lauretta-onochie-his-special-assistant-as-inec-commissioner/

Good luck NOI

• IGP bows to pressure, North, South disagree
• Wizkid leads London ‘jubilation’
• Disbandment cosmetic says HURIWA

Yesterday's dissolution of the controversial Special Anti-Robbery Squad by Inspector-General of Police Mohammed Adamu triggered mixed reactions. While youths and socio-cultural organisations in the South welcomed the announcement, which followed weeklong protests in major cities of the country, some northern interests insisted that SARS was useful for their region.

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Ethnic fault lines show as IGP dissolves SARS
By Tunde Oyedoyin (London), Kelvin Ebiri (Port Harcourt), Seye Olumide, Gbenga Salau (Lagos), Rauf Oyewole (Bauchi), Mansur Aramide (Gombe), Kanayo Umeh, Segun Olaniyi (Abuja)
12 October 2020 | 3:50 am

• IGP bows to pressure, North, South disagree
• Wizkid leads London ‘jubilation’
• Disbandment cosmetic says HURIWA

Yesterday's dissolution of the controversial Special Anti-Robbery Squad by Inspector-General of Police Mohammed Adamu triggered mixed reactions. While youths and socio-cultural organisations in the South welcomed the announcement, which followed weeklong protests in major cities of the country, some northern interests insisted that SARS was useful for their region.


IGP Adamu who succumbed to pressure after an emergency meeting with a worried President Muhammadu Buhari disbanded SARS across all formations, the 36 State Police Commands, and the Federal Capital Territory.
The IGP, while noting that the dissolution was in response to the yearnings of the Nigerian people, hinted that all officers and men of the now-defunct anti-robbery squad were being redeployed with immediate effect.

The IGP who made the announcement at a press briefing yesterday in Abuja noted that the Force was not oblivious of the ever-present need to combat armed robbery, kidnapping, and other violent crimes in the country which was before now the core mandate of the erstwhile squad.

He also assured Nigerians that a new policing arrangement to address anticipated policing gaps would evolve and should be announced in due course.

He disclosed that the police force would constitute an investigation team to include civil society organisations and human rights bodies in investigating alleged cases of human rights violations.
Adamu commended all citizens, particularly those who genuinely expressed their concerns for a better policing orientation in an organised, patriotic, and civil manner.

PAN Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) welcomed the dissolution of SARS and described the action as a positive detour from established “unheeding” tendency of the Buhari administration. PANDEF’s National Publicity Secretary, Ken Robinson, said government, for once, heeded the uproar of citizens against SARS and acted promptly in disbanding the special squad, whose personnel went off their duty lines and core mandate of combating armed robbery, kidnapping, and other violent crimes in the country. He said SARS operatives became a terror, “with disturbing reports of their wanton misdeeds, particularly against young people, across the country.”

PANDEF further commended the courage and resilience of young Nigerians who peacefully expressed their anger in protests across major cities over the harassment, extortion, and brutality of SARS, leading to the dissolution of the Special Squad.

The ruling political party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) also said it was in “full support of the disbandment.” The party, in a statement by its Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Yekini Nabena, interpreted President Buhari’s intervention as an indication of his resolve to “achieve better policing and reform in the police force.”

IN London, Nigerian music megastar, Wiz Kid, led about 300 jubilant protesters of main youths in welcoming the dissolution of the special anti-robbery squad during Sunday’s #EndSARS Protest at the Northumberland Avenue office of the Nigerian High Commission.

There was a heavy metropolitan police presence in front and around the Commission, and an officer told The Guardian that the over 30 of them in attendance were picked from the special response team for events of this nature. Led by the Yemi Soile-led Nigerian Youths in Diaspora Organisation, the demonstrators carried various placards condemning the agency and chanted solidarity songs for over two hours, from noon when the protest officially began. Though, at around 1.40 pm, one of the cheerleaders was urging the crowd to go as “the protest is officially over,” which seemed to fall on deaf ears. Rather, chants of “solidarity forever, solidarity forever, solidarity forever....” and “oh my home, oh my home, when shall I see my home,...” filled the air as the enthusiastic crowd stayed put and disrupted the flow of traffic from and towards Trafalgar Square.

Though the news that SARS had been dissolved started filtering through the carnival-like demonstration towards the end, it wasn’t until Wiz Kid mounted a makeshift podium to confirm the news that the crowd started jubilation. Before being driven off in a black jeep, the afrobeat star told the enthusiastic demonstrators:” we have achieved our goal,” but “this is just the beginning.”

Echoing his view that such a massive demonstration should be expected to correct structural injustice in Nigeria, Soile told The Guardian that his organisation decided to call the protest to show solidarity to the hapless Nigerians being harassed and tortured in the country by the now-dissolved SARS operatives.
Kate Tayo, who came to the demonstration, alongside her friends, spoke with The Guardian, saying “l came out just to support and show solidarity for the cause.”

LAGOS State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu said the disbandment of the Special Anti-robbery Squad was a victory for youths of Nigeria, saying they voiced out and it was heard clearly by the government.

Speaking on arrival to Lagos from Ondo, where he had gone to participate in the just concluded governorship election, as APC campaign committee chairman, Sanwo-Olu said the protests held at different locations within Lagos showed the beauty of democracy and that people had the right to express their views.

Sanwo-Olu said he was full with the youths on their demand as he would not sit back and allow any resident to be maltreated.

MEANWHILE, there was confusion in Bauchi, as some northern youths, in a counter-protest, dissociated themselves from #EndSARS agitations

The group, under the aegis of the Northern Youth Assembly of Nigeria (NYAN), was seen with placards of different inscriptions at the Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ). They said the Police formation only required reform.

Speaker of the group, Ukkasha Hamza Rahuma, who led almost 100 youths, said: “We have the belief that the decision of the Force to establish special anti-robbery squad was done in good faith to checkmate the illegal activities of kidnapping, banditry and armed robbery in the society following the rampant cases of the harassment and loss of valuable items to men of the underworld.”

The situation was not different in Gombe, where, hours after the announced disbandment, Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC) in the state faulted the move, stating that the squad had helped to reduce crime.

Speaking on behalf of the group at a peaceful protest in Patanmi Stadium, chairman of PCRC, Kabiru Muhammad said SARS had helped in the recovery of Gombe children kidnapped and taken to other parts of the country.

Justifying their position, Kabiru recalled that the state once suffered from a militia group known as Kalari boys but was checked by SARS officials.
WHILE the altercation persisted, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) yesterday said the disbandment was cosmetic and grossly insufficient. The group demanded that President Buhari should immediately constitute several judicial commissions of investigations on activities of SARS and make recommendations on those to be prosecuted for crimes against humanity. The rights group also said the statement confirming that members of the disbanded SARS would be redeployed to other units of the police and then a team set up to investigate allegations of human rights violations by the operatives of the disbanded SARS should be taken as deception since nothing good would come from an adjudication process instituted by the same institution of the Nigerian Police Force accused of gross human rights violations.
vigilant in case the Police hierarchy will simply RE-BAPTIZE THE NOW DISBANDED SARS.

Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, the national coordinator and Miss Zainab Yusuf, national media affairs director, who jointly endorsed the media statement, said it would be cosmetic and simplistic to just announce that SARS had been disbanded and that the members would be redeployed to other policing units across the country. The group said the step was not far-reaching enough since it would amount to mixing up rotten eggs with semi-rotten and fairly good eggs in the larger Nigerian Police Force.

Presiding Pastor of the Latter Rain Church, Tunde Bakare advocated the need to re-evaluate, restructure, rebrand and rebuild the confidence of Nigerian masses in the course of the nation’s journey to national rebirth.

Bakare, who made the statement during a church service yesterday a few hours before the announced disbandment of SARS, said he had followed the #EndSARS protests with a heavy heart. He noted that “young and older Nigerians from various walks of life, across the length and breadth of the nation and the diaspora, are united in rejecting harassment, humiliation and the coldblooded murder of their fellow citizens.”




https://m.guardian.ng/news/ethnic-fault-lines-show-as-igp-dissolves-sars/

A northern youth group has opposed the ongoing agitation for the scrapping of the controversial Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigeria Police.

The group, Northern Youth Assembly of Nigeria (NYAN), were seen armed with placards of different inscriptions on Sunday at the Secretariat of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ). They said the police unit only require a reform.

The Speaker of the group, Ukkasha Hamza Rahuma who led almost 100 youths said, “We have the belief that the decision of the Force to establish special anti-robbery squad was done in good faith to checkmate the illegal activities of kidnapping, banditry and armed robbery in the society following the rampant cases of the harassment and loss of valuable items to the men of the underworld.

“However, we acknowledge that men of the Nigeria Police Force have turned the establishment of SARS in every angle and corner of the country to avenue of harassment and intimidation which has generated a thunderous outcry all over the country.

“Our Organisation strongly kicks against any humiliation, harassment or intimidation by the security outfit and their personnel. They should instead follow laid down rules of investigation, apprehension and prosecution of any suspect as practiced in some developed nations. We are totally against the
scrapping of SARS but instead we are in support of reſorming the FSARS
to enable them operate in a professional manner where good citizens will
appreciate them more,” the group said.

NYAN urged Nigerians to support their call for the reform of the police unit, saying that rather than calling for the scrapping of SARS, people should join hands to support the reforming of SARS for optimum performance.

“Scraping or ending the operation of FSARS in the country may not provide lasting solution to criminal activities, instead it may provide the chance for criminals to return to the streets and continue their illegal operations,” the group said.

“Rather than calling for the scrapping of SARS, let us all join hands to support the reforming of SARS for optimum performance where no human right will be violated. We are in support of prosecuting any security personnel who violates fundamental human right of any suspects to serve as deterrent to others.

“We also encourage the Inspector General (IG) of Police to order that henceforth, Commissioner of Police (CP) in charge of FSARS and CPs in charge of State Commands, and FCT, as well as their supervisory zonal AIGs, will be held liable for misconduct of personnel of FSARS and others within their jurisdiction.

“Therefore, we are calling on the IG to, instead of doing away with the operation of FSARS, he should support the reformation of the unit to provide better services to Nigerians. Scrapping SARS will never be a final solution for the police or Nigerians at a time when cases of social vices and criminality are on the increase, but we support total reformation of SARS in the country.”

Lifediary:
The above topic in bolded raises a very big question... WHAT MODE HAS THE TROOPS BEEN BEFORE NOW?
Let's discuss.

brotherhood mode

What if they #EndSARS and create Anti Rubbery Force ARF

Jesus na u know wetin dey delay u oh...come quick abeg, this country don wash

Nonsense woman

Why not try some intimate cool lubricants, u can also try being so naughty with yourselves and see if dirty talks and actions can revive ur sex lives

OP u already captioned it. *Lawmakers struggling to shake hands with Buhari*....stupid lawmakers, stupid President...

OP from ur post all SW states are prosperous while all other states from other zones miserable except Anambara...OP we know ur just being a real Afonja...stupid post

From fire to frying pan

victorDanladi:
no l,with the likes of Obasanjo ,GEJ,yaradua and wike

who open door for this one

Tunde835:
Dont worry, they'll be long dead by then.

when they keep recruiting their children and grandchildren everyday?

With the likes of Buhari and Tinubu Abi...am not wishing Nigeria bad but with the mentality we're living with, our children may dream to get Nigeria back to what it is today...bcuz e go don worse then

We don't need this audio banning...ban them from the Nigeria roads and ensure they're leave

Nice move Mr IG...these boiz has done more harm than good to every Nigerian person...thieves in police clothing...

Ifb...but where them follow back go ?

dorin27:
Nope...you only asked me to look at my big nose, and I did. So how is that an insult?

ur de one redefining it oh...anyway sha...all na for joke

dorin27:
Lol... sorry, your plan no go work. Try again later

at least officially am de 1st person to bash u on NL

I was there live, @Ayetoro area of Oshogbo, na there e happen...

Nigeria is like a pastor who love and cherish his church building more than the congregation, here our government cherish Nigeria more than Nigerians...yeye

dorin27:
Nobody has and nobody will. Since I don't insult people, I don't expect people to insult me.

Lol, I go defile that ur belief today, see ur big nose.... ...if u like cry na me talk am...

Lol, funny post