Six months after, the campaign
has resurfaced on various social media platforms, with citizens saying the
“careless” regard for human lives which they say is evident in operations of
SARS operatives is getting worse.
SARS was established by the
Nigeria police to fight violent crimes.
Many Nigerians are currently
recounting tales of woe and unsavoury experiences in the hands of SARS
officers, ranging from alleged cases of illegal arrest to torture and
extrajudicial killings.
The police had dismissed the outcry
when it first began last year, with Jimoh Moshood, police spokesman, saying the
SARS operatives were doing “fantastically well”.
“As we speak, SARS is doing
fantastically well across the country in reducing incidents of robbery to the
barest minimum… they are doing very, very well,” Moshood said.
Amid the outcry, Ibrahim Idris,
inspector-general of police, ordered the immediate reorganisation of the squad
as well as the investigation of alleged crimes of torture levelled against its
operatives.
He had also ordered that they
must stay off civil matters and that they must operate in “official uniform
clearly marked for identification”.
But over the weekend, Nigerians
took to the social media to say rather than things improving, the alleged
brutality of the police squad is “getting worse”.
Using the hashtag #EndSARS, they
are calling on the government to proscribe the police unit, as well as
investigate allegations of abuse against citizens.
#Endsars this happened in ikorodu pic.twitter.com/ojnBBRCXQj— ijoba Yagi (@godlystoner) June 11, 2018
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