Reforms are burdensome in Nigeria, the more things change, the more they remain the same. ... widespread in Nigeria… In March 2017, 23-year-old Miracle was arrested and detained by SARS officers in Neni, Anambra State, southeast Nigeria, accused of the theft of a laptop. An End SARS protester has been killed in Surulere, Lagos. In a damning report published in June 2020 the human rights organization said people in SARS … Sars was one of a number of special police forces set up in the 1990s to address rising violent crime, yet many in Nigeria have accused the unit of … "The attention of the Nigeria Police Force, Delta State Command has been drawn to trending online videos and posts alleging SARS operatives of shooting a young man to death in Ughelli. By ANA Reporter Oct 21, 2020 The incident was said to have occurred on Sunday afternoon, 31st of March, 2019, at Onipetesi area of Agege, Lagos. The police who should be protecting the lives and properties of the citizens are the same ones killing people. ... (SARS allegedly shooting and killing a young man in Nigeria’s southern Delta State. Nigeria’s SARS: A brief history of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad How a police unit established to combat armed robbery became synonymous with unlawful killings, torture and extortion. The young man dressed in a red T-shirt and black trouser gave up after efforts by young medics failed. In a video shared by award-winning journalist, Babajide Otitoju, the man is seen holding a belt. “The attention of the Nigeria Police Force, Delta State Command has been drawn to trending online videos and posts alleging SARS Operatives of shooting a young man to death in Ughelli. IPOB wish to bring to the notice of the International Community the unabated secret abduction, torture, detention, and killing of our members by the wicked Nigeria security agents. Footage showed the medics struggling to keep him alive with drip and other equipment. A team of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigeria Police allegedly killed a young man on Saturday. They have killed more Nigerians than the CoronaVirus has done. However, many didn't see the announcement as a victory because the government's plan was to reassign SARS officers to other police departments rather than give the victims justice and eliminate them from their positions. Stop killing End SARS protesters, Hillary Clinton tells Nigeria’s Buhari. Philip Whiteside. “The attention of the Nigeria Police Force, Delta State Command has been drawn to trending online videos and posts alleging SARS Operatives of shooting a young man to death in Ughelli. The End SARS movement is a social justice campaign in Nigeria that is demanding the disbandment of the country's Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS. The incident occurred in front of Wetland Hotel, Ughelli in Delta State. Speaking further Power said, "At the helm of this atrocity and inhumanity is the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS). In 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari was a beacon of hope to Nigerians. A BUJA, Nigeria—On October 3, a horrific video went viral on social media, which showed officers from the Nigerian police force’s notorious Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS… Its officers have been accused of extortion, torture, rape, and … It easily suffers a relapse after showing initial signs of recovery. “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 … If a young person has dreadlocks, tattoos or gold chains, the police assume they are a criminal. The catalyst seemed to be an Oct. 3 video that appeared to show the unprovoked killing of a man by black-clad SARS officers in Ughelli, a town in southern Delta state. 22 … “The allegations in the online video about SARS operatives killing a young man in Ughelli are not only false, malicious and erroneous but also misleading. All efforts to sanitize SARS have failed. This is a fluke," said Okoye Paul, who has been a part of the Lagos … End SARS: Why Nigeria's anti-police brutality protests have gone global. SARS(Special Anti-Robbery Squad) was set up in 1992 to address rising violent crime in Nigeria. But the incident that sparked the movement was a video of what appeared to be an unprovoked killing of a man by SARS officers in the Delta State on Oct. 3. The government, which claims to have banned SARS, are still killing protesters. “…their leader directed them to go and hang me. ... posted a video on Twitter accusing the Nigerian government of killing its own citizens. This protest is long overdue. Nigeria The Nigerian Army Shot Dead at Least 12 Peaceful Protesters in Lagos, Rights Group Says. The protests began after a widely seen and shared video appeared to show SARS officers killing a man, unprovoked. The police force has operated with impunity for decades. The End SARS movement emerged in Nigeria during early October in revolt against police brutality. We are now afraid of the police. … Amnesty International documented 82 cases of police brutality in Nigeria between 2017 and 2020. Nigerians are no more afraid of armed robbers. He was tortured and given hardly any food during the 40 days he was in detention before he was charged and brought before a court. The SARS is the greatest enemy of Nigerians now. “The attention of the Nigeria Police Force, Delta State Command has been drawn to trending online videos and posts alleging SARS Operatives of shooting a young man to death in Ughelli. A demonstrator paints "End SARS', referring to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad police unit, on a street during a protest demanding police reform in Lagos, Nigeria… On October 11, Nigeria's Inspector-General of Police Mohammed Adamu announced the "dissolution" of SARS. There have been countless evidence showing SARS men harassing, attacking, detaining, extorting money, threatening to kill and killing innocent civilians. Today 20 more people lost their lives including anons. End SARS is a decentralised social movement, and series of mass protests against police brutality in Nigeria.The slogan calls for the disbanding of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), a notorious unit of the Nigerian Police with a long record of abuses. As part of the protests, the source of the leak, an anon brother from Anonymous Nigeria got killed by SARS right after he was able to submit this valuable information to other anons. #SARS special police force unit in Nigeria kills innocents. As affected Nigerians fight to put an end to the menace that SARS police has become, let us also not forget the many people that have fallen victims of police brutality in Nigeria. The Special Anti-Robbery Squad was founded in late 1992 by former police commissioner Simeon Danladi Midenda.The incident that spurred SARS' formation was the death of Col. Israel Rindam (Nigerian Army) at the hands of police officers at a checkpoint in Lagos on September 1992, their arrest, a subsequent strike by police officers, followed by a crime wave. #ENDSARS: Again, Nigerians Call For Scrapping Of SARS Over Killing Of Youths The renewed call came on Saturday with youths and rights organisations urging … SARS have been killing innocent Nigerians for many years. #Nigeria gov oppression and killings should stop. History. The police target young people based on their looks which results in violence, arrest, and exploitation for money. Some Nigerians have reacted angrily to the incessant killings and brutality by Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, in the country after a young man was allegedly killed in Delta State. The recent protests broke out on Oct. 3 when social media users shared reports of the shooting of an unarmed youth by SARS in Ughelli, a town in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta. PREMIUM TIMES reported the killing of Jimoh Isiaka on Saturday when youth in Ogbomoso, Oyo State took to the streets to join the protests against SARS. Some Nigerian youths has taken to social media to lament the killing of a young man, name Kolade Johnson by men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS in Lagos. Amidst calls for an end to the activities of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), a man has been captured headbutting an operative in Benin, the Edo State capital.