Replacing SARS With SWAT Won’t Address Police Brutality – UN
Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, has faulted the manner in which the Nigeria police force set up special weapons and tactics (SWAT) to replace the special anti-robbery squad (SARS). Bachelet said the police swiftly created SWAT “without first addressing some of the root causes of police violence and putting in place sufficient safeguards to prevent...
#EndSARS Agitation Now Out Of Hand In Abia, FENRAD Laments
Foundation for Environmental Rights, Advocacy & Development (FENRAD) A Civil society Advocacy & Human Rights Organization has said the #EndSARS protest in Abia state has gone out of hand. The group expressed worry over the violence, looting, and destruction of public property that has characterised the agitation in the state. While insisting that violence cannot achieve the desired result, FENRAD in...
#EndSARS: Your Speech, Insensitive And Useless — Apostle Suleman Blasts Buhari
Presiding General Overseer of the Omega Fire Ministries, Apostle Johnson Suleman has slammed President Muhammadu Buhari over his insensitive speech on the #EndSARS protest. Suleman described Buhari’s speech as insensitive and useless. He also went further to question the president’s failure to address the Lekki Toll Gate shooting in Lagos State. Taking to his Twitter, the clergyman asserted that the broadcast was...
Lekki Shooting: Lagos Govt Invited Us To Lekki Tollgate – Army
The Nigerian Army says the Lagos state government invited it to intervene in the fallout of the #EndSARS protest. Youth protesting against police brutality had refused to stay off the roads despite a 24-hour curfew imposed by Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos, after widespread violence. Subsequently, men in military uniform invaded the protest ground at Lekki toll plaza and opened fire on the...
#EndSARS: South East Leaders To Engage Youths For Sustainable Peace, Glorious Future [Photos, Video]
…Sympathize with victims’ families, others The leaders of the South East geo-political zone comprising the governors of the zone, national assembly members, ministers, clergy, traditional rulers, Igbo leaders, and women leaders, rose from a closed-door meeting at the Government House, Enugu, on Thursday and resolved to engage the youth to ensure sustainable peace in the zone as well as “a...
We Lost 22 Officers, 205 Police Stations To #ENDSARS Protests – Police
No fewer than 22 police personnel were killed and many others injured during the #ENDSARS protests, the Force Headquarters of the Nigeria Police, Abuja has stated. Many others were inflicted with life-threatening injuries while 205 police stations and formations were burnt, Force Public Relations Officer, DCP Frank Mba, said on Friday. Mba, in a statement, informed other critical private and public...
#ENDSARS: Most Nigerian Youths Are Always High On Drugs – Lawmaker
Mojisola Alli-Macaulay, the lawmaker representing Amuwo Odofin constituency 1 at the Lagos state house of assembly, says most Nigerian youths are always high on drugs. The lawmaker was speaking at a recent plenary session in the wake of looting of properties by hoodlums and other attendant crisis trailing the #EndSARS protests across the country. Alli-Macaulay said there is an urgent need for the...
I Lost My Pregnancy After Spending 22 Days In SARS Custody – Victim Tells Lagos Judicial Panel
A middle-aged woman, Ndubuisi Obiechina says she lost her two and half month’s pregnancy while being detained for twenty-two days at the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Ikeja, Lagos State. She disclosed this on Saturday at the continuation of the hearing of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution set up by the Lagos State government to look into allegations...
We Won’t Disclose Identity Of Personnel Deployed To Lekki Tollgate – Army
The Nigerian Army says it will not disclose the identities of its men who were sent to Lekki tollgate on October 20, 2020. Soldiers had dispersed #EndSARS protesters who prevented vehicular movement along that axis for two weeks. The incident had triggered different reactions, within and outside the country, as the military and the federal government were accused of human rights...
Soldiers Who Flogged Woman, Shaved Youths Arrested – Oyo Govt
The Oyo State Commissioner for Youth and Sports Development, Seun Fakorede, says the Nigerian Army has arrested soldiers who flogged a woman for ‘indecent dressing’ and shaved youths for ‘wearing improper hairstyles’. He made this known in a series of tweets on Monday. The PUNCH reports that the soldiers were caught on camera unleashing punishment on the civilians. Fakorede assured Oyo residents to go...
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