BY MAHMUD GARBA SHAWAI.
Nigeria Police Force (NPF), is a security body that was initiated under the acts of protecting the lives and properties of Nigerian folks and other foreign citizens living in Nigeria.
Special Anti-Robbery Squad is one of the 14 units in the Force Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department which was established to detain, investigate and prosecute people involved in crimes like armed robbery, kidnapping, and other forms of crimes.
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The Special Anti-Robbery Squad was founded in 1992 by former police commissioner Simeon Danladi Midenda.
SARS has been with so many allegations linked to acts of extortion, torture, framing, and blackmail.
Unnumbered folks were killed and or severely injured by this unit all in the name of investigation of crimes more especially in the Southern part of this country. This high rate of inhumanity acts perpetrated by some of the officers in SARS energizes the Nigerian youths which are mostly from the South is holding a peaceful demonstration titled “End SARS”.
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Indeed, the protest suffered a rivalry approach by some so-called youth leaders thereby politicalizing the whole item. Now, the campaign has 2 faces, Southerners want SARS to be dissolved while some Northerners need the reformation of the unit.
As an activist, I do believe in peace and justice for all and sundry in respective of the tribal, religious, regional, and racial differences. Let’s face the reality of life and at the same time let’s respect and feel other people’s pains.
If Northwestern youths could hold a protest over the banditry issue bedeviling the region why don’t we give our southern counterparts a benefit of doubt on the issue of SARS disturbing them? If Northeastern people could protest against the former and present Presidents of this country why should we repel the oppressed individuals over the unjust acts they are suffering from just because of regional, political, and or religious differences.
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Let’s call a spade a spade. The ones of Nigeria could only be achieved by sharing the same pain or pleasure in any regard despite our differences in region, customs norms, and values.
Mahmud Garba Shawai is the Chairman of Northwest awareness foundation, he wrote this from Kano, he wrote it before IGP announces its dissolution
