#ENDSARS Goes International As It Is Featured On BBC


The #ENDSARS campaign has been branded 'politically
motivated' and the police claim criminals are behind the
campaign but it appears the world is watching. The trending
issue featured on BBC and below is how they reported it...
An online campaign against police brutality has gone viral in
Nigeria.
The hashtag #EndSARS started trending over the weekend
after a post claiming a young man was shot by the
police’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad, known as Sars.
On Saturday, a user with the handle @YabaKid claimed to
have seen officers from the Special Anti-Robbery Squad
shoot a boy in the head in front of him.
The user had been tweeting with the hashtag #EndSARS for
many months but in the past few days thousands of others
have responded with their own stories of police brutality.
Many claimed to have been held at gunpoint, arrested without
charge, forced to pay bribes and even shot by officers from
the unit.
Well-known musician Simi claimed she and a group of
friends were held at gunpoint by Sars officers for - as she
put it - “laughing”.



Thousands of Twitter users are now calling for the unit to
be disbanded.
In response to the campaign, the inspector general of police
said he had ordered a complete re-organisation of the
Special Anti-Robbery Squad.
He also called for an “instant investigation” into all the
allegations and complaints levelled against the unit.

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