WHO ARE SARS?END SARS.

SARS  is a branch of the Nigeria police under the criminal investigating department[CID].The CID is the highest investigating arm of the Nigerian Police Force.

    Many states in Nigeria had a special force tackling violent crimes like kidnapping and armed robbery. SARS developed from these different forces and now has a nationwide decree under Nigeria's federal police force to confront violent crimes such as armed robbery,kidnapping and communal clashes.

     In a report in 2016,Amnesty international accused SARS officers of regularly detaining young adult unlawfully and extorting money from their families.The report uncovered detention facilities across the country including Abuja, Enugu and Anambra, where victims are tortured to confess to crimes they know nothing about and did not even commit. 

   The Nigerian Bureau of Statistics(NBS) released a report in August 2017 which found that Nigeria's police officers were the most likely of all civil servants to solicit and collect bribes.

                                          SOCIAL MEDIA(ACTIONS) AND SARS

   The internet has recently been flooded with stories of indiscriminate arrests, torture and even murder by SARS operatives. For over a month now, the hashtag ENDSARS has been trending on social media.

   It started December 1 with a Twitter user who shared tales of woe in the hands of SARS officers. Thousands of Nigerians, in reply to the thread, began sharing their own similar experiences and called on to the federal government to scrap the police unit. The content of the replies varied from stories assault and illicit arrests to death threats and videos showing officers shooting at civilians.

   In response to the SARS uproar on social media, Osai Ojigho, director of Amnesty International Nigeria,said that Nigerians had had enough of the unit and reached the breaking point."The #ENDSARS is hashtag is rightly gaining the attention of the  police and the Nigerian government and now the officials must do more to end these horrendous abuses of power" Ojigho said.

      Amnesty International highlighted such abuses more than a year ago and yet these shocking incidents still continue. SARS is not enough, the government must take steps to protect Nigerians.

                           SARS WAHALA "UNREAL"

      The police have dismissed many of the allegations against its officers as "non-existent", unreal.

"SARS are really doing well.They are structured to combat violent crimes and are doing well in regard, Chike Oti, public relations officer at Lagos state police, told Al.Jazeera,"The allegations are so much i wonder why people who have suffered such did not make formal complaints. It is not true that the police does not reply to complaints. To the best of my knowledge, we have a feedback, mechanism".

             Jimoh Moshood, SARS headquarters press relation officer, made a similar statement regardind the uproar around SARS on social media, saying that the hashtag#ENDSARS was generated through misconceptions.                                                                                                                                                       We have lost a lot of people during this ENDSARS protest, technically we have lost more than 50 people. The most painful thing is, the fact that it is our youths that are dying.

      Our Nigerian government should be useful for once in their life, Our so called President should make the right decision at least for once in his life and most importantly our youths should be very watchful and careful because people are watching them.

      Thanks guys for your time, hope you enjoyed reading it. Bye for now.