– Osinbajo orders the review of SARS
Yemi Osinbajo, the acting President of Nigeria, has ordered the immediately overhaul of the management and activities of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).
This, he directed to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Ibrahim Idris because of the security outfit highhandedness and extra-judicial killings.
It was the subject of #EndSARS, an intense online campaign that called for its dissolution and morphed into street protests in different parts of the country. There were also counter demonstrations.
The acting president’s action came a week after he sacked the director-general of the Department of State Services (DSS) for an unauthorised deployment of masked personnel to the National Assembly complex.
President Muhammadu Buhari is in London on vacation.
Osinbajo, in a statement signed by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, yesterday, asked the IGP to ensure any unit that would emerge from the process, would be intelligence-driven and restricted to the prevention and detection of armed robbery and kidnapping as well as apprehension of offenders linked to stated offences, and nothing more.
The acting president directed the police boss to ensure that all operatives in the emerging unit conduct their operations in strict adherence to the rule of law and with due regard to international human rights law and constitutionally guaranteed rights of suspects.
The operatives would also bear proper identification whenever they are on duty.
Osinbajo further directed the National Human Rights Commission to set up a panel to investigate the alleged unlawful activities of the squad.
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