EndSARS
End Special Anti-Robbery Squad (EndSARS) or #EndSARS is a social movement in Nigeria that started on Twitter calling for banning of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a unit of the Nigerian Police Force. ENDSARS is a call to end police oppression and brutality in Nigeria. The protests started as a social media campaign using the hashtag #ENDSARS to demand Nigeria's government to scrap and end the deployment of Nigeria Police Force Special Anti-Robbery Squad, popularly known as SARS. Within a weekend (9-11 October 2020), the #ENDSARS hashtag had up to 28 million tweets. Nigerians have shared both stories and video evidence of how members of SARS engaged in kidnapping, murder, theft, rape, torture, unlawful arrests, high-handedness, humiliation, unlawful detention, extrajudicial killings, and extortion. SARS officers profile youths largely based on appearance; mount illegal roadblocks, stop and search, arrest without warrant, rape women, extort young Nigerians for driving exotic vehicles and using iPhones. ENDSARS, #ENDSARS, ENDSWAT, #ENDSWAT, EndPoliceBrutalityOfNigerians, #EndPoliceBrutalityOfNigerians, EndPoliceBrutality NIGERIAN TRIBUNE
Police sergeant confesses to shooting petitioner’s brother at NHRC panel
A policeman, Sergeant David Moses, on Friday confessed before the independent investigative panel on rights violation by the defunct SARS...
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I can no longer farm since I was shot by police officer, amputated, man tells NHRC SARS panel
A victim of alleged police brutality on Monday told the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) independent investigative panel on violations...
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EndSARS: Enugu panel yet to submit report, heard no petitioner ― Member
The judicial panel of inquiry on police brutality and other related extrajudicial killings in Enugu State, which was inaugurated on...
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Benue #EndSARS panel submits report, recommends payment of N304.5m compensation to victims
The #EndSARS panel set up by Benue State Government on Thursday recommended N304,535,095.85 to be paid as compensation to the...
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#EndSARS: NEC to review judicial panels reports on police brutality
The National Economic Council (NEC) is set to review the outcome of the judicial panels set up in states to...
Read moreDetailsPoliceman, lawyer stage walkout as panel rules in favour of 47 #EndSARS victims in Bayelsa
The counsel representing some police personnel accused of extra-judicial killings and brutality, on Thursday stormed out of the venue of...
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Oyo Judicial Panel orders hospitals board to release corpse of trader to family
The Oyo State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Thursday ordered the Oyo State Hospitals Management Board to release the corpse...
Read moreDetailsPanel summons police officers as relative of Ibadan trader who died in custody testifies
The Oyo State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on police brutality and extrajudicial killings on Thursday, ordered that summons be issued...
Read moreDetailsMissing car: Oyo Judicial panel summons DPO, CID
The Oyo State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality on Thursday summoned a senior police officer identified as Morufu...
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Help me so I can pay my medical bills, Kogi poly graduate pleads with NHRC SARS panel
A Public Administration graduate from the Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja, Linus Godwin, on Tuesday pleaded with National Human Rights Commission...
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