The ongoing protest calling for the total scrapping of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, (SARS) of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), tagged #EndSARS continued in Abuja on Friday.
Police personnel have however shot into the air sporadically and have as well released several teargas canisters to disperse the protesters.
In a video that surfaced online, the protesters were seen running helter-skelter.
Some of them were heard shouting “they are shooting at us”, “don’t kill us with teargas”, “you must #EndSARS”.
One of the protesters in Abuja, @BrianJDenis, tweeted, “Police officers have opened fire at us with live bullets at Central Area, Abuja. Some people are injured.”
This came just as the Force Public Relations Officer, (FPRO) Frank Mba, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP on Friday on Channels Television Current Affairs Programme declared that the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, (SARS) was a child born out of necessity put in place by the leadership of the Nigeria Police Force, (NPF) to tackle the increasing violence Crime in the country.
DCP Mba stated that the Inspector General of Police, (IGP) Mohammed Abubakar Adamu is doing all things humanly possible to reform the security outfit to meet the expectations of members of the public.
He stated that what Nigerians should be agitating for is the reformation of the outfit as currently being done by the IGP and not total scrapping, saying that some people were canvassing for the total scrap due to the ignorance of good work being done by the security outfit.
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