PROTESTS have been taking place in London on Monday against Nigeria’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).
The #ENDSARS protests featured a speech from Nigerian singer WizKid. The rapper had previously called out the country’s president, Muhammadu Buhari, over his silence regarding the prevalence of SARS in Nigeria recently.
The SARS unit has become notorious in Nigeria, and have carried out stop and search missions, being accused of police brutality in the process as well as extortion. The #ENDSARS hashtag has begun trending on Twitter recently, with calls from Nigerians for the unit to be disbanded intensifying.
“For Nigerians youths, don’t let anyone tell you you don’t have a voice,” WizKid told the crowd at today’s (October 11) protest (seen in the video below), speaking after the country’s Inspector General of Police announced that SARS would be dissolved.
WizKid later tweeted: “This is just the beginning!! We won our fight to #ENDSARS
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