15+ Faces Of Nigeria Sars Officers Pictures. In the disturbing footage taken by visitors at a hotel and posted on to. Across nigeria, sars officers have turned their duty to protect nigerians into an opportunity for extortion and stealing money, property and other valuables belonging to suspects and their families.

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There are currently plans to increase the force to 650,000, adding 280,000 new recruits to the existing 370,000. Daily post gathered that the governor during the visit granted bail unconditionally to obiano revealed that on monday, he will inaugurate a panel that will entertain public petitions on the activities of sars in the state. Since 2016, amnesty international has documented 15 cases where sars officers arbitrarily.

The latest round of protests were prompted by footage of officers pulling two men out of a hotel in lagos into the street and.

Across nigeria, sars officers have turned their duty to protect nigerians into an opportunity for extortion and stealing money, property and other valuables belonging to suspects and their families. According to time, protests against police brutality began in nigeria in early october after a video showed officers, who were thought to be sars, allegedly killing a young. In those early years, sars was praised for reducing crime, but it soon faced accusations of perpetrating the same abuses it was formed protesters marched in cities around nigeria, demanding the prosecution of sars officers who violated human rights. Nigerians protesting police brutality have been demonstrating in the streets for two weeks, and the hashtag #endsars trended on twitter even after the police promised to dismantle social sharing.