End Sars Protest News Today

Reiterating that there had been remarkable improvement in election management processes since 2019, Yakubu said: “Our election management body has been strengthened to be independent to manage electoral process in open and transparent manner.

Oliver Ezra Barawani, a graduate of Taraba State University, was driving with his boss, Liu, an LG chairman, before a policeman killed him on June 4, 2022. According to a Facebook user, Abainitus Hamman, the victim was allegedly shot by a cop at a checkpoint in Kpanti Napo near Jalingo. Oliver Ezra was brutally killed for nothing. He was driving alongside the executive chairman of Lau LGA between Lakaviri and Jalingo. He was unarmed, innocent, and calm. Nigerian Police brutality has continued un...

Popular socio-political activist, Aisha Yesufu, has said corrupt politicians in Nigeria are frustrating the masses, which can lead to another nationwide protest. Yesufu said the anger burning in the hearts of Nigerians may sponsor another protest hotter than the one experienced in 2020 tagged ‘EndSARS’. In 2020, Nigerians staged demonstrations across the nation to call

Unfortunately, most of the political figures that rode on the awareness created by the protest among the youths to boost their political wings at the 2023 general election seems not to be concerned about the continuous detention of the protesters with their total silence on the detention. This is really a departure from the reasons for the protest and disservice to the labour of those that paid the supreme price during the protest.

The protest, however, turned violent as hoodlums took advantage of the situation, burnt police stations, and public facilities, and carried out attacks on officers and citizens.

The protest was brought to a halt on October 20 when officers of the Nigerian Army shot at the protesters, killing and injuring some of the mostly youth protesters.

It is not as if we do not know already that most police officers use their offices and weapons to line their pockets. The same way an IGP Tafa Balogun could amass the over N16 billion found on him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is the way many operatives of the force use their guns to brutalise, extort, even rob members of the public.