Nigerian rapper and entrepreneur, Ruggedman, is on a mission to help citizens identify Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) impersonators.
The ‘Wobe’ rapper, in collaboration with Peter Gana, the new commander of SARS Lagos state, is doing his part to rid the streets of the prevailing menace.
SARS, a division of the Nigeria police, has gained a reputation for harassing, torturing, and extorting Nigerians.
Victims of SARS harassment have been speaking out of late in the hopes for a change.
“He [Peter Gana] said a lot of people have been impersonating and carrying out terrible acts as SARS officials and he showed me how to spot fake SARS. So I thought to share them with my people,” the rapper said in an Instagram post.
Here are Ruggedman’s tips to identify fake SARS officials.
1. The real sars have a Red scorpion on their cap and jacket with the number 039 on them.
2. Sars units are only allocated 2 riffles. So any group of alleged sars officials you see with more than 2 riffles are fake.
I then told him that
1. Without a proper uniform, anybody (including armed robbers) can buy black t-shirts and print sars on them.
2. They need proper mode of identification e.g. name/number badge to make tracing their station easy.
3. Since they are a special unit with so much negativity around them at the moment, it’s best to get them off the streets for now (unless when a special crime is happening) because the brutalisation, extortion, kidnapping and unlawful arrests of innocent Nigerians is too much.
“We don’t have a problem with them dealing with confirmed criminals, but treating innocent Nigerians like animals is turning the country into a ticking time bomb,” he concluded.
No comments:
Post a Comment