March 29, 2024

What It Means When the Police Say They are Dissolving SARS

      The protests of young Nigerians have yielded some results: the Nigerian Police has announced that the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) is being dissolved. The Inspector General of Police Mohammed Adamu shared the news on Sunday, and the police released a statement too.   It’s stuff to rejoice to—except, wait, did you read the caveats?     […]

SARS is now a plague and its reign of terror needs to end [Topnews Editorial]

    SARS has clearly derailed from its mandate and must be reined in.   In 1991, as Shina Rambo and his gang of masked robbers unleashed a reign of terror in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial and economic capital–snatching cars and staging shooting sprees from convoys–then Deputy Commissioner of Police (Operations) in Ikeja, Mike Okiro and […]