Nigerians have in recent months been crying out for a reform of the Special Anti-Robbery (SARS) over their reportedly unchecked excesses.
There have been disturbing reports of the activities of SARS, with many claiming most officers of the squad are given to extortion and the gross abuse of people’s funadamental human rights.
Nigerians who have suffered at the hands of some overzealous officers of SARS have taken to popular social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook to express their ordeals with video and photo proofs to support how they have been maltreated in the hands of those that should protect them.
It is no wonder therefore that one of the reforms the new inspector general of police, Mohammed Adamu, made was the breaking up of SARS and assigning them to state commissioners of police.
In a poll conducted by Legit.ng on Facebook and Twitter, Nigerians were of the strong belief that the new reform by the IGP will make the police better.
Out of the 652 people who participated in the poll on Facebook, 71% believe that the reform will help re-position the force on a right part, while 29% do not trust in the power of the reform.
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