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Nigerians in London Take to Streets to Condemn Police Brutality in Homeland - Video

© REUTERS / PIUS UTOMI EKPEIA young man holds a sign during a demonstration calling for the scrapping of the controversial Special Anti-Robbery Squad "SARS" police unit, in Ikeja, on October 8, 2020. - Nigeria's top police chief on October 4 banned a controversial anti-robbery unit and other special agents from mounting roadblocks and carrying out stop-and-search operations over accusations of abuses. Inspector-General of Police Muhammed Adamu said the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS) and other tactical squads must stop such operations "with immediate effect". Adamu said the decision followed findings that "a few personnel" in undercover tactical squads have abused their position "to perpetrate all forms of illegality".
A young man holds a sign during a demonstration calling for the scrapping of the controversial Special Anti-Robbery Squad SARS police unit, in Ikeja, on October 8, 2020. - Nigeria's top police chief on October 4 banned a controversial anti-robbery unit and other special agents from mounting roadblocks and carrying out stop-and-search operations over accusations of abuses. Inspector-General of Police Muhammed Adamu said the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS) and other tactical squads must stop such operations with immediate effect. Adamu said the decision followed findings that a few personnel in undercover tactical squads have abused their position to perpetrate all forms of illegality.  - Sputnik International
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Earlier in the day, the Nigerian police ruled to disband their highly controversial unit - the Special Anti-Robbery Squad - that has long been accused of abuse of power and heavy-handed methods.

Sputnik comes live from outside the Nigerian diplomatic mission in London where activists from the local Nigerian community gathered to condemn the police violence in their home country.

The protest in London comes amid nationwide demonstrations against Nigeria's Special Anti-Robbery Squad - a police unit that has often been accused of extortion, torture, blackmail and other fraudulent practices.

The latest public action was triggered by a video circulating in social media in which a SARS member was filmed shooting a man dead.

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