The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has directed the immediate overhaul of the Special Anti-Robbery squad in compliance with the Presidential directives.
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Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media & Publicity, Office of the Vice President, made this known in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja.
The Assistant Inspector General in charge of Zone 2 Command, Adamu Ibrahim, has upheld the recommendation of police disciplinary body that recommended the dismissal of four policemen attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Ikeja, Lagos State.
Wike stated that the series of statements released by APC stakeholders on the illegal activities of SARS personnel in the course of their forthcoming congress should attract the attention of all well-meaning lovers of democracy.
According to various online media, Sid, a medical doctor (dentist) turn musician, the SARS operatives mistook the singer for a ‘Yahoo boy’ seized his phone, intimidated and harassed him on Wednesday.
The operatives were arrested on the order of the Commissioner, Lagos State Police Command, Edgal Imohimi.
The men who struck around 5am on the new year day climbed over the gate with their ladder and ransacked the entire house. At the end of the operation, six adult male members of the family including myself were handcuffed, herded into a rickety bus and driven to the SARS Nnewi office where we were briefly detained.
The Public Relations Officer of the Police Command in Kano State, DSP Magaji Majiya, disclosed this while presenting the suspects to newsmen in Kano on Thursday.
The Committee has been mandated to look into allegation of the human rights abuses raised by the general public, make relevant recommendations and include it in its final report
The denial of the police was contained in a statement issued by the Force Spokesman, Deputy Commissioner of Police Don Awunah, in Abuja.
Awunah described the report as misleading and a clear misrepresentation of facts, unverified accounts and absolute distortion of current state of SARS
Idris said human rights groups would be involved in the training of SARS operatives, adding that an intelligent unit would be created for the unit.
He said: “We are going to retrain you even as you work in your different zones
I made attempt to open my applications where I have word-to-go so the man could see and maybe read but he turned around with the speed of a concord jet and when he turned back to me he asked “who is Anna Williams”? I was perturbed and distraughted because I have NEVER heard that name in my life! Instead of checking for articles and pieces that I claimed to write officer BJ went to Yahoo Messenger, I could hear his thought in my brain; “he must be a yahoo boy”
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested two suspected armed robbers who dispossessed a woman Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) and others of their valuables at the Mile2 area of the state.
As wife of a mobile policeman, Mrs. Victoria Amodu knows that robbery is a crime yet, when she abandoned her matrimonial home, including her four kids in Oshogbo, Osun State, and ran to Lagos; it was robbery and prostitution she embraced.
A daring female member of a robbery gang has revealed how she used to hood wink victims into entering the gang’s operational vehicle, thinking it was a commercial one before they rob the victim.
A member of a five-man-gang of robbers, who was arrested by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Ikeja, Lagos Command, for snatching trucks carrying fuel on the highway has revealed that he left army and took to robbery like duck to water because his salary was too small.
The Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Adeniji Adele, Lagos Island, has arrested a suspect who used to drug, rob and throw his victims off moving buses.
Two suspects, who were arrested for interstate armed robbery, have revealed how they gang raped a kidnapped NTA journalist after collecting N1 million ransom from her family.
Determined to teach his uncle a lesson he would never forget in a hurry, a man brought robbers all the way from Delta State to Lagos to rob his brother.
A member of a three man gang of robbers has revealed how the seizure of his commercial bus by officials of the Lagos State Transport Management Authority (LASTMA) compelled him to go into robbery.