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Ok and youre in the stream today why have stories of Police Brutality gone viral in nigeria and how its a police force going to respond by mail they could be loud and ill be bringing in your comments and questions now if you look forward to the pedals here youll see just a sample of the thousands of tweets weve given getting on this topic and remember we want to hear from you so keep those coming with hash tag a stream of course were also live on you tube theres a shot off to the side on that side and one of our producers is moderating type your thoughts and ill try to bring them up on air now the in Stars Campaign has been big news in nigeria and easily one of the most requested stories from our community this year. It all started with just one tweet a Nigerian Twitter user posted in apparent shock that they had witnessed a police unit shoot a boy though as yet the story prompted thousands of people to come forward with similar tales i demand that the special anti robbery squad or saws be disbanded just this month more than one million tweets sent using hash tag and sols. Its about to come but its critics say sellers is now engaged in harassment extortion violence and even killing at all of it with impunity the Inspector General of the place force has probably still reorganization of the unit and an investigation but a Police Spokesman has also accused campaign is of being politically motivated the protests though is not going away and their plans to take it to the streets next monday human rights day so what next how should the government respond and is the insiders campaign an indication of deeper problems in the Nigerian Police force joining us to discuss. Is a life coach technologists and one of the main faces of the in sars campaign. Is the assistant commissioner of police of the complaints Response Unit and go is the country director at Amnesty International nigeria welcome to the stream everyone i want to start with their Community Members they are giving us a sense of what sars invokes and every day average nigerian citizens here is one example cited you on twitter says made syrians tremble at the mere thought of getting into the crosshairs of the sars that tells you a lot gone from being an anti robbery squad to being a menace to ordinary citizens who just want to live normal lives we want to feel protected not threatened perhaps an example of what that actually means and everyday life is in this video comment we got from she. Tells a story about a neighborhood he lives in in which a woman was allegedly shot and killed by a stars officer and heres what he told the stream on the. Street. Is this. It months later that she resolutely marriage and family has been abandoned by police and. You see this and many more stories of mortars abuse extortion a lot of forms of harassment and it was years i have seen and. You know me what do you make of comments like that. I believe in everyone you know im here with one simple message this evening that the federal government of named you there is listening to all the conversation regarding the end sas we actually have been directed to be taking in then jump police force is also listening to the conversation. Around the bend sas campaign with action has been to straight to the video of chidi that barry incident what happened that the a group of Police Officers they were about to address the suspects. Arrested is suspects the out when they were about to leave the same day i was shown a group of people who prevented them from leaving the scene and during the situation i think shots were fired so as to enable the policeman to lead the scene and it was in dr who says that the one woman was shots you know lets get one thing clear yes it is this sad incident an unfortunate incident but the shooting of the woman was not intentional and live Police Obviously out was arrested there was detailed investigation and at that point in time it was not the investigation could into an establish where the shock came from what i thought was from the Police Officer asked of from the group of people that were trying to prevent the police from looking at the scene i want to share this with the shot and this is from the cable a response to so many nigerians actually saying we do not like this squad of police offices. Doing fantastically well please keep it got stashed in sols compound how would you describe this squad the special unit robbery it said thank you. I am if you look at this. You will realize that. Becoming an explanation squad on extortion. Out of disappointing people you dont care about human life and teach people on the most people who are supposed to be. Respected Police Officers who are meant to protect. The public the way he did is he the public i. Mean like you. If you look at the way the honey do kissing you will be one. Undefined when you look at. You think you have. A number of. Yeah. Well. You would be up three terrible. Young boys driving across. National security for. The crime of being that you believe and. Yet you know you begin to worry in grainy concrete if youre on who im going negative or what people are you know one month you will recall that you are not going to be happening. Or trying to become i dont incriminate you. Let me just bring in let me bring in our so i thank you thank you sam we come back right back to this is justice jacks here online he says ive had not one experience with cells but five and one of them i slept in the Police Station for two days for driving a car and cells now the problem with a lot of these stories is how do we verify them who do we know who just says john is is this actually really happening because the police can be witnessing two hundred thousand reports of alleged Police Brutality but how do they know but this is something that you as amnesty have been researching and you put out a report saying you have signed your death warrant torture and other ill treatment by nigerias special robberies squat so whats the truth from your perspective. Thank you very much you would find that when we actually carry out the research we interviewed quite a number of people who will also visited many of the stations where people actually reported that they have been tortured or theyve been detained in and we have to be cool and also speak to the officers in charge who are actually in many places you know that build a story and we dont take one side of the story without very fine information by checking with other sources and what you find is that over time people say similar things about simulate experiences theyve had in the hands of these offices and so that tells us that theres a pattern and then when you delve deeper and you speak with those who witnesses who witnessed such incidents youre able to get more clarity in terms of time in terms of the officers involved and in terms of the amount of that have been met out to them. I have a comment that i want to pick up on that echoing really what youre saying but first i want to bring this in because we just got this tweet from j. P. Who is saying something a little different than most people in our community he says im happy to say that i am a beneficiary of good policing i stand with sar so those voices are out there picking up on the comment you made a little earlier overside this is a comment we got live on you tube this person says theres more than enough Video Evidence flying around on twitter to portray the dastardly activities of this criminal police gruppioni i want to pose this to you what do you do with all the reports and weve gotten so many of them of different incidents that are being shared on social media what would you tell people to do when they have these incidents. You see the message is very clear we have post as in all Police Stations and then youre a one size and we have billboards across meter cities in india weeds full numbers where you can call twenty four seven phone numbers where you can send text message about where you can send Whatsapp Message phone numbers where you can said blackberry messenger emails etc and let me sit in a police force is the only police force in Subsaharan Africa that has provided it twenty four hours close to my side of the skid and this simple thing where just absolutely he was did time place i dont see what is difficult in. Good time please please please look at the tweet that started it was tong up to this moment were having this discussion nobody knows who would be pocketed bt the point i was shocked nobody knows the area of the city or the town you know so most of these reports on there if im an situations where we have gotten better if i had reports that investigations were carried out the obvious us involved are dismissed from the Nigerian Police force because the interim Police Leadership has eight zero tolerance to on professional conduct so all i would just order the platform is there proof by your details shared room ensured of over two hundred thousand. Companies on fire complaints against without the need complaint without it did complete without it ben knew that that data might not meet the definition of a consulting and well and when i made it was also folks dont have specific shamrock just how bad it. Please i think we dont need to shame on International Television i dont want their situation the way i respect the police to teach them im a citizen of an idea and then make up things can fall outside and this is a byproduct of the end game of the institution are universal institutions form the fourth is a shadow. I mean not just did that deep enough being what it has got no worse thing two thousand have you seen. Than to look inward and help our reach out to people because. She was. In the system the gap between the cow on the ground between the police and the people within the government and this is indeed so as the case may be when you lay objections to something further and then look at the things i respond bill will not do the film and ill try to incriminate it was right we did and they tried to im british discredit the voice because thats the reason that concerned i am easier if i dont you all would you have a family i dont want to call him because hes a man like. When we grow up you want you will blow up you everywhere else phone number provided again if you think of the past and was just going one going to quote Pass Committee that something is a nationwide issue aside what do you want to ask ahead. Yes i wanted to stress the fact that when complaints are made it will be interesting to find out what the complaints unit has actually done to check that the detention facilities where people have reported acts of torture and who treatment how did they monitor them how did they ensure that these practices do not continue there is to be interesting to see how theyve been able to manage that secondly people who are always afraid to share information and so its important that he needs to be reassured that when they do share information they wont be reprisals and that theyre in for michel will not be shared with this him officers that they have complained about and it cant be independently investigated by a separate unit within the police i think those reassurances are not there well based on our research which culminated in the report. In twenty sixteen there were incidents that were shared with the authorities before we go to press we always shared this information to ensure the authorities can do their own investigation and can respond based on our findings and so this is this is what i really want to put out there the police needs to go beyond saying that some of these people have not given them enough information the units you have how are you money told them they give you reports have you been able to show that these reports that that this stations or these Detention Centers and not torture chambers. Its like you are reading the minds of our Community Members when you speak this is law and who says the National Police force official said on national t. V. That we as citizens should ask for identification from sars officers please how do you ask men pointing guns at you for identification also people are also reporting stories like this on twitter says let it be known that theyre now checking peoples phones to see if theyve been tweeting about the sars campaign and weve got several people who are claiming that as well you know me what do you say to these people. You see. When there was a complaint from members of the public regarding be let down phone sent by a song on professional Police Officers that was sometimes and twenty feet in been injured on police force made a press release which i pushed out at the time telling members of the public thats not the one has gone out to stop Police Officers from accessing peoples phone and if it happens reports to be made and let me also add that sometimes im twenty six in Amnesty International routes a letter to the nine to them police force requesting to b. C. Sets in detention requesting beauties of twitter by sassing whom. I need now i kind of by the talk state now and my office facilitated that b. C. Amnesty international i was given hundred percent full access for that busy but guess what what Amnesty International discovered after it obviously was not to reflect that in the reports which they published two weeks or so i made mention of and when i read this that the representative of amnesty time mission now told me that b. I am not it p r open ended when he swore that it cannot report constantly things that they have seen and that is not part of their mind it and i was like if you have if you have gone on visitation i think it is proof vests are now calling to report what you have seen and not just one thing only to force on the negative aspect somehow i still want to see what we want to believe bible reports yes he may have made that point let me ill cite. The badness. Definitely not alone mostly its him its an impartial organization and that means that we always give an opportunity to the say and to also given the least degree view of what is actually happening i would state here that if there have been incidents that have been reported to Amnesty International leave face to get that and report to that and we give an opportunity to do respective institutions to respond on those issues if they do before the report is published it is always included in the reports and in any case when we we often get this complains that people say oh you dont talk about the good things we do we actually investigate what ive been brought to our attention and then we give recommendations based on the addressed and that is the we we always work so pushing this forward a little bit our Committee Members are talking about were form thats really the big issue here me on twitter says the police should not investigate itself an external body should be the one that spearheads that reform we also got a video comment from a writer a journalist for quartz this is the only because he and this is what he told the stream. The mistrust force Law Enforcement agencies definitely goes. To force the relationship with soldiers and also we regular police men ask the question of whether they can investigate themselves or hold themselves accountable it generally really feel so when im sure its now a credit to them to put together a missionary through which you could Lodge Complaints but there are also several cases or instances where people have shared experiences about how they have lots of these complaints but havent received feedback on it hasnt been followed up on too often if it was as those hours officials and Law Enforcement agency in general tend to get away with some of these allegations now this is crucial to note because this is something that they say themselves they use language like we could throw you in jail and nothing would happen or we could shoot you and nothing would happen there is that culture of impunity and that has to go check and he says theres a culture of impunity if you had your way what kind of performance youd like to see. The actual thing is a lot of communication information is lost in translation most of our eating is the need to learn how to communicate communicate communication is a two week thing just passing on information and expecting people to understand it when you send out things people need a lot of meaning to miguel meaning of these things for example you. Realize and instructions that you can shes going to send phone number and information to a particular line feedback theres no response theres nothing to show that we received your information and its looking to form well you can have accountability well you can have transparency while you can adjust well you cannot. Acknowledgement from taking requests taking responsibility after you dont take responsibility the fans are totally out of control when they give you an instruction well ok if you plan to blow just to get you to be i was saying that theres no communication were going to put you through them as i grew up or youve lost control of events he said you have reorganized aside undersize ive become law. You know construction weve been beaten up because of. Our country isnt doing all of them think thats what you. Want when we complain we are the one drawn wrong people and we are the ones the political ones where you want that are. You know who you are before you really really it because. We no longer absolve. You from the community or you and the people then theres a problem how can we are. In a country where in period during we dont. Go there before we get people to do that big concern didnt want a long. War love like your image just said this is. Thanks it was at the end of this show i want to show you a couple of instances of where young he and his team have been Successful Police complaint three pts policemen attached to lagos state dismissed extortion four policemen dismissed from service to traffic wardens dismissed for extortion and this one here from shake shake is suggesting the police shouldnt be allowed to investigate itself my suggestion should be a name for ten invited organization like Amnesty International or even the un to help conduct the investigations because even as youre publishing and sharing your Success Stories of catching people who you say were behaving badly in this song squad your investigation yourself maybe somebody else should be investigating is that a way perhaps to get towards reform. We have outside. Our duty to our side by side. Like we are today should mark my rights commissioner we have the Police Service commission you know be happy to back home what we are really we are what we need to do and let me. Give every complaint. As a tracking number we give it will probably be out on our website we need quarterly reports every quarter and yes. Its good when we are outside of the investigation we are. Let me just remind people that if they want to make a complaint this is were up the public complaint rapid Response Unit recommends that you do they say that bell is fraser for any of the Police Officers all the money you do not have to give them money there are a whole range of ways that you can actually contact them also nonna mislay and here at the very bottom is interesting no to impunity is this actually happening in practice has this conversation going down online too short suggestion samsung size how a Police Officer be on duty without official uniform vehicle and identification first step is ensuring that they have all three and this next person says all were saying is that they should in sars and nothing more so the time we have faculty session today thank you to shag and to thats all about Online Community for being part of this conversation our conversation will continue on like using hash tag or stream. Take at. 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