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The heartbreaking story of police brutality in Nigeria, especially by the operatives of the Awkuzu Police Division, popularly known as Awkuzu Special Anti-Robbery Squad has continued to reverberate as families still demand their loved ones arrested under the command of the retired CSP James Nwafor. There were protests by Nigerian youths in some states in October 2020 against police brutality. The protesters also called for the disbandment of SARS, a police unit notorious for extrajudicial killings and human rights violations.
Greetings, Mr. Peter Obi. I am writing you this letter with the utmost sincerity, and I urge you to accept it in good faith and address the issues raised herein. As a passionate Nigerian who is dissatisfied and angry, I have come to address you as one of those who stole our future and, rather than apologizing, you continue to lie, blackmail, and deceive innocent people in order to manipulate the future of the younger generations.
Two years after young Nigerians protested against police high-handedness across the country, there hasn’t been a significant change. All the authorities did was simply rename the rogue unit and reshuffle other police units with the same rogue operatives, basically spitting in the faces of young Nigerians, living and deceased, who demanded an end to police brutality in all forms.
The Leadership of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, on Thursday condemned in totality the linking of the name