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States’ Judicial Panel Submit #EndSARS Reports
In what was tagged to be a non-partisan solidarity demonstration against excessive abuse of authority, Nigeria youths in October 2020 championed a nationwide protest demanding the dissolution of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) over its extra-judicial brutalities against the youth. Although the protest started in 2016 when Nigerian activists, youths and celebrities signed a petition…
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EndSARS: An Insight On How The Protest Was Funded
The EndSARS protest first began as a social movement that called for the disbanding of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), a notorious unit of the Nigerian Police with a long record of abuses. From its inception in 2017, the movement gathered about 28 million tweets with the hashtag #ENDSARS on Twitter alone. In October 2020, the movement started a series of mass protests…