One of the children of Pastor Enoch Adeboye, Leke Adeboye, is set to hold a prayer protest as solidarity from the church in the ongoing nationwide protest tagged #EndSARS against police brutality, gross human right abuse and extortion.
In a post sighted on the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God RCCG son’s Instagram handle, he announced that there will be a peaceful intercessory prayer movement in Redemption camp on Friday.
He also urged Christian youths who would be participating in the protest to kindly come with their face mask as they would be keeping to COVID-19 guidelines while protesting.
Kemi Filani News recalls that Nigerian Youths have continued protests tagged #EndSARS against the gross human rights abuse, including extrajudicial killings, intimidation and harassment of citizens, by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad.
This is coming after the dissolution of the SARS unit by the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, on Sunday.
Over the past week, young Nigerians have ramped up widespread protests—online and offline—against rampant brutality by local police.
The core of the protests have included a call for the government of president Muhammadu Buhari is to scrap SARS, a notorious “special” police unit designated to combat armed robbery but is largely known instead for blatant extortion and in some cases, extra-judicial killings.
SARS officers typically target and detain young men by accusing them of being online fraudsters, simply on the evidence of owning a laptop or smartphone, and then request arbitrary and exorbitant bail fees before they regain their freedom.
In more extreme cases, SARS officers abduct civilian targets and force them to make withdrawals at an ATM in exchange for their freedom, sometimes at gunpoint.
The unit also targets young women as well, often claiming, again with scant evidence, they are prostitutes, which is illegal in some parts of Nigeria. There have also been several reports of women being sexually assaulted while in detention.
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