{"id":19039,"date":"2020-10-10T07:16:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T06:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/experts.ng\/blog\/?p=19039"},"modified":"2020-10-10T11:25:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T10:25:04","slug":"buhari-end-sars-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.experts.ng\/blog\/buhari-end-sars-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Find Out What Buhari Has to Say on The #EndsarsNow Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap dropcapp3 wp-block-paragraph\">President Buhari has reacted to the Endsars demonstration going all around Lagos in protest of the highhandedness of the Nigerian police tactical force, SARS (The Special Anti Robbery Squad). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His reaction came as a backdrop to that of the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing, through her verified Twitter handle, where she noted that- &#8220;Peaceful protests are powerful&#8221;. She further opined that the police reforms act recently passed by President Buhari should provide a good foundation for transparency and accountability for the police force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Buhari mentioned that he again met with the IGP of police lastnight, and noted that his administration&#8217;s resolve and determination to reform the Nigeria Police Force should not be in doubt. He therefore, instructed the IGP to conclusively address the concerns of Nigerians on Police brutality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In his words:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The IG already has my firm instructions  to conclusively address the concerns of Nigerians regarding these excesses, &amp; ensure erring personnel are brought to justice. I appeal for patience &amp; calm, even as Nigerians freely exercise their right to peacefully make their views known.<\/p>&mdash; Muhammadu Buhari (@MBuhari) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MBuhari\/status\/1314667886435356673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 9, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-endsars-and-the-future-of-the-nigerian-youths\"><strong>EndSARS, and the Future of the Nigerian Youths<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/experts.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/endsars-600x800.jpg\" alt=\"Endsars\" class=\"wp-image-19040\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.experts.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/endsars.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.experts.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/endsars-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.experts.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/endsars-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.experts.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/endsars-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.experts.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/endsars-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.experts.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/endsars-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.experts.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/endsars-696x928.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.experts.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/endsars-1068x1424.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.experts.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/endsars-315x420.jpg 315w, https:\/\/www.experts.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/endsars-630x840.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.experts.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/endsars-640x853.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It seems in the eyes of Nigeria\u2019s police, any young man with a laptop, smartphone and an internet connection is likely a fraudster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Such profiling has no bearing in reality, of course. It\u2019s merely a crude extortion tactic that has fueled a long-running racket. Here\u2019s how it often goes: the young person is stopped on suspicion, then arrested and detained followed up being hit with bogus accusations of being an internet fraudster.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In those circumstances, the options are usually paying bribes to regain freedom or facing an uncertain future decided by Nigeria\u2019s broken criminal justice system which has left 72% of prison inmates serving time without a sentence &#8211;&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/africa\/1718785\/nigerias-tech-industry-crowdfunds-legal-push-to-endsars-police\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Source<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunately, such barbaric acts by the police Special Anti Robbery squad has left its mark on the Nigerian youth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a country with a majority <a href=\"https:\/\/experts.ng\/blog\/nigerian-mentalities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">youth<\/a> population, such menace, if left unchecked would indeed put the future of the country and indeed that of her youth at risk. A future that may not guarantee that the youth are able to effectively compete online, yet other nations are doing all possible to <a href=\"https:\/\/experts.ng\/blog\/youth-empowerment-in-nigeria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">empower her youth<\/a> by ensuring their widespread digital inclusion, globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s truly high time that the Nigerian police ends her SARS unit and do a complete overhaul of her system. There is a need for a complete culture overhaul of the Nigerian police force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Buhari has reacted to the Endsars demonstration going all around Lagos in protest of the highhandedness of the Nigerian police tactical force, SARS (The Special Anti Robbery Squad). His reaction came as a backdrop to that of the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing, through her verified Twitter handle, where she noted that- [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_3899566575_3899566575":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,2666,3341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-legal","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experts.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experts.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experts.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experts.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experts.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.experts.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experts.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experts.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experts.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experts.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}