Shall we create a thread that catalogues alleged police brutality incidents in Nigeria?
Please reply this tweet with any incident you have personally experienced, come across on your timeline or seen anywhere else on the Internet.
#EndSARs #ReformPolice
Please reply this tweet with any incident you have personally experienced, come across on your timeline or seen anywhere else on the Internet.
#EndSARs #ReformPolice
Joseph Eidonijie Ugbeni https://twitter.com/_diGREAT/status/1314462193744658432?s=19
Ifeoma Abugu
FCT SARS https://twitter.com/MobilePunch/status/1311223154547847169?s=19
FCT SARS https://twitter.com/MobilePunch/status/1311223154547847169?s=19
Chibuike Daniel Ikeaguchi https://twitter.com/NigeriaInfoPH/status/1308284908134047744?s=19
This thread - Tiamiyu Kazeem (Footballer) Tunde Nafiu
Kolade Johnson https://twitter.com/_diGREAT/status/1314454919089250304?s=19
Kolade Johnson https://twitter.com/_diGREAT/status/1314454919089250304?s=19
Anita Akapson (31) - 2018 https://punchng.com/police-killing-of-anita-akapson-indefensible/
Linda Angela Igwetu (23) - 2018 https://punchng.com/policeman-allegedly-kills-abuja-nysc-member-a-day-to-passing-out/
Ifeanyi Ozor, Chinedu Meniru, Augustina Arebu, Anthony Nwokike, Paulinus Ogbonna and Ekene Isaac Mgbe
Killed because Augustina allegedly turned down the advance of a police officer. https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/271569-justice-denied-remembering-apo-six-victims-13-years-after.html
Killed because Augustina allegedly turned down the advance of a police officer. https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/271569-justice-denied-remembering-apo-six-victims-13-years-after.html
Unidentified youth, Ajah, Lagos - 2019 https://guardian.ng/news/again-sars-officials-kill-one-in-lagos/
Earlier in the year, @AmnestyNigeria issues report accusing SARS of 82 instances of torture, ill treatment and extra-judicial execution between January 2017 and May 2020 https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/399892-despite-violations-nigeria-failed-to-prosecute-any-sars-officer-in-three-years-amnesty.html
33 yo Fuel Attendant - SARS Awkuzu - 2015 ( @AmnestyNigeria report)
In 2015, @PoliceNG split SARS into different units to check abuses. DID NOT WORK. The first 2 quarters of 2016, @PoliceNG_CRU received 143 reports against SARS Officers https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/187989-police-ig-splits-anti-robbery-squad-sars-to-check-abuses.html
#EndSARS in 2018. The stories that fueled the protest https://www.stearsng.com/article/endsars-the-stories-behind-the-nigeria-protests
Unidentified Victim, Ikeja FSARS, Lagos - 2018 https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2018/04/10/sars-brutality-allegedly-claims-one-as-police-mediate-in-another-case/
Emeka Ojinze (23) - 2017
https://twitter.com/Mycheta/status/943926258798415872?s=20

Richard Peter Gora (22) - Only child (2018) - Kaduna https://www.naijagbedu.com/photos-22-year-old-only-child-allegedly-tortured-to-death-by-sars-operatives-laid-to-rest-in-kaduna/
Ademola Moshood (34) allegedly over N200. https://punchng.com/lagos-family-seeks-inspectors-conviction-for-killing-legion-officer/
Extra judicial murder - 2 unidentified Nigerians (Captured on video) - 2019 https://www.icirnigeria.org/sars-suspected-phone-thieves/
An "encounter" with police in Lagos triggers severe asthma attack. Thankfully, officers involved were dismissed... but what happened next? https://twitter.com/YomiShogunle/status/1005343980685549575?s=20
The @NhrcNigeria report documents 18 extra judicial killings in just two weeks of #COVID19 lockdown in Nigeria. @NBCNews reports: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/nigerians-push-end-police-brutality-after-global-george-floyd-protests-n1237629
"I KILLED YOUR SON AND NOTHING WILL HAPPEN"
Chijioke Iloanya (28) Awkuzu https://ab-tc.com/i-killed-your-son-nothing-will-happen-awkuzu-sars-officer/
Chijioke Iloanya (28) Awkuzu https://ab-tc.com/i-killed-your-son-nothing-will-happen-awkuzu-sars-officer/
Ismaila Anyila - Osogbo, August 2020 https://dailytrust.com/sars-operatives-robbed-killed-my-son
PH Journalist @Kofi_Bartels beaten and brutalized but most thankfully not killed - 2019 https://cpj.org/2019/06/nigerian-journalist-kofi-bartels-says-police-beat/
Unidentified Nigerian - beaten and assaulted because he allegedly refused SARS access to his phone: https://twitter.com/GossipMillNaija/status/1116617679375228934?s=20