![]() In a 2016 Amnesty International report, its sheer brutality, use of torture to extract “confessions” and strings of extra-judicial killings was documented. The most dreaded unit of the police is the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). Police brutality has been an accompanying element of the militarization of politics and social life, along with a strong clientelist trend of administration. The two longest-serving presidents, including Mr Muhammadu Buhari who is currently on the saddle are retired Generals who ruled at different times as heads of military juntas in the 1970s & 1980s. But there even civil rule has been marked with militarization. The country was under military rule for thirty of its first forty years of independence, throughout the 20th century. Nigeria is the most populous country on the African continent, with just over two hundred million inhabitants. The bulk of these was at the Lekki tollgate, in Lagos state – one of the two main centres of the uprising in that mega-city where one-tenth of the country’s population resides. This sparked the #EndSARS revolt of youths in the country, which was drowned in blood with the massacre of at least 36 people on 20 October. A video of this incidence was circulated by residents of the city on WhatsApp and also posted on Twitter. On 3 October, a young man was killed by the police in Ughelli, a town in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.
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