The protest against police brutality and extra-judicial killings in the country has spanned to the third day with youth occupying the entrance of Lagos State House of Assembly Complex.
Poetasters, some of who slept at the entrance of the complex demanded an immediate response and immediate disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) operatives.
The youths decried the several occasions harassment encountered in the hands of SARS operatives and the rate at which young Nigerians are being killed.
Reacting to this, the lawmaker represents Surulere Constituency, Desmond Elliot, during the discussion of the demands of the campaigners said, “It has gone beyond having hotlines or doing reforms. We really need to look into it. Nigeria Police are working for the people. If the (SARS) unit is working for the people and the people are calling for it to be disbanded, then let us do what they are saying.”
The Deputy Speaker in his contribution called on the Senate to institute a public probe on the extrajudicial killings of innocent Nigerian youths.
End SARS protests were held in various locations across Nigeria on Wednesday, however, while many thought the noontime demonstrations would be all for the day, a group of young people led by Mr Debo Adebayo, a comedian popularly known as Mr Macaroni, stormed the premises of the Lagos Assembly, asking that the lawmakers pass legislation that will see to the disbandment of the SARS unit in the Nigeria Police Force (NPF).
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