Rapper, Ruggedman who has been the only celebrity championing the cause of stopping SARs and police brutality is collaborating with the new commander
Rapper, Ruggedman who has been the only celebrity championing the cause of stopping SARs and police brutality is collaborating with the new commander of SARS, Lagos State, Peter Gana to rid the streets of this growing menace by helping citizens identify Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) impersonators.
SARS, a division of the Nigeria police, has gained a reputation for harassing, torturing, and extorting Nigerians willfully with no respite in sight despite victims speaking out with video proofs of harassment and extortion.
According to the rapper who also has a lothing line, September 20th, “He [Peter Gana] said a lot of people have been impersonating and carrying out terrible acts as SARS officials and he showed me how to spot fake SARS. So I thought to share them with my people,” Ruggedman said in an Instagram post.
Here are his tips on how to identify fake SARS officials.
- The real sars have a Red scorpion on their cap and jacket with the number 039 on them.
- Sars units are only allocated 2 riffles. So any group of alleged sars officials you see with more than 2 riffles are fake.
But according to him, he told the police that
1. Without a proper uniform, anybody (including armed robbers) can buy black t-shirts and print sars on them.
2. They need proper mode of identification e.g. name/number badge to make tracing their station easy.
3. Since they are a special unit with so much negativity around them at the moment, it’s best to get them off the streets for now (unless when a special crime is happening) because the brutalisation, extortion, kidnapping and unlawful arrests of innocent Nigerians is too much.
“We don’t have a problem with them dealing with confirmed criminals, but treating innocent Nigerians like animals is turning the country into a ticking time bomb,” he concluded.
