DAILY POST
The Lagos State Police Command has reacted to the outrage over the sighting of a uniformed officer standing on the road with an assault rifle.
A photo of the operative, with an assault rifle trended on social media with Twitter users asking if the disbanded Special anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, has been remobilised.
Recall that the federal government had bowed to public outcry and disbanded the notorious police unit after the October 2020 nationwide End SARS protests that shook Nigeria.
But @AyoBankole, one Twitter user who sighted the Police officer had asked if the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) were back on duty.
“Is SARS back on Lagos roads? Or why are skinny jeans, armed robber looking, gun blazing unmarked men standing on the highway along Lekki-Epe express?” he quipped.
The tweet generated 2.4 million views, over 4,000 retweets and hundreds of comments by angry respondents; some shared similar photos and videos of assaults in states.
In response, Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin said the officer is a member of the tactical units reorganized by CP Idowu Owohunwa to tackle cultism.
The spokesperson noted that he and others were behind the recent arrest of 42 suspected cultists in a space of two weeks in different parts of Lagos.
