IANA Blog- October 2022
Happy October, For this month I wanted to take a look back at the Two-Month anniversary of the #EndSARS Movement, the social movement and series of mass protests against police brutality in Nigeria, especially of the Nigerian police force known as the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). SARS was created in 1992 to supposedly deal with crimes such as robbery, car theft, kidnapping and possession of firearms. Instead of doing that, SARS rather would be involved in blackmail, corruption, torture, illegal “Stop and searches,” too many incidents to name. There have been protests before against SARS, but I guess you can say a “turning point” came in 2020. Of course in 2020, the year that was defined by the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic, worldwide lockdowns, climate disasters, and of course, the protests and civil uprisings brought upon by the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in the U.S. The same protests and civil uprisings that didn’t just reach everywhere in the U.S., but aroun...