Convener of #revolutionnow, Omoyele Sowore, has announced that there will be a nationwide protest against the ill-treatment of the operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS) against young Nigerians.
Sowore made this known on twitter on Sunday, October 4.
In his tweet, he said, ”We are going to have a massive nationwide action for #EndSARS who is on board?”
He disclosed the locations to be Police state head quarters in Lagos and Abuja.
He wrote, ”Locations: @PoliceNG state headquarters in Lagos. Lagos has the most brutal longest-running killer #SARS in Nigeria @PoliceNGForce Headquarters in Abuja and all State Police Hqs will by fully #Occupy until SARS is disbanded and totally dismantled! #RevolutionNow @AmnestyNigeria”
Meanwhile, Daybreak reports that some politicians and Nigerian celebrities have reacted to gruesome killing of Nigerians by SARS.
In a tweet on Saturday, October 3, Former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, described the killings as disheartening.
Locations: @PoliceNG state headquarters in Lagos. Lagos has the most brutal longest-running killer #SARS in Nigeria@PoliceNG Force Headquarters in Abuja and all State Police Hqs will by fully #Occupy until SARS is disbanded and totally dismantled! #RevolutionNow @AmnestyNigeria
— Omoyele Sowore (@YeleSowore) October 4, 2020
We are going to have a massive nationwide action for #EndSARS who is on board?
— Omoyele Sowore (@YeleSowore) October 4, 2020
The reports of the continued harassment, illegal arrest, detention and high handedness by rogue cells of the SARS Unit of @PoliceNG against innocent Nigerians – most of them young people – in spite of efforts to reform the Police & raise standards of policing, are disheartening.
— Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki (@bukolasaraki) October 3, 2020