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@segalink @julietkego @Tutsy22 @DrJoeAbah @PoliceNG @AbdulMahmud01 @citizen_gavel @RuggedyBaba @NwangumaOkey @Intergrity56 @zeal_a @CACCOT1 @ArthurObiOkafor @bunmola2010 @NelsonJide Bravo SEGA, the immovable behemoth has finally moved. We celebrate this move away from intransigence, even as it does not go far enough. The goal #ENDSARS remains. I shall tell you why I think so

@segalink @julietkego @Tutsy22 @DrJoeAbah @PoliceNG @AbdulMahmud01 @citizen_gavel @RuggedyBaba @NwangumaOkey @Intergrity56 @zeal_a @CACCOT1 @ArthurObiOkafor @bunmola2010 @NelsonJide 1. Drawing from the lessons the protracted obduracy over this matter which the IGP has demonstrated thus far, I refuse to be taken in by this seeming volte face. It is simply not in the man's nature to blink

@segalink @julietkego @Tutsy22 @DrJoeAbah @PoliceNG @AbdulMahmud01 @citizen_gavel @RuggedyBaba @NwangumaOkey @Intergrity56 @zeal_a @CACCOT1 @ArthurObiOkafor @bunmola2010 @NelsonJide 2. The fact that Daura got sacked so ignominiously probably jolted the Police helmsman into not trifling with the AgP's orders. Reason why he acted with such immediacy on the matter. Tis primarily about self-preservation

@segalink @julietkego @Tutsy22 @DrJoeAbah @PoliceNG @AbdulMahmud01 @citizen_gavel @RuggedyBaba @NwangumaOkey @Intergrity56 @zeal_a @CACCOT1 @ArthurObiOkafor @bunmola2010 @NelsonJide 3. In sync with that egoistic quest to demonstrate that he won too, SARS have morphed into F-SARS...still retained the "SARS" for emphasis. What's that...tomato, to-may-to?

@segalink @julietkego @Tutsy22 @DrJoeAbah @PoliceNG @AbdulMahmud01 @citizen_gavel @RuggedyBaba @NwangumaOkey @Intergrity56 @zeal_a @CACCOT1 @ArthurObiOkafor @bunmola2010 @NelsonJide 4. What IF the immediate recourse is to collapse the state-level SARS outfits into F-SARS? Surely, that is not the goal. What has happened is "amalgamation" & "change of reporting relationships". That does not go far enough

@segalink @julietkego @Tutsy22 @DrJoeAbah @PoliceNG @AbdulMahmud01 @citizen_gavel @RuggedyBaba @NwangumaOkey @Intergrity56 @zeal_a @CACCOT1 @ArthurObiOkafor @bunmola2010 @NelsonJide That's the preamble. Here's what I think would represent a purposeful move in the right direction...

@segalink @julietkego @Tutsy22 @DrJoeAbah @PoliceNG @AbdulMahmud01 @citizen_gavel @RuggedyBaba @NwangumaOkey @Intergrity56 @zeal_a @CACCOT1 @ArthurObiOkafor @bunmola2010 @NelsonJide 1. A complete disbandment of all state-level SARS outfits as they exist today. Last week I met a cop who said he was from SARS at Mpape, FCT. He described himself as the one responsible for slashing suspects' Achilles tendons there. That's his gory trademark

@segalink @julietkego @Tutsy22 @DrJoeAbah @PoliceNG @AbdulMahmud01 @citizen_gavel @RuggedyBaba @NwangumaOkey @Intergrity56 @zeal_a @CACCOT1 @ArthurObiOkafor @bunmola2010 @NelsonJide 2.They have to expunge that name "SARS" from Police lexicon since its sadistic legacy is a ghost which shall continue to haunt many an unfortunate but innocent Nigerian who has been subjected to some of their godless antics.

@segalink @julietkego @Tutsy22 @DrJoeAbah @PoliceNG @AbdulMahmud01 @citizen_gavel @RuggedyBaba @NwangumaOkey @Intergrity56 @zeal_a @CACCOT1 @ArthurObiOkafor @bunmola2010 @NelsonJide 3. The sheer levels of impunity which the SARS have unfurled on Nigeria ever since I first heard about them in 1997 on acct of their gory antics at the Area F Command, Ikeja, assures me that SARS are beyond anyone's reformative touch

@segalink @julietkego @Tutsy22 @DrJoeAbah @PoliceNG @AbdulMahmud01 @citizen_gavel @RuggedyBaba @NwangumaOkey @Intergrity56 @zeal_a @CACCOT1 @ArthurObiOkafor @bunmola2010 @NelsonJide 4. Let the Police come up with a rigorous scheme of tests and evaluation which shall ensure the following...

@segalink @julietkego @Tutsy22 @DrJoeAbah @PoliceNG @AbdulMahmud01 @citizen_gavel @RuggedyBaba @NwangumaOkey @Intergrity56 @zeal_a @CACCOT1 @ArthurObiOkafor @bunmola2010 @NelsonJide a. That only cops who have served for a minimum of 5 years in the force and who have earned at least two mentions in their PERs for good conduct and civility in community relations are allowed to get into what replaces SARS

@segalink @julietkego @Tutsy22 @DrJoeAbah @PoliceNG @AbdulMahmud01 @citizen_gavel @RuggedyBaba @NwangumaOkey @Intergrity56 @zeal_a @CACCOT1 @ArthurObiOkafor @bunmola2010 @NelsonJide b. not a few members of SARS as constituted today are suspected to be abusers of controlled substances.Let the Police come up with medical tests to foreclose the entry of such inebriated cops - typically trigger-happy, into whatever takes the place of SARS

@segalink @julietkego @Tutsy22 @DrJoeAbah @PoliceNG @AbdulMahmud01 @citizen_gavel @RuggedyBaba @NwangumaOkey @Intergrity56 @zeal_a @CACCOT1 @ArthurObiOkafor @bunmola2010 @NelsonJide c. SARS as constituted today have become everything from a scourge on the psyche of their compatriots to debt collectors. They have no respect for human rights - beating, slapping and even blasting away at their victims' limbs. Sadly, these loose cannons are omnipresent

@segalink @julietkego @Tutsy22 @DrJoeAbah @PoliceNG @AbdulMahmud01 @citizen_gavel @RuggedyBaba @NwangumaOkey @Intergrity56 @zeal_a @CACCOT1 @ArthurObiOkafor @bunmola2010 @NelsonJide d. Let the Police come up with a plan for a SARS desk in each of Nigeria's 360 federal constituencies and a mandatory removal of their purported "stop-and-search" checkpoints on our roads. They are merely "toll collection" points for rogue elements within the SARS

@segalink @julietkego @Tutsy22 @DrJoeAbah @PoliceNG @AbdulMahmud01 @citizen_gavel @RuggedyBaba @NwangumaOkey @Intergrity56 @zeal_a @CACCOT1 @ArthurObiOkafor @bunmola2010 @NelsonJide e. Lemme raise an early alert here: the Police have another wayfaring band of cops - the Police Anti Car Theft Unit - often seen on Abuja's roads...same modus as SARS - unkempt, aggressive and bleary-eyed

@segalink @julietkego @Tutsy22 @DrJoeAbah @PoliceNG @AbdulMahmud01 @citizen_gavel @RuggedyBaba @NwangumaOkey @Intergrity56 @zeal_a @CACCOT1 @ArthurObiOkafor @bunmola2010 @NelsonJide f. We must therefore be careful not to move from SARS to PACTU..both being, in my opinion, fingers of the same leprous hand. Let's not flee from one and run into another. Both need to be reinvented in tandem or our policing problems shall continue

@segalink @julietkego @Tutsy22 @DrJoeAbah @PoliceNG @AbdulMahmud01 @citizen_gavel @RuggedyBaba @NwangumaOkey @Intergrity56 @zeal_a @CACCOT1 @ArthurObiOkafor @bunmola2010 @NelsonJide 5a. The Police have to come up with a plan which is not entirely pivoted on identifying "suspects" or "criminals" by asking them to produce ID cards of any sort. It is merely another loophole which the SARS are exploiting ruthlessly

@segalink @julietkego @Tutsy22 @DrJoeAbah @PoliceNG @AbdulMahmud01 @citizen_gavel @RuggedyBaba @NwangumaOkey @Intergrity56 @zeal_a @CACCOT1 @ArthurObiOkafor @bunmola2010 @NelsonJide 5b. In a situation whereby the completion rate on National ID cards is below 5% & all 3 tiers of govt+corporations do not employ 5% of Nigerians, it borders on insanity for anyone to continually insist on having our youth produce ID cards.

@segalink @julietkego @Tutsy22 @DrJoeAbah @PoliceNG @AbdulMahmud01 @citizen_gavel @RuggedyBaba @NwangumaOkey @Intergrity56 @zeal_a @CACCOT1 @ArthurObiOkafor @bunmola2010 @NelsonJide 5c. "Can I see your ID card?" can now no longer suffice for the primary method of telling a law-abiding Nigerian from a criminal, whether or not they are able to provide one. Blame it on the failure of our system. Even national ID cards, NIMC seemingly can't deliver

@segalink @julietkego @Tutsy22 @DrJoeAbah @PoliceNG @AbdulMahmud01 @citizen_gavel @RuggedyBaba @NwangumaOkey @Intergrity56 @zeal_a @CACCOT1 @ArthurObiOkafor @bunmola2010 @NelsonJide 5d. What has thus far been happening is that rogue elements within SARS and the Police at large have been exploiting this lacuna to get hapless youth hurled into detention and then such persons are obliged to bail themselves for a FEE. Quote me - BAIL NEVER was free in Nigeria

@segalink @julietkego @Tutsy22 @DrJoeAbah @PoliceNG @AbdulMahmud01 @citizen_gavel @RuggedyBaba @NwangumaOkey @Intergrity56 @zeal_a @CACCOT1 @ArthurObiOkafor @bunmola2010 @NelsonJide 5e. The SARS have made illicit hay for so long now by simply getting onto the streets & rounding up hapless Nigerians who are unable to flash ID cards. That now has to come to a halt cos the rot all starts from those minor details. "Na from clap dem dey enta dance". ENOUGH..

@segalink @julietkego @Tutsy22 @DrJoeAbah @PoliceNG @AbdulMahmud01 @citizen_gavel @RuggedyBaba @NwangumaOkey @Intergrity56 @zeal_a @CACCOT1 @ArthurObiOkafor @bunmola2010 @NelsonJide 5f. IF this does not change, it means that the system wilfully asks our beleaguered youth for ID cards -mission impossible for MOST - with a view to having them fleeced off given the assurance that most will not be able to meet this "crucial marker" & so they get arrested

@segalink @julietkego @Tutsy22 @DrJoeAbah @PoliceNG @AbdulMahmud01 @citizen_gavel @RuggedyBaba @NwangumaOkey @Intergrity56 @zeal_a @CACCOT1 @ArthurObiOkafor @bunmola2010 @NelsonJide 5g. "Show me your ID card" is the longest-running meal ticket which has been unwittingly made available to generations of exploitative cops. If we are changing the paradigms, it has to begin from there. It is now a tired trick

@segalink @julietkego @Tutsy22 @DrJoeAbah @PoliceNG @AbdulMahmud01 @citizen_gavel @RuggedyBaba @NwangumaOkey @Intergrity56 @zeal_a @CACCOT1 @ArthurObiOkafor @bunmola2010 @NelsonJide 6. Let our cops desist from the dehumanising habit of sitting in their trucks and pointing their rifles at Nigerians in passing traffic. It is crude, rude and objectionable..the highest manifestation of disrespect for the people. We can't all bear arms in the name of the State

@segalink @julietkego @Tutsy22 @DrJoeAbah @PoliceNG @AbdulMahmud01 @citizen_gavel @RuggedyBaba @NwangumaOkey @Intergrity56 @zeal_a @CACCOT1 @ArthurObiOkafor @bunmola2010 @NelsonJide 7. The Police now need to also quit telling us ridiculous lies - the apex of which aimed to posit that the church massacres in Benue were perpetrated by Benue people..a gratuitous insult on our intelligence as Nigerians. Such divisive lies CAN'T endear the Police to the citizenry

@segalink @julietkego @Tutsy22 @DrJoeAbah @PoliceNG @AbdulMahmud01 @citizen_gavel @RuggedyBaba @NwangumaOkey @Intergrity56 @zeal_a @CACCOT1 @ArthurObiOkafor @bunmola2010 @NelsonJide It is unfortunate that whereas Ag. DCP Jimoh Moshood is trying to move away from wilfully aggravating communication, ACP Abayomi Sogunle insists on maintaining that belligerent note+tone which alienates people. Let's see a new vista in police PR.