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Police brutality tackled after social media outcry

Publish date: 11 December 2017
Issue Number: 755
Diary: IBA Legalbrief Africa
Category: Nigeria

Nigeria's police chief has ordered an immediate restructuring of the country’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad after a social media outcry over alleged police brutality. On Sunday last week, a video was posted on Twitter showing an angry mob chasing after a black van, allegedly transporting officers fleeing the scene after allegedly killing a man. An online petition was launched calling for the unit to be disbanded. BBC News reports that Inspector-General Ibrahim Idris later ordered an ‘instant investigation into all the allegations, complaints and infractions levelled against the personnel of the Special Anti Robbery Squad across the country’.

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