Nigeria: Intersociety - SARS Killed 30,400 in Police Cells Since 2004

28 October 2020

A human rights advocacy and research, group, the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety), yesterday said 30, 400 people were allegedly killed by the disbanded Special Armed Robbery Squad (SARS) across the country.

But the Nigerian Police queried the group's source of data, insisting that panels of inquiry had already been set up in different states and would rather wait for the outcome of the inquisition.

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