Jimoh Moshood, force public
relations officer, says “mischievous” politicians are behind the #EndSARS
campaign.
Over the weekend, Nigerians took
to the social media to condemn the “careless” disregard for human lives by the
operatives of the special anti-robbery squad (SARS).
But speaking on Sunrise Daily, a
Channels Television programme, Moshood said Jega Awosanya Segun, the alleged
originator of the hashtag, is under investigation.
He alleged that Segun had links
to some unnamed politicians.
“Somebody who had an ulterior
motive put up #EndSARS, Nigerians should be mindful because the social media is
very porous,” Moshood.
“We traced the hashtag and traced
it to mischievous politicians that are trying to create problem in the system
that SARS is a stumbling block for them to achieve objective in the election
and we are investigating this.
“The owner of the hashtag is
being investigated. We know freedom of expression is the right of every
Nigerian and we are taking people up because of that.
“It is quite unfortunate, I’m not
mentioning any name but this same Jega Awosanya Segun is the owner of the
hastag and we have seen his picture with various crop of politicians and we are
investigating that for Nigerians to know the reason why.”
He said SARS “is not a killing
machine” as “it was created to deal with cases of robbery and any other case
the offender carries firearm”.
Moshood said: “SARS is been doing
very very well. We are not saying that there is no infraction, if there is an
infrcation, not only on SARS personnel but conventional policemen – people
should report to us.
“We want to disabuse their minds
that SARS should be ended. But when you have complain, complain to us. For a lot
of people pushing their remarks on social media, most of them are not correct.”
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