A retired Commissioner of Police,
Fulani Kwajafa, has expressed regrets for establishing the Special Anti-Robbery
Squad of the Nigeria Police Force.
The excesses of the unit
notorious for human rights violation has sparked protests across Nigeria for
over one week now with demonstators demanding a reform of the entire police
system.
Kwajafa while speaking in an
interview with BBC Hausa said the unit had completey derailed from its founding
objectives.'
He said, “My name is Fulani Kwajafa. I entered the Nigeria Police Force in 1984. Then robbery was prevalent, this was why Buhari was Head of State. He (Buhari) got a lot of complaint that people were stealing from each other, robbing people — he told me and Mr Inyang, the then IGP, that we must do something about it or be fired.
“Mr Inyang called me and told me
to come up with a plan to save the country from thieves, so I said okay. I told
him to give me his trust, resources and officers to start work.
“After four months of creating
SARS, there was peace, those who were not caught ran, and those who were caught
were sent to prison.
“This thing frustrates me, there
is no reason why because someone commits a crime that the person should be
killed. There are laws and no one will give an order that if you see armed
robbers kill the person.
“I have been hearing
disheartening news, to the extent that I have thought to myself that it seems
among the SARS officials, there are armed robbers.
“This is not why we created SARS,
the reason is completely different, this is not the purpose. In fact, when I am
mentioned as the creator of SARS, I feel ashamed. It’s a thing of regret for
me.
“If I had known it would be like
this, I wouldn’t have created it because people who know when I established the
unit always say to be, is it not Kwajafa’s baby? But this is not what I
birthed, it has been changed.”
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