Hundreds of Nigerians have converged on the Nigerian High Commission in Accra to back the protests calling for the abolition of a notorious police unit known as SARS and the implementation of wider reforms.
Without police permit, the youth are demanding an apology and resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari because he has completely failed.
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“We are Africans first before we became anything else. So we should recognise that fact that injustice anywhere in the world is injustice to all. We are fighting against bad governance, we are fighting against police brutality,” one protestor said.
The spokesperson of the group said they are going back to the drawing board to officially get a police permit to demonstrate. This was after they held a brief meeting with the police during the protest.
“We have started peacefully. There is not going to be any form of violence. We are not going to break into the High Commission. We are not going to threaten anybody, but we are going to raise our voices and they will hear us.”
Why are tens of thousands of Nigerians protesting?
Tens of thousands of Nigerians have been taking to the streets for more than two weeks to protest against police brutality.
Young people mobilising through social media began staging demonstrations calling for the abolition of the federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), which has long been accused of unlawful arrests, torture and extrajudicial killings.
What triggered the protests?
The protests were sparked by a viral video allegedly showing SARS officers killing a young man in the southern Delta state. Authorities denied the video was real.
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