POLICE PRO: #EndSars campaign overhyped by social media

The Police Public Relations Officer, Zone 2, comprising Ogun and Lagos State, Dolapo Badmus has added her voice to the viral #EndSars campaign which has taken social media by storm.

According to Dolapo Badmos, a Chief Superintendent of Police in an interview with Vanguard, the #EndSars campaign has been overhyped a cross all platforms by social media users.

In the interview Badmos said; “Badmos said, ‘the issue of this squad called Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, and its operational model has been over flooded basically on the social media platforms. The #EndSARS# started with a group of individuals that, due to their own personal experience or encounter with the operation, started the campaign. They propelled it with social media, escalating the whole issue negatively’.

Speaking on what the main duty of SARS operatives should be, she said; “from the name, it is simple. Their duty is to combat violent crime in the society. So far, they are doing what is expected of them and also doing it well. They have been able to combat serious crimes. At least in the Lagos and Ogun State zone that I cover, there are notable incidents they successfully tackled. There’s this notorious criminal called TK in Lagos who terrorised banks and killed people around 2015 and thereabout. His reign of terror was very fierce. The SARS unit was able to bring him down. Since then, bank robbery has reduced under SARS’ watchful eyes.

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“Another one was the case of Evans the kidnapper and the kidnapping era. With all his sophisticated model of operation, SARS subdued him and others. Now, with all these laudable deeds by SARS, no one has come up to say, improve SARS and its personnel. Nobody had also brought up #ThankyouSARS# campaign, but for a little blunder which we are also fighting to curtail within the organization, everyone is screaming ‘EndSARS.’ There are other crimes they are preventing from happening proactively,” she added.

Her commenst on the #EndSars campaign is coming a day after rapper YCEE slammed assistant commissioner of police Yomi Shogunle for trying to shut down the campaign.

YCEE spared now words after the assistant commissioner of police who is not liked by many Nigerians took to Twitter to discredit the #EndSars campaign calling on his followers on Twitter to go against the movement.

Shogunle who has been against the #EndSars movement posted on his Twitter account saying; ‘186 million Retweets to #EndSARS. Oya let’s go!’.
In his brutal reply, YCEE replied saying; ‘You’re a hot pile of trash. I pray God blesses you with long life to see an effective Nigerian police force without the likes of officers like you sir’.

 

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