SARS : TACKLE THE SYSTEM NOT THE PEOPLE

SARS : TACKLE THE SYSTEM NOT THE PEOPLE

BY AGADA IKECHUKWU

In the sporting world, it is ultra vires and a total ban for a footballer to disobey the unwanted red card of the officiating referee in a football competition regardless of whether he is right or not. The footballer exists the field at the lifting of the card by the referee in obedience and loyalty to the spirit of sportsmanship and stipulated rules of sporting engagements.

Politics is made up of government and institutions. Both of them are like siamese twins that can rarely exist without each other. While government functions like an older brother, institutions takes the younger seat in most of the decision taking. Behind the government and institutions as siblings of one family is the larger masquerade; their biological parent which is boldly occupied by the masses lending credence to the office of the people as the highest office in any society.

The above scenario typifies a clinical anatomy of the love lost between the Peoples of Nigeria and MEN and Officers of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).

After listening to my friend Comrade Deji Adeyanju; the Co-Convener of #ENDSARS Campaign and the ugly experiences of Nigerians in the hands of SARS, I conclude that SARS have outlived its usefulness, overstayed their welcome and expired their tenancy in Nigeria via their actions and inactions.

Ranging from allegations of daylight robbery, illegal extortions, visiting people with hell for no valid reasons, maiming, shooting and killing innocent people arbitrarily; SARS have assumed the infamous position of a resurrected daredevil robbers and criminal elements assigned against humankind in this side of the divide.

One expected the demons remote controlling SARS to evaporate after the Inspector General of Police promptly ordered for a reform of the squad but alas; they seems to be transiting from worse to worst as reports of their nefarious activities still rents the air up till this morning.

They find not only sanctuary in indolence but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos as heroin appeases the lust of the unrepentant addicts. There is no gainsaying Men and Officers of the SARS aptly personify the proverbial indolent corrupt worker.

Perhaps, SARS was the reason the World Internal Security and Police Index International(WISPI 2016 Reports) submitted that Nigeria has the worst Police Force in the world in terms of its ability to handle internal security challenges. SARS has become a virus to the peoples of Nigeria and must be formatted. The arguments of the SARS apologists are not only comic but an irritating mockery of our democracy because it holds no water.

It is the duty of any responsible government to go the direction of her people when they are crying blue murder. I suggest and recommend a total restructuring of the police system after SARS have been disbanded in order to reactivate the faith and confidence of Nigerians in the Nigeria police force as a credible Security Agency.

The activities of the SARS are systemic and has gone on rampage. A systemic activity requires urgent and prompt systemic restructuring not redeployment, overhauling of the officers as that will only succeed in recycling the same old brigades.

SARS have obviously put their mind under lock and key in relation to Nigerians and should be done away with. As the 21-day quit notice ultimatum served on them by the #ENDSARS Campaigners expires, we expect the government of the day to be proactive in doing the needful to avoid a breakdown of law and order.

The peoples of Nigeria remains the referees in the ongoing soccer competition. They also parents the government and other institutions in Nigeria. Their decision remains paramount, Sacrosact and should be honoured because they reserve the rights to hire and fire via the ballot box.

The government should ensure that the red card notice issued on SARS takes immediate effect on the expiration of the 21-day ultimatum. Politicians should also desist from playing politics with the pains of the peoples by seizing the opportunity to settle old scores as in the Portharcourt Experience.

Nigerians have spoken unanimously via the #ENDSARS Campaign and their wish should be respected.

GOD BLESS YOU

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