Nigerians have reacted with outrage as suspected operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) recently killed two suspected phone thieves in Igando, Lagos.
A video of the incident went viral on Tuesday showing two suspects handcuffed to each other as an officer approaches with a third suspect.
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The man recording the video says: “You go collect, you go collect”, and immediately there is a gunshot.
The third suspect is seen in a yellow minibus also in handcuffs.
Then the suspects are ordered out of the bus.
A policeman in the vehicle pushes one of the suspects to an officer waiting to shoot.
“Leave am make I kill am,” one of the policemen says.
“Kunle, commot there make dem kill the idiot,” another officer says as two shots are fired.
A policeman then says: “God punish you! We no dey waste time.”
The man who recorded the video explained that the suspects carried out their operation on an online sales platform called Jiji.
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He said they lured their victims by promising to buy advertised phones at good prices. Afterwards, they collect the phones at gunpoint.
Nigerians, apparently displeased with the trend of extra-judicial killings by security operatives, have revived the call for the scrapping of SARS.
