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Political activist and publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, has said the police brutalised him and broke his nose in the name of arresting him on New Year’s eve.
Speaking to journalists in court, where he was charged for public disturbance on Monday, Sowore also said the government had not ended the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, as he taken to their abattoir office after his arrest in Abuja.
Sowore, who was arraigned at a Wuse Zone II Magistrate Court also said that the brutality of citizens by security operatives has not ended.
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He said, “The policemen that were brought to the place of the protest were beating people and I came down from my car where I was covering the protest to stop them from beating people.
“They pounced on me, and broke my nose. It was carried out by a mobile police officer who loaded about seven vehicles with mobile police officers well armed.”
He said, “It was an attempt to stop him from terrorising Nigerians in view of #EndSARS protest and the position of the country on police brutality that they pounced on me and broke my nose.
When they took me to their Abattoir, I discovered that the Nigerian government has not ended SARS. They mobilised SARS to beat us up and force us into detention.”
