Redeploy Rivers’ SARS commander, Akin Fakorede now – Youths group

Pressure has intensified on the call for the withdrawal of the Commander of the Anti-Robbery Squad in Rivers state, CSP Akin Fakorede.

The latest call is coming from youths drawn from different groups in the state who staged a protest in Port Harcourt.

The youths who spoke with newsmen said activities of SARS were constituting security threats in the state.

They threatened to take drastic actions if Fakorede is not redeployed from Rivers State.

The protesters marched through some majors streets in Port Harcourt with placards that read, “Akin Fakorede has turned SARS into something else”, ” IGP rise up to the occasion, Akin Fakorede must go”, “The activities of Akin Fakorede is creating bad image for the Nigerian Police”, amongst others.

Coordinator of the group, Comrade Omachi Michael Chinasa, accused the SARS Commander, Akin Fakorede, of being incapable of handling operatives under him.

He said, “We want to state that the SARS Commander, Akin Fakorede is incapable of handling his men. We are being humiliated; our people are being killed. Our people have been raped and at the end of the day, the will come back and say it is our people that raped our people. Meanwhile, it is SARS people that are raping our people.

“The go with different kind of drugs in their pockets and go to search people’s houses. At the end of the day, they plant the drugs in people’s houses. They will plant those exhibits and arrest those people. They will deal with those people and at the end of the day, you bail yourself with hundreds of thousands of naira in our state. We will no longer allow it.

“For the sake of time, what we are saying today is that let the Federal Government, especially the President, Buhari, to come to our aid. Let the Inspector-General of Police come to our aid.”

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