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Nigerians got their abusive SARS police force abolished – but elation soon turned to frustration

  • Written by Samuel Fury Childs Daly, Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies, Duke University
Nigerians got their abusive SARS police force abolished – but elation soon turned to frustrationA police officer in Lagos, Nigeria, Nov. 3. Olukayode Jaiyeola/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

For a brief moment in October, it seemed that youthful protesters calling to “abolish” a police force had succeeded. After weeks of mass demonstrations against police brutality, the government agreed to disband a widely hated police unit.

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