Police redeploy Onipanu DPO, to try officers over harassment, illegal detention
6 years agoLagos police chief Hakeem Odumosu looks at protesters campaigning against abuses by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) at the Lekki toll Plaza in Lagos, on October 12, 2020. - Nigerians protested to pressure the government to follow through on disbanding a feared police unit after authorities made the rare concession in the face of widespread anger over abuses. Around 2,000 people blocked one of the main highways in the country's biggest city Lagos, demanding officials make good on an announcement on October 11, 2020, that the federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) was being scrapped. (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP)
Lagos State commissioner of police Hakeem Odumosu has ordered the redeployment of some police officers attached to the Onipanu station including the divisional police officer, CSP Francis Ani. The…