Breaking: SWAT takes over from SARS as police deploy officers in state commands
- Members of the new special police force have been deployed
- Recall that following the EndSARS protest, the new Special Weapons and Tactics Team was formed
- They have been deployed to fight armed robberies in different formations
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More police officers have been deployed to formations across the country. This time, those deployed are operatives of the newly formed Special Weapons and Tactics Team.
This was disclosed by the minister of Police Affairs, Mohammad Dingyadi while featuring on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ programme.
Recall that the special unit was formed to replace the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad.
He said:
“They (SWAT officers) have ended their training and they have been posted to the state police commands that brought them for training. They are there with them and they are performing the functions of the SWAT.”
About 1,850 members of SWAT were later trained at the Police Mobile Force Training School, Ila Oragun, Osun State and the PMF Training School, Ende Hills, Nasarawa state.
According to Punch, the SWAT officers are deployed to fight crimes particularly robberies.
Meanwhile, elder statesman, Tanko Yakassai, has claimed that the recent EndSARS protest in some parts of the country was sponsored by politicians.
According to him, the youths were incited to do what they did. He said the youths should be told that they can agitate but not to revolt.
He insisted that the protest had leaders who were inciting them to rise against the country.
In another report, Legit.ng had reported that the Nigerian Army has told an investigating panel that soldiers who were deployed to disperse EndSARS protesters in Lagos took live rounds to the Lekki tollgate on October 20, 2020.
The commander of the 81 division of the Nigerian Army, Brigadier General Ahmed Ibrahim Taiwo, made the disclosure before the judicial panel set up to probe the incident.
The army commander, however, claimed that soldiers did not use the live rounds on the protesters.
Source: Legit.ng
