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26.11.20

"SARS stray bullet killed my 3-year-old daughter," Civil Tells River State Panel



A 50 year old man has opened up on how the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad, (SARS), killed his three-year-old daughter, this is as the Rivers state Commission of Inquiry begins to entertain cases of brutality by the Nigerian Police Force in the state on Wednesday.

The petitioner, Norde Sylvester, a civil servant with the Universal Basic Education (UBE), in Rivers State, recalled that the incident occurred on October 15, 2015, while he was outside with his family at his residence in Rumuohalu, near Port Harcourt, after they were forced to go inside as a result of sporadic shootings by SARS operatives. “I picked up the bullet the next morning and in tears, I went to the SARS office. When I got there, their men at the entrance stopped me and I told them that they have killed my daughter. Two of them (operatives) got up and ordered me to go back and that if I don’t leave, I will go and join that my so called daughter. I came back in tears and went and buried the child,” he explained in tears.


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