A huge number of Nigerians have been rampaging for over about fourteen days to challenge police ruthlessness.

Youngsters preparing through web-based media started arranging exhibits requiring the abrogation of the government Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), which has for quite some time been blamed for unlawful captures, torment and extrajudicial killings. 

The hashtag #EndSARS has been moving in Nigeria as well as over the world for a few days. 

What is SARS? 

SARS was an extraordinary police unit set up in 1984 as Nigeria, Africa's most crowded nation, fought increasing degrees of wrongdoing and kidnappings. 

At first, it was effective in decreasing instances of fierce wrongdoing however more as of late the unit had been "transformed into banditry", as per Fulani Kwajafa, the one who set up SARS. 

In June 2020, Amnesty International delivered a report that archived at any rate 82 instances of torment, abuse and extrajudicial execution by SARS between January 2017 and May 2020. 

What set off the fights? 

The fights were started by a viral video supposedly demonstrating SARS officials executing a youngster in the southern Delta state. Specialists denied the video was genuine. 

The one who shot the video was captured, inciting significantly more outrage. 

How did the legislature react? 

Without any indications of dissenters withdrawing, President Muhammadu Buhari stepped in and disbanded the unit. 

"The disbanding of SARS is just the initial phase in our responsibility to broad police change so as to guarantee that the essential obligation of the police and other law requirement organizations remains the assurance of lives and vocation of our kin," Buhari said. 

That drew judgment from dissenters who swore to keep up their mission requesting responsibility and equity for the casualties of police severity. 

Lately, the fights have turned rough with shots discharged at demonstrators. 

On Tuesday, Amnesty said there was "trustworthy however upsetting proof" that security powers in Lagos, the nation's business capital, had taken shots at dissidents, killing them. 

Have the fights spread over the world? 

The #EndSARS fights have occurred in a few urban areas over the world including, London, Berlin, New York and Toronto. 

A few superstars like Kanye West, John Boyega, Diddy and Rihanna and Manchester United footballer Odion Ighalo have voiced their help for the nonconformists on the web. 

On Tuesday, previous US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton approached President Buhari and the Nigerian armed force "to quit killing" dissenters.