Former Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Sunday Ehindero has eventually opened up on the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).
He said; “There is no organisation that does what we call quality control more than the police. Each year, we weed out the bad eggs, query and send them away but there will always be bad eggs in any service.”
“A bad egg will always corrupt others. So, the unit is not a bad outfit, we only have bad operators in the unit now.”
“SARS is supposed to be the teeth of the police in terms of robbery. They are to confront robbers and you know robbers are people that are difficult to handle and in most cases you have a lot of police have been killed.”
“There is a need to reform it, so that from the initial objective which birthed SARS. They have to go back and look at the initial objective.”
“I am more interested in training. The society is getting enlightened. Training has been the main problem of the police force. There’s dynamism in how the police should operate now.”
“Youths should adopt diplomatic means in championing the #EndSARS movement, considering the federal government’s response so far.”