Nigerians have reacted with outrage as suspected operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) recently killed two suspected phone thieves in Igando, Lagos.
A video of the incident went viral on Tuesday showing two suspects handcuffed to each other as an officer approaches with a third suspect.
The man recording the video says: “You go collect, you go collect”, and immediately there is a gunshot.
The third suspect is seen in a yellow minibus also in handcuffs.
Then the suspects are ordered out of the bus.A policeman in the vehicle pushes one of the suspects to an officer waiting to shoot.
“Leave am make I kill am,” one of the policemen says.
“Kunle, commot there make dem kill the idiot,” another officer says as two shots are fired.
A policeman then says: “God punish you! We no dey waste time.”
The man who recorded the video explained that the suspects carried out their operation on an online sales platform called Jiji.
He said they lured their victims by promising to buy advertised phones at good prices. Afterwards, they collect the phones at gunpoint.
Nigerians, apparently displeased with the trend of extra-judicial killings by security operatives, have revived the call for the scrapping of SARS.
