▪︎Says #EndSARS made our generation proud
Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, said on Saturday that the Western Nigeria Security Network, ( aka Amotekun) should be frequently trained to build their capacity and prevent them from turning into another special anti-robbery squad (SARS).
He spoke in an interview on Arise TV during which he reviewed the recent #EndSARS protests and concluded that the #EndSARS movement made “our generation proud”.
He made his remarks in response to the arrest, detention and prosecution of Omoyele Sowore in a Magistrate Court, Abuja, by the Police for a peaceful protest he embarked on along with others on the New Year Eve in Abuja.
Speaking on community policing and Amotekun, he declared that “Community policing like, Amotekun, is a recognition of the fact that the civic part of the entire national polity has got to wake up in not just its own defence but survival.
“I have told them anytime you want us to come and assist, we will come even if it is just on the ethical session so that as you are training them to defend us, we are also training their minds so that Amotekun does not become another SARS, very important. We must do everything together.
“It is about time the public examined itself; what are we made up of? Are there those among us who, if they got into power, will behave exactly as those kinds of agencies which we are repudiating and against which we are protesting?
“There is absolutely no excuse for the brutality that occurred in the wake of the noise, rumour, reality of people being shot at the Lekki tollgate.”
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