Thankfully, the media took up the news and social media was on outburst concerning the death of Mr. Kolade Johnson. 

The young man who was out watching a match between Liverpool and Tottenham last Sunday was killed by SARS officials who stormed Olu Aboderin Street, Onipetesi, where Kolade John was. 

Reports has it that the Lagos Police Command have commenced an orderly trial of the two SARS officials that killed Kolade Johnson. 

The officers who will be trialed are Inspector Ogunyemi Olaekan and Sergeant Godwin Orji of the Special Anti-Cultism Squad. 

However, the Commissioner of Police Lagos State, Zubairu Mu’azu on Tuesday, paid a condolence visit to the family of the deceased Kolade Johnson. Other Senior Police Officers such as Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Department of Finance and Administration, Ayuba Elkanah; Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of the Department of Operations, Muhammed Ali; Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of the Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department, Yetunde Longe, were all present with the CP at the house of Mr Kolade Johnson. 

Speaking to the head of the deceased family, the Commissioner of Police assured the family that the officers involved had been apprehended and subjected to internal disciplinary procedures. 

P.s: Hopefully Justice will be carried out. RIP MR KOLADE JOHNSON.

The High Court has ordered officers of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and an officer of the Nigeria Police Force to pay the sum of N5million as compensation to Mr Ugochukwu for extortion, illegal arrest, unlawful detention and torture.

Oraefo, an Onitsha based businessman was in 2018 arrested at his factory by men of the squad and taken to their office at Awkuzu, where he was unlawfully detained, subjected to excruciating torture and criminally extorted the sum of N6milion as ransom.

The officers had accused Oraefo of working with kidnappers, and having also paid some money to kidnappers, without alerting the police, but the victim rather confessed that he paid ransom to kidnappers who had called and threatened to kidnap him, and also warning him not to disclose it to the police.

The victim who spoke to journalists upon his release had said that he was kept in detention and tortured for five days, after which a mock execution was carried out on him, with the threat that he also pays them, to secure his freedom.

Though Ugochukwu, through his lawyer, Barr Justus Ijeoma was able to get a refund of the N6million he paid to secure his release from the police, Ijeoma, the Executive Director of International Human Rights and Equity Defence Foundation (I-REF) instituted a fundamental right enforcement action against the SARS.

The Respondents in the suit marked “HID/MISC/ 129/2018 were Commissioner of Police, SP Sunday Okpe, Officer in charge of Special Anti-robbery Squad (SARS) Nigeria Police Force, Awkuzu; DSP, Elias, Commander of Special Anti-robbery Squad (SARS) Nigeria Police Force Neni; Commander of Special Anti-robbery Squad(SARS) Nigeria Police Force, Ogidi and Sgt. Osmond Tagbo, Police officer attached to SARS Neni office.