Buy our reporter|Protesters against police brutality and extra-judicial killings on Thursday took their demonstration to the National Assembly complex in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
The protesters who stormed the assembly in their numbers displayed placards lamenting extra-judicial killings also demanding to see the Senate President Ahmed Lawan and the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Femi Gbajabiamila.
They sang songs of solidarity, recited the national anthem, and chanted ‘EndSWAT!’ ‘EndSARS!’.
The Spokesperson of the Senate, Ajibola Bashiru accompanied by the Senate Committee Chairman on Police, Haliru Jika later addressed the protesters.
The, however, insisted that they should be addressed the Senate President Ahmed Lawan.
The Senate President had earlier said that the Federal Government has met the demands of the protesters and that there’s no need for any further protests.
On his part, the speaker of the house of representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila has inaugurated the Special Committee, to be chaired by deputy speaker, Ahmed Wase to the review of the constitution.
Thousands of protesters across the country have been protesting in the last one week against the harassment, extortion, and extrajudicial killings perpetrated by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigeria Police Force.
The police authorities in response to the outcry of the protesters disbanded the SARS unit and announced the setting up of the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) unit as its replacement but the protests and demonstrations continue nationwide with hashtags #EndSWAT, #EndSARS, #EndPoliceBrutality
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