{"id":30891,"date":"2020-10-08T19:08:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T19:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=30891"},"modified":"2020-10-08T19:08:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T19:08:17","slug":"police-disperse-allegedly-assault-protesters-in-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-disperse-allegedly-assault-protesters-in-lagos","title":{"rendered":"Police disperse, allegedly assault protesters in Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>Some men of the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, have dispersed youths protesting against the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, unit of the Force.<\/p>\n<p>The youths protesting at Lekki tollgate, opposite Oriental Hotels in Lagos State were calling for the scrap of SARS due to their brutality and alleged unconstitutional activities.<\/p>\n<p>Police officers who were on ground dispersed the protesters while seizing their placards and assaulting some of them.<\/p>\n<p>SARS had come under intense criticism lately due to their assault on innocent Nigerians under the guise of enforcing the law.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the public outcry against the activities of SARS, the Force had insisted that its unit will not be dissolved.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: Some men of the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, have dispersed youths protesting against the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, unit of the Force. The youths protesting at Lekki tollgate, opposite Oriental Hotels in Lagos State were calling for the scrap of SARS due to their brutality and alleged unconstitutional activities. Police officers who were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":17163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[1281,1545],"class_list":["post-30891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-nigeria-police-force","tag-sars"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Police disperse, allegedly assault protesters in Lagos - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Some men of the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, have dispersed youths protesting against the Special Anti-Robbery\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-disperse-allegedly-assault-protesters-in-lagos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Police disperse, allegedly assault protesters in Lagos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Some men of the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, have dispersed youths protesting against the Special Anti-Robbery\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-disperse-allegedly-assault-protesters-in-lagos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-08T19:08:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/10\/Nigeria-police.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-disperse-allegedly-assault-protesters-in-lagos#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-disperse-allegedly-assault-protesters-in-lagos\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Police disperse, allegedly assault protesters in Lagos\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-08T19:08:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-disperse-allegedly-assault-protesters-in-lagos\"},\"wordCount\":118,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-disperse-allegedly-assault-protesters-in-lagos#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/10\/Nigeria-police.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria Police Force\",\"SARS\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-disperse-allegedly-assault-protesters-in-lagos#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-disperse-allegedly-assault-protesters-in-lagos\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-disperse-allegedly-assault-protesters-in-lagos\",\"name\":\"Police disperse, allegedly assault protesters in Lagos - 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