Not less than 32 officers of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) from various parts of the country are currently cooling their heels at different cells of the federal SARS at Guzape district Abuja on allegations of robbery and extortion.
Sources in the federal SARS disclosed that the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, who ordered their arrests, have since their arrival to Abuja, denied their family members and lawyers from seeing them as a team of top police officers has been assigned take up investigation into their cases.
The detainees’ various commands have been invited to bring forth evidences against them as they were being accused of crimes ranging from extortion, robbery, rape, among others.
The source also hinted that the Lagos Command has the highest number of detained officers followed by the federal capital territory while other states has lesser number of detained SARS officers.
While the Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of SARS at the force headquarters, Yusuf Kolo, has refused to speak on the arrest claiming his job was purely operational and investigative in nature, the source disclosed that at a recent meeting with the Police management team, the IG decided to apply prompt punishment for any SARS officer found wanting here in Abuja instead of their commands, where such cases are not properly handled.
