Police plan mass arrest of #EndSARS protesters in Abuja: Sources..


 The police in Abuja have drawn out plans to arrest citizens when #EndSARS demonstration resumes on Tuesday, two senior police officers told Peoples Gazette, hoping they could use the strategy to weaken ceaseless support for the campaign against police brutality that entered its third week on Monday.


“The plan is simply for officers to arrest as many #EndSARS protesters as possible tomorrow anywhere they see thugs causing breaching of public peace,” an officer involved in the planning told Peoples Gazette, pleading anonymity to discuss internal police operations.


Police spokesman Frank Mba could not be reached for comments Monday night. Abuja police commissioner Bala Ciroma did not return multiple requests seeking comments about the controversial plan.


The plan appeared to be the latest in a string of solutions so far pushed by the government to quell the protests — all defied by poor communication or execution.


The government initially responded to the widening protests on October 11 by abolishing the police special anti-robbery squad whose decades of murderous and corrupt activities triggered the uprising.


But when protesters demanded for additional issues to be resolved, including compensation for victims and new safeguards against future brutality, the government failed to respond in a concrete manner

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