Thread by @TosinOlunuga

#My personal encounter with SARs.
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I Was on my way to Ibadan for a ministration this faithful Sunday morning (a few months ago) and out of the blues, this SARs operational vehicle just pulled out of it's lane and started driving at breakneck speed against traffic and before I

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could swerve, they ran into the side of my car and broke the side mirror and drove off. I stopped in the middle of the road trying to process how law enforcement agents could be so unruly, inconsiderate and foolish. (Note, they were not in pursuit of any offender. They pulled

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out because traffic wasn't moving at their pace.)

Now, backbl to my encounter...Before, I could finish processing what just happened, I saw them right in front of my car with guns corked. Two of them alighted from their vehicle racing towards my car and, suddenly slowed down

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and approached me with caution. (Wondered why)

The following conversation then ensued.

Me - Hello officers

SARs - So, because you are a pastor, you think you can drive anyhow abi?

Me- (in shock) I beg your pardon..you guys drove recklessly, broke my side mirror and you are

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here trying hard to intimidate or browbeat me to submission?

SARs - Pastor, respect yourself and come down.

Me -i will not. (Almost forgotten I was going to Ibadan for a ministration).

SARs - IsOk, you have to pay for our broken side mirror (Apparently, their side mirror

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was broken from the impact)

Me - laughing. Are you serious?

SARs - Yes sir, or we arrest you for reckless driving.

Me - Ok, no problem. I heard the Holy Spirit instructing me to pay them. I handed over the N2k with me to the one leaning on the driver's side of my car and

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said to all of them, "there are people you harass and draw consequences.

I drove off and to my utmost surprise, the N2k I gave the SARs officer (leaning on the side of my car) was found again on the mat of my car, beside the car seat just the way I folded it. Apparently, the

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dropped from his hands and never knew.

How they knew I was a pastor is still a mystery to me as I wasn't in any pastor's regalia or paraphernalia.

I tried to imagine if the pastor thing had not come up...I would probably have been shot, harassed, brutalized etc.

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It may look ordinary, but, many have been shot, maimed or killed for lesser encounters.

They have without a doubt outlived their usefulness.

It's no longer a cry for reform, it's a cry to disband them. People are more afraid of Stars than they are of armed robbers.

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They have a despicable outlook, dressed and looking like rebels. Their sight even scares people these days as their dressing is unbecoming of men in uniform.

You should lend your voice too.
#EndSarsNow
#EndSARSBrutality