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12 Oct, 8 tweets, 3 min read
Nope
Nyet
Nein

Infact maybe the hashtag should change to #EndSARS+ It has to end in addition to whatever else is demanded for 2 clear reasons
First of all, if you are a sadist and want to design a police unit that is unaccountable and operates with impunity, you will struggle to come up with anything worse than SARS.
First one - count the number of testimonies of people’s encounters with SARS and see how many times people say they were not even sure if it was Police or Armed Robbers. They wear ripped jeans and have NO name badges or numbers. But this isn’t even the worst part
SARS can operate in a state *without* the knowledge of the police in that state. That is why when someone is picked up by SARS, you can go to the police station and they’ll have no clue where the person is. I wrote this about a friend’s experience in 2018 guardian.ng/features/the-s…
A friend was telling me yday how he spent some time at Force HQ in one state. While he was there, calls started coming in that police were terrorising people somewhere. But the police at Force HQ had no clue. Their men were not in that location and no one authorised such a move
So to recap - SARS are a ‘federal’ unit who operate without identification and can go into any state to carry out ‘operations’ without informing the local police force in advance about what they’re doing
How on earth is armed robbery something that needs to be dealt with at a ‘federal’ level in this way anyway? And without working with the local police. Even if you put a saintly policeman inside SARS, he cannot come out smelling of roses
This is why #SARSMustEnd - you can’t really have a bunch of guys running around heavily armed and operating with impunity without ANY form of local accountability. It has to go and be replaced with something more along the lines of the RRS. At the very least

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11 Oct
So there’s now something of a challenge with #EndSARS. I’m a bit conflicted because, strictly speaking, disbanding and redeploying the SARS men is the only thing can *technically* be done
This is because the SARS guys are regular police officers who get posted to the SARS unit (often after paying bribes to get deployed there). No one joins SARS directly. And you can’t fire all police officers who are in SARS. Tricky
But this doesn’t mean disbanding is of no effect. It has been centuries since Thucydides gave us the insight that when in a group, humans often behave more discreditably than they would ordinarily do as individuals
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2 white dudes with nothing but an interesting idea set out for Nigeria. After meeting with frustration and only a commissioner they decided to try out Ghana where they had a better reception up to VP level.

YET NIGERIANS MADE THE LOUDEST NOISE ABOUT IT ON THIS APP. I'M ANGRY!
I'm still upset and I can't let this matter go. I am sorry
Do you know the number of actual investments that started off in Nigeria and ended up in Ghana simply because Ghanaians are nicer and friendlier people with a better business environment? Let me give you one - Movenpick Hotel Accra
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LoL...as expected this thing has now descended into bogeyman-ism
Let’s not get carried away here. There is a way to meet people in high places in places like Nigeria and Ghana. It is annoying, unfair but it ‘works’ and everyone plays the game.
What is unusual, and to me remarkable, is that this guy had none of the requirements and got past it. You’ll say it’s because he’s white but you’ll also say the same thing if he was *anything* other than a local. Diaspora, black foreigner etc
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I really enjoy this kind of logic. Basically, there can be no disproportionate impact where everyone is black. As Nigerians like to say - sense won't kill you Image
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This thread is long but doesn’t really explain anything. The key question for me is what the default position is.

And it’s interesting that even tax experts are struggling with the answer
There are 1,000 bank account holders. It’s obvious this only applies to say 10 of them. How do you go about identifying those 10? That’s the question.
Option A - Maximum Stress

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In 2019, the $14bn he sold to BDCs was MORE (bold, underscore, uppercase, red font) than he sold to actual companies and importers via official interventions.

Again, MORE. Em, Oh, Ar, Ee
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I know some of you are pretending not to hear me so let me say it again.

Meffy has commandeered all the dollars entering the Nigerian economy. He has the power to decide who gets $$$s and who doesn’t.

He sells more $$$s to BDCs than to people who want to import machines etc
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