{"id":1857,"date":"2020-10-10T15:17:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T15:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/?p=1857"},"modified":"2020-10-10T15:17:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T15:17:36","slug":"youths-in-their-hundreds-join-the-endsars-movement-in-awka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/2020\/10\/10\/youths-in-their-hundreds-join-the-endsars-movement-in-awka\/","title":{"rendered":"Youths In Their Hundreds Join The #EndSARS Movement In Awka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hundreds of youths are currently marching around major streets of Awka, Anambra State&#8217;s capital city, in solidarity with the #EndSARS national protests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many wore black t-shirts with several inscriptions, and also carried banners and hand-made posters with different messages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Others mounted on cars, recounting experiences with SARS as they marched on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The #EndSARS movement lately became a national campaign against the Special Anti-robbery Squad, a Nigerian police detachment that specializes in fighting crimes like kidnapping and armed robbery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nigerians, especially youths, home and abroad are calling for the scrapping of the unit because of alleged anti-human activities including extrajudicial killings, torture and rape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some analysts are however calling for the reforms of the mode of operations of SARS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Muhammadu Buhari was quoted in the media earlier as saying that he has heard the concerns of the #EndSARS protesters, and would pass the concerns on to the Inspector General of Police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Daniel Ezeigwe<br>(ABS Reporter)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of youths are currently marching around major streets of Awka, Anambra State&#8217;s capital city, in solidarity with the #EndSARS national protests. Many wore black t-shirts with several inscriptions, and also carried banners and hand-made posters with different messages. Others mounted on cars, recounting experiences with SARS as they marched on. The #EndSARS movement lately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}