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Nigeria's army says it is ready to maintain order as police protests continue

Published 15/10/2020, 12:01
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By Alexis Akwagyiram
LAGOS, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Nigeria's army says it is ready to
maintain law and order and deal decisively with any situation
created by "trouble makers", while demonstrators calling for an
end to police brutality promise to keep up nationwide protests.
Protesters have staged daily marches for a week, calling for
an overhaul of police forces. Police have responded to the
demonstrations with beatings, tear gas and gunfire, which human
rights group Amnesty International said had killed at least 10
people.
Police agreed on Tuesday to stop using force against
protesters. The military, which in recent years has repeatedly been
accused of human rights abuses that it has denied, issued a
statement late on Wednesday titled "Nigerian Army warns
subversive elements and trouble makers".
"The NA (Nigerian Army) is ready to fully support the civil
authority in whatever capacity to maintain law and order and
deal with any situation decisively," it said in the statement,
which did not mention the anti-police protests.
In response to the protests, the head of Nigeria's police
force on Sunday dissolved the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS),
a unit that demonstrators have long accused of beatings,
killings and extortion. Demonstrators have called for more meaningful reforms.
Protesters say they fear a new unit, whose creation to "fill the
gaps" left by SARS was announced on Tuesday, was just a
rebranding of the controversial squad.

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