Kaycee Madu, a regional minister in Canada, has endorsed the #EndSARS protests against brutality in his country of birth, Nigeria.
Madu, who is the Justice Minister and Solicitor-General of Alberta, a province in Canada, said his cousin was “murdered” by Nigerian policemen in 2013 and that the policing system in Nigeria needed total reform.
Making his position known via Twitter, Madu stated:
Fundamental human rights like peace, security and freedom from police brutality are universal.
The Nigerian government has an obligation to protect its citizens and deliver substantive police reform.
Changing the name of SARS and reconstituting it without significant reform won’t be sufficient to satisfy the cry of the Nigerian people for justice.
Despite his best efforts to make the Nigerian police investigate the death of his cousin, Chrisantus Nwabueze Korie, nothing was achieved, a sad Madu said.
Despite my best efforts, the police would not investigate his murder and did everything to obstruct.
I also helped to petition a committee of Nigeria’s National Assembly to probe the killing and report back to the House within a timely manner.
Last week, protests broke out in various parts of Nigeria as they demand an end to brutality by men of the now disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad unit of the Nigerian Police Force.
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Extrajudicial killing, kidnapping and extortion, are the crimes this unit of the police has been accused of. This forced the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to announce the disbandment of the unit.
Thousands of Nigerian you have taken to the streets in major cities including Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Enugu and Ibadan, to press home their demands.
In the meantime, Amnesty International said that at least 10 persons have been killed since the protests started.
