The impunity with which @PoliceNG (SARS) violates Nigerians is endlessly disturbing. I am currently prosecuting a case where Kano SARS evidently tortured an innocent young suspect to death, hid his death to his family and continued to collect food and money from the family… pic.twitter.com/nDA3S2GoBa

— Abba Hikima (@Abbahikima) May 19, 2020

purportedly for onward delivery to the dead suspect who was then already lodged in mortuary. As a legal practitioner, I can write a 1000-paged book on Nigeria Police's atrocities to Nigeria citizenry whom they are by law burdened to protect…

— Abba Hikima (@Abbahikima) May 19, 2020

It is pertinent also to say that Nigeria and Nigerians have been too quiet for too long on this. Nigeria's political leadership esp. the president @MBuhari, must give Nigeria a decent police force.

kindly investigate the case of Sadiq (whose picture appears above) as posted on

— Abba Hikima (@Abbahikima) May 19, 2020

Facebook by his cousin as follows:

"JUSTICE FOR SADIQ!!!
With deep sorrowful broken heart I write dis painful story of what happened to my cousin today, today as a Nigerian citizen, I have seen the highest order of abuse of office by the SARS officers and cruelty, at about 1pm.

— Abba Hikima (@Abbahikima) May 19, 2020

"SARS officers jumped the fence and entered my aunt's house in gwarinpa abuja, and started shooting, Sadiq was performing ablution for zuhr prayers, on sighting one of the officers shooting he got scared and he thought they were armed robbers, out of fear he jumped in to their…

— Abba Hikima (@Abbahikima) May 19, 2020

"neighbour's house, one of the officers shot him on the hand, Sadiq was bleeding, he handcuffed Sadiq and one of the neighbour's son and took them in to their vehicle, mean while the remaining officers broke the doors in to the house, brought out the remaining boys and her…

— Abba Hikima (@Abbahikima) May 19, 2020

"Husband and started beating them up and took them away and after some minutes some of the officers came back to the house and packed the bullets that were on the floor in an attempt to hide evidence, after making several phone calls they were said to be taken to the SARS office

— Abba Hikima (@Abbahikima) May 19, 2020

at Guzape with alot of cooked up stories, on reaching there, they took us to see one of the heads of the office, he narrated the story that, the officers were chasing a kidnapper demanding a ransome and the kidnapper jumped in to my aunt's house and that they didnt shoot any

— Abba Hikima (@Abbahikima) May 19, 2020

body, that Sadiq got injured by a barb wire while trying to escape and that Sadiq is the kidnapper, after narrating our own side of the story the officer realised they were some hidden facts, after clear listening to his step mum, the officer asked them to release every body, I

— Abba Hikima (@Abbahikima) May 19, 2020

demanded they take Sadiq to the hospital and get him treated and they must foot the bills, the commander and his deputy threatened to arrest me for saying that, and he said everyone should be rearrested he is not releasing anybody, after going back and forth I insisted they give

— Abba Hikima (@Abbahikima) May 19, 2020

us Sadiq for treatment and seeing is a gun shot injury non of the hospital's will accept us without a police officer attached to us, I demanded one of the police officer accompanies us to the hospital, they took Sadiq in to their Hilux vehicle, drove him to National Hospital and

— Abba Hikima (@Abbahikima) May 19, 2020

left, the Doctors told them to wait behind and submit their statement, they refused and left us there, when the bandage on sadiq's hand was removed, it was a gun shot injury, the bullet has damaged his Radius and Ulna bone, and also damaged the whole tendons on the wrist, we are

— Abba Hikima (@Abbahikima) May 19, 2020

demanding justice for Sadiq and the entire Family if there is any justice remaining in Nigeria, if not we have raised our hands and prayed to Allah in this Holy month for devine intervention, but today as a Nigerian Citizen our government has failed us… SARS officers are very

— Abba Hikima (@Abbahikima) May 19, 2020

cruel and in human, the officer that shot Sadiq was looking like a hoodlum, with is tattered hair style and chains hanging around his neck, if any one can help us raise the alarm untill it reaches the ears that needs to hear and Justice is given to sadiq it will be appreciated,

— Abba Hikima (@Abbahikima) May 19, 2020

"pls help us share until it reaches the ears that need to hear… This is Sadiq's picture at the trauma Centre in National Hospital Abuja…"

— Abba Hikima (@Abbahikima) May 19, 2020