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Nigeria has set up new unit to “fill the gaps” left by an anti-robbery squad that was abolished this week after nationwide protests, police said in a statement on Tuesday.
Protesters across the nation took to the streets to demand the former unit, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), be disbanded following what they and international rights group said was years of harassment and extortion.
President Muhammadu Buhari formally ordered SARS be disbanded on Sunday.
In a statement, the inspector general of police said the new Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team would “fill the gaps arising from the dissolution of the defunct SARS”.