Founder and Senior Pastor of the Citadel Global Community Church, formerly known as Latter Rain Assembly, Tunde Bakare, has defined the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) as ‘State-Aided Robbery Squad’.
In his Sunday sermon, the cleric claimed that “although the Special Anti-Robbery Squad has been disbanded, the spirit of SARS continues to prowl unchecked.”
Pastor Bakare, who is also the Convener of Save Nigeria Group (SNG), also sympathized with the family of victims of the Lekki toll gate shooting which happened last Tuesday.
The cleric encouraged the youths in the country to keep hope alive, as the New Nigeria is within reach.
“This is not the nation we hope to bequeath to our children. We will build this nation, not upon the altar of the blood of our young people, but on their visions and aspirations.
“I am confident that we can end the brutalisation of our people, put an end to the State-Aided Robbery Squad, and begin the process of nation-building,” Bakare said.
”It is time to turn the stumbling blocks of our past into stepping stones to our future.”
Pastor Bakare was a running mate to Muhammadu Buhari in the presidential election of 2011 which they lost to PDP.