Extrajudicial killing: 47.4% of Osun people’s interest in SARS increases emotions on Tunde Nafiu killed by SARS’s Officer in Iwo

Around  9.30 pm on Thursday 23 2018, people of Iwo in Osun State were thrown into mournful look when it was reported that Tunde Nafiu, a student was shot while trying to board a commercial motorcycle to Ile-Ogbo, a neighbouring town by Special Anti-Robbery Squad’s Officer.

Few hours after the incident, youths in the city throng to the Police Station located at Adeeke and burnt the station in reaction to the lost of their colleague. Beyond the damages and verbal attacks at the Police Station, youths and other sympathizers have been expressing their feelings on the extrajudicial killing. On social media platforms, messages from the deceased’s friends and family members have been laced with anger and sadness, calling for the trial of the officer.

“The issue should not only be dealt with in Iwo, but taken up by our Honourable Gafar Amere to the House Representatives so that the FG and Police authorities could intervene and bring the perpetrators to book,” Sodeeq Adisa Atanda Feesu, one of the sympathizers said on Facebook.

Analysis further indicates that one percent interest of the people in SARS through digital platform increases their emotions in terms of anger and sadness by 47.4%. Infoprations equally found that emotions expressed on SARS’ maltreatment of Nigerians related with those discovered for extrajudicial killings by 39.2%.