Just about anywhere you look at our planet, people are worried about COVID-19.

But everyone on the internet is talking about SARS.

Beyonce, Biden, John Boyega, this weekend's musical guest on Saturday Night Live had her

entire band outfitted in T-shirts that featured the hashtag end SARS.

As you may well know, it's got nothing to do with a respiratory disease and everything

to do with a protest in Nigeria.

So we got in touch with Alexis Aquajiram to explain.

He's the Bureau Chief of Reuters in Legos.

Alexis, what is SARS?

So SARS was an elite police unit in Nigeria.

It actually stands for Special Anti-Robbery Squad.

The squad was set up in 1992 with the aim to fight armed robbery.

The idea was that it was there to tackle violent crime, things like armed robberies, kidnappings,

that kind of thing.

Over the years, there have been cycles of alleged human rights abuses by these officers,

because these guys are in plain clothes and their remit is to go out.

But it's really just really cracked down on violent crime.

But people say they abuse that power and accuse them of actually doing all kinds of things.

It's critics say SARS is now engaged in harassment, extortion, violence and even killing at all

of it with impunity.

Victims have been subjected to mock execution, burning with cigarettes near asphyxiation,

using plastic bags and sexual violence.

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