The Inspector-General of Police
(IGP), Mr Ibrahim Idris, on Tuesday, said the force would deploy 21,084
policemen to Anambra for the Nov. 28 governorship election.
Idris made the disclosure at the
Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room Dialogue session in Abuja.
He said that 17,320 policemen
would be deployed to the 4,330 polling units across the state while 280 of them
would be deployed to the collation centres.
The inspector-general said 2,484
of the security agents would be deployed to 414 major streets in the state
throughout the election period.
He said that the Force
Headquarters would provide additional 300 vehicles to the 80 operational
vehicles in the Police Command in Anambra.
Idris said that additional police
mobile force units had also been deployed to Anambra and other states in the
South-East and South-South for the governorship election.
The IGP explained that the
deployment was to ensure that criminal elements were removed from the states
before the election.
The police boss said that extra
security arrangements were being made for some flash and vulnerable points in
the state.
He listed the areas to include:
Otuocha, Ihiala towns, as well as Onitsha North and Onitsha South Local
Government areas.
Others are Achala in Awka North,
Ekwulobia in Orumba and Ozubulu in Ekwusigo Local Government Areas
respectively.
He said that the deployment would
build and increase the confidence of the people of the state in the police and
other security agencies to protect them.
“I want to assure you that all
necessary manpower and logistics to secure the electorate, electoral officials,
monitors, observers and materials have been provided for the command.
Idris said the police commissioner
in Anambra had been instructed to carry along the state Inter-Agency
Consultative Committee on Election Security, in the deployment and
implementation of security arrangements for the poll.
He said the command had also been
directed to work with the Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC), the
Eminent Persons Forum and local associations in the state to ensure peace and
order.
He said that there was a need for
collaboration and synergy among Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in
engendering secured environment for credible elections in the country.
“These areas of cooperation will
be further strengthened towards the 2019 general election and beyond“ he said.
The IGP said that no group under
any guise would be allowed to cause violence, before, during and after the
election.
He attributed the successes
recorded in the Edo and Ondo governorship elections and the National Assembly
re-runs in Imo, Kogi and Rivers in 2016, to the support and cooperation of the
CSOs.
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