EKITI JULY 14 GUBER ELECTION: POLICE MOVES TO ENSURE ADEQUATE SECURITY
- IGP
Deploys 30,000 Police Personnel
-
COMPOLS in Contiguous States to also deploy their personnel
-
Structure Put In Place to Check Miscreants, Thugs And Criminals
- Rough
Times Await Individual(S)/Group(S) Operating Contrary To Electoral Act
BY Innocent Imoh
Ahead the
Ekiti State Governorship election scheduled for Saturday, July 14, 2018, the
Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim K. Idris, has directed that a
robust and elaborate security arrangement be implemented in Ekiti State to
ensure peaceful, credible, free and fair election.
In a press statement ref:
CZ:5300/FPRD/FHQ/ABJ/VOL.1, dated FHQ Abuja – 9th JULY,
2018 and signed by the Force Public Relations Officer, Force Headquarters,
Ag. DCP Jimoh Moshood, the Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Department
of Operations has been deployed to the State and will be assisted by an
Assistant Inspector General of Police, Four (4) Commissioners of Police, Eight
(8) Deputy Commissioners of Police and Eighteen (18) Assistant Commissioners of
Police, with each Senatorial district manned by a Commissioner
of Police.
The DIG
will implement and coordinate the security operations, and also supervise the
deployment of security personnel for the elections throughout the 2451 Polling
units/voting points, 177 Wards and the Sixteen (16) LGA of the State, even as
Thirty thousand (30,000) Police personnel comprising Police Mobile Force (PMF)
Units, Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU), the Special Protection Unit (SPU), the
Anti-Bomb Squad (EOD), Conventional Policemen, the Armament Unit, personnel of
FCIID and the Sniffer dogs section, have also being deployed to the State.
Meanwhile,
Commissioners of Police and their personnel in States contiguous and close to
Ekiti State, such as Ondo, Osun, Kwara, Kogi, Ogun, Edo and Oyo States have
been directed by the IGP to be on Red-Alert with
their personnel to complement the restriction of vehicular movement in and out
of Ekiti State from 12-midnight of Friday, 13th July,
2018 till the end of the election.![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY34t8Z3uEyWbGwGqHHpdYuc1adp6vC0jrJNawRRrbbQyACS2YRIMNMDhDNoDDOtv5kiOR0GObQe_pytBr3Z5_PSfw_40ZW8U00wybkpnRh_SaHEpxzsYiUtcRmVKN6ZkwoWz7D7ZBCtY/s1600/Nigeria-police-logo.jpg)
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Below is
the statement in full:
Ref
No.CZ:5300/FPRD/FHQ/ABJ/VOL.1/
The
Director of News
FHQ
ABUJA – 9th JULY, 2018
PRESS
RELEASE
SECURITY
ARRANGEMENT FOR EKITI STATE GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION
IGP
HAS DEPLOYED 30,000 POLICE PERSONNEL FOR EKITI STATE JULY 14th GUBERNATORIAL
ELECTION
COMMISSIONERS
OF POLICE IN CONTIGUOUS STATES TO EKITI STATE TO DEPLOY THEIR PERSONNEL
MASSIVELY TO ENSURE SECURITY AND PREVENT INFLUX OF MISCREANTS, THUGS AND
CRIMINALS INTO EKITI STATE.
THE
FORCE WILL DEAL DECISIVELY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS WITH ANY INDIVIDUAL(S)
OR GROUP(S), NO MATTER HOW HIGHLY PLACED, WHOSE UTTERANCES OR CONDUCT IS
CONTRARY TO THE ELECTORAL ACT OR THAT CAN INCITE DISTURBANCE OF PUBLIC PEACE
DURING THE ELECTION.
The Ekiti State Governorship election is scheduled
to hold on the 14th of JULY, 2018. To this end the Inspector
General of Police, IGP Ibrahim K. Idris NPM, mni, has directed that a
robust and elaborate security arrangement be implemented in Ekiti State to
ensure peaceful, credible, free and fair election.
2. The
Deputy Inspector General of Police, Department of Operations has been deployed
to the State and will be assisted by an Assistant Inspector General of Police,
Four (4) Commissioners of Police, Eight (8) Deputy Commissioners of Police and
Eighteen (18) Assistant Commissioners of Police, each
Senatorial district will be manned by a Commissioner of Police. The DIG will
implement and coordinate the security operations, and also supervise the
deployment of security personnel for the elections throughout the 2451 Polling
units/voting points, 177 Wards and the Sixteen (16) LGA of the State.
3. To
ensure adequate security and safety of life and property before, during and
after the elections, the IGP has graciously approved the deployment of Thirty
thousand (30,000) Police personnel to Ekiti State for the Election. The
personnel comprising Police Mobile Force (PMF) Units, Counter Terrorism Unit
(CTU), the Special Protection Unit (SPU), the Anti Bomb Squad (EOD),
Conventional Policemen, the Armament Unit, personnel of FCIID and the Sniffer
dogs section. Four (4) Policemen and two (2) others from other security
agencies will be on duty at each polling unit throughout the State. The Police
Mobile Force (PMF) to be headed by a very Senior Officer will provide security
at the RAC, Super RAC and collation centres.
4. Two (2)
Patrol Surveillance Helicopters, Five (5) additional Armoured Personnel
Carriers, Ten (10) Armoured Personnel Vehicles and Two Hundred and Fifty (250)
Police patrol vehicles are deployed throughout the State including difficult
terrains. Other security and safety agencies who are members of Inter-Agency
Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES) in the State are also
deployed to complement the Nigeria Police Force during the election.
5. As part
of additional measures to guarantee a peaceful and credible election, the IGP
will on 9th July, 2018 attend a stakeholder’s and peace accord
meeting of all the Thirty Five (35) political parties participating in the
election and their flag bearers, INEC officials, election observers and other
accredited stakeholders in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State.
6. Furthermore,
Police officers and personnel of other security and safety agencies deployed
for the elections are under strict Instructions to be polite and civil but firm
in the discharge of their duties and other responsibilities. They are to
provide adequate security for the electorates, INEC Officials, movement of
election materials, the accredited election observers and other individuals and
bodies that have statutory roles in the conduct of the election, at the Polling
units, Collation Centres and INEC Offices throughout the period of the
election.
7. Special
security identification tags will be worn by all security personnel deployed
for the election. No personnel of any security agency will be allowed to move
to any other location other than where they were deployed throughout the
election period.
8. Security
personnel attached to public office holders and politicians will not be allowed
to follow their principals to the polling units or collation centres throughout
the election. Security personnel are hereby warned to desist from escorting
their Principals and Politicians to polling units and collation centres during
the election. Any deviant security detail will be apprehended and dealt with
accordingly.
9. Commissioners
of Police and their personnel in States contiguous and close to Ekiti State,
such as Ondo, Osun, Kwara, Kogi, Ogun, Edo and Oyo States have been directed by
the IGP to be on Red-Alert with their personnel. They are to deploy
massively within areas neighbouring to Ekiti State to prevent crimes, hoodlums
and miscreants and other unwanted elements or groups from infiltrating from
their States to Ekiti State to disrupt the election.
10. Restriction of
vehicular movement in and out of Ekiti State will commence from 12-midnight of
Friday, 13th July, 2018 till the end of the election.
Travellers and other road users are advised to make use of alternative routes.
However, those on essential duties on genuine course will be granted passage.
11. All the Thirty
Five (35) participating Political parties and their leaderships and supporters,
Traditional rulers, Community leaders, parents and Guardians are advised to
warn and prevail on their members, supporters, subjects, children and wards to
be law abiding and not allow themselves to be used to cause disturbance of the
peace or disruption of the election/electoral process anywhere in the State.
The full weight of the law will be applied on any person or group of persons
found violating the electoral act or indulging in any criminal conduct capable
of causing violence before, during and after the election.
12. Threat assessments
have been carried out by the Police in Ekiti State and all identified flash
points and troubled prone areas have been addressed. However, the Force will
not hesitate to deal decisively in accordance with the electoral act and other
enabling laws with any individual(s) or group(s), no matter how highly placed,
whose utterances or conduct is contrary to the electoral act or that can incite
disturbance of public peace, law and order before, during or after the
election.
13. The electorates
and the general public in Ekiti State who observe any untoward incident or
crime can reach the Joint Operation Room for the election through the following
phone numbers; 08062335577, 08035925554, 08081761702.
14. The Inspector General of Police
wishes to assure the electorates, the contestants and all law abiding citizens
in Ekiti State of adequate security throughout the election. They are hereby
enjoined to feel free to go out and cast their votes without any fear or
apprehension. The IGP implores them to cooperate with the Police personnel in
the discharge of their duties.
Ag. DCP
JIMOH MOSHOOD
FORCE
PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER
FORCE
HEADQUARTERS
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