BREAKING NEWS, Security
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IN an apparent bid to prevent electoral violence and ensure free and fair in the Rivers State supplementary elections slated for Saturday, March 19, Solomon Arase, inspector-general of Police, has directed Baba Bolanta, assistant inspector-general of Police in charge Zone 6, to relocate from Calabar, Cross River State, to Port Harcourt, from Monday, March 14.
Arase has also redeployed three commissioners of Police to Rivers State to further boost security of lives and property and ensure hitch-free rerun elections.
According to the police boss, the three Police commissioners would supervise security arrangements within the three senatorial districts – Rivers East, Rivers West and Rivers South East with the assistance 6,000 conventional policemen and 14 units of the Police Mobile Force, MOPOL, to complement the personnel of Rivers State command during the election.
In the same vein, a statement signed by Olabisis Kolawole, Police spokesperson, disclosed that Sontoye Wakama, deputy inspector-general of Police in charge of the Department of Operations, had also been directed to proceed to Rivers State immediately to hold meetings with stakeholders and police officers in the state command on the need for peaceful conduct before, during and after the election.
Arase warned all security details to desist from accompanying their principals and politicians to polling booths and collation centres during the election.
He assured that the law-abiding citizens among the electorate of a secure and enabling environment to exercise their franchise,
He emphasised that only security personnel specially assigned for election duties must be seen within and around the election designated places.
— Mar 14, 2016 @ 01:00 GMT
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