(LOCAL) Acting Inspector General of Police Assures INEC Adequate Security For 2019 Elections

   The acting Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Adamu, has assured the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of adequate security arrangements for the 2019 general elections.

   He gave the assurance while briefing the INEC members and sister organisations at the Inter Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES) meeting held at the commission’s headquarters, on Thursday in Abuja.
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   The Police Chief said that all polling units and voting points will be manned by at least three security personnel with the Police taking the lead, while units of mobile policemen will be deployed to patrol all the country’s senatorial districts, to check unauthorized movements and potential trouble makers. According to him, all collation centres across the country, from the ward to state levels will also be adequately protected.

   “The location of the RACs (Registration Area Centres), polling units, voting points and collation centres will be adequately manned. “There will be at least three security personnel at each polling unit. Units of mobile policemen will be deployed to every senatorial district, where there will be constant patrols to check unauthorized movements and those who might want to cause trouble.

  “We are deploying three days before the election and after the election, we will remain behind for the next two days. All security personnel will remain behind after voting had taken place and they will accompany election officials as they move the results. “From the ward collation centre, they will move to the local government collation centre where they will meet other security personnel already stationed there.