The Inspector General of Police, IGP Solomon E Arase, has directed increased security at all Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) offices in the country as well the various election tribunals nationwide.
Making the disclosure during a visit to the headquarters of the commission to meet with the Acting Chairman, Mrs. Amina Bala Zakari in Abuja, Wednesday, Arase said the gesture was aimed at cementing the existing relationship between the police and INEC in ensuring the actualization of INEC’s mandate.
A statement signed by the Force Public Relations Officer, Acting ACP Olabisi Kolawole, said the IGP had also directed that Police Commissioners nationwide to ensure adequate security at INEC offices and also at election tribunal sittings.
Remarking, Zakari used the occasion to intimate the visiting IGP of INEC’s readiness to work with the Nigeria Police in ensuring successes on the forthcoming elections in Kogi and Bayelsa States.
In a related development, the IGP has given State Commissioners of Police a one week ultimatum to report on their compliance to earlier directives on withdrawal of policemen attached to unauthorized persons across the country, and reduction of police personnel to political office holders.
