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LG Poll: Police Warn Against Violence In Lagos
- “In addition, the Command has put measures in place to enforce the restriction of movement order across the state between the hours of 6am and 3pm on Saturday 24th July 2021.”
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Lagos State Police Command has warned against electoral violence as the local government election holds across the state on Saturday, July 24, 2021.
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, made this known on Friday via a statement signed by the State Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi.
The police, in a statement titled, ‘Lagos LGA/LCDAs polls: Lagos police deploy resources, warns against electoral violence, thuggery’, also vowed to enforce the restriction of movement order earlier issued by the Lagos State Government.
Odumosu, while giving directives to police officers at the command’s headquarters in Ikeja on Friday, further ordered that all Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission’s facilities, sensitive materials, polling units, and collation centres must be adequately protected.
The statement read, “In preparation for the forthcoming Local Government Councils and Local Council Development Authorities’ elections in Lagos State, the Lagos State Police Command has deployed its human and material resources to provide adequate security before, during and after the elections which have been slated for Saturday 24th July 2021, with a view to having free, fair and credible elections in the state.
“The Commissioner of Police has also directed officers and men who have been detailed for the election duty to work hand in hand with other security operatives that are being incorporated into the security arrangements for the elections and discharge their duties according to the Standard Operating Prosecure of the Nigeria Police and extant electoral laws.
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“He warned politicians and their supporters, stakeholders, and Lagosians to play the game according to the rules as the police and other security agencies deployed for the exercise will not condone any act of thuggery, hooliganism, electoral malpractices, and criminality in any part of the state before, during and after the Local Government Councils elections,” Odumosu stated.
The statement added, “In addition, the Command has put measures in place to enforce the restriction of movement order across the state between the hours of 6am and 3pm on Saturday 24th July 2021, with the exception of only those on election duty and essential services on the election day.
“The Commissioner of Police, therefore, assured the good people of Lagos State, LASIEC officials, candidates, accredited election observers, and other actors in the elections of adequate security before, during, and after the elections as the security architecture of the state has been fortified.”
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