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Police To Deploy Additional 25,000 Officers Ahead Of Lagos Council Polls
- The election is expected to take place in the 57 Local Government Councils and Local Council Development Areas of the state
An additional 25,000 police operatives will be deployed to beef up security in the local government elections scheduled to hold on Saturday in Lagos State.
The Chairperson, Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC), Justice Ayo Philips, disclosed this on Friday.
Philips explained that the Commissioner of Police for Lagos State gave her the assurance earlier in the day.
“We have worked hand-in-hand for over a month now with the security agencies, the police and the civil defence, who are really the front liners, the Army, the Navy, the Air Force and the neighbourhood watch and the Department of State Services (DSS).
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“We are very aware of the security situation and just this evening I got a message from the Commissioner of Police for Lagos State, that he is deploying an additional 25,000 policemen into Lagos tomorrow to help oversee the elections and to ensure that peace is kept and it will be violence-free,” she told Channels Television’s Politics Today.
“So we believe that tomorrow there will be peaceful elections and there will be no violence and all the members of the electorates will go about their business and will be able to vote in a peaceful and secure environment.”
The election is expected to take place in the 57 Local Government Councils and Local Council Development Areas of the state.
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