The Assistant Inspector General of Police Zone 8, Lokoja, comprising of Kogi and Kwara States, AIG Asafa Adekunle who is leading two commissioners and a deputy commissioner of police from Force headquarters, Abuja, have arrived in Kwara State, North Central Nigeria to ensure a seamless electoral process.
The AIG and the other senior police officers had attended a peace accord meeting signed by the political actors, in a bid to ensure peaceful conduct of the election in Kwara State.
Meanwhile, AIG Asafa Adekunle has read the riot act to the tactical teams while delivering the message of the Inspector General of Police to the men noting that the IGP has zero tolerance for indiscipline by any policeman and he is especially interested in the successful conduct of a peaceful, credible, and acceptable election.
The AIG advised the team leaders to ensure that every policeman deployed for the election duty must take his duties seriously; emphasising that any act of dereliction on the part of any policeman during the course of the elections would be met with stiff sanctions.
He told the officers of the effort the IGP has exerted to ensure that officers’ and men’s welfare get to them fully before the elections, as such; there must be no room for failure.
The Commissioner of Police Kwara State, CP Paul Odama psc and CP Arungwa Kwazul in their separate remarks harped on the need for a sense of unity and teamwork by officers and men of the command if the desired goal must be achieved.
The AIG directed that a show of force by the entire sister agencies should immediately commence among other strategies to be adopted to keep crimes and criminality at bay.
He enjoined the citizens and residents of Kwara State to be rest assured of their safety and security before, during and after the election, while also advising members of the public to shun any act of lawlessness, as any person arrested for any criminal activities would be made to face the full wrath of the law.
Dominica Nwabufo
