No fewer than 18,000 security personnel would be deployed to provide water tight security during the April 11 elections in Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara states, Mr Bala Hassan, the Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) in charge of zone 10 has said.
Hassan who disclosed this to newsmen in Sokoto noted that the security personnel had been briefed on the operational modalities for ensuring adequate security before, during and after the elections in the affected states. He said that the zonal command had fine tune its method of operations to prevent any form of electoral malpractices.
“We have taken concrete security measures to improve on what we have done in the presidential elections in order to ensure peaceful conduct of the gubernatorial and state assembly elections,” he said. The AIG said that no crisis was recorded during the March 28 election and attributed the success acheived to the security measures put in place by the police.
” We have done it in the last Presidential and National Assembly elections and we are battle-ready to do the same to enable eligible electorate exercise their civil responsibility through peaceful atmosphere,” he said.
He warned trouble makers to steer clear from the zone, saying that the police would not hesitate to deal with trouble makers
