The Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Adamu, has deployed additional 35,000 policemen to Kogi State to ensure “visibility policing ” of lives and property before and during the November 16 governorship election holding in the state.

Kayode Ayilara, the Assistant Commissioner of police in charge of operation in the state announced this in Lokoja on Wednesday, NAN reports.

The police chief disclosed this while responding to concern raised about the neutrality of the police in the coming election at an event organised by a non-governmental organisation, ‘Search For Common Ground’.

He said that the deployed policemen will arrive the state on Nov. 11, saying that they are coming from Abuja and other states.

Ayilara said that armed policemen will also be positioned at identified strategic areas in the state to ensure quick response to any emergency.

He said that four policemen will be deployed to each of the 2,548 polling units in the state, assuring citizens of police neutrality in their conduct before and during the election.

An official of the NGO, Mrs Lola Memedu, had earlier in a presentation, expressed worry over the steady rise in tension in the state ahead of the election.

Memedu said that the group through its Electoral Empowerment of Civil Society Project (EECSP), had observed cases of violence and physical attacks between the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

“Series of attacks have been recorded during campaign rallies and party activities.

“Dekina and Ankpa Local Governments have recorded the highest number of violence attacks among party members and supporters.

“For example, on the 19th of Oct, 2019 a party supporter was shot dead in Anyingba during one of the political party rallies.

“The number of death recorded in Anyingba and Ankpa communities is quite alarming.

“There has been a rise in the use of political thugs to perpetrate violence,
as this was recorded in Dekina, Ankpa, Olamaboro, Omala, and Idah Local Government Areas,” she said.

According to Memedu, the objective of the report is to identify potential threats to peaceful election at the pre-and post-election stages.

This, she said, will facilitate an early response by stakeholders
like the Police, INEC and the National Orientation Agency with the intention of intervening to prevent violence.

The group also urged the media to report issues relating to the process, conduct and outcome of the election objectively to douse tension and prevent violence.

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Pot-bellied illiterate, the IG is a funny man; same man who can not handle his marital issues deploying terrorists in uniforms in kogi state to guide politicians interests.

Phantom deployment

Imagine the grammar this dunce is speaking 'visibility policing'. The IGP should go and sit down. Even if he like he should deployed the entire police in the country. Killings and maiming will never stop. He was there fortnight when Yaya Bello and co promised to win this election by all means. Is that not a real threat? What did the entire system do? We are waiting to see his magic on Saturday. We all know what the outcome will be.

Yeye dey smell. Electoral malpractice will be going on before those policemen and they will form blind eyes to it .

I hope they would be able to keep peace and order come the D-Day

As a real niggarrr

I can say that is a nice one

Working as ad-hoc staff for inec can be fun sometimes

Did that shit before and it was fun

Yeye bellow hand work

hmm 35000 police, Nigeria and their statistics.. anyways they should just do the needful..

They deploy a huge police for there interest only, if only they could deploy same to safeguard the masses

Dsame dey deployed thousands of policemen and an AIG dat helped dem rigged kano"s runoff election

Same officers will be used for electoral malpractice... Abegi

War against the people's votes. Why can't they deploy all this to fight Boko Haram

4 police men, 2 civil defense and one army in each polling unit... Bello may not get up to 20 percent of total votes cast

How many eligible voters dey Kogi sef?

At the end of the day, non will be present when Bello's thug will cathing away the ballot boxes and intimidating voters

Is it abt deploying thousand of police or giving the electorate free hand to choose their leader.
I pray the police will be neutral on the election day.

It will still be rigged in favour of Yaya Bello.. I'm not a party guy, I stand for good governance. Yaya Bello does not deserve to be back and can not be back if the election isn't rigged. The igala/okun nation will vote for Wada. You can not joke with the igala people.

Okay.
APC is do or die. That's how they've been operating since 2015.
Only God can stop Bello/Onoja from not winning.

This country is something else,just because of a state election,u bastard is sending close to 50,000 policemen to Kogi alone,when herdsmen and Boko harram are disturbing ur ppl did u guys sent this number of personnel to the affected state,Mr President u are a failure and a deaf ass man.

Wow!

I had no idea we have up to 35,000 police officers in Nigeria . Biko what have they been doing all these while?

How many police do we have in Nigeria not to talk to deploying 35,000 police

35k?

2nd civil war? Just for election that has already been rigged

Army, civil defence, is yet to deploy theirs. Who do us like this? How did we offend Lugard to have joined us together in hell

Lord have mercy

Spits

Jestin:
Yeye dey smell. Electoral malpractice will be going on before those policemen and they will form blind eyes to it .

keep on looking for people to kill in your stupid elections. Go and warn the touts you breed in your homes to stop causing problems during election, instead you blame the innocent policeman that is trying to save his head from your kinsmen.

omocalabar:
At the end of the day, non will be present when Bello's thug will cathing away the ballot boxes and intimidating voters

why dont you go and safe guard the boxes? You sit in your homes behind your keyboard and tarnish people that are trying to make peace

So, in total...about 50k policemen are deployed to a state for only elections. That is.. deploying 1/7 of the entire police force in Nigeria to just 1 state, not for a state of emergency nor to stop insecurity but to supervise elections.

Totally absurd

Some of the idiots saying rubbish online will collect #3000 on the election day and vote for the same people that that criticize daily. Some will even rig and kill people for them, stupid youths, online touts