By Okey Chris Awka
Barely four months to Anambra November 18 gubernatorial poll, state security chiefs have started strategising towards securing lives and property of the populace. Th e state Police Commissioner, Garba Baba Umar, who disclosed this in a press conference after a meeting of all security heads in the state, such as the Nigerian Army, Navy, FRSC, civil defence and others.
He explained that security chiefs were ready to forestall unlawful breakdown of peace and order following the activities of some misguided elements that have perfected plans to disrupt the relative peace through street protests aimed at boycotting the poll and so on. Umar added that measures had been put in place by joint security forces in Anambra state to stop unlawful acts prior, during and after the election because “the miscreants, planning to stop the election, want to achieve selfi sh interest to the detriment of democratic processes.
“Th is is unacceptable and would not be tolerated in the state, as the command and other sister security agencies respect the right of individuals to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly”, he said. He noted that the governorship election had been scheduled for November 2017 by the Independent National Election Commission (INEC), which he said was the only competent authority to make pronouncement regarding the conduct of election.
