The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Uthman Baba Alkali, has deployed the Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) zone 8, Asafa Adekunle, two Commissioners of Police and a Deputy Commissioner of Police from headquarters to take charge of election in Kwara state.
AIG Adekunle who is in charge of Zone 8, comprising Kogi and Kwara state is leading the other senior officers in the assignment.
Adekunle and his team arrived Ilorin, Kwara state capital Wednesday to ensure a seamless electoral process.
A statement by the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Okasanmi Ajayi, said Alkali charged all police men deployed for the election duty to take his job seriously warning that the force will not tolerate any act of indiscipline and dereliction of duty on the part of any policeman and anyone found wanting would be dealt with accordingly.
Ajayi said, “On arrival, the AIG and the other senior police officers headed straight to Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) headquarters, where a meeting with stakeholders was held and a peace accord signed by the political actors, in a bid to ensure a peaceful conduct of election in the state.
“The team moved straight from INEC office to the police headquarters, where the heads of all the tactical teams in the command were already seated in wait for the AIG and his team.
“AIG Adekunle psc (+), read the riot act to the tactical teams while delivering the message of the IGP to the men noting that the IGP has zero tolerance to indiscipline by any police man 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 take his duties seriously, adding 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 gets to them before the elections and 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.”
