No fewer than 34,000 police officers deployed for the Anambra governorship election descended on the state Thursday, according to Commissioner of Police Echeng Eworo Echeng.
“We intend to dominate everywhere in this state and the dominance is to reassure the good people of Anambra that they’re secured. Everybody should come out and exercise their civic responsibility on the 6th of November,” he said.
IPOB has threatened to shut down with a sit-at-home-order the state and others i the southeast over the DSS continued detention of its leader Namdi Kanu standing trial for terrorism and treason.
There has been fear the November 6 guber election may not hold or may turn violent.
According to him, IGP Usman Baba is very passionate, and has a psychological attachment to this election, the reason he provided everything this state command asked for.
“We have support of the helicopters for aerial surveillance. We have gunboats to patrol the waterways. We have enough vehicles to operate during this election. And from tomorrow, you will be seeing us in the streets,” he said as he promised the police will be civil and professional.
“But for the troublemakers, we are going to be firm and decisive on anybody who tries to prevent anybody from doing what is the right thing to do,” Echeng said.
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Kingsley Ugwu
October 29, 2021 at 5:56 pm
Too many police, army and armored cars will send d wrong message to voters that you are out to war and kill, and consequently will take d easy to save their lives by not venturing out to vote. If you are really serious about protecting d voters, do d people a favor by guaranteeing them that you will absorb a reasonable portion of safety risks they face, like paying about 85% of d costs incurred should any voter gets injured or bereaved on that day. But suppose IPOB came out to vote in full Biafra regalia, will you also encourage them or shoot at them, since your IGP ordered you to kill them at sight? You will shoot at them regardless of purity of their hearts intentions, and this action simply proves that you are out on that day to kill and not to protect voters since you have prejudged or pre-dismissed IPOB as terrorists out to terrorize anything Nigeria